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Track List
01) Wouldn't It Be Nice?
02) You Still Believe in Me
03) That's Not Me
04) Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
05) I'm Waiting for the Day
06) Let's Go Away for Awhile
07) Sloop John B
08) God Only Knows
09) I Know There's an Answer
10) Here Today
11) I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
12) Pet Sounds
13) Caroline, No
01) Wouldn't It Be Nice?
02) You Still Believe in Me
03) That's Not Me
04) Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
05) I'm Waiting for the Day
06) Let's Go Away for Awhile
07) Sloop John B
08) God Only Knows
09) I Know There's an Answer
10) Here Today
11) I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
12) Pet Sounds
13) Caroline, No
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First Released
1966
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Pet Sounds (1966) représente le sommet de l'ingénierie sonore et de l'architecture pop des Beach Boys, marquant une rupture définitive avec la surf music au profit d'une production baroque et psychédélique complexe.
Conçu par Brian Wilson après son retrait des tournées, l'album se distingue par un mixage multicouche intégrant des harmonies vocales denses et un instrumentarium hétéroclite (électro-thérémine, clavecins, cloches de vélo, sifflets pour chiens et captations industrielles).
Malgré une réception commerciale initialement modeste aux États-Unis, cette œuvre est aujourd'hui consacrée comme l'un des disques les plus influents de l'histoire, ayant révolutionné les standards de l'arrangement studio et de la production moderne.
Sa position constante aux sommets des classements de référence, dont la deuxième place du top 500 de Rolling Stone, confirme son statut de monument de la culture rock.
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“Who’s gonna hear this shit?” Beach Boys singer Mike Love asked the band’s resident genius, Brian Wilson, in 1966, as Wilson played him the new songs he was working on. “The ears of a dog?” Confronted with his bandmate’s contempt, Wilson made lemonade of lemons. “Ironically,” he observed, “Mike’s barb inspired the album’s title.”
Barking dogs – Wilson’s dog Banana among them, in fact – are prominent among the found sounds on the album. The Beatles made a point of echoing them on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – an acknowledgment that Pet Sounds was the inspiration for the Beatles’ masterpiece. That gesture actually completed a circle of influence: Wilson initially conceived of Pet Sounds as an effort to top the Beatles’ Rubber Soul. With its vivid orchestration, lyrical ambition, elegant pacing, and thematic coherence, Pet Sounds invented — and in several senses, perfected — the notion that an album could be more than the sum of its parts. When Wilson sang, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older,” on the album’s magnificent opening song, he wasn’t just imagining a love that could evolve past high school, he was suggesting a new grown-up identity for rock & roll music itself.
Wilson made Pet Sounds without the rest of the band, using them only to flesh out the vocal arrangements. He even considered putting the album out as a solo project, and the first single, “Caroline, No,” was released under his own name. The personal nature of the songs, which Wilson co-wrote primarily with lyricist Tony Asher, further distinguished the album from the Beach Boys’ previous hits. Its luxurious sound conveys a heartbreaking wistfulness, as songs such as “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” and “I’m Waiting for the Day” bid farewell to the innocent world of the early Sixties.
The album’s centerpiece is “God Only Knows,” arranged with harpsichord, horns, sleigh bells, and strings to create a spiritual feeling Wilson later compared to “being blind, but in being blind, you can see more. You close your eyes; you’re able to see a place or something that’s happening.” In the years to come, countless artists would live in his vision.
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pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9371-pet-sounds-40th-anniversary/
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Pet Sounds (1966) représente le sommet de l'ingénierie sonore et de l'architecture pop des Beach Boys, marquant une rupture définitive avec la surf music au profit d'une production baroque et psychédélique complexe.
Conçu par Brian Wilson après son retrait des tournées, l'album se distingue par un mixage multicouche intégrant des harmonies vocales denses et un instrumentarium hétéroclite (électro-thérémine, clavecins, cloches de vélo, sifflets pour chiens et captations industrielles).
Malgré une réception commerciale initialement modeste aux États-Unis, cette œuvre est aujourd'hui consacrée comme l'un des disques les plus influents de l'histoire, ayant révolutionné les standards de l'arrangement studio et de la production moderne.
Sa position constante aux sommets des classements de référence, dont la deuxième place du top 500 de Rolling Stone, confirme son statut de monument de la culture rock.
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“Who’s gonna hear this shit?” Beach Boys singer Mike Love asked the band’s resident genius, Brian Wilson, in 1966, as Wilson played him the new songs he was working on. “The ears of a dog?” Confronted with his bandmate’s contempt, Wilson made lemonade of lemons. “Ironically,” he observed, “Mike’s barb inspired the album’s title.”
Barking dogs – Wilson’s dog Banana among them, in fact – are prominent among the found sounds on the album. The Beatles made a point of echoing them on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – an acknowledgment that Pet Sounds was the inspiration for the Beatles’ masterpiece. That gesture actually completed a circle of influence: Wilson initially conceived of Pet Sounds as an effort to top the Beatles’ Rubber Soul. With its vivid orchestration, lyrical ambition, elegant pacing, and thematic coherence, Pet Sounds invented — and in several senses, perfected — the notion that an album could be more than the sum of its parts. When Wilson sang, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older,” on the album’s magnificent opening song, he wasn’t just imagining a love that could evolve past high school, he was suggesting a new grown-up identity for rock & roll music itself.
Wilson made Pet Sounds without the rest of the band, using them only to flesh out the vocal arrangements. He even considered putting the album out as a solo project, and the first single, “Caroline, No,” was released under his own name. The personal nature of the songs, which Wilson co-wrote primarily with lyricist Tony Asher, further distinguished the album from the Beach Boys’ previous hits. Its luxurious sound conveys a heartbreaking wistfulness, as songs such as “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” and “I’m Waiting for the Day” bid farewell to the innocent world of the early Sixties.
The album’s centerpiece is “God Only Knows,” arranged with harpsichord, horns, sleigh bells, and strings to create a spiritual feeling Wilson later compared to “being blind, but in being blind, you can see more. You close your eyes; you’re able to see a place or something that’s happening.” In the years to come, countless artists would live in his vision.
External Album Reviews
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9371-pet-sounds-40th-anniversary/
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