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David - your interpretation of Pet Sounds is a masterpiece of understanding and 'compassion'

Well, I certainly enjoyed this interesting video about Pet Sounds (what I consider to be the best from the Beach Boys), so consider me subscribed.

It’s like top 3 oat to me

Capitol was not pleased with the "new direction" of Brian's this album represented. They were used to the Brian Wilson hit machine of fast rock and roll tunes of surf - cars - girl songs. Introspectiveness, innovation, art was not what they wanted from the Beach Boys. Capitol quickly rushed out a greatest hits album, the first of three released through '69. The album hit the top 10 at 10, but it was a far cry from from the top 1 to 3 that their albums usually placed at. Brian was getting the accolades from everyone who was anyone, from Leonard Bernstein to the Beatles, but these issues from Capitol and within the band, the "don't f* with the formula" few, played a huge role in his later shelving SMiLe, and, besides his mental health issues, contributed extensively to his reclusiveness and minimal participation with the band since '67. Pet Sound was basically a Brian Wilson solo record that the rest of the Beach Boys came home from touring to and added their unique harmonies. His new direction produced the #1 hit Good Vibrations, again showing his genius in it's new techniques, his production, arranging, and song writing capabilities, but SMiLE was never fully realized in the setting it should have been (late '66. early '67), so all of that respect for him at that time moved on to the next "shiny object", and the band itself became referred to as "your father's band" by the rising counterculture. The band found new respect in the early 70s with the work they were doing in albums like Surf's Up and Holland, but then the nostalgia craze took over around '73 with movies like American Graffiti , TV shows like Happy Days, and then Capitol puts out a double album of classic Beach Boy hits, Endless Summer, that sells like hotcakes, and from then on, they were pretty much a nostalgia band, people wanting to hear those 60s hits. It just amazes me what could have been, when you listen to the body of work Brian was writing in '66-'67, had the Capitol and Mike Love just shut the f up, especially after the success of Good Vibrations, what could have been. They killed an artist's soul!! I myself was turned on to Pet Sounds and Brian Wilson by Eric Clapton. As a 14 year old starting to delve into my music interests, I was all Clapton from the Yardbirds, through Mayall, into Cream, and beyond. It was an interview in '76, when I was 14, where I heard Clapton proclaiming how incredible this album is, how Cream would play it from start to finish before their shows to get in the mindset to go play, then hearing Jack Bruce proclaiming Brian Wilson was "the new Bach". I knew the Beach Boys, but I didn't own anything. I went out and purchased Pet Sounds with my paper route money, put it on the turntable and it did not grab me. Okay, tunes I had heard on the radio, but what was the big deal? Always curious, and of course having spent hard earned money for it, I played it two more times front to back. The third time it was as if the clouds lifted. A kaleidoscope of sounds and feelings washed over me. I got "it"! Even to this day, I swear I'm still hearing new things buried in Brian's arrangements. It's what Bob Dylan said about Brian, "That ear should be in the Smithsonian." The emotion in the album was realized by me too. I carried the lyrics from I Just Wasn't Made for These Times in my wallet from 14 until my mid 30s as it encapsulated how I felt throughout my life, an iNFj who wasn't like everyone else. Even the fade of the locomotive racing past, horn blaring, with Brian's dogs barking just wraps it up so perfectly. This all led to my deep dive into the Wilson catalog and history. His chords, chord changes, key changes, all of his unique characteristics in writing, arranging, and producing have always struck a chord within me. If you want a great perspective on what was going on, I recommend the Tom Nolan articles (1971) from Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beach-boys-a-california-saga-244579/ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beach-boys-a-california-saga-part-ii-233192/ and the David Leaf book, "The Beach Boys and the California Myth" which has been revised twice, the latest being 2022s "God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth." I heard this is a waterdowned version of the goings on with Mike Love, as Leaf was tired of the "death stares " from Love, the man of no musical talent, nasally vocals, banal lyrics, and behavior opposite of his last name.

@@ms8596 Really appreciate this informative comment.

Reflections would have been an awful name. I love the album title and the cover.

You actually took time to text this.

It was also the most inspirational album to Paul

Good choice Sebastian!

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This British 'boy' does NOT prefer it to The Beatles. And how you can mention Floyd and (God forbid) Queen, in the same sentence as The Beatles is a mystery to me. Revolver and Rubber Soul are. in my view, both greater albums than Pet Sounds.

