Thanks for reviewing this! When people think of the Beach Boys, they always think of surfing, cars, girls and of course Pet Sounds. Their albums after that are ignored by the general public. I think some of their best work was between Wild Honey and Holland!
Thanks for showing this forgotten Beach Boys album some attention. It is probably their most overlooked album, it has to be one of there best 'Group' albums, where everybody contributes to it. And Dennis Wilson's breakout album, he has two great songs on it. Bruce Johnston also has a couple of great tracks on it. I really enjoy this album, it has a great late sixties, early seventies vibe to it.
Great review guys! This is top tier Beach Boys for me right up there with Pet Sounds and Smile! The next album Surf's Up is a very underrated album as well. My favorite tracks are Add Some Music, Forever, Deirdre, and This Whole World. I give this album a 9... just a very enjoyable record for me!
Great job, fellas'! I lived next door to a family who owned a record shop in 1975 and my friend Barry introduced me to "Sunflower". I thought I had been a Beach Boys fan, but this totally escaped me when it came out in 1970. My reaction was "where the Hell has this been all my life"? I thought it was that good. I think of "Pet Sounds" as the best Brian Wilson album with the Beach Boys as guest artists and "Sunflower" as my favorite Beach Boys record ever. It has the entire group involved and it shows the band as hip and with it as Rolling Stone may have said they were not just a couple of years previously. For me, it is the best thing they've done (with my "Pet Sounds" caveat) and I listen to this record often. Thanks for the review, guys!
Really appreciate the kind words and great insight Joe, especially Pet Sounds with the Beach Boys as guest artists, great way to put that!!!! Thanks for watching!
Pumped to see this! I loved the lines you picked out on This Whole World and Add Some Music. This is an album I've heard a lot and never really looked into the lyrics too much (except perhaps to make fun of the melodramatic Tears in the Morning, which I also love). With that said, this is not one of the Beach Boys best 3 albums. Pet Sounds and Smile are an easy top 2, and 3rd would go to either Today!, Wild Honey, or Friends for me. You both seem to get their music so I'd love to see more reviews. Today! or Smile would be my suggestions for next, but it's hard to go wrong with anything between 64 and 71 for these guys
Love this! The Beach Boys (apart from 'Pet Sounds') usually are not considered a classic 'album band', but more unfairly as a 'light-weight' pop-singles act. In addition to that, as you mention yourself in the beginning of this video, this phase was commercially not successful and at the time seen as a dire downward development for the band. However, in hindsight between 1967 and the early 1970s the Boys released a streak of creatively interesting and pretty great albums. Es pecially 'Sunflower' witnessed some re-appraisal in recent years. I furthermore strongly recommend the tranquil 'Friends' and the album 'Holland' to get maybe a new perspective on the Beach Boys :-)
Great video, this is also one of my favorite albums of The Beach Boys. I think if you have a listen to the 'a capella' version of "Forever" you will understand Brians comment about the song a little better. I think you guys will also enjoy the Album "Today!" by the Beach Boys. It has some very good songs in it as well. Keep the great reviews coming! Greetings from Amsterdam
I have this album on Cd and listened to it for a few years now. I think this is a good album. It has some weak points but a lot of strong points. I like the film footage and the facts you included Shawn. Yes, Brian was having a sort of meltdown and became a recluse. He still managed to help his band. The other band members were maturing like you said Trey. The album didn't chart well but is still certainly worth listening to. You both gave a great track by track review and made some really good comments. I am agreeing with you on most of what you said. Your favorite tracks are good choices. My favorite tracks are This Whole World, Forever, Add Some Music To Your Day, It's About Time. You both give this album a high score in your overall rating. My rating is similar at between an 8.0 to an 8.5. Excellent job on the video.
