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Pet Sounds is certainly an influential album, and has some great tracks. Sloop John B, although a cover, is my favourite here. God Only Knows and Wouldn’t It Be Nice are also sun-drenched classics.

In 2018, Classic Rock spoke to the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Mike Love about the creation of Pet Sounds, the revolutionary album considered by many to be the greatest ever recorded.

13. "Pet Sounds" Despite singing about surfing and being endlessly labelled as a surf band, the Beach Boys didn't actually sound anything like other surf rockers like Dick Dale or the Ventures.

The true greatness of Pet Sounds expands past it groundbreaking musicality. The album captures as well as any in the form's history how to love and sadness are inseparable, and how the act of loving ...

The title of the Beach Boys' greatest album is "Pet Sounds," and pet sounds is what Brian built into just about every song he ever wrote. It was those sounds that lifted you into the light.

Brian Wilson was always creating whenever he could, but after a few too many headaches, he realised some songs are best kept ...

The re-evaluation of Pet Sounds started in a 1971 feature by my old Times colleague Richard Williams, who wrote that it “dwarfed all the rest of pop music”.

“My favorite albums by other people tend to be: ‘Music from Big Pink’ by The Band, ‘ Pet Sounds ’ by the Beach Boys, and ‘ Harvest ’ by Neil Young,” the 83-year-old music legend ...