Pet Sounds
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Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966, by Capitol Records. It was produced, arranged, and primarily composed by Brian Wilson with guest lyricist Tony Asher. Recorded largely between January and April 1966, it furthered the orchestral sound introduced in The Beach Boys Today! (1965). Initially promoted as "the most progressive pop album ever", Pet Sounds is recognized for its ambitious production, sophisticated harmonic structures, and coming of age themes. It is widely regarded as among the greatest and most influential albums in music history. Wilson viewed Pet Sounds as a solo album and attributed its inspiration partly to marijuana use and an LSD–rooted spiritual awakening. Galvanized by the work of his rivals, he aimed to create "the greatest rock album ever made", surpassing the Beatles' Rubber Soul (1965) and extending Phil Spector's Wall of Sound innovations. His orchestrations blended pop, jazz, exotica, classical, and avant-garde elements, combining rock instrumentation with layered vocal harmonies, found sounds, and instruments not normally associated with rock, such as French horn, flutes, Electro-Theremin, bass harmonica, bicycle bells, and string ensembles. Featuring the most complex and challenging instrumental and vocal parts of any Beach Boys album, it was their first in which studio musicians, such as the Wrecking Crew, largely replaced the band on their instruments, and the first time any group had departed from their usual small-ensemble pop/rock band format to create a full-length album that could not be replicated live. Its unprecedented total production cost exceeded $70,000 (equivalent to $680,000 in 2024). An early rock concept album, it explored introspective themes through songs like "You Still Believe in Me", about self-awareness of personal flaws; "I Know There's an Answer", a critique of escapist LSD culture; and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times", addressing social alienation. Lead single "Caroline, No" was issued as Wilson's official solo debut, followed by the group's "Sloop John B" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice", with "God Only Knows" as its B-side. The album received a lukewarm critical response in the U.S. but peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. Bolstered by band publicist Derek Taylor's promotional efforts, it was lauded by critics and musicians in the UK, reaching number 2 on the Record Retailer chart, and remaining in the top ten for six months. A planned follow-up album, Smile, extended Wilson's ambitions, propelled by the Pet Sounds outtake "Good Vibrations", but was abandoned and substituted with Smiley Smile in 1967.
Pet Sounds revolutionized music production and the role of producers, especially through its level of detail and Wilson's use of the studio as compositional tool. It helped elevate popular music as an art form, heightened public regard for albums as cohesive works, and influenced genres like orchestral pop, psychedelia, soft rock/sunshine pop, and progressive rock/pop, as well as synthesizer adoption. The album also introduced novel orchestration techniques, chord voicings, and structural harmonies, such as avoiding definite key signatures. Originally mastered in mono and Duophonic, the 1997 expanded reissue, The Pet Sounds Sessions, debuted its first true stereo mix. Long overshadowed by the Beatles' contemporaneous output, Pet Sounds initially gained limited mainstream recognition until 1990s reissues revived its prominence, leading to top placements on all-time greatest album lists by publications such as NME, Mojo, Uncut, and The Times. Wilson toured performing the album in the early 2000s and late 2010s. Since 2003, it has consistently ranked second on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" lists. Inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry in 2004 for its cultural and artistic significance, Pet Sounds is certified platinum in the U.S. for over one million sales.
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Blender | |
| Chicago Sun-Times | |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A+ |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Chart | Peakposition |
| UK Disc and Music Echo Top Ten LPs | 2 |
| UK Record Retailer LPs Chart | 2 |
| US Billboard Top LPs | 10 |
| US Cash Box Top 100 Albums | 8 |
| US Record World 100 Top LP's | 6 |
| West German Musikmarkt LP Hit-Parade | 16 |
| Year | Chart | Peakposition |
| 1972 | Australian Kent Music Report | 42 |
| Canadian RPM 100 Albums | 40 | |
| US Billboard Top LPs & Tape | 50 | |
| 1990 | US Billboard 200 | 162 |
| 1995 | UK Albums Chart | 17 |
| 2001 | US Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums | 41 |
| 2006 | Japanese Oricon Albums Chart | 95 |
| 2008 | US Billboard Catalog Albums | 8 |
| 2015 | US Billboard 200 | 182 |
| 2016 | Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 50 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) | 100 | |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) | 72 | |
| French Albums (SNEP) | 185 | |
| German Albums (GfK Entertainment) | 58 | |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon) | 56 | |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) | 19 | |
| South Korean Albums (Gaon) | 96 | |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) | 41 | |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 26 | |
| US Billboard Catalog Albums | 49 | |
| 2021 | Greek Albums (IFPI) | 5 |
| Chart | Position |
| US Billboard Year-End | 43 |
| US Cash Box Year-End | 33 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | 2× Platinum | 600,000‡ |
| United States (RIAA) | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
| ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
| Year | Organization | Accolade | Rank |
| 1993 | The Times | The 100 Best Albums of All Time | 1 |
| New Musical Express | New Musical Express Writers Top 100 Albums | 1 | |
| 1995 | Mojo | Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums of All Time | 1 |
| 1997 | The Guardian | 100 Best Albums Ever | 6 |
| Channel 4 | The 100 Greatest Albums | 33 | |
| 2000 | Virgin | The Virgin Top 100 Albums | 18 |
| 2001 | VH1 | VH1's Greatest Albums Ever | 3 |
| 2002 | BBC | BBC 6 Music: Best Albums of All Time | 11 |
| 2003 | Rolling Stone | The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | 2 |
| 2006 | Q | Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever | 12 |
| The Observer | The 50 Albums That Changed Music | 10 | |
| 2012 | Rolling Stone | The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | 2 |
| 2015 | Platendraaier | Top 30 Albums of the 60s | 7 |
| 2016 | Uncut | 200 Greatest Albums of All Time | 1 |
| 2017 | Pitchfork | The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s | 2 |
| 2020 | Rolling Stone | The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | 2 |
| 2023 | Rolling Stone | The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | 2 |
| 2024 | Paste | The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time | 10 |
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- 1965 is the date given by most sources. Others state that Wilson had met Asher during a social gathering at Schwartz's h
- December 1965 is the date given by Carlin. Asher recalled that Wilson called him when the rest of the band were out of t
- This is Charles Granata's rough estimation. As of 2003, most of the documentation that could have provided a more defini
- Wilson's writing process, as he described in 1966, started with finding a basic chord pattern and rhythm that he termed
- Author Carys Wyn Jones attributes this characterization to the record's "uniform excellence" rather than an explicit nar
- The absence of a single on the North American release further reinforced its identity as an artistic whole.
- Asher recalled Wilson playing him the album and declaring a desire to surpass it, while Johnston remembered Wilson prais
- Asher also shared standards like "Stella by Starlight", believing their harmonic complexity would appeal to Wilson's int
- Musician Jim Irvin agreed that the "dense, lush arrangements" were indebted "at least as much to Nelson Riddle" as they
- In a March 1966 interview, Wilson acknowledged contemporary music trends' influence on his work, though Marilyn later st
- Rolling Stone editor David Wild characterized the lyrics as "intelligent and moving, but [...] not pretentious", compari
- Soon after his first LSD experience, Brian began suffering from auditory hallucinations and significant paranoia through
- These discussions encompassed Wilson's doubts about his marriage, his "sexual fantasies", and his "apparent" attraction
- Responding to the songwriters' denials of a conscious lyric theme, journalist Nick Kent observed that the album's lyrics
- Lambert distinguishes "theme albums"—collections of songs linked by shared lyrical content but lacking musical cohesion—
- Music journalist Alice Bolin characterized Today! as bridging the group's doo-wop roots with "the lush and orchestral" s
- Berlatsky argued that while Pet Sounds is rarely regarded as an R&B album and, in some respects, is seen as a counter to
- Denny's former bandmember Julius Wechter contributed percussion to the album, and Wilson indicated in his second memoir
- While Spector similarly employed dense orchestration, baroque pop distinguished itself through melancholy first-person R
- Vernon Joyson, in his book The Acid Trip: A Complete Guide to Psychedelic Music, recognized the album's psychedelic elem
- DeRogatis, in his book about psychedelic rock, contrasts the album's introspective tone with the Beatles' post-LSD focus
- Among other reasons given for the album's perceived psychedelic quality, DeRogatis argued that its layered melodies mirr
- Referring to "Wouldn't It Be Nice", Perone opined that the track sounded "significantly less like a rock band supplement
- This contrasted with the Beach Boys' reliance on simple triads on earlier albums.
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- "Kiss Me Baby" had featured a four-note titular motif transformed through choral interplay and instrumental reinforcemen
- A reversed version appears in the closing of "Wouldn't It Be Nice", the instrumental accompaniment throughout "I'm Waiti
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- For example, "Here Today" employs a similar descending bass line (1–♭7–6–♭6–5) but substitutes a secondary dominant on ♭
- This pattern begins in "Wouldn't It Be Nice", modulating from F to D, and recurs in tracks like "That's Not Me" (A to F♯
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- In the 1990s, Brian attributed the title to Carl.
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- The label initially withdrew its certification request when unable to locate historical sales figures but later submitte
- The first video was shot at Brian's Laurel Way residence with Dennis as cameraman; the second, filmed near Lake Arrowhea
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- Guriel further characterizes the work as a catalyst to the concept of high-stakes, album-length statements, exemplified
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- According to Jones, the interplay between the two bands during this era remains one of the most noteworthy episodes in r
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- Sommer writes that "Pet Sounds proved that a pop group could make an album-length piece comparable with the greatest lon
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- In addition to "chamber pop", critics and enthusiasts have sometimes described the orchestral-rock fusion style epitomiz
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