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rocketpig on 11 October 2008

I'm not a Beach Boys fan. Their stuff is mostly fluff in my eyes and I never really bothered to listen to one of their albums. I don't hate their music (well, some of it maybe) but I never took a real liking to them.

Today, my brother rolled in with Pet Sounds.

Holy shit, this album is fuggin' brilliant. This totally makes up for Surfin' and Barbara Ann. Of course, I heard several of the songs from Pet Sounds but I never realized that most of the Beach Boys' good songs were on one album.

Reading through the liner notes, it keeps talking about how Brian Wilson wanted to top Rubber Soul... Well, I don't know if he accomplished that lofty feat but he certainly tried his best.




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MontanaHatchet on 11 October 2008

I like listening to "Wouldn't it be nice" while dancing around in my underwear.

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psrock on 11 October 2008

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Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
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A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
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Well, everybody's talking about the bird
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A-well-a, bird

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halogamer1989 on 11 October 2008

Good for u. My Alt BBs---Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.



okr on 11 October 2008

God only knows - my favorite Beach Boys song.



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akuma587 on 11 October 2008

Rolling Stone ranked Pet Sounds as the second best album of all time. I don't know if I agree with that, but it is pretty uncontested that it is a phenomenal album.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 11 October 2008

That's exactly what I felt when I first heard it. I felt like an idiot for not believing the countless friends who told me "no really, outside of their commercial pop singles, they have one genius epic album."

Brian Wilson basically went insane trying to top the Beatles. Well, he was porbalby already nuts by that point, but his battle with the Beatles was definitely a contributing factor of him going totally over the edge.

The part of Walk Hard where he wanted a thousand didgeridoos and he was on the trampoline for days at a time? Those were Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson jokes. I think Wilson was in a sandbox instead of a trampoline though.

Oh, and now you gotta czech out Brian Wilson's SMiLE album. It was going to be the follow-up to Pet Sounds, but he went crazy and didn't finish it for 40 years. It's good.



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kirby007 on 11 October 2008

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xtastemyvenom on 11 October 2008
MontanaHatchet said:
I like listening to "Wouldn't it be nice" while dancing around in my underwear.

Don't judge me!

Thanks, I don't think I will ever be able to listen to the song with a straight face again.

 

I do love it though. Good band.

 



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TheRealMafoo on 11 October 2008
rocketpig said:

Reading through the liner notes, it keeps talking about how Brian Wilson wanted to top Rubber Soul... Well, I don't know if he accomplished that lofty feat but he certainly tried his best.

Well, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were so impressed with Pet Sounds, that they tried to top it with Sergeant Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band, so I would say mission accomplished.