The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time The love songs ofPet Soundsbegin with the gorgeous theme of frustrated mid-Sixties blueballed adolescence, “wouldn’t it be nice to stay together, hold each other close the whole night through?…” That question lays the entire premise of the album immed...
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(Note: Bruce Johnston is frequently credited as one of the original greatest supporters of the Beach Boys' 1966 signature album Pet Sounds. He flew to London in May 1966 and played the album for John Lennon and Paul McCartney. (Wikipedia) (Photo by George Jerman) Here are some more outtake...
Whenever pundits, critics, and intelligentsia decide that some work of art or other is worthy of being designated “the absolute greatest painting/recording/novel/lint collection of all time,” there’s always someone with claws out, waiting to pounce on the pronouncement and rip the accolades to...
Inspired by the Beatles’Rubber Soulalbum, Wilson set out to construct the greatest pop record ever made. He carefully aligned the famous Beach Boy harmony with a wall of instrumentation worming in and out of occasional smatterings of foolhardy intonations from trains and barking dogs. Everyone ...
met with a tepid response from fans and critics. Over time, the album’s true genius became appreciated. Songs such as “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “God Only Knows” remain beloved by generations of fans, whilePet Soundscontinues to be hailed as one of the greatest albums in rock ...
Brian Wilson fought his label, his bandmates, and his family to bring the album to fruition. Against all odds, he harnessed his mental state for genius. He produced and inspired two of music’s greatest albums ever. “Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper never would have happened,” the ...
greatest-ever Beach Boys moment. They released it twice, however, and this soulful, yearning groover somehow barely cracked the Top 50. Chaplin was soon out of the band, too. It's a shame. "Sail On, Sailor" remains the best example of how the Beach Boys' elemental style could be ...
Pepper’s. However, I do give Pet Sounds kudos for being the first to veer off the boy-band path and dig deep—real, real deep. The album offered a glimpse of how the studio, a place of more constraints than opportunities in the ’60s, could b...
about “Pet Sounds” three decades ago. The album’s melancholy tone (with lyrics for eight of the songs written by outsider Tony Asher) and rich instrumentation weren’t what the company expected from the Beach Boys, whose surf sound had produced a string of hit singles in the early ‘...