The Beach Boys Today! (studio album) by The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys Today! is ranked 4th best out of 72 albums by The Beach Boys on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Beach Boys is Pet Sounds which is ranked number 11 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 45,106.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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70/100  | 5 days ago | TroutMaskGreg | | 69/100 |
80/100 | 05/05/2024 17:10 | javicho07 | | 86/100 |
80/100 | 05/04/2024 23:25 | dukeboxkool | | 74/100 |
85/100 | 04/25/2024 18:34 | saltysurprise | | 84/100 |
90/100 | 04/21/2024 00:36 |  indieshins | | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.4/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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indieshins 04/21/2024 00:37
Extraordinary. They would top it, but with the exception of the final track, which should have been cut, this is above and beyond anything they'd done before in every conceivable way. I think perhaps rather than making it a party side and then a ballad side, they could have interspersed the two, but that's really the only criticism I have of this beautifully produced and arranged record. If you like The Beach Boys, you need to hear this!
Underrated beach boys record
Couple nice songs here, most of them land on the first part of album, but better things were yet to come.
You can really hear the Phil Spector influence coming in on this one, in a good way. I really like this album.
sszwalbenest 11/30/2021 14:44
My favorite of the Beach Boys that I have heard so far. Good conventional pop music, rather than the pretentious failed experiments that I think characterize their later work.
planetneutral 02/22/2021 19:59
Some likable songs and emerging signs of genius, but the sequence is divided between upbeat tunes and ballads in a way that makes it hard for me to enjoy as an album proper.
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One of the Beach Boys most interesting albums. It is the transition album between The Beach Boys as a surf novelty act and The Beach Boys that would make "higher art" albums in the late 60s and early 70s. Even the album itself is neatly split between catchy pop songs (side 1) and longer ballads (side 2). Side 2 sounds like the rough draft for Pet Sounds as it is clear that Brian Wilson is beginning to hone his craft as both a song writer and producer. A great place to start if you want to make a run through The Beach Boys best era.
flamingyesdept 10/04/2020 12:51
The first pop music masterpiece - a perfect album start to end (last track aside), nine months before Rubber Soul. An excellent demonstration of Brian Wilson’s genius (he was just 22 when this album was released!)
2nd-Impressions 10/04/2020 00:02
62/100
Best tracks: Dance Dance Dance, Please Let Me Wonder
Worst tracks: Good to My Baby, Don't Hurt My Little Sister, In the Back of My Mind
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