20/20
by The Beach Boys

20/20 by The Beach Boys
Year: 1969
Overall rank: 5,236th   
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 167 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (93rd)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (412th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,236th)

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20/20 is ranked 15th 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 38,699.

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20/20 track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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20/20 rankings

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Overall rank: 5,236th | 1960s rank: 412th | 1969 rank: 93rd

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20/20 ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 167 votes)
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01/14/2026 04:53 Exist-en-ciel   6,96370/100
 
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20/20 comments

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70/100
From 03/05/2023 14:34 | #294728
I DIvided mind about this dud.. Beach Boys should have stayed on the beach
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From 05/01/2020 23:33 | #250792
A few awesome songs but a lot of mediocrity, too.
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70/100
From 09/02/2018 21:21 | #220425
It is ingenious on “Do It Again” how they made that beat: a normal drum sound with a couple milliseconds echo. For a minute I thought they were using a drum machine.
Anyway, the album is indeed not very consistent, but that doesn’t mean the tracks are bad. Al Jardine finally got the chance to make a folk song, and it’s great. Furthermore, of course Cabinessence is interesting, the rest ranges from nice to awful. Charles Manson’s songwriting is as dumb as his interpretation of The White Album.
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From 01/25/2017 21:51 | #184280
Album is possibly too generous a term for this haphazard collection of leftovers. With Brian no longer dominating the group, and only contributing a handful of songs, the other members start contributing, and the results are accordingly varied.
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50/100
From 03/28/2016 15:43 | #162867
A hotchpotch album of singles, b-sides, new songs, and others left over from the aborted smile album. Really, the album's all over the place. Best tracks are, do it again, the cover I can hear music, and the Charles Manson contribution, never learn not to love. The rocking, all I want to do, sounds like the boys had been listening to the Beatles' revolution. All in all, it's ok, it just sounds like a compilation album, which in truth, is what it really is.
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60/100
From 07/29/2014 18:51 | #118065
Yeah, there's some great songs here, then there's some weaker. And it's ordered so strangely, that it feels so wrong and fractured. I like it, but it's all over the place. I mean ending on Our Prayer/Cabinessence? Like, for starters, ending on the pair isn't exactly a strong end. Second of all, why pair Our Prayer with Cabinessence? The mind boggles.
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70/100
From 03/21/2013 07:30 | #69313
10 and 12 were solid, the rest so so.
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