The Beach Boys are the band that I've became most obsessed with over the years. I went something like almost 7 months listening to nothing else pretty much. I have everything up until Wild Honey, considering everything after 'Smile' is trash.
That said, Pet Sounds is amazing, and 'Smile' comes very close. Musically I think I prefer 'Smile', but 'Pet Sounds' has much more coherency, and is thus easier to listen to. Im going to go ahead and rank all of their pre-smiley smile albums now:
Pet Sounds 100/100
Smile 99/100
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!!) 90/100
Today85/100
All Summer Long 83/100
Surfer Girl 77/100
Little Deuce Coupe 75/100
Surfin' USA 60/100 (If only for the song 'The Lonely Sea')
Shut Down Vol. II 55/100
Surfin' Safari 45/100
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