as ambitious as "Good Vibrations". He mentioned that he felt 15 Big Ones was "a good album" and "if you listen to it, you can see where all the work went", adding that if it had been disliked by "the kids", then it "would have wrecked me and I'd probably have hidden out again." In a 1998 interview, he referred to 15 Big Ones and the band's next release, The Beach Boys Love You (1977), as his favorite Beach Boys albums. "That's when it all happened for me. That's where my heart lies." Other members of the band, including Carl and Dennis, disparaged the album in the press when it was released. Dennis felt that it was "a great mistake to put Brian in full control" and that the "whole process was a little bruising." He admitted, "We were heartbroken. People have waited all this time, anticipating a new Beach Boys album, and I hated to give them this." Mike Love declined to comment on the album when asked by a reporter. In White's belief, the troubled sessions "precipitated the abrupt solo career decisions by Dennis and Carl Wilson", and what he had witnessed convinced him that "the greatest obstacle the Beach Boys face is that of five divergent personalities, fraught with jealousies, fears, foibles, conflicting interests and basic stylistic disagreements." Matijas-Mecca argued that 15 Big Ones marked the beginning of a one-and-a-half-year period in which "Brian produced some of his most creative and interesting (if not necessarily commercial) music since he abandoned SMiLE." Journalist Brian Chidester similarly described the era as the end of "Wilson's full retreat as leader of the Beach Boys", although Wilson "never returned to the form that saw him produce groundbreaking works like Pet Sounds and Smile." Diken wrote, "One might also view the album as Brian's salvation from a goal-less downward spiral and an imminent crash landing." Track listing Note "Talk to Me" includes an interpolation of the 1959 song "Tallahassee Lassie", originally performed by Freddy Cannon. Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of the album's 2000 reissue. The Beach Boys Al Jardine – lead (3, 8, 10-11) and backing vocals (all tracks), guitar (10) Mike Love – lead (1-3, 5, 11-12) and backing vocals (all tracks), arranger (2, 5) Brian Wilson – lead (3-4, 7, 13) and backing vocals (all tracks except 5), organ (1-2, 6-9, 12-13, 15), piano (1-4, 6-7, 9,