There's a fair bit I don't agree with here - the simplification of the post-SMiLE years, for a start, but it's decent: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/11/brian-wilson-hits-beach-boys-legacy
Ditto this, for the same reasons: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/arts/music/brian-wilson-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.iu7I.XqcsOhyXS0H3
One hundred (count 'em) great songs by the Beach Boys that credit – to some
degree - Brian Wilson, but not necessarily in this order…
1. God Only Knows
2. Surf’s Up
3. The Warmth of the Sun
4. Good Vibrations
5. Caroline, No
6. Don’t Worry Baby
7. Cabin Essence
8. Sail on Sailor
9. Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
10 I Get
Around
11 Wouldn’t
It Be Nice
12 Wonderful
13 Please Let Me Wonder
14 Let Him Run Wild
15 California Girls
16 Heroes and Villains
17 This Whole World
18.
You Still Believe in Me
19.
Time To Get Alone
20.
Darlin’
21.
That’s Not Me
22.
Mrs O’Leary’s Cow
23.
Til I Die
24.
Fairy Tale Music (no narration!)
25.
Busy Doin’ Nothin’
26.
I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
27.
The Night Was So Young
28.
Do It Again
29.
A Day in the Life of a Tree
30.
All I Wanna Do
31.
Winter Symphony
32.
Prayer
33.
Here Today
34.
In the Back of My Mind
35.
I’ll Bet He’s Nice
36.
Wind Chimes
37.
In My Room
38.
She Knows Me Too Well
39.
Cool, Cool Water
40.
Surfer Girl
41.
Let Us Go on This Way
42.
Had to Phone Ya
43.
I Know There’s an Answer
44.
Marcella
45.
Diamond Head
46.
Do You Like Worms
47.
From There to Back Again
48.
The Little Girl I Once Knew
49.
Wild Honey
50.
Funky Pretty
51.
Pet Sounds
52.
Still I Dream of It
53.
Kiss Me Baby
54.
Country Air
55.
Surfin’
56.
My Diane
57.
Let’s Go Away for a While
58.
Little Deuce Coupe
59.
Let the Wind Blow
60.
Strange World
61.
Santa Ana Winds
62.
Be Here in the Morning
63.
Vega-Tables
64.
You’re Still a Mystery
65.
With Me Tonight
66.
Aren’t You Glad
67.
It’s Over Now
68.
Good to My Baby
69.
Anna Lee, the Healer
70.
When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
71.
Don’t Back Down
72.
Good Timin’
73.
Fun, Fun, Fun
74. Lines
75. Help Me, Rhonda
76.
Catch a Wave
77.
Little Pad
78.
Friends
79.
Our Sweet Love
80.
Trombone Dixie
81.
Pacific Coast Highway
82.
I’m Waiting for the Day
83.
Add Some Music to Your Day
84.
Dance, Dance, Dance
85.
Hang on to Your Ego
86.
Goin’ On
87.
Soul Searchin’
88.
The Girl from New York City
89.
Here Comes the Night (original)
90.
Mona
91.
Transcendental Meditation
92.
Johnny Carson
93.
Good Time
94.
At My Window
95.
You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone
96.
Roller Skatin’ Child
97.
Surfin’ USA
98.
Wake the World
99.
Can’t Wait Too Long
100. Child is father to the Man
Ten great songs from Brian's solo career:
1. Melt Away
2. Midnight's Another Day
3. Wings of a Dove
4. Rio Grande
5. Love and Mercy
6. This Song Wants To Sleep with You Tonight
7. That Lucky Old Sun/Morning Beat
8. Live Let Live/That Lucky Old Sun
9. The Like in I Love You
10. Cry
