Tracks
- Do You Wanna Dance?
- Good to My Baby
- Don't Hurt My Little Sister
- When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
- Help Me, Ronda
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Please Let Me Wonder
- I'm So Young
- Kiss Me, Baby
- She Knows Me Too Well
- In the Back of My Mind
- Bull Session with the 'Big Daddy'
The Beach Boys Today! is a light and fluffy album. All of the songs sound really nice and the close harmony is especially good. There are a few rocking songs, but the majority of the songs are ballads.
I didn't really like the fade in and fade out on Help Me, Ronda and the sound adjustment on Do You Wanna Dance? It felt amateurish.
The Beach Boys also suffer from writing sappy love songs. At least their ballads and singing style made them more tolerable and sound a little more mature.
This album certainly shows a more refined style of rock and roll songwriting, even though the lyrics are mediocre. It's worth listening to, but I would tear my hair out if I were subjected to the ballads over and over. Not surprisingly all but one of the stand out songs: Do You Wanna Dance?, Don't Hurt My Little Sister, Help Me, Ronda, Dance, Dance, Dance and Kiss Me, Baby are not ballads.
And thankfully with the advent of digital music, you can finally purge the album of the obnoxious Bull Session with the 'Big Daddy'. Whatever purpose it served then is now presumably gone.
★★★★★★★★☆☆
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