The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
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Artist: The Beach BoysBrand: BEACH BOYS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-11
Music Label: DCC
Soundtracks:
- Wouldn't It Be Nice (Digitally Remastered 96)
- You Still Believe In Me (Digitally Remastered 96)
- That's Not Me (Digitally Remastered 96)
- Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)(Digitall
- I'm Waiting For The Day (Digitally Remastered 96)
- Let's Go Away For Awhile (Instrumental)(Digitally
- Sloop John B (Digitally Remastered 96)
- God Only Knows (Original Mono Version)(Digitally R
- I Know There's An Answer (Digitally Remastered 96)
- Here Today (Digitally Remastered 96)
- I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (Digitally Rema
- Pet Sounds (Instrumental)(Digitally Remastered 96)
- Caroline No (Digitally Remastered 96)
Free Music Notes for Pet Sounds
Free Music Review: Ying/Yang
Hit: 3 Stars
Pet Sounds is easily one of the most revered albums in the history of pop music, but does it deserve to be revered? Heck no. Pet Sounds, for me, is terrible and legendary. What, you say, well Finulanu kind of went through the same thing with his review of White Light/White Heat. Here it goes, courtsey of Finulanu, Untitled 1 (U1), who hates everything about it, and Untitled 2 (U2) who loves everything about it. The two can't be countered or silenced, which sucks cause I can't enjoy this all the way. OH well. Anyway...
U1: Pet Sounds is extremely overrated. Brian Wilson is a little whiner who can't shut up and it ruins the entire thing. Forget the subpar music that probably wasn't even made by him, Tony Aster or whatever the idiots name get songwriting credits. What are they hiding, anyway?
U2: Oh, like it's just Aster's record. So what about the lyrics? Just because they aren't Sesame Street? Does some of the instrospection hurt you? And the music, just listen to the orchestration.
U1: Good one, U2. Carolina No is said to be about Brian Wilson whining about how Carolina cut her hair, written by Aster. You call that introspection? And I listened, it's pop music with more instruments.
U2: Pop music with more instruments? Or you mean lush instrumentation with a pop vibe. I thought you liked that stuff, Mr. I like pop goodness. And did I say all of the music is introspective? no. Besides, hair might reflect something like a cult, you never know.
U1: Please, stop trying to feel deep. I hate people like you. Brian Wilson could easily change his mindset and not think this way. For all of the whining and lyrics, he can change what he's whining, feel he's made for these times. He's in control, and he chooses this whiny lyrics.
U2: How do you know he's in control? Some people have defects in their brains! They can't get that component back that easily, you know. People are different. Besides, things in the mind that trouble don't also go away easily. He's confronting the problems in his minds, and that just might make him dispell them so he can get it out and go on and recover.
U1: Knowing that there are better things and that he can use those to get over the problems and become stronger can be done as well. Why go th rough the inner parts. Who says that he automatically is going through that and what you said above is affecting him?
U2: Your right, it might not. But how do you know your opinion would work best for him. YOu don't.
U1: That's why I choose not to hear the whining. Well, I hope there is one thing I agree on, the instrumentals are nice.
U2: Okay fine, there's one thing. Now get out of here, you loser. Just for arguing with me, you have been doing introspection in one way, by the way.
U1: Your a loser too. And nice introspection!
To be continued? Don't get me started.
Well, Pet Sounds should at least be listened to, definitely. You may end up really liking it, you may think it's overrated. I don't know, but it's drastically hard to choose one view on this record.
PS Any comments on this review will not be read, as for everything else. So let me say thanks to all kind comments, now, before, and ahead. All other stupid/rude/I don't like you because you don't like Radiohead trite, no thanks to your sir.
Grades: 1 out of 10/9 out of 10, which in total, is a 5/10.
Pet Sounds Poster
No Description AvailableMedia Type: CD
Artist: BEACH BOYS
Title: PET SOUNDS
Street Release Date: 05/17/2005
Genre: ROCK/POP
If you need some pointy-headed pundit to sell you on the merits of Pet Sounds, your money might be better spent on an ear specialist. Brian Wilson's gift to 20th-century music elevated this pop album into a beguiling musical and emotional cogency that still operates outside pop culture's fickle space-time continuum--and limited critical lexicon. There's never been another record to compare (Rubber Soul, its inspiration, is close; Sgt. Pepper's, its response, misses the point), and certainly no album has been as dissected, overanalyzed, and predigested for public consumption. In 1997 Capitol Records devoted an entire four-disc box set, The Pet Sounds Sessions, to its thorough deconstruction. The techno-marvel centerpiece of that project--the album's first true stereo mix, painstakingly conjured out of multitape session sources by producer-engineer Mark Linett (under Wilson's supervision)--was at once heresy and revelation. Now the label has gratifyingly seen fit to offer both mixes on a single disc (along with alternate versions of "Hang On to Your Ego," the original title of "I Know There's An Answer"), an idea that should please the orthodox and heretics alike. And while the album has always clearly been The Brian Wilson Show featuring the Beach Boys, David Leaf's concise new notes attempt to be more inclusive of a wider band perspective. The result (three of the five band members claim credit for the album title) sometimes resembles Rashomon. If Pet Sounds forever crystallized the band's various creative (in)differences, it also became Wilson's grand karmic joke on his band mates; its burgeoning reputation (Mojo magazine's panel of pop experts once elected it greatest album of all time) guaranteed they would sing its songs--and praises--until the end. And if putting two different versions of the same album on one disc seems like overkill, look at the bright side: it's a perfect excuse to listen to the glorious Pet Sounds twice. --Jerry McCulley
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