Another great review, guys. The Beach Boys are interesting in that Pet Sounds (and, IMHO, Brian's solo version of Smile) is so far above everything else they ever did that the rest of their discography might sound a bit underwhelming at times. That said, this is near the top of the pile in terms of the rest of their albums. I actually bought it on a CD that had both Sunflower and Surf's Up on it (pretty much all their sixties material was released this way a few years back as the individual albums are all so short) so I almost think of the two of them as two sides of the same album. The way the light and airy Sunflower plays against the moodier and darker Surf's Up is really effective. Anyway, I pretty much agree with your ratings, if not my favourite track. Considering that he wrote God Only Knows, Brian was a bit hyperbolic in his praise of Forever but I can't argue too much. It's a crazy beautiful love song. It ain't God Only Knows but then, what is?
You guys should listen to Today! and Summer Days (And Summer Nights) by The Beach Boys. There is material on those two albums that is equally as good as some of the stuff on Pet Sounds.
It's kind of shocking how the Beach Boys lost almost all real relevance as the new decade started, considering the fact that they were essentially the American version of the Beatles during those early years. Honestly, I am totally unfamiliar with this album despite growing up loving their music. I enjoyed the review and may have to check out some of your favorite tracks. As always, great job. Stay safe and healthy Holmes'.
the beach boy is a very good group. they have very good voices and good compositions .. to think that the beatles when they returned on one of the successful tours returning from the usa to england listening to the great work of the beach boy (pet souns) opened their eyes and ears .. in which the light was turned on .. to make the sergeant pepper-- hahahaha-- greetings ---
Lol seriously you are confused??? I, Shawn, was born in 1971 and neither of my parents were into music so I listened to the radio and was a 80's kid knowing all of that popular music. Only music we were listening to is the radio or what you bought and why would I buy this? Or anything that I had never heard???? We get these comments from time to time and always blows me away. Do you know the catalogue of Arianna Grande well? She was the most downloaded artist on Spotify of the past decade? If not I am so confused on how you couldn't since she was THE most popular? See how your comment can be taken as very very patronizing??? peace
Great review as always guys! I was just wondering if you are ever going to do any more reactions to The Who? I know you did Who's Next like 8 months ago, and you both loved it as I remember. If you want to do Tommy or Quadrophenia, but you've held off because they're double albums, why not split it into two parts? It just seems The Who is way too important a band in rock history to only cover one album and one song (Love Reign O'er Me). Again, I watch most of your reactions, keep up the great work!
We have had intentions of doing either of those albums, but yes the double album makes it tough. We have so much on our schedule as the channel is equivalent to a full-time job hours wise at this point so it is impossible to get to everything, the song reaction was a way to get to them in some manner. All that to say someday lol someday and thanks for watching Juef we really appreciate it!
I second that. The Who are just below The Beatles and The Stones for me (and just slightly above the Kinks) in terms of all time greatest rock bands. Also, the weird thing about Who's Next is that it's actually even better when you include the bonus tracks from the 1995 remaster - which does, effectively, make it yet another double album; their second out of three in four years!
older maturer. young adults at this time.. a good solid outing showing that they were more than just the poppy. Their take on cottonfields isn't too bad cover of the old Leadbelly classic. I'm more partial to Credence take on that one though from Willy and the poorboys which came one year prior in '69. all this would be almost one of the last of the real original band members as they would split apart by the time of The smiler sessions. Brian getting into heavier and heavier hallucinogenic drugs losing total touch with reality. it is on a scale of 1 to 10 it goes about 8.25 all in all the good album not really for driving around 2 but when you're just kind of kicked back listening to some tunage..
Your assessment of Brian is not entirely accurate. 50th anniversary of this great album with new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston can be found here … esquarterly.com/esq-store/summer-2020-issue-130-sunflower-50th-anniversary-edition/
@@ReactionsToTheClassicsin respect to his drug use. The research and new interviews with Brian, Mike, Al, and Bruce are evidenced within the pages of Endless Summer Quarterly in the link I posted. Thanks for reviewing this great album.
Well we took it from several, SEVERAL sources and firsthand observational interviews. And we are not saying this is the case here, but the history of rock music is littered with revisionist history.
No one wanted them without Brian as the song writer for years. Brian wrote everything and recorded everything they just sang on the albums. Even before Pet Sounds Brian was in charge musically. For many years they couldn’t sign a contract without Brian providing at least one song. The songs that were shelved for The Smile Sessions we’re cut up and parceled out one at a time. I think if Brian had not suffered mentally The Beach Boys would be the greatest American band and rival even the Beatles.
