Sunflower - Beach Boys Reviews

Seeing as the Sunflower album is now only available on a twofer with Surf's Up I will review both albums here. . First up is Sunflower and what a splendid album it is. At the time this was recorded Brian Wilson was withdrawing more and more into his own world and the other band member took it upon themselves to create an album using their ...  Read the complete review

Sunflower is one of those albums which is critically acclaimed but has had little commercial success. Recorded at the end of the 1960s and finally released in 1970, it featured a lot of individual effort from the five Beach Boys and combined their talents in one album, taking many different guises before finally being released with these 12 ...  Read the complete review

Sunflower catches The Beach Boys at an odd stage in their career. Having basically single handedly created their sound up until Pet Sounds (1966) and beyond, Brian Wilson stepped back, and a more democratic period followed, embodied by several patchy, but lovable albums for capitol. This was their first album for new label Warners, and ...  Read the complete review

Because the current layout of this album incorporates two records sandwiched together ('Sunflower' and 'Surf's up'), I will review both, but separately, as they show different musical representations and periods in time. Sunflower: My interest in the music of The Beach Boys, like many others, began with Pet Sounds. After ...  Read the complete review