Surfin' Safari (studio album) by The Beach Boys
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Surfin' Safari is ranked 13th best out of 74 albums by The Beach Boys on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Beach Boys is Pet Sounds which is ranked number 12 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 42,147.
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Surfin' Safari track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 66 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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55/100  | 02/24/2025 15:14 | fabm0 | | 59/100 |
70/100 | 02/08/2025 21:22 | Fabien67 | | 78/100 |
80/100 | 01/25/2025 04:14 | Olli | | 69/100 |
85/100 | 01/21/2025 20:14 | Pienk | | 75/100 |
80/100 | 12/03/2024 05:59 | matterhornrider | | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 63.6/100, a mean average of 62.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Jboy56 06/12/2022 10:17
Very young surferd
VictorVale 08/23/2021 17:10
Divertido pra caramba!!
LebowskiRams 04/30/2020 21:21
Aged like already-spoiled milk
Tamthebam 02/21/2017 00:01
A nice debut from the Boys, Surfin' Safari, 409, & Moon Dawg all show promise and even Summertime Blues although a cover works well.
The beach boys debut album is an enjoyable one, harmless fun really. It's incredibly charming, yet naive, but you have to remember how young they were when they made it. It's all throwaway material but it's fun. The title track is easily the best song on the album. Surfin' is good too. So this is where it all began. Short and sweet.
Kingturtle 03/18/2016 14:04
Brian Wilson was 18! Quite good for a first try.
The best is yet to come.
It's nothing special but pretty enjoyable. Surfin' Safari and 409 are the best tracks, County Fair is the worst. A decent album.
This album smells like chlorine. Pretty chill. I can dig it.
SuedeSwede 07/23/2014 15:34
Has to be the most inconsistent album out there. There's some really tight songs here that I can't help loving: Surfin' Safari, Summertime Blues, Heads You Win..., etc. But then there's honestly so much tripe here which is musically broken, I'm sure. "County Fair" is the worst Beach Boys song I've heard, by far. And I've heard Kokomo.
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