Reactions To The Classics something interesting you can buy beer from a restaurant and carry it out now in Indiana. They passed a resolution to make sure no one was confused about getting a beer during the apocalypse. 🤣🤣🤣
I absoloutley adore Sunflower. It is atmospheric, genuine & universal love.
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Thanks for reviewing this! When people think of the Beach Boys, they always think of surfing, cars, girls and of course Pet Sounds. Their albums after that are ignored by the general public. I think some of their best work was between Wild Honey and Holland!
Yes this was really a good choice and we appreciate you bringing it to us! Hope you are feeling better brother!
Thanks for showing this forgotten Beach Boys album some attention. It is probably their most overlooked album, it has to be one of there best 'Group' albums, where everybody contributes to it. And Dennis Wilson's breakout album, he has two great songs on it. Bruce Johnston also has a couple of great tracks on it. I really enjoy this album, it has a great late sixties, early seventies vibe to it.
Thanks Ron really appreciate it. We actually will have a review of Dennis's album up this month. Stay Safe!
Great review guys! This is top tier Beach Boys for me right up there with Pet Sounds and Smile! The next album Surf's Up is a very underrated album as well. My favorite tracks are Add Some Music, Forever, Deirdre, and This Whole World. I give this album a 9... just a very enjoyable record for me!
Thanks for watching Michael and we hope you are feeling better!
@@ReactionsToTheClassics doing my best to get better. I feel a little bit better today but still not completely healed.
Great job, fellas'! I lived next door to a family who owned a record shop in 1975 and my friend Barry introduced me to "Sunflower".
I thought I had been a Beach Boys fan, but this totally escaped me when it came out in 1970. My reaction was "where the Hell has this been all my life"? I thought it was that good.
I think of "Pet Sounds" as the best Brian Wilson album with the Beach Boys as guest artists and "Sunflower" as my favorite Beach Boys record ever. It has the entire group involved and it shows the band as hip and with it as Rolling Stone may have said they were not just a couple of years previously.
For me, it is the best thing they've done (with my "Pet Sounds" caveat) and I listen to this record often.
Thanks for the review, guys!
Really appreciate the kind words and great insight Joe, especially Pet Sounds with the Beach Boys as guest artists, great way to put that!!!! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for honoring this album. I kept wanting to hear the songs, or some samples, but I guess the powers-that-be won't allow that unfortunately.
No we would be copyrighted in a second unfortunately. Appreciate you watching Glo Waves!
Hi guy's I loved your sunflower album review. Thankyou so much xxxxx
Really appreciate the kind words!!!! Thanks for watching Steve Clapham!
Pumped to see this! I loved the lines you picked out on This Whole World and Add Some Music. This is an album I've heard a lot and never really looked into the lyrics too much (except perhaps to make fun of the melodramatic Tears in the Morning, which I also love). With that said, this is not one of the Beach Boys best 3 albums. Pet Sounds and Smile are an easy top 2, and 3rd would go to either Today!, Wild Honey, or Friends for me. You both seem to get their music so I'd love to see more reviews. Today! or Smile would be my suggestions for next, but it's hard to go wrong with anything between 64 and 71 for these guys
Really appreciate the comment and suggestions Jacob. We will for sure check out some more of their stuff. Thanks for watching and stay safe!
Delightful album. Side 2 has some of my favorite BB tracks.
Thanks Nick!
Love this! The Beach Boys (apart from 'Pet Sounds') usually are not considered a classic 'album band', but more unfairly as a 'light-weight' pop-singles act. In addition to that, as you mention yourself in the beginning of this video, this phase was commercially not successful and at the time seen as a dire downward development for the band. However, in hindsight between 1967 and the early 1970s the Boys released a streak of creatively interesting and pretty great albums. Es pecially 'Sunflower' witnessed some re-appraisal in recent years.
I furthermore strongly recommend the tranquil 'Friends' and the album 'Holland' to get maybe a new perspective on the Beach Boys :-)
Thanks Murdock, we will check those out!
OK....You guys did give this gem record its due......Job well done...
