Brian WilsonBest Brian Wilson Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
13
Opinions
6
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 13 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Brian Wilson's catalog across 6 albums from 13 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated Brian Wilson album is Smile (2004) with a 9.3/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by That Lucky Old Sun and Gettin’ In Over My Head. The discography on Wavelength spans 2002 to 2021.
Smile
“Never mind Pet Sounds. Good record, but a totem. That leaves three great Beach Boys albums. First comes a fun-fun-fun best-of: With the canonical Endless Summer deleted, settle for 2003’s longer, less pristine Sounds of Summer. The other two are quickies that fit neatly on one must-own CD: Buy Smiley Smile/Wild Honey while EMI lets […]”
Smile
“Finally: After 35 years, Brian Wilson solves the Smile puzzle, piecing together the fragments that fans have spent the last 3½ decades meticulously researching, speculating over, and attempting to assemble themselves. As the mythical follow-up to Pet Sounds, it delivers, and despite his age, Wilson's voice even sounds fantastic, still carrying the weight of these angelic melodies.”
That Lucky Old Sun
“"At 25, I turned out the light/’Cause I couldn’t handle the glare in my tired eyes." Those lines in "Goin’ Home" bluntly refer to Brian Wilson’s famous mental shutdown in 1967, during the sessions for the aborted Beach Boys album Smile. But that bridge is sung by a pitch-perfect choir in a radiant, white-funk song […]”
That Lucky Old Sun
“After the long-awaited, triumphant official release of Smile, the former Beach Boy returns-- along with co-writers Scott Bennett and Van Dyke Parks-- creating an amazing portrait of L.A. and his own place within it.”
No Pier Pressure
“It's been a late-game rally for eternal teenager Brian Wilson, the boy genius-turned-Great American Artist who, by his own measure, just wasn't made for this world. After three more-or-less lost decades in the wake of Pet Sounds, few expected 2004's Brian Wilson Presents Smile — and even fewer 2012's intermittently great Beach Boys reunion album, That's Why God Made the Radio, with Wilson's wistfu”
Gettin’ In Over My Head
“For the Brian Wilson faithful, the hard part is over when the wizard of SoCal releases an album. For those who need more than cheery, expert melodies and arrangements from on high to be satisfied, for skeptics not satisfied with agreeable guest spots from Eric Clapton, Elton John and Paul McCartney, and for hardheads who […]”
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