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- #1
- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1241): Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
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Today's album of the day
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1966.
Country: 
Overall rank: 13
Average rating: 87/100 (from 1206 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. You Still Believe In Me
3. That's Not Me
4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
5. I'm Waiting For The Day
6. Let's Go Away For Awhile
7. Sloop John B
8. God Only Knows
9. I Know There's An Answer
10. Here Today
11. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
12. Pet Sounds
13. Caroline, No
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HoldenM
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- #2
- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:02
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In the feud between Sgt. Pepper's and Pet Sounds, I pick the latter every damn time. This is a truly great album, but anything I have to say regarding that greatness has been said, and rehashed to death. It's terrific, and that's all there is to it.
Track picks
2. You Still Believe In Me
4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
8. God Only Knows
13. Caroline, No
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CubaZed
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:04
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| HoldenM wrote: | In the feud between Sgt. Pepper's and Pet Sounds, I pick the latter every damn time. This is a truly great album, but anything I have to say regarding that greatness has been said, and rehashed to death. It's terrific, and that's all there is to it.
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Exactly this. It's sheerly a great album and that's all that needs to be said.
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Goodsir
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:05
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It's masterful. I really don't feel anything needs to be said about this album. Everything has already been said.
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HazeyTwilight
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:12
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inb4 SuedeSwede makes a huge sentimental speech about this being his new favourite album which isn't that unique to begin with.
But in all seriousness, this album deserves all the praise it gets. It's really wonderful.
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drakonium
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:15
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If I had been a songwriter back in '66 and I had heard this, I'd have given up on trying to make music.
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:17
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| HoldenM wrote: | | In the feud between Sgt. Pepper's and Pet Sounds, I pick the latter every damn time. |
Definitely Pepper for me, but it's really an apples and oranges comparison anyway.
Pet Sounds doesn't sound like any rock album that came before it, and like very few that came after. The Beach Boys' preceding work, Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" albums, and Rubber Soul all provide a meaningful backdrop, but this is a massive step forward for the album as an art form.
Brian Wilson was creating a very personal statement... perhaps even a cry for help. When I hear it, I hear a man who was forced to grow up too soon, and as a result never really did. When he pines for lost love, it is with the mind of an adult, but the innocence of a child. I feel like I can also understand why it was too much for him. So sad.
I won't pretend to relate to his pain, though. I just don't see myself in Brian Wilson, which is probably why I don't return to it very often. It's pretty, though.
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Mies
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:31
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I don't know why, but I never liked it so much. I prefer some other Beach Boys' albums over it.
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Secondsoul
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 20:40
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It's a masterpiece for sure and way better than Sgt. Pepper. The best album of the sixties!
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MrFrogger
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- #10
- Posted: 04/17/2014 22:07
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It's ok I guess...
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