Oh god this was not a good idea to make such a bold statement, as you can tell by the first reply…

@@petegilgan6217 you don’t understand why Pet Sounds is superior because you don’t understand songwriting or music composition and have (most likely) never attempted it…. or at least certainly, even if you’ve attempt it - you’ve never done it well.

@@KurtCobain-rs4zt Thanks for passing judgement on me - someone you don't know and have never met! I would be very disappointed if The Beatles hadn't played their own instruments/parts on Revolver (thanks to the Wrecking Crew for that). Wilson co-wrote some great stuff, that occasionally equalled The Beatles, but as good as A Day In The Life, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever and Yesterday? No.

@@petegilgan6217 Brian Wilson literally inspired A Day In The Life, Penny Lane, and Strawberry Field Forever. In regards to both the arrangements and the production. The idea of a multi-song began with Good Vibrations. Ask Paul, John, or George Martin. The idea of baroque Edwardian style was lifted from The Beach Boys doing similar motifs in Pet Sounds, Good Vibrations, and in the SMiLE sessions that were shown to Paul & John when they visited. On top of that, The Beatles had the brilliance of George Martin as a producer to filter all their musical ideas through before it was recorded & released. Are you disappointed at that? Brian was 100% the auteur of the material, start to finish. Writer, director, and editor. Co-wrote some great stuff? No, here he wrote it all. The lyrics were essentially the only thing he had collaborated on. Left without interference from the label and other band members, on his own he composed the greatest album released at that point, and remains one of the best ever, if not the best. At 23 years old.

I agree. I'm huge Beatles fan and I think they're great and they even have more excellent albums than the Beach Boys did. but none of it is as good as Pet Sounds.

It's fucking awful. The Beach Boys suck out loud.

Kind of Blue by Miles is the greatest. And Love Supreme is #2

@HipHop226 A jazz head! Both *GREAT* albums! This is so subjective. I can think of dozens of records from many genres that l feel are superior to any Beach Boys offering.

Thank you so much Henri!

Haha I actually like some of the Ed Sheeran songs!

Thanks, yes love the Beach Boys!

Thank you! Hopefully will do and also some other artists/albums that I love!

Thank you!

Thank you!

That means the exact same thing as ‘best album of all time’.

Not even close.

it arguably wasn’t even the best album of 1967!

Haha what a great (maybe true) story, I haven't heard that before, thanks for sharing!

This story sounds like a slight corruption of the accommodations engineers supposedly made for the Wilson's father Murry, who bugged them so much with his constant requests for more level and in particular more treble, that they rigged up a dummy knob for him to turn. The people that funded Pet Sounds were of course Capitol Records -- nobody put their personal money into it, nor would've they needed to as the Beach Boys were allotted a deservedly enormous budget.

@@joshilynhoisington your version sounds eminently more plausible!

i agree to an extent, but it is interesting that paul mccartney is on record as saying “god only knows” is one of the greatest songs ever written.

@@nl5828Yes you're right Paul McCartney does say that about God Only Knows. I would never say that The Beach Boys didn't write some good songs, their just not in the same league as The Beatles.

No, the Beach Boys are far superior. The Beatles relied on George Martin to shape their sound, Brian did it himself.

@@MrBrutal33 😂

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - it's the same book pictured in the first shot

“god only knows” and i have no idea about the song 😉😉😉

It sucks.

@dominicpardo4783 - ok, please explain your short but derisive reply.

@@rolfejones7445 Elementary school lyrics? Screeching, nasaly harmonies? Augmented by a few studio tricks. It's saccharine crap. Like Phil Spector produced a (shitty) opera based on a Norman Rockwell painting of Lake Woebegone. *EVERYTHING* Brian Wilson produced is nauseating pablum.

you must have a very limited taste in music with all the great music of that era the beach boys didn't make my best of anything list i never seen a beach boys album growing up in that era

although it is very, very good, it is arguably not even the greatest album of the year it was released! sgt pepper joins the conversation…

Some accuracy and some error. Also cannot have this discussion without mentioning the Dylan Album Blonde on Blond, the 3rd of the great 3 albums released in 66, the other 2 being Revolver and Pet Sounds. The error is that apart from Sloop John B which Capital Records forced Brian and the Boys to put on Pet Sounds, the rest of the album is a theme album for sure. It is a love story from beginning to end and Caroline No, is looking back at once was. Now thus is no special insight at all, but the progression is quite clear, topicwise, lyrically and musically. At least Sloop John B fits in from a musical production style if not thematically.

…and in return, mccartney and his pals later sadly made that yank insane!