20 Golden Greats (compilation album) by The Beach Boys

20 Golden Greats by The Beach Boys
(Compilation album)
Year: 1976
Overall rank: 34,718th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 43 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1976 (339th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (3,720th)
Award Best albums of all time (34,718th)
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20 Golden Greats is ranked 31st best out of 70 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 45,190.

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77/100 (from 43 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.4.

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From 06/04/2019 20:35
I’m not a huge beach boys fan but even for me this compilation ticks all the right boxes. Excellent selection
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From 05/01/2013 13:28
Sure, there are countless hit compilations by the Beach Boys. Some of them leaving out their post "Pet Sounds" hits. Some of them including later 80's songs, that sound totally out of place. Most of them packed to the max or released as overloaded double/triple disc sets, which obviously have some filler material as well. This one instead serves as a brilliant, normal length overview of their most successful years on Capitol Records up to 1969. There is next to no filler on this set - "You're So Good To Me" might be the only semi-hit included. To date, this is still the most definite of the Beach Boys' greatest hits releases, and back in 1976 it was also one of the biggest sellers in the UK.
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From 03/07/2010 21:32
My favorite Beach Boys songs are the early ones..(It sounds like I'm talking about Woody Allen)..although I love all of their albums, it was difficult to find an album that has all of the songs I like, although this album doesn't have my favorite "In my room"..I could have put "Pet Sounds" which of course is a great album, but I wanted to put up an album that I felt captured all of the dimensions of the Beach Boy sound. Watched on the T.A.M.I. video last night, really great DVD from 1964.
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