Really appreciate the kind words!!!! Thanks for watching Lowden726!
Great video, this is also one of my favorite albums of The Beach Boys. I think if you have a listen to the 'a capella' version of "Forever" you will understand Brians comment about the song a little better.
I think you guys will also enjoy the Album "Today!" by the Beach Boys. It has some very good songs in it as well.
Keep the great reviews coming! Greetings from Amsterdam
Thanks for the suggestion and for watching Joao! Stay safe!
Thank you for your videos love the beach boys xx
Thanks Steve really appreciate it!
NICE VIDEO AND REVIEW. TAKE CARE
Thanks Bobby, stay safe!
you should listen to beach boys' "love you" album, it's a fan favourite, very weird album
We will check it out. Thanks Leopoldo!
@@ReactionsToTheClassics It's not weird, a word that should be banned in the English language, it's different!
Too bloody weird and not in a freak out way. It's utterly childish and contrived, virtually musical schizo/arrested development.....
Tears in the morning was released here in the UK as a single,they even played live on Top of the pops.
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I have this album on Cd and listened to it for a few years now. I think this is a good album. It has some weak points but a lot of strong points. I like the film footage and the facts you included Shawn. Yes, Brian was having a sort of meltdown and became a recluse. He still managed to help his band. The other band members were maturing like you said Trey. The album didn't chart well but is still certainly worth listening to. You both gave a great track by track review and made some really good comments. I am agreeing with you on most of what you said. Your favorite tracks are good choices. My favorite tracks are This Whole World, Forever, Add Some Music To Your Day, It's About Time. You both give this album a high score in your overall rating. My rating is similar at between an 8.0 to an 8.5. Excellent job on the video.
Thanks for sharing your insight Poet and stay safe!
@@ReactionsToTheClassics Thank you, you also stay safe.
Another great review, guys. The Beach Boys are interesting in that Pet Sounds (and, IMHO, Brian's solo version of Smile) is so far above everything else they ever did that the rest of their discography might sound a bit underwhelming at times. That said, this is near the top of the pile in terms of the rest of their albums. I actually bought it on a CD that had both Sunflower and Surf's Up on it (pretty much all their sixties material was released this way a few years back as the individual albums are all so short) so I almost think of the two of them as two sides of the same album. The way the light and airy Sunflower plays against the moodier and darker Surf's Up is really effective.
Anyway, I pretty much agree with your ratings, if not my favourite track. Considering that he wrote God Only Knows, Brian was a bit hyperbolic in his praise of Forever but I can't argue too much. It's a crazy beautiful love song. It ain't God Only Knows but then, what is?
As always wonderful insight. Thanks for sharing and watching!
You guys should listen to Today! and Summer Days (And Summer Nights) by The Beach Boys. There is material on those two albums that is equally as good as some of the stuff on Pet Sounds.
Thanks for the suggestion and for watching Evan!
this is my favorite Beach Boys album. and i own them all.
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It's kind of shocking how the Beach Boys lost almost all real relevance as the new decade started, considering the fact that they were essentially the American version of the Beatles during those early years. Honestly, I am totally unfamiliar with this album despite growing up loving their music. I enjoyed the review and may have to check out some of your favorite tracks. As always, great job. Stay safe and healthy Holmes'.
Yes Don I was amazed that they fell off popularity wise that quickly. We are trying to safe Don hope you are as well!!
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I guess when Brian died they will remember them.
This Whole World is a musical lesson. Anyone whose into composing and modulation tricks should go check out the score
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the beach boy is a very good group. they have very good voices and good compositions .. to think that the beatles when they returned on one of the successful tours returning from the usa to england listening to the great work of the beach boy (pet souns) opened their eyes and ears .. in which the light was turned on .. to make the sergeant pepper-- hahahaha-- greetings ---
Thanks for watching!
