It brought about seismic changes to the landscape of pop music with its unusual sonics, novel textures, and structural innovations. It was shaped by the musical sensibilities of songwriter/producer Brian Wilson, whose collection of carefully crafted pocket pop symphonies was unlike anything the Beach Boys – or any band for that matter – had done before. Quite simply, Pet Sounds ushered in a new approach to album making that revolutionized popular music. For the uninitiated, then, this article intends to answer some of the fundamental questions about what is undoubtedly the Beach Boys’ – and possibly pop’s – greatest album.Ĭheck out the 50th-anniversary edition of Pet Sounds here.
It is pop music’s equivalent to what Citizen Kane is to the world of cinema a universally recognized masterpiece that defined a new era while simultaneously redefining the art form it represented.ĭespite its fame, Pet Sounds still remains an unexplored country for some, who may have heard of the album but are unaware of its significance. It was a collection of songs that would quickly cause a paradigm shift in pop.įew pop albums – before or since – have enjoyed the notoriety of Pet Sounds, which for decades has been showered with almost every accolade imaginable and continues to be a high achiever in magazine polls ranking the best pop and rock LPs of all time. And yet, in May 1966, the Hawthorne-hailing group – consisting of the Wilson brothers Brian, Carl, and Dennis, together with their cousin Mike Love and family friend Al Jardine – unleashed an audacious sonic experiment they called Pet Sounds. After all, they had built their renown as clean-living all-American kids delivering harmonized hymns that worshipped surfing, girls, and hot rods – the holy trinity of Californian teenagers in the early 60s – over a rocking backbeat that bore a tangible trace of rock and roller Chuck Berry‘s musical DNA. The Beach Boys were probably the last group on earth expected to start a musical revolution.
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