The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Today! (1965)
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It’s about here – on their eighth album (already!) – that The Beach Boys start to grow up and away from the “Surf” songs; not that there’s anything wrong with the best of the surf songs. But here we get the start of the real sophistication – moves towards shaking off the branding and just releasing good music.…
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