I'm so confused, how have you guys never heard the name Deirdre? haha
Lol seriously you are confused??? I, Shawn, was born in 1971 and neither of my parents were into music so I listened to the radio and was a 80's kid knowing all of that popular music. Only music we were listening to is the radio or what you bought and why would I buy this? Or anything that I had never heard???? We get these comments from time to time and always blows me away. Do you know the catalogue of Arianna Grande well? She was the most downloaded artist on Spotify of the past decade? If not I am so confused on how you couldn't since she was THE most popular? See how your comment can be taken as very very patronizing??? peace
@@ReactionsToTheClassicsHaha! Chill, man. They were just talking about the name, not the music.
I'm Irish, Deirdre is an Irish-language name.
You guys need to listen to Holland, Wild Honey, and The Smile Sessions.
We plan on getting to them Matt. Thanks for watching!
Great review as always guys! I was just wondering if you are ever going to do any more reactions to The Who? I know you did Who's Next like 8 months ago, and you both loved it as I remember.
If you want to do Tommy or Quadrophenia, but you've held off because they're double albums, why not split it into two parts?
It just seems The Who is way too important a band in rock history to only cover one album and one song (Love Reign O'er Me).
Again, I watch most of your reactions, keep up the great work!
We have had intentions of doing either of those albums, but yes the double album makes it tough. We have so much on our schedule as the channel is equivalent to a full-time job hours wise at this point so it is impossible to get to everything, the song reaction was a way to get to them in some manner. All that to say someday lol someday and thanks for watching Juef we really appreciate it!
I second that. The Who are just below The Beatles and The Stones for me (and just slightly above the Kinks) in terms of all time greatest rock bands. Also, the weird thing about Who's Next is that it's actually even better when you include the bonus tracks from the 1995 remaster - which does, effectively, make it yet another double album; their second out of three in four years!
Great review! although the group is listed as the producers, the majority of the production was done by Carl Wilson.
Thanks for the insight and for watching we really appreciate it!
Review Surfs up... the opposite of Sunflower:)
It was on our poll for the live album review we did yesterday but it lost out, we will get to it at some point I am sure. Thanks for watching!
Unfortunately some of the best songs never chart because they’re missing that mass appeal you need to hit the charts. Great album
Very very true!!! Thanks for watching!
older maturer. young adults at this time.. a good solid outing showing that they were more than just the poppy.
Their take on cottonfields isn't too bad cover of the old Leadbelly classic. I'm more partial to Credence take on that one though from Willy and the poorboys which came one year prior in '69.
all this would be almost one of the last of the real original band members as they would split apart by the time of The smiler sessions.
Brian getting into heavier and heavier hallucinogenic drugs losing total touch with reality.
it is on a scale of 1 to 10 it goes about 8.25
all in all the good album not really for driving around 2 but when you're just kind of kicked back listening to some tunage..
As always great insight. Thanks Kev and stay safe brother!
Need to get into more beach boys they have so many gems in their discography
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ALL I WANNA DO IS THE BEST AONG EVER
Haha that is the beauty of music we can all find our own gems Thanks Jennifer!
Your assessment of Brian is not entirely accurate. 50th anniversary of this great album with new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Bruce Johnston can be found here … esquarterly.com/esq-store/summer-2020-issue-130-sunflower-50th-anniversary-edition/
Care to elaborate how it’s not entirely accurate?
@@ReactionsToTheClassicsin respect to his drug use. The research and new interviews with Brian, Mike, Al, and Bruce are evidenced within the pages of Endless Summer Quarterly in the link I posted. Thanks for reviewing this great album.
Well we took it from several, SEVERAL sources and firsthand observational interviews. And we are not saying this is the case here, but the history of rock music is littered with revisionist history.
No one wanted them without Brian as the song writer for years. Brian wrote everything and recorded everything they just sang on the albums. Even before Pet Sounds Brian was in charge musically. For many years they couldn’t sign a contract without Brian providing at least one song. The songs that were shelved for The Smile Sessions we’re cut up and parceled out one at a time. I think if Brian had not suffered mentally The Beach Boys would be the greatest American band and rival even the Beatles.
Thanks for the insight Carl. Hope things are calm in Indiana!
Reactions To The Classics something interesting you can buy beer from a restaurant and carry it out now in Indiana. They passed a resolution to make sure no one was confused about getting a beer during the apocalypse. 🤣🤣🤣
haha they did the same thing in Texas!