Best Brian Wilson Songs

The Top Ten

1 Midnight's Another Day

A beautiful, moving, and criminally underrated piano ballad from his That Lucky Old Sun album.

2 Your Imagination

3 Rio Grande

4 Southern California

Written about his career with The Beach Boys, Southern California is one of the few songs that makes me shed a tear every time.

5 She Says That She Needs Me

6 Love and Mercy

7 Brian Wilson

Couldn't resist throwing in my favourite Barenaked Ladies song, even if the real Brian Wilson only ever performed it live.

8 Lay Down Burden

9 Good Kind of Love

10 Caroline, No

I added this simply to show off my Beach Boys knowledge. It was released twice in 1966: once as The Beach Boys, and once as Brian Wilson. Exactly the same recording, but since no other Beach Boys appear on it...

The Contenders

11 Don't Let Her Know (She's an Angel)

Heartwrenchingly beautiful. Go for the Sweet Insanity Version.

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