The packaging was nigh perfect, a simple, celebratory sun-lit graphic that spoke volumes about the music. There are moments of wonder and excitement (Wouldn’t It Be Nice) and moments of profound pain (I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times). The lyrics are immature adolescent and uninspiring. I have tried and tried but I just find it wet and tedious. The Best of the Beach Boys was a a favourite for playing on my friends 8 Track player in his car when we were teenagers but I never got into Pet Sounds. The colors are brighter, the scale bigger. I was a big fan of a lot of Beach Boys single hits. The programming was a little thin, not even running an hour total, spread among two LPs, but most of the group's best loved singles were represented - no notes, not a word of historical context, just a great collection of songs that proved irresistible to many shoppers. No matter where you’re at in life, stepping into Pet Sounds can feel like stepping back into childhood. In the United Kingdom, the album was lauded by critics and reached number. It was initially met with a lukewarm critical and commercial response in the United States, peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. Endless Summer, which was assembled in consultation with Mike Love, soared to number one and charted high over two subsequent summers (spending three years on the charts, the longest of any of the group's albums), and attracted the enthusiastic attention of millions of listeners too young to have bought their singles back when. Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on by Capitol Records. How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music. Publication date 1966 Topics classic rock. It was the summer of 1974, and the Beach Boys were still trying to get themselves back on track commercially after a seven-year commercial dry spell, when this double LP of their 1963-1966 material (all but one cut pre-dating Pet Sounds) came along and did the job. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - 40th anniversary 2006 by Brian Wilson. This was the album by which millions of sons of late baby boomers (and sons and daughters of the early ones) first really discovered the Beach Boys, beyond hearing the occasional oldie on the radio.
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