SIDE B: The Beach Boys Tier List 

Agree with most choices but love you has fourteen songs! C&theP is their first disappointment yet still okay. Hate most of the post-1973 ones except BBLY/Beach Boys/TWGMtheR. L.A. is definitely underrated while all summer long deserves "A."

I like your proper beach boys 1964 uniform.

I have to agree with you their as well Sunflower is favourite beachboys album after Pet sounds. I'm glad you said that. Sunflower album is a Superb Underrated albums and doesn't get the Credit it deserves.

Friends has always been my favorite Beach Boys album. Summer Days is also my favorite, every track on that album is unique, even "I'm Bugged At My Old Man" which I really have fun listening to. I love the album cover with them on the boat. That's all I need on a desert Island, Friends and Summer Days. But I would also need a copy of Smiley Smile because my favorite Beach Boys song is on that album, "Little Pad."

I love The Beach boys 👦 . Sunflower is such a great album of course Smile , Pet Sound s they for me from Today to Holland I love em ..

Happy to have you in the Beach Boy’s community, friend! Love the quality of your videos. Great list.

Sunflower is also my favourite Beach Boys album after Pet Sounds and it's a S for me, Surf's Up is also amazing. I really love 20/20 Too, i lthink i love that album more then most people. Good ranking, it's almost the same as i would rank it.

Personally, I love the period from Today to Holland, and my all tima favourite is Surf's Up, incredible album

Beach Boys Today is their best.

Great video, it’s cool to see a beach boys tier list! I can agree on most rankings but I feel the Light Album could be a bit higher, I can understand that here comes the night and some others may bring it down but Dennis and Carl really save the album. Good Timin’ along with Angel Come Home and Baby Blue are some of my favorites and it’s bittersweet since it’s some of Dennis’ last vocals.

Everything in A, would be S for me, and I’d throw smiley smile in S, all summer long in A or S as well

Great video! Great insider info on The Beach Boys! I love wondering what a finished Smile could’ve sounded like!

Smiley smile should be in A, over Surf’s up and Holland and Love you

Fair ranking. I mostly agree. However i would move surfer girl to A level, as i consider it the first classic beach boys album. Great collection of their early surf songs. It does have one or two filler songs, but they fit with the time and sound, unlike shutdown vol 2. Speaking of vol 2, I'm glad im not the only one that thinks the best songs should've been on all summer long. I've always thought if don't worry baby, warmth of the sun, and fun fun fun would have been on all summer long, that would make for a perfect beach boys album. The perfect statement for the fun of youth. If that was the case, all summer long would easily be A tier. Anyhow, i would also move La light and self titled down to d tier. I love the beach boys, but i gotta keep it real. Anyway fun video!

I have always thought, much to the disagreement of others, that the L.A. (Light Album) is seriously underrated. Yes, the disco version of Here Comes the Night” may not have been the best idea. However, songs like Good Timin, Lady Lynda, Baby Blue, Goin’ South, and a couple of others make this album push this album, in my opinion, into an upper tier selection. Fantastic vocal performances by Carl and Dennis highlight several songs. The harmonizations by the guys are just gorgeous on several songs, especially Lady Lynda. I think people diss this album way too quickly because of the Disco on Here Comes the Night and completely miss all the beautiful, heartfelt, and gorgeous aspects of this album.

Nice! Agree with everything except that Wild Honey should be A-tier

So Cal old/kid here who had them as the background music while growing up. Music of course would go through many changes between then and now so they were put on the back burner for a long time. Just recently decided my midlife crisis would be to go down the rabbit hole of all of their output. So I thank you for the list to help navigate. It’s dark down here 😁 🏄‍♂️ 🐰 🕳

Great list. I'd bump ALL SUMMER LONG up to A, and SUNFLOWER is an S. One of the best albums of the seventies by anyone. Only "Tears in the Morning" is a "skipper." Otherwise, you and I agree on almost everything else.

Still Cruisin’, Somewhere Near Japan, Island Girl, Kokomo, and Make It Big put that album in the C tier for me. I also prefer Sunflower over Smile.

"Surf's Up" also suffers from the missing Dennis songs. "Smiley Smile' would have been more sonically consistent if they had re-done lo-fi versions of "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes & Villains" I don't think I would change any of your placements, except giving a huge asterisk next to the Smile Sessions.

Ngl, spot on list.

The Light Album apart from the horrible disco and shortnin' bread is pretty strong. Love Surrounds Me, Baby Blue and Full Sail are pretty strong early 70's style BB tunes...

Beach Boys Party was definitely the result of pressure from Capitol to get product out. It bought Brian time to work on Pet Sounds.

How can you justify wild honey amid summer days?! Think! Otherwise almost perfect tier. Id give WH a B+ and Summer Days a B B-

KTSA is a guilty pleasure for me as well. I enjoy all the songs on the 2nd side of the album.

No way should Love You exist on the same level as Sunflower !

Sorry ! , you’re too young to appreciate some of these albums in their original musical context . For example , Surfer Girl , Deuce Coupe , and , ( especially ) , All Summer Long were brilliant in their day . They were almost concept albums in a time before The Beatles revolutionized that category . In addition they have lots of great cuts that could have been hit singles . I would reverse the ratings of Wild Honey and Love You , but that change is merely personal preference . Finally , L. A. Is rightfully given short shrift , but without mention of the truly great track , Angel Come Home . The live version performed on The Midnight Special is even better than the studio cut .

Do you still feel LA to be D tier? Ignoring the disco track, it’s an A tier for me. Angel Come Home and Love Surrounds Me are some of my favorite Dennis tracks

Good content, but could have done without the silly backing music!

Pretty good assessment. I'd rank 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜 a little higher; it was a great sendoff for the band and was much better than it had any reason to be. I'd also put 𝐿.𝐴. (𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐴𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚) at least one tier higher. Despite the ridiculous disco track at least half the album is pretty good, with some fine contributions from both Carl and Dennis. It's better than the bland and dusty-sounding 𝑀.𝐼.𝑈. 𝐴𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚. But yeah this is a pretty good list.