Just listen to Smile and Pet Sounds

Skip EVERYTHING else.

>>61074660
All. Grandad shit.

>>61074660
God tier albums start with:

Side 2 of Summer Days (And Summer Nights)
Today! (Side 2 is god-tier)
Pet Sounds
Smile
Sunflower

Trippy Hippie Albums:
Friends (Such a comfy album)
Wild Honey

>>61075711
>Trippy Hippie Album
(not true by the way)

Listen to things like Endless Summer and Spirit of America to get a good idea of their early singles and then listen to Pet Sounds. If you listen to Pet Sounds and like it, try Smile. You might not get it the first time but give it a second or 3rd try

>>61074696
Wild Honey is patrician

Surfs up is pretty good too

>>61074660

Average stuff:
everthing before summer days and summer nights

Top Tier:
Summer days!
Pet Sounds
Smile

Mellow Lo-fi:
Smiley Smile
Friends

Doing their own thing tier:
Wild Honey
20/20

Last Hurrah Tier:
Sunflower
Surf's Up


Shit Tier:
everything after that

First: Listen to Pet Sounds, SMiLE and Endless Summer

Then if you like it and want more: Sunflower, Surf's Up and Today

If you want even more: Love You, Smiley Smile, Friends, Wild Honey.

>>61074696
don't listen to this guy

>>61074696
Kill yourself.

Listen to Pet Sounds, then Smile, then Surf's Up, and feel your happiness bloom then slowly erode into musically genius sadness.

>>61074660
>God tier
Pet Sounds
SMiLE (disc 1 of The Smile Sessions)

>great tier
Today!
All Summer Long
Surf's Up
Love You
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
Sunflower

>good tier
Wild Honey
Friends
Smiley Smile
20/20

>decent tier
Surfin' USA
Surfer Girl
Shut Down Volume 2
Party!

>>61076458
>Average stuff:
>everthing before summer days and summer nights
No. Today! is their third best album and All Summer Long is great.
>Shit Tier:
>everything after that
Love You is fantastic.

>>61074660
Almost everything they made from 1964 to 1971 is worth listening to. Their only good post-1971 album is Love You.

>>61074660
Not really worth it. Listen to Endless Summer first to get an overview of their greatest pre-experimentation hits so you have an idea of what the Beach Boys were like going into Pet Sounds. Then listen to Pet Sounds. Then listen to the Smile Sessions, which is a best approximation of what Smile then listen to Brian Wilson presents Smile. After many months have passed and you finally feel bored with Smile, listen to Surf's Up.

>>61077376
>which is a best approximation of what Smile
Meant to delete this. Ignore it.

>>61077234
what about Holland? I heard it's good.

Everything from their first album to Holland is mandatory. Anything after that just shows you're a die hard fan.