Pet Sounds
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Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966. It initially met with a lukewarm critical and commercial response in the United States, peaking at number 10 in the Billboard 200, a somewhat lower placement than the band's preceding albums. In the United Kingdom, the album was hailed by the music press and was an immediate commercial success, peaking at number 2 in the UK Top 40 Albums Chart and remaining among the top ten positions for six months. Promoted as "the most progressive pop album ever", Pet Sounds attracted recognition for its ambitious recording and uniquely sophisticated music, and is widely considered to be among the most influential albums in the history of music.-WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
Sept 8, 2006 - 40th Anniversary Review-This anniversary issue of Pet Sounds, including both the mono and stereo version of the record, and a bonus DVD with several documentary features, surround sound mixes and promo clips, will be of immediate interest to longtime fans for obvious reasons (of which "collecting" isn't necessarily the least important).
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Don Ignacio
Pet Sounds is an enormous and timeless masterpiece, and nothing else like it has ever been made.
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Mark Prindle
they're GREAT ballads! Not at all simple or predictable. Very intelligent, complicated songwriting.
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Wilson & Alroy's Album Reviews
one of the greatest records in rock history.
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RollingStone
June 22, 1972 - It is by far the best album Brian has yet delivered, and it paradoxically began the decline in mass popularity that still plagues this band. It also reflected Brian’s preoccupation with pure sound.
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LOUDER
May 16, 2018 - Brian Wilson set out to create “the greatest rock album ever made” – the result was a gorgeous avant garde pop album that paved the way for progressive rock…
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SLANT
it’s widely regarded as perhaps the greatest pop album ever made.
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ALL MUSIC
The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s.
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Classic Rock Review
Oct 27, 2011 - Pet Sounds would be at once the apex of the Beach Boy’s artistic and output and the termination of their hit-making years.
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cosmo music
August 29, 2016 - The album is a genuine masterpiece, universally considered to be one of the greatest albums of all time.
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sputnik music
May 16, 2016 - Pet Sounds is still as potent as it was in May 1966, to such an effect that its influence hasn’t wavered, but only increased with time, most especially in its home country where it was spurned for being too emotional, too dramatic, and most of all, too different.
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Adrian Denning
One of the greatest albums ever made, as simple as that.
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BBC
2006 - Every home should have one.
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GOLDMINE
April 19, 2011 - the album that changed everything for the group.
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the abso!ute sound
Dec 29, 2017 - Pet Sounds stands as the Beach Boys’ pinnacle. The album is brimming with beautiful ballads, exotic instrumentation, lush five-part harmonies, and an aching sentimentality.
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CoS
May 26, 2015 - With Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys took the candy-coated surfer-pop that made them popular and turned it orchestral, baroque, even psychedelic, grounding the crushing, soaring sounds with earnest, down-in the dumps narratives sung by five of the smoothest, brightest voices in music history.
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radioLive
June 8, 2018- known as one of the most influential albums of all-time.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Pet Sounds has a mysterious beauty that places it above criticism, and if you have any interest in pop music you need this album, even if it takes a few years to sink in.
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Starling Rinet
Paul McCartney's favorite album, the direct inspiration for Sgt. Pepper.
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PULUCHE
Nov 24, 2012 - The word masterpiece is often overused in the rock dictionary, but never has it rung more true than in the case of The Beach Boys’ epic Pet Sounds.
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TREBLE
forever changed the landscape of pop music.
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