Surfin' Safari
by The Beach Boys
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Surfin' Safari is ranked 14th best out of 76 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 38,838.
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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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| ! | 12/26/2025 21:17 | mrmcrook | 1,005 | 77/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2025 00:47 | Exist-en-ciel | 6,086 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/18/2025 18:31 | FrancK | 490 | 83/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2025 02:05 |  Repo | 2,136 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2025 22:09 |  CA Dreamin | 602 | 71/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 63.6/100, a mean average of 62.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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The Beach Boys debut album. Very bouncy tempo. Think of the title track. Pretty much most of this is of similar style, tempo & structure. Not that that's bad, just ends up being quite samey. They do a good cover of 'Summertime Blues'. Beach parties, twisting and stuff. All good.
Jboy56 06/12/2022 10:17 | #286271
Very young surferd
LebowskiRams 04/30/2020 21:21 | #250718
Aged like already-spoiled milk
Tamthebam 02/21/2017 00:01 | #186046
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 | #162136
Brian Wilson was 18! Quite good for a first try.
The best is yet to come.
SuedeSwede 07/23/2014 15:34 | #117559
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.
RoundTheBend 03/21/2013 06:45 | #69297
Not a bad Debut. Surfin' Sufari, 409, and their Summertime Blues cover stands out to me. The rest is ok.
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