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The Beach Boys
Released 1967

Mama Says
01:04
84 plays

I'd Just Love Once to See You
01:50
80 plays

Darlin'
02:14
377 plays

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- 1
- Wild Honey
- 02:40
- 222 plays

- 2
- Aren't You Glad
- 02:18
- 192 plays

- 3
- I Was Made to Love Her
- 02:07
- 176 plays

- 4
- Country Air
- 02:22
- 155 plays

- 5
- A Thing or Two
- 02:42
- 147 plays

- 6
- Darlin'
- 02:14
- 377 plays

- 7
- I'd Just Love Once to See You
- 01:50
- 80 plays

- 8
- Here Comes the Night
- 02:43
- 168 plays

- 9
- Let the Wind Blow
- 02:21
- 126 plays

- 10
- How She Boogalooed It
- 01:58
- 138 plays

- 11
- Mama Says
- 01:04
- 84 plays

album review

After the Smile sessions shut down, the Beach Boys became much more of a band than they had been in the mid-'60s. They began playing most of their own instruments on record for the first time since 1963, and Brian Wilson was no longer nearly as dominant a production mastermind. The problem was, as Wilson increasingly withdrew from a leadership role (and, subsequently, from the real world altogether), the Beach Boys were revealed as a group that, although capable of producing some fine and interesting music, were no longer innovators on the level of the Beatles and other figureheads. Wild Honey had a looser, funkier feel than any previous Beach Boys effort, at times approaching a kind of bleached-out white soul. The resulting music was often quite pleasant, for the great harmonies if nothing else, but the material and arrangements were quite simply thinner than they had been for a long time. The record does feature a nice Top 20 hit in "Darlin'" (even if it was a rewrite of a song that had been composed four years earlier, and recorded by Sharon Marie). The small hit single "Wild Honey," with its seductive theremin lines, was also a highlight, and "Here Comes the Night" (a group original, not the Them hit) also had a lot of appeal. But much of the rest was pleasing but inessential. A 1990 Capitol CD combines this and Smiley Smile onto one disc, adding previously unreleased in-progress versions of "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains," the a cappella B-side "You're Welcome," a 1967 version of "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring," and an excellent outtake, "Can't Wait Too Long." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide