Shows a casual mastery of so many musical styles: rock, country, fusion, riff/pop. (MS) Belongs higher but then so does everything else and more. (GM)

The angelic voices in Brian Wilson’s head prior to turning into madness. (MS) Brian Wilson’s three part harmony at its lovely best. (LM)

Dino Danelli is their secret weapon but they all got the feeling and they knew how to put it in songs. (GM) Blue eyed greatness. Groovin’ is the purer release, but they have too many fine songs to stop there. (PK)

Best. Singer. Ever. The first three songs blow your socks off and then it loses some steam. But so what. (MS) As a showcase of her greatest singing this rules, though so does pretty much anything she ever recorded (including those church services when she was 13 or so). (PK)

Perhaps the most creatively exuberant music ever made, along with all the music they made in the two years before and after. (GM) A classic crafted somehow amidst the mania. (MS)

Box sets are cheating. Too bad. His voice is beyond adjectives. (GM) This is the beginning of the feeling and the voice. (PK)

The Beatles prove they don’t need each other. Pyrrhic victory for us. (MS) Diverse, showing all their talents, and more important, not afraid to try things. (LM)

If you don’t like this, stop reading right now. (GM) In high school, I remember arguing that they were better than this dude named Springsteen, who was breaking at the same time. They were, but it was close. (PK)

John Fogerty had one of the most productive periods of rock and roll genius and it’s all here. Rifftastic. (MS) You hear many of these every day on crapola radio, but not all. (GM)

What happens after you run and have to deal with the life you’ve made. (MS) The Boss’s tightest work screams of love, hope, loss, and yep, redemption. (LM)