Brian Wilson & Van Dyke ParksBest Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks Albums Ranked

Brian Wilson

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8.0

“We should, of course, be grateful that Brian Wilson has finally released his debut solo album, a mere twenty-one years after he scrapped his intended magnum Beach Boys opus, Smile, and retreated into a bizarre twilight zone of drugs, paranoia, self-doubt and familial intrigue. We should also be indignant that a genius as rare as […]”

Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

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7.0

“Brian Wilson has more than a few things in common with George Gershwin. Both led wildly successful musical partnerships with their brothers. Both combined pop-song punch with harmonic sophistication worthy of the European classical tradition. Both blazed early then flamed out: Gershwin died of a brain tumor at age 38; drugs and mental illness sent […]”

Live at the Roxy Theatre (25th Anniversary Expanded Edition) [Live] [2025 Remaster] [DJ Mix]

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6.0

“The Beach Boys have been at least three bands: crafty chroniclers of pre-freakout mid-Sixties Southern California, audacious cult oddballs and shameless nostalgia merchants. The first incarnation created pop art of the highest order from 1962 to 1969; the third still rides on the original's coattails for empty entertainment and profit. But their complex middle era — plagued by commercial failure, ”

Imagination

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6.0

“On late Beach Boys classics like Pet Sounds, Wild Honey and Sunflower, Brian Wilson created a tableau of Southern California heartbreak, the sound of footloose surfer boys flailing through the loneliness of growing up. On Imagination, his second solo album, Wilson revisits this same formula. Lots of Nineties bands, from Spiritualized and Yo La Tengo […]”