Pacific Ocean Blue

Second favourite B Boy. This gets better every listen.

Not every track is a winner but the winners win by miles.

Met frisse tegenzin dit album gestart. Want ik werd er even op gewezen dat dit een Beach Boy was. En die hebben bij mij een gemiddelde van 1 ster behaald. Daar zit ik niet op te wachten.

Het eerste nummer laat gelijk horen dat ik niet te bevooroordeeld moet zijn. We krijgen een uitgedachte compositie, waarin elke muzikant en zanger tot hun recht komen en elkaar versterken. De klank van het nummer blijft terugkomen gedurende het hele album. Dat zegt zeker niet dat het eentonig is. Er worden nogal wat verschillende muziekstijlen gebruikt. Niet alles is mijn smaak, dat moet ik toegeven. Maar het is alleen al fijn om een album te horen, waarvan elk nummer alle aandacht heeft gekregen. Dennis doet niet aan opvulling.

Het aantal sterren is voor mij een duidelijke 4. Maar in de conclusie is dat bijzaak. Het gevoel waar ik mee blijf zitten is wat een zonde het is, dat hij zijn energie aan de Beach Boys heeft verspild.

I liked the album surprisingly well. I thought the first few tracks would be boring. And then the album is also so long. But the longer it went on, the better I liked it. I'll gladly listen to it again.
4/5

Knasigt album.
Ett gäng riktigt bra låtar mixade med totala sömnpiller.
What's Wrong och titelspåret är jäkligt bra.

Boring yet inoffensive

Absolutely nothing to this album.

I'm very glad to have been shown this album. Solid melodies voice and instrumentation

Certainly is a 70s rock album. It's fine. Inoffensive. It certainly doesn't approach anywhere near The Beach Boy's brilliance.

Pacific Ocean Blue is yet another album i am rather mixed over. On one hand, There were some legitimately excellent tracks in this album with instrumentation and singing that could almost be enough to bring someone to tears. On the other hand i do feel like the way the tracks were composed was not exactly the greatest, Not horrible, just a bit messy in places, and i do have an issue with one of the instruments that especially played in Dreamer which i believe are a weird trumpet sound but i just do not know. But beyond those two issues, this is a pretty decent album that i would say was worth my time.
Best Song: Thoughts of You
Worst Song: Dreamer

I actually really enjoyed this, more so than any of the Beach Boys music. Well composed and well delivered, I thought his voice fit very well with this style. I'd listen to this again. 4/5

2.5

Not for me, thanks. The best thing I can say about it is that it doesn’t sound like The Beach Boys. I’ll give him a bit of credit for that.

I fucking LOVE the '70s. There just seems no way around it. Had zero knowledge of or experience with this release previously. Not a big Beach Boys fan, and this really took me by surprise. Influences are ALL OVER THE PLACE, mixing rock, folk, soul, and pop. Even with all this it never sounds schizophrenic. Never feels like it jumps from style to style, more so it flows between and within them, existing comfortably in its own space. I (of course) love when this hits a good groove, but even the slower more introspective tracks (which is where an artist generally loses me) are captivating with their layered (almost psychedelic at times) instrumentation. This was a release that was difficult NOT to pay attention to throughout, and that's not something I can say about a lot of music. Disappointing to learn this would be his only solo album before his death.

Perus hyvä rock-levy vähemmän tunnetulta Beach Boys-jäseneltä. 3/5

I was surprised by how much I liked this album. Well, at least the first half of what I started listening to. I didn't realize I had the 2008 Deluxe edition, which is WAY WAY too long, BUT, the original 12 songs on 1977 edition are pretty good.

You can hear The Beach Boys on this, of course, but there's other influences and directions it takes. It's good, I'll listen to this one again.

Another solid 3 – there’s some good highs here, not many lows, but overall, I feel just… whelmed. A lot of these tracks feel like they’re missing one extra thing in them that would really fill out each song and make them feel more complete. It’s not a disappointing album per se, it’s just dripping with some unmet potential, I think.

It’s not a bad album, but it’s not one where I’d go back to too many tracks. I think it’s certainly worth a listen – there’s good stuff in here, namely the stretch of tracks 5 through 9, and I’m sure there’s some of the other tracks that would hit better to my ears if I listen even more, but... I think I’m just gonna stick to a 3.

It was fine, but probably not something I would go back to. Favorite songs are River Song, Time, Friday Night, and Rainbows.

Obviously strong Beach Boy vibes, a very strong album (first 12 songs if you can only find the 30th anniversary 2CD edition) that gently breezes along without too much effort for the listener, it goes from soulful pop to dirty funk with amazing ease.

I thought today's album was a poster for that movie Castaway, where Russell Crowe gets stranded on a island and befriends a volleyball named Wilson. Turns out Dennis Wilson is one of the three Wilson brothers who created The Beach Boys. So after learning that, I wasn't looking forward to what I assumed would just be more watered down Beach Boys garbage. Thankfully though, it's like folk pop/blues rock. Don't get me wrong, there is some shitty love ballads on it, but some straight up bangers too. Like Pacific Ocean Blue. A real dirty blues rocker.

Overall, this album was fine, but far too long. 1hr 52mins is just way too long of a runtime for this record.

Favourite songs: Pacific Ocean Blues, What's Wrong, Friday Night, Dreamer, Under the Moonlight, River Song, Holy Man - Taylor Hawkins Version

Least favourite songs: Tug of Love, Thoughts of You, It's Not Too Late, Cocktails, I Love You

3/5

A more soulful, slightly rougher Beach Boys. This is better than anything The Beach Boys did from '72 onward. Though I adore Brian, it kinda makes you wish Dennis could've taken the reins around that point in their career and moved the group in a more compelling direction than where they ended up going.