Pacific Ocean Blue

Found myself getting lost in its eerie charm. Do recommend.

This is alright. Cool production props up rather unremarkable songwriting.

The Good: We’re down with POB!
The Bad: Guess we’re also down with dyslexia…
The Ugly: Fucking album cover… though good main of hair Dennis did have…

What to think of this album?
For starters, the link lead me to a double album, where the content that was not on the original album was what called me more…

At the end of the day, if you give a circus lion access to the wild, the lion will most likely still react to a whip being cracked… same goes for a person who was one of the founders of an infamous band, who will still know how to make good music no matter what…

However, I have no clue as to why I needed to listen to this… zero clue… nada… thus, the only reasoning I can come up with is that Mr Dimery loves the album cover and used to pleasure himself whilest looking at the disheveled Mr Wilson…

3* because it isn’t bad… it just isn’t great either

I guess it's not the Beach Boys I love; it's Brian Wilson. I'll use a quote from the artist himself: "Musically, I'm far apart from Brian. He's a hundred times more than what I am musically." I agree.

When I listen to Pet Sounds or Smile, I am so enthusiastic about them, I lament having to assign a number to them, because five stars seems too low. They're more than perfect, and I don't know how you express that. I am not getting even close to those same feelings here.

Perhaps it's unfair to the artist to even make comparisons and take him on his own merits. If that's the case, this album is different from others at the time; he was definitely doing his own thing, which is commendable. Although different, I don't find it particularly special. Not offensive by any stretch, but there's nothing here that makes me want to come back to it again. I had more fun reading his Wikipedia article than I did listening to the album. That, I might read again

Unenthusiastically ⭐⭐⭐, I guess

I'm not familiar with this album, and I don't think I recognize any of these tracks by title. This is my first time listening to this album.

I was anticipating something more like the Beach Boys, and this was unexpected and pleasant.

Middling and not worth the two hours but not evil

Wow, it wasn't what I was expecting at all given the cover, but this is fantastic! It's so eclectic and the songwriting is quite good, even the soft piano ballads were songs I fell for. I'm not mad that this is Dennis Wilson's only album. It's short, sweet, and it has everything that a fan of the Beach Boys would want. I'm behind on my reviews. I gotta keep this short.

I may need to come back to this week of albums. I’m stuck at home with a torn calf, in pain/taking painkillers and falling alseep during albums.

From what I can recall I didn’t particularly enjoy this.

Didn’t realise Tom Hanks made an album while he was stuck on that island.

Lovely touch to dedicate it to Wilson too.

Favorite track(s): River Song, Dreamer, Thoughts of You, You and I, Rainbows

Pleasantly surprised by how good this ended up being. Shouldn't have doubted a Beach Boy that isn't Mike Love.

dennis, conhecido como o beach boy que era brother do charles manson

eh decente, até. nada demais, bem normalzim, não fede nem cheira

Thought this was gonna be better than it is, sad you died tho babe but stick a banger on there. Not even Melody Pond could help x

I very much enjoyed this. There's quite a lot of different shades and tones running through it. You can hear a little bit of the Beach Boys in here, but mostly it's quite expansive in terms of the sound. I like the variety of instruments, the explosions in brass, and the kind of dreamy, ethereal sections with great use of synths.

3.5 rounded up.

rarely bad but not often good.

This was good but not very interesting.

3.0/5.0: Good

well written and well performed if pretty boring at times

"She said you're just like Mike
Love but you wanna be Brian Wilson, Brian Wilson
Said you're just like Mike
Love but you'll never be Brian Wilson"

Never heard of this before, but it just comes off as generic 70s rock to me.

Surprised not to find this on "Yacht or Nyacht" to be honest, definitely felt like it would fit in that genre. The opening track is a delight, with echoes of the Beach Boys harmonies, with other gems sprinkled throughout.

Didn't quite sustain it over the full 16 tracks, but another one in the "genuinely delighted to have it brought to my attention" pile

Not bad. Some pretty great recording and mixing throughout but became numb to the album after awhile. 3/5