Richie Unterberger: ‘ The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs, and more. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds wouldn’t have been a classic without great songs, and this has some of the group’s most stunning melodies, as well as lyrical themes which evoke both the intensity of newly born love affairs and the disappointment of failed romance (add in some general statements about loss of innocence and modern-day confusion as well). ……Massively influential upon its release (although it was a relatively low seller compared to their previous LPs), it immediately vaulted the band into the top level of rock innovators among the intelligentsia, especially in Britain, where it was a much bigger hit.’

Release Date: May 16, 1966
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: AM Pop – Baroque Pop – Contemporary Pop/Rock – Sunshine Pop – Psychedelic Pop –
Recording Date: July 12, 1965 – April 13, 1966

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Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Album Lyrics; 1. Sloop John B (Mono Version) Lyrics: 2. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (Stereo Version) Lyrics: 3. Pet Sounds (Stereo Version) Lyrics: 4. God Only Knows - 1996 Digital Remaster Lyrics: 5. God Only Knows - 1997 - Remaster Lyrics: 6. Caroline, No - 1996 Digital Remaster Lyrics: 7. Wouldn’t It Be Nice. The record label tried to bury Pet Sounds with a greatest-hits album. Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds odyssey took up more 10 months and cost a then-unheard-of $70,000, making it one of the most.

1. Wouldn’t It Be Nice 0:00
2. You Still Believe in Me 02:26
3. That’s Not Me 04:57
4. Don’t Talk 07:25
5. I’m Waiting for the Day 10:18
6. Let’s Go Away for Awhile 13:23
7. Sloop John B 15:44
8. God Only Knows 18:40
9. I Know There’s an Answer 21:32
10. Here Today 24:42
11. I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times 27:36
12. Pet Sounds 30:49
13. Caroline, No 33:11

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All of the original Beach Boys sang on Pet Sounds, but from the very beginning this was Brian Wilson’s autocratic attempt to recreate the noises in his head. Laying the groundwork for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band a year later, Wilson plundered orchestra pits for new instruments and obsessed over the layering of what may be the most perfect harmonies in rock history. At the time of its release, Pet Sounds was a commercial disappointment, largely because it broke from the unadulterated chirpiness of the Beach Boys’ early work. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “God Only Knows” teeter on the edge between adolescent euphoria and adult lament, while “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” provided what was to become Wilson’s defining lyric: “Sometimes I feel very sad.”

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