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Okay, I hate to make a topic like this, but with our first proper glimpse of summery weather in Britain this year, I feel the need to make the most of it musically. However, I feel the need to use the most summery BB album for this purpose, but which one?

My vote probably goes to All Summer Long.

Sticky summer day where the air stands still and never seems to really cool down even as the sun is sinking: Wild Honey.

And I mean that in the best possible way.

Beach Boys Christmas Album.

Hamburger sessions was the closest they ever got to one.

Sunflower is the summer album for me, though SD(&SN) comes in close.

Summer in Paradise.

KTSA. I played it  a lot last year. Bubble gum fun

15 Big Ones

Almost certainly.

"Teardrops On My Bed (Drip Drop)" or "Rollin' Up To Heaven" looped forever

Summer Days and Summer Nights.

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Strong agreement with you there actually.

My personal one is Friends - a great album to doze off in the garden with a book and a brew on a sunny afternoon too. Not too much energy or weirdness  which makes it so chill and good for that purpose (until TM, of course - the ironing is delicious...).

Still Cruisin'

Yeah. sh*t flavored gum.

I was gonna say Friends LP..…such a peaceful, easy going, mellow album…it's a gas! All those organs and harmony highs that bring tears to my eyes.      ;)

Assuming that Endless Summer is not eligible to be selected (although we played that endlessly for many of the summers that followed after it came out), I would go with Summer Days (and Summer Nights).

I agree. IT'S COOOOOOOOOOOOL

All Summer Long is really the one.

Depends. Friends for mellow summer days and nights at home, All Summer Long for going out and cruising. And in August, when Finnish summer nights start to turn dark again, it's Love You all the way. I kinda wish my summer would be all Smiley Smile. It would be definitely interesting, although probably bad for my health.

By the way, am I the only one who thinks Pet Sounds is definitely winter/early spring -sounding album?

In general, Endless Summer. Just realized how much I love the sequence of the first five or six songs, absolute perfection.

Time for a formal poll.... we haven't had any of those for awhile.

All Summer Long and Surfer Girl are tied for me.

I would say All Summer Long is their most "summery". But, similar to some of the other posters, TWGMTR probably reminds me the most of summer since it came out during the summer of 2012, we played it to death, and it will always bring back memories of that summer. As opposed to all other BB records which I got into after they came out....

Definitely SDSN. That said, I agree with others who went for TWGMTR. As TimmyC said correctly, it very much reminds of summer-2012.

Re Christmas Album: actually, it works for me exactly in summertime. When I play it in winter, I get somewhat bored at the middle of the record.

Man, there's less mention of Sunflower than I thought there'd be.

For me, it's an album that sounds more like late September than summer itself. After that comes winter, dark, bleak and occasionally beautiful, just like Surf's Up. :)

Well that's about right here in Aus,  it's summer at christmas time, so all christmas songs remind me of summer, especially Boney M Xmas! :)

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