Album
Pet Sounds
1966 · Rock, Pop
216 collectors on Gatefold own this
Pet Sounds is a Rock album by The Beach Boys, originally released in 1966. On Gatefold: 371 pressings tracked, owned by 216 collectors.
About
<b>100 Best Albums</b> No matter where you’re at in life, stepping into <i>Pet Sounds</i> can feel like stepping back into childhood. The colors are brighter, the scale bigger. 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”). Brian Wilson’s arrangements brought a complexity to rock music that nobody had heard before, but they also captured a simple, poetic point: When you’re young, everything hits with the weight of an orchestra. Wilson was a child of Southern California and Disney, of the great suburban myths that shaped America after World War II: The joke is that his brother Dennis was the only Beach Boy who actually surfed, while the rest just held boards to sell a story. At a mid-’60s moment when bands like The Velvet Underground were starting to use pop to explore rough, bracing realitie, <i>Pet Sounds</i> reached back to the fantasies of ’30s pop and ’50s exotica, of old Hollywood and early television. And as sacred as the album’s mood is (Wilson called his next project, <i>Smile</i>, a “teenage symphony to God”), it makes sense that its co-lyricist, Tony Asher, had come from advertising: No matter how ambitious he got, he also knew he needed to project something neat, immediate, and universal. .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Wouldn't It Be Nice2:22
- A2You Still Believe In Me2:33
- A3That's Not Me2:27
- A4Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)2:52
- A5I'm Waiting For The Day3:01
- A6Let's Go Away For Awhile2:18
- A7Sloop John B2:57
Side B
- B1God Only Knows2:46
- B2I Know There's An Answer3:10
- B3Here Today2:38
- B4I Just Wasn't Made For These Times3:21
- B5Pet Sounds2:20
- B6Caroline, No2:16
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Psych Rock
- lush
- bittersweet
- psychedelic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Al CaseyGUITAR MUSICIAN , GUITAR
- Al de LoryPIANO, HARPSICHORD, PIANO MUSICIAN , PIANO ORGAN
- Alan JardineLEAD VOCALS VOCALS TAMBOURINE
- Alan RobinsonFRENCH HORN HORNS MUSICIAN , FRENCH HORN
- Arnold BelnickVIOLIN MUSICIAN , VIOLIN VIOLA
- Barney KesselGUITAR MANDOLIN MUSICIAN , GUITAR
- Bernard KundellVIOLIN
- Bill PitmanBASS GUITAR MUSICIAN , BASS
- Billy StrangeGUITAR GUITAR, TWELVE-STRING GUITAR , ELECTRIC GUITAR, RHYTHM GUITAR GUITAR, TWELVE-STRING GUITAR, ELECTRIC GUITAR, RHYTHM GUITAR
- Bobby KleinCLARINET SAXOPHONE MUSICIAN , CLARINET
- Brian WilsonORGAN, ELECTRIC BASS, BASS GUITAR , PIANO VOCALS WRITTEN-BY , LEAD VOCALS, ORGAN, ELECTRIC BASS, ELECTRIC BASS , BABY GRAND PIANO
- Bruce JohnstonLEAD VOCALS VOCALS
- Carl FortinaACCORDION MUSICIAN , ACCORDION
- Carl WilsonGUITAR, TWELVE-STRING GUITAR GUITAR, VOCALS LEAD VOCALS
- Carol KayeBASS ELECTRIC BASS, GUITAR, BASS GUITAR ELECTRIC BASS, GUITAR, ELECTRIC BASS
- Chuck BerghoferBASS DOUBLE BASS ACOUSTIC BASS
- Darrel TerwilligerVIOLA MUSICIAN , VIOLA
- Dennis WilsonDRUMS DRUMS, VOCALS VOCALS
216 collectors on Gatefold own this · 371 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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