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Pet Sounds (Stereo)

Name: Pet Sounds (Stereo)
Brand: The Beach Boys
SKU: tbbpet-curated
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The Beach Boys

Pet Sounds is famous for its use of multiple layers of unorthodox instrumentation as well as other cutting edge audio techniques for its time.

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color	Black
exclusive	VMP Curated Pick
jacket style	Tip-On
jacket type	Gatefold
label	Analogue Productions
mastering engineer	Kevin Gray
mastering studio	Cohearant Audio
pressing location	Quality Record Pressings (QRP)
release type	Reissue
remastering details	Remastered

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2lp

format

1966

original release year

rpm

speed

inch

vinyl size

200

gram

weight

Description

Pet Sounds is famous for its use of multiple layers of unorthodox instrumentation as well as other cutting edge audio techniques for its time. It's considered the best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs, and more. It wouldn't have been a classic without great songs, and this has some of the group's most stunning melodies, as well as lyrical themes which evoke both the intensity of newly born love affairs and the disappointment of failed romance (add in some general statements about loss of innocence and modern-day confusion as well).

The spiritual quality of the material is enhanced by some of the most gorgeous upper-register male vocals (especially by Brian and Carl Wilson) ever heard on a rock record. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows," "Caroline No," and "Sloop John B" (the last of which wasn't originally intended to go on the album) are the well-known hits, but equally worthy are such cuts as "You Still Believe in Me," "Don't Talk," "I Know There's an Answer," and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times." It's often said that this is more of a Brian Wilson album than a Beach Boys recording (session musicians played most of the parts), but it should be noted that the harmonies are pure Beach Boys (and some of their best).

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Tracklist

LP 1 / Side A

Wouldn't It Be Nice

You Still Believe In Me

That's Not Me

Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)

LP 1 / Side B

I'm Waiting For The Day

Let's Go Away For Awhile

Sloop John B

LP 2 / Side C

God Only Knows

I Know There's An Answer

Here Today

LP 2 / Side D

I Just Wasn't Made For These Times

Pet Sounds

Caroline No

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LP 1 / Side A

LP 1 / Side B

LP 2 / Side C

LP 2 / Side D

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Pet Sounds (Stereo)

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