The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2015

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

If we're talking about great albums of music, it's hard to escape the influence of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966, Capitol). Part of a group of LPs that helped usher in the "age of the albums" (c. 1964-2007), The Beach Boys' 11th studio album in under 4 years heralded a sea change in music fandom and criticism. Eschewing their "fun in the sun" image, band leader Brian Wilson attempted to create something personal and beautiful and musically dense amidst the culture and technology of the mid 60s. Bill and Brian break down this masterpiece of art track by track as they try to share what makes this album great.

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0:00.0	Wouldn't it be nice if we were older than we would have to wait so long?
0:15.0	And wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong
0:22.2	I know it's going to make it that much better
0:27.2	When we can say good night and stay together
0:32.2	Wouldn't it be nice if we wake up in the morning?
0:38.9	Hello, welcome to the great album's podcast. I am Bill.
0:43.1	Welcome back, Bill.
0:44.3	Thank you.
0:44.9	And I'm Brian.
0:46.7	Today, we have no guest with us, but in lieu of that, we're going to be doing an album that is very special to Brian and has come up many,
0:57.3	many times on this podcast.
1:00.1	Finally.
1:00.9	Yeah.
1:01.5	It is the Beach Boys Pet Sounds.
1:03.4	Yep.
1:03.9	For those who have never listened to the show before, what we do is each week we take a
1:08.8	different album of music and we talk about it and tell you the audience
1:15.5	and ourselves each other what makes the album so great. We eventually will get to a track-by-track
1:22.7	analysis just going through each one talking about each one. So Brian, why don't you tell me why pet sounds is so special to you?
1:33.1	Oh, boy.
1:34.8	Um, okay.
1:36.7	Well, um, to, wow, that's, uh, that's loaded question.
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