Oh Boy, Another Honour For POB

[Shady]

Time Out New York Magazine's 3rd Best Album of 2008

. Graham Smith & KGW Yes Boss (via hbinfo.pbwiki.com). Raw pain ricocheted off ultraliterate quirk on this sprawling double album from a veteran bedroom-popster.

2. Cynic Traced in Air (Season of Mist). A revered cult outfit returned to prove that jazz-metal fusion was much more than a novel tangent.

3. Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue (Caribou/Epic/Legacy). Brian’s misfit younger bro viewed sun, surf and sand through an eerie, heartsick lens on this CD debut of a 1977 classic.

4. Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy (Geffen). A riotous parade of WTF moments, Axl’s comeback also boasted enough gripping hooks to shush haters.


 

[dogear]

I hope that helps to sell some more copies.

[Jason]

The Cynic reunion album got on there?!? Damn. Great band as well, if you like metal.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

That's fantastic, the more attention for POB the better.

[Aegir]

That's cool, this isn't even a reissue list.

TAKE THAT, AXL ROSE!

[The Heartical Don]

It did not go unnoticed in The New Yorker either:

June 18, 2008
The Tide Returns
Dennis Wilson fell through the cracks of the Beach Boys. He wasn’t his older brother, Brian, the genius songwriter. He wasn’t his younger brother, Carl, who provided the timeless lead vocals for songs like “God Only Knows.” He was the middle one, and though he contributed many fine songs to the band’s early seventies records, he remained under the radar. In 1977, Dennis released his first solo album, “Pacific Ocean Blue,” the cover photo of which found Dennis looking far older than his thirty-two years, his face weathered by sun and surf (he was the band’s only actual surfer) as well as alcohol and drugs. The record—haunting, melancholy, and liquid—earned great critical acclaim and healthy sales, and now it has been rereleased in a Legacy edition, which also includes a second disc of tracks intended for a never-released second solo album, “Bambu.” Wilson died in an alcohol-related drowning in December of 1983. Below, he sings “Thoughts of You,” one of the highlights of “Pacific Ocean Blue.”—Ben Greenman