Surf's Up

Easily their best, "Surf's Up" shows The Beach Boys' sound at its darkest state yet up to this point in their career. This led to the lyrical topics being more open and honest than past Beach Boys albums, with the main topic seeming to be about environmentalism and the increasingly declining state of the world and society at large at the time. Not only is the production some of their best, but the instrumentals are beautiful and bring so much to the table when it comes to the potency of a lot of these songs, with the big standout being "A Day in the Life of a Tree". I still don't really consider myself to be a big Beach Boys fan, but even I have to admit that this is some damn fine material, and contains some of their best work. Really good stuff.