Then there's *another* ridiculously good song here, Hawaii. I can't believe this wasn't a single because it's so good.
The rest of the songs on here I hadn't heard before, but I liked all of them. There are too many good songs on this album to call out any more.

It's crazy that In My Room is this early, I would have thought it came a few albums later. It's another kinda sad Brian ballad, it's also noteable I guess as a song that's not about romance, surfing, or cars

South Bay Surfer is one that I haven't heard before, but I like it a lot. It really sounds to me like the beginning of Al Jardine's influence on the music, it has a looser and raw kind of folky feel. He is indeed listed as one of the songwriters here.

Catch A Wave is one of their great surf-era rockers. It's got great harmonies and some eclectic instrumentations.
The Surfer Moon is a great ballad, as a song it's equal to a lot of Pet Sounds, but the arrangement isn't quite there. It's Brian's first string arrangement.

Surprisingly, the only single off of this album is Surfer Girl/Little Deuce Coup. I'm shocked that Little Deuce Coup is a b-side, because it's so good! Surfer girl is good too, of course, and might be the point where Brian has really started to master the vocal arrangements.

Lonely Sea hints at an early form of Til I Die, but isn't much on its own.
I did recognize Shut Down once I heard it, I never thought much of it though. A very by-the-numbers early Beach Boys song.

Farmer's Daughter is surprisingly good! It's an early Brian-sung track that's an early sketch of what they'd do later on with songs like Hushabye or The Warmth of the Sun. It's short and doesn't feel like a complete song but the elements are there.

It looks like that was the only single from this album. I didn't know what to expect from this album since the only other song titles I recognized were covers. I found it mostly unremarkable aside from a couple of songs.

Bob Marley and the Wailers recorded music before this, and it's collected in various compilations. I listened to one of them before this, and didn't find it very compelling as a starting point. It makes it that much more impressive how far they've come here though.

Surfin' was the first song they wrote and recorded, and it's the most amateurish but also the most charming in it's amateur-ness. It's got that scrappy appeal of 60s garage rock, in an alternate reality where they never hit it big I could see this being on Nuggets

As for the singles, I think Surfin Safari holds up pretty well. It adds a lot to the Chuck Berry formula that they were basically copying, and the marriage of an intricate vocal arrangement to an upbeat rock song works really well.
Ten Little Indians is racist garbage.

Dennis also turns in a nice lead on the track. The song is more of a pure vocal group song than anything else on the album, which makes it the closest to what the early Beatles were doing since their sound was based a lot more heavily on girl groups than the Beach Boys.

It's too bad that a great album cover like that goes with a pretty weak album. An album track that I do like is Little Girl (You're My Miss America), one of the few covers on here. If you look up the original and then hear this one you can see the mark of Brian the innovator,

I guess this is a good place to tell you that you're in my recommended friends on there, dunno how it picked that up! I don't use it much anymore though.

Getting anywhere with the democratic party on a national level looks more and more like a lost cause to me, I think it might actually be more plausible for someone with Bernie's politics to enter the Republican primary. As the dems move further right populism will be the alternative.

I found it a little too frustrating, firecrackers are a little too scarce and bubble jumping is too fiddly. There are some secret things that are absolute game changers and it's worth looking up a spoiler free guide if you want to make progress more smoothly.

I love Amarillo By Morning, his version is really good.