When Dennis Wilson's solo debut, Pacific Ocean Blue, was released on James Guercio's CBS-distributed Caribou Records in 1977, few had high expectations for it.
Dennis' other Brian Wilson was, after all, the acknowledged genius and mastermind of the Beach Boys sound and his other other Carl Wilson had the voice, so little was expected of Dennis, the pretty boy drummer and near-professional party animal.

But Pacific Ocean Blue was a gorgeous masterpiece, full of a naked and affirming spirit, romantic (in the best sense of the word), lush, wise, patient, and even panoramic, almost avant-garde, and worlds past and beyond what any of the other Beach Boys were doing at the time.