It’s a solid band effort by The Beach Boys, although I prefer their next album “Surfs Up” and the earlier “Friends” from 68’, over “Sunflower”. Favorite tracks for me are “All I Wanna Do” and “Cool Cool Water”. Nice review Ross.
As a BB fan, I appreciate you giving this album a chance! This album, "Surf's Up," and "Holland" are all early 70s "hidden gems" if you will. None of them are perfect albums imo, but they have the whole band collectively trying their darndest to make the best music they can make. The next album, "Surf's Up," is equally brilliant, featuring a tender, sad, bleak, beautiful, and powerful masterpiece from Brian in the song "'Til I Die."
My favourite Beach Boys Album; favourite tracks: "Deirdre", "At My Window" and "All I Wanna Do", all amongst my top 10 favourite beach boys tracks. I think in the end Pet Sounds was more curse than blessing for them, since it distracted so much from great albums like this...
