CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

THE BEACH BOYS: Album" (Brother/Reprise):: On The Beach Boys Love You, lyrics like those of "Solar System" may have been a little embarrassing, but basically their silliness registered as charming. "Match Point Of Our Love" ("Early in the game when you broke me/Just like a serve") and "Belles Of Paris" ("There's a chapel 'Sacre Coeur' in quaint Montmarte [sic]/In the open air the painters show their art") are just dumb, and despite a lot of fairly pleasant music and a few passable songs, so is this.