The Beach Boys 
The best album credited to The Beach Boys is Pet Sounds which is ranked number 11 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 38,145.
The Beach Boys is ranked number 16 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 57,083.
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| 07/14/2025 04:00 |  AAL2014 | 92 | 76/100 | |
| 06/15/2025 09:43 |  indieshins | 15 | 92/100 | |
| 05/26/2025 05:09 |  JR | 345 | 81/100 | |
| 07/22/2024 05:51 | Musyahid | 38 | 94/100 | |
| 05/07/2024 13:35 | australiantibull | 15 | 79/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.0/100, a mean average of 82.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.2/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 16.5.
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indieshins 06/15/2025 09:43 | #309541
We love you, Brian, and we'll miss you. Your astonishing music will live on until we're all gone from this world. I hope you're continuing to make those heavenly harmonies with your brothers up in heaven now. I guess God only knows...
NowhereMan 06/12/2025 17:14 | #309492
Rest in peace Brian, you gave and will continue to give us immeasurable pleasure for epochs
Lonely Sea from 1963 is their best track in career ???
The Beach Boys are a lot better band than people give them credit for. The general public views them mostly as a surf group, and all the critics lavish the acclaim on Pet Sounds and the single "Good Vibrations", and for good reason. Pet Sounds is their masterpiece and a defining pop/rock album. But they have at least a dozen albums that range from good to great. Their early surf-oriented albums/songs like Surfin' Sufari, Shut Down Vol 2, Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coup, All Summer Long and Summer Days (And Summer Nights) are really well done pop, defined by gorgeous harmonies inspired by doo wop and R&B. The Beach Boys Today! is basically proto-Pet Sounds. and their later late-60s/early-to-mid-70s output consists of weirder, more eclectic albums like Surf's Up, Holland, Carl and the Passions, Wild Honey, Sunflower and 50/50 that are super interesting and filled with great songs offered up by the other members of the band.
Still, Brian Wilson is a genius.
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2nd-Impressions 05/02/2021 23:21 | #269260
Favourite album: Pet Sounds
Favourite song: God Only Knows
I would say these guys get a bit too much praise, considering pet sounds was their only classic album. Besides pet sounds, their discography is very inconsistent. Also, Brian Wilson is a genius.
flamingyesdept 02/05/2021 17:24 | #265818
Six years on from the start of my Beach Boys love, I can comfortably say that they are the greatest artists in the history of popular music. Spearheaded by the genius of Brian Wilson, the group recorded the two greatest albums ever made (Pet Sounds and SMiLE) alongside a host of other masterpieces throughout their 60 year career.
StefanR10 06/13/2020 17:56 | #253462
I like The Beach Boys the influences much even The Beatles great band.
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