Title: Pretty dire followups to Pet Sounds
Product review: Beach Boys fanatics will be fanatics about this but this is a pairing of a couple of extremely weak albums with "only" a couple of truly great songs on it (Heroes and Villains and Good something-or-other). Smiley Smile is a stoned-sounding mess, many of the songs are incoherently awful and even the tuneful ones have seriously dumb lyrics ("I love my vegetables") or aural noise experiments (laughing, speeding-up, etc.) that make them painful as background music. Wild Honey is more coherent but the fire that was Pet Sounds simply sounds damp now. For fans who have to have everything only.
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