The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
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Track List: Wild Honey
- Wild Honey
- Aren't You Glad
- I Was Made to Love Her
- Country Air
- Thing or Two
- Darlin'
- I'd Love Just Once to See You
- Here Comes the Night
- Let the Wind Blow
- How She Boogalooed It
- Mama Says
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Album Details: Wild Honey
- Release Date:
- 12/18/1967
- Label:
- Capitol
- UPC:
- 724382963622
User Reviews: Wild Honey
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Wild Honey
, May 20, 2001Reviewer: philochsuk - See all philochsuk's reviews -
A Great Follow-up.
, February 16, 2001Reviewer:
leomarvie - See all leomarvie's reviews A great follow-up to "Pet Sounds" and "Smiley Smile," because they go back to writing spirited and more commercial songs. 'Darlin' is a fun, gorgeous song, and the album has a good cover versions of 'I was made to love her' by Stevie Wonder, and 'here comes the night' also recorded by Them. The title track is great, and 'let the wind blow' is an interesting tune. 'i'd love to see you' is a trippy acoustic song. This is one of my favorites, next to "Pet Sounds."
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Pro Reviews: Wild Honey
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews 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 Twenty 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 |
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Strangelu underrated, Honey is unbeatable in their ouvre.