The Beach Boys weren't ... Even better are the two albums that were released almost exactly a year apart at the top of the new decade: 1970's Sunflower and 1971's Surf's Up.

It wasn't the Beach Boys' most consistent effort, but unlike Sunflower, Surf's Up arrived at the right moment to find a receptive audience. The album peaked at No. 29, the band's highest showing ...

Work on “Smile,” the California band’s much-labored-over follow-up to 1966’s epochal “Pet Sounds,” had flamed out spectacularly, bringing unwanted attention to Brian Wilson’s mental ...

It's the summertime, and we're coming off of a decade-long re-evaluation of the Beach Boys ... the album, a track salvaged from the legendary aborted Smile sessions. "Surf's Up" was intended ...

A new 5-disc reissue of the 1970 and 1971 albums Sunflower and Surf's Up reveals the Beach Boys at a crossroads, having moved beyond surf-music pop hits, and shooting for more mainstream success.

That record didn’t exactly change their fortunes, so the Beach Boys did something brilliant: They huddled up in Brian Wilson ... let alone be included on an album. Let’s also hear it for ...

Surfboard featured on the covers of two early Beach Boys albums set to be auctioned for $150,000 Legend has it that Dennis Wilson - the band's only real surfer - brought his own board along to the ...

The Beach Boys‘ 16th and 17th studio albums — Sunflower and Surf’s Up — are getting a massive box set treatment to mark the 50th anniversary of the latter LP. Feel Flows – The Sunflower ...

The two tracks are taken from the band’s huge upcoming box set, ‘Feel Flows – The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions ... Back in January The Beach Boys sold the rights to their intellectual ...

Much of this progression was evident on 1970’s Sunflower, an album whose cover pointedly depicted the Beach Boys as ... but it was up to Carl to dredge up “Surf’s Up” from the Smile ...

On 15 August 1970, The Beach Boys repaired to Brian Wilson’s house in Bel-Air, setting up in the studio downstairs. Sunflower, their new album, was due out in a fortnight, but the band were ...