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Pet Sounds (Music)

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Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by The Beach Boys. It was released on May 16, 1966 through Capitol Records. Most of it was recorded by Brian Wilson with the group of Los Angeles session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew.While the album initially had only modest sales and reception in the US, it was an enormous success in the UK, scoring hits with such classic songs as "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "Caroline, No", "Sloop John B." and "God Only Knows". Today, it's a routine pick for the single greatest album ever recorded, and for understandable reason: it would not be hyperbole to state that a multitude of fundamental practices in the popular music of today would not exist without Pet Sounds.Promoted in the UK as "the most progressive pop album ever", Pet Sounds broke new sonic ground for pop and rock music, and was the first time a group dedicated a whole LP to breaking from the traditional small-ensemble rock band format. An early concept album, it exhibited a diverse array of influences (pop, jazz, exotica, classical, etc.) and Wall of Sound-based compositions containing elaborate vocal harmonies, found sounds, and instruments as far left-field at the time as bicycle bells, the theremin, string sections, and beverage cans. As such, it physically could not be replicated live.The album rewrote the rules of music production, introducing new approaches to elements such as orchestration, structural harmonies, the role of producers within the industry, and the use of recording studios as an instrument. Its cultural impact manifested in ways including the legitimization of popular music as an art form and a greater public appreciation for the album as the dominant form of music expression, and played no small part in developing the genres of psychedelic music and progressive rock.Paul McCartney called Pet Sounds his favourite record of all time and one of the main inspirations for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band from 1967, along with Frank Zappa's Freak Out from 1966. McCartney also considers "God Only Knows" to be "one of the most beautiful songs ever written."The song "I Know There's an Answer" was originally written as "Hang On to Your Ego", a song about LSD use. As singing openly about getting high wouldn't be popular until a bit later in The '60s, Brian elected to change the lyrics after Mike Love objected to them. Interestingly, in Australia the album was released as The Fabulous Beach Boys with an alternate cover.A documentary about the creative process behind the making of this album can be seen in the Classic Albums TV documentary series. In 2004, Pet Sounds was included in the National Recording Registry for being "historically, culturally and aesthetically important". The album would be certified platinum (sales of over one million copies) in the U.S. by the RIAA in 2000.
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Gratuitous Spanish: "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"
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Baroque Pop
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Baroque Pop: Trope Maker. no one had made post-rock and roll pop sound quite like this. Many did afterwards. This is a good thing.
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Face on the Cover
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Face on the Cover: The band (minus Bruce) feeding animals in a petting zoo.
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Title Track
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Title Track: "Pet Sounds", which is an instrumental track.
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There's No Place Like Home
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There's No Place Like Home: "Sloop John B." about a sailor who wants to go home after a long voyage at sea which he considers to be the worst trip he's ever been on.
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Age-Progression Song
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Age-Progression Song: "Wouldn't It Be Nice?", where the protagonist wonders about the time in the future when he and his partner could live together, get married and be happy. In "Caroline, No", the protagonist wonders "where the girl he used to know" has gone, mentioning the fact her "long hair" has gone too.
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: A vast majority of songs have to do with the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of young love.
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Born in the Wrong Century
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Born in the Wrong Century: "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"
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Important Haircut
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Important Haircut: "Caroline, No"
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Be Yourself
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Be Yourself: "That's Not Me"
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The closing track of the album is "Caroline, No", which is a somber breakup song where the narrator laments how much his former lover has changed.
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Step Up to the Microphone
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Step Up to the Microphone: Bruce Johnston sings his first co-lead vocal as a Beach Boy at the end of God Only Knows.
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The Drunken Sailor
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The Drunken Sailor: "Sloop John B."
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Grow Old with Me
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Grow Old with Me: "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
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Pep-Talk Song
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Pep-Talk Song: "You Still Believe In Me"
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The Power of Love
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The Power of Love: "Wouldn't It Be Nice" "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)"
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Anti-Love Song
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Anti-Love Song: "Here Today", which is about all the nasty stuff that relationships can bring about, and how fine little lovers should be careful and whatnot. "God Only Knows" has the strangest line ever to open a truly beautiful, romantic song. But it is immediately subverted afterwards:
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: A ground-breaking Baroque Pop masterpiece has a cover photo (The Beach Boys feeding goats at the San Diego Zoo) that almost makes it look like an album of children's music!
