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- 6.3
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Tracklist
- A1Do You Wanna Dance?2:17
- A2Good to My Baby2:16
- A3Don’t Hurt My Little Sister2:05
- A4When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)2:02
- A5Help Me, Ronda3:07
- A6Dance, Dance, Dance2:05
- B1Please Let Me Wonder2:39
- B2I’m So Young2:29
- B3Kiss Me, Baby2:34
- B4She Knows Me Too Well2:28
- B5In the Back of My Mind2:06
- B6Bull Session With the “Big Daddy”2:17
Reviews
Rated 4/10
Omw to surround a woman in a bar and not leave until she gives in
Rated 8/10
Yeah. Not my thing, glorious and needs to be there, but never again
Rated 6/10
I don't think I'll ever relate to the obsessive love some folk have for the Beach Boys. I like the ones with the most memorable melodies and while I can appreciate the cleverness and ingenuity of some of the arrangements it just doesn't excite me. Nice to be prompted to think of The Ramones.
Rated 4/10
З часом я здається все краще і краще розумію цей гурт, але мабуть все ж їхні більш пізні альбоми. Цей якось ніяк. 2.5
Rated 6/10
I love listening to the Beach Boys eating burgers
Rated 8/10
Pet Sounds wasn't a sudden spike in talent and songcraft for the Beach Boys, it was a gradual improvement over previous albums. This already has the rich textures of Pet Sounds present on some of the songs. It still has the simpler songwriting about cars and girls and surfing present though and a number of the songs here don't feel all that worthwile. The fucking bull session with daddy bonus track was really wack and out of place too.
Rated 6/10
Surf guitar riffs and doowop vocal harmonies and some jangly chords - it's sunny and bright, deeply corny and exuding a backwards looking dinners and maltshops 50s nostalgia sexuality.
Rated 8/10
Really enjoyed this album! The best of theirs so far
4 ⭐️
Rated 6/10
Pet Sounds is an amazing album. Everything else I've heard from the Beach Boys is not that great, to be honest.
Rated 6/10
pretty standard Beach Boys. Pet Sounds was recorded a few months after this came out, so it definitely seems that this was an afterthought, or an obligation to a label.
Rated 6/10
I recognize a few of these songs by title, but haven't ever listened to this album start-to-finish.
This was alright, but a bunch of the songs really blur together.
Rated 6/10
I don't have a particularly nuanced take on the (relatively) early Beach Boys albums. To me they're enjoyable, summer pop music, made special largely by their incredible harmonies. And, while I thoroughly enjoyed The Beach Boys Today! It doesn't do a whole ton to challenge this perception. The biggest surprise is really just in how consistent it is, The Beach Boys deliver 11 consecutive, pleasant pop songs, and one behind the curtain field recording of the band and their team chatting. Anyhow, I don't want to downplay the songwriting here, it is honestly among thd best I've heard from this era, and there were a couple of moments that sounded sharply modern in a way that reminded me that thd Beach Boys are nearly as lodged into the DNA of modern pop music as The Beatles. If you like the Beach Boys' hits or consider yourself an aficionado of well-written harmonies, this is worth your time.
Rated 6/10
Just not pet sounds
Rated 6/10
Lyrically this record has not aged well.
Thankfully, Brian Wilson’s melodies are timeless.
Rated 6/10
I mean, I appreciate the Beach Boys for what they were... fun pop stylized to appeal to the masses. I'd take the more experimentation in Pet Sounds any day, but this is still worthy of a 3.
Rated 4/10
1.9
Rated 6/10
4->3 for the misogynistic lyrics (why was every song about age...?)
Rated 6/10
Surprisingly short, though it had some decent songs on it.
Rated 6/10
The beach boys are still not my favorite, but this was mostly ok. Except the last track.
Rated 4/10
It’s not The Beach Boys album I’m reaching for when I want to hear them.