I saw a documentary about the beach boys a while back and I've been meaning to check out more of their albums (I have the greatest hits album and one or two other things).
If I'm honest this album didn't really blow my mind or anything... I think it's a case of 'familiarity breeds contempt' in that I know enough of these songs so well that their impact is slightly lost. It is a fine a collection of BB songs, but listening to 'do you wanna dance' 'when i grow up (to be a man)' and 'help me Rhonda' for the gazillionth time, it's hard to create a detached perspective on the album. Perhaps a better indicator of how good is, is that listening to "in the back of my mind" which I'd never heard before immediately perked up my ears as a brilliant song.
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