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Instrumentals
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Instrumentals: "Let's Go Away for Awhile" and the title track.
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Gainax Ending
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Gainax Ending: "Caroline, No" and by extension the album itself, ends with the sounds of a train and dogs barking.
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Dolled-Up Installment: Because he sang a solo (albeit double-tracked) lead vocal without any harmonies, and he was the only band member heard on the song, "Caroline, No" was released a few months ahead of the album as a single credited solely to Brian Wilson, but it was added to the album and has always been credited to the band ever since.note For similar reasons, a few months earlier George Martin had wanted to release "Yesterday" as a Paul McCartney solo single rather than as by The Beatles, but he was overruled.
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Rhyming with Itself
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Rhyming with Itself: Every single rhyme in "God Only Knows" is this. In the second verse, which is repeated to make the third verse, four lines in a row end with "me".
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I Am the Band
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I Am the Band: Despite being billed as a Beach Boys album, Brian Wilson is actually the one who was the most-involved in its creation. "Caroline, No" was even issued as a Brian Wilson solo single. The other Boys were actually absent for most of the recording sessions, because they were busy touring in Japan. Aside from vocals, the few things they contributed to the album were the instrumentals for "That's Not Me", the inclusion of "Sloop John B." at Jardine's suggestion, and some co-writing credits from Mike Love on "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "I'm Waiting For The Day", and "I Know There's An Answer" (and his contributions of those songs were minimal at best, with Mike ad-libbing the lines "Good night, baby / Sleep tight, baby" at the coda of "Wouldn't It Be Nice", re-writing "I Know There's An Answer" from "Hang On to Your Ego", and making slight edits to "I'm Waiting for the Day").
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Questioning Title?: "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
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Homesickness Hymn
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Homesickness Hymn: "Sloop John B." is a cover of an old Bahamian folk song "The John B. Sails". It details the narrator's sailing misadventures, punctuated by his pleas to the Captain to let him go home.
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Worst. Whatever. Ever!
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Worst. Whatever. Ever!: "Sloop John B."
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Break-Up Song
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Break-Up Song: "Caroline, No". "Here Today" "I'm Waiting for the Day"
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Devoted to You
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Devoted to You: "God Only Knows"
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One-Woman Song
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One-Woman Song: "Caroline, No".
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A cappella
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A Cappella: One of the choruses of "Sloop John B." includes an a cappella break.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The melody and structure of "God Only Knows" was inspired by The Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice"
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Country Mouse
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Country Mouse: "That's Not Me"
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Last Chorus Slow-Down: "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"
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Lyrical Dissonance
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Here Today" has a beautiful arrangement, but it's actually about the fact that love isn't forever.
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Album Filler
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Album Filler: "Sloop John B." is, at times, considered this, as it's a cover of an older folk song about a sloop and its drunken crew sinking into doom, and that doesn't really fit in with the theme of the trials of young love that every other non-instrumental has. But it's often given a pass for being a pretty sweet melody... and it was the highest charting single from the album, so it's kinda important.note It does serve a more fitting purpose upon further examination however. It ends the mostly happy-go-luckiness of the first side with a song about a shipwreck. The next side starts with a song about a poor soul finding life meaningless without his love, possibly almost to the point of suicide. The two instrumental tracks are often overlooked, due to their lack of the trademark Beach Boys harmonies and their arrangements sounding somewhat dated to some ears.
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Progressive Rock
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Progressive Rock: While the album's status as an early progressive rock release has been the subject of much debate, the album's complex, eclectic, layered compositions, creative and unorthodox instrumentation, and overarching concept undoubtedly helped influence a lot of later bands.
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Everything Is an Instrument
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Everything Is an Instrument: You better believe it. As The Other Wiki elaborates:
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: Besides the title, The Beach Boys feed some farm animals in a petting zoo on the album cover.
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