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Greg Schwepe: I’ve long known that the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is a holy grail album for many artists and fans, one that is always talked about, mentioned as an influence, and ends up on many ...
The Beach Boys’ hit album Pet Sounds was first released in 1966, and there’s something about the prog-pop record that is so beloved by fans and casual listeners today. There’s no doubt that ...
It was greeted with some confusion by fans and even members of the band, but the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album has attained more reverence and legend as the years move along. It is today ...
Once and future Beach Boys Al Jardine and Brian Wilson look back on the eve of launching Something Great from '68, a tour ...
On the Billboard 200, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys, released in 2003, jumps 180-52 (15,500 units; up 71%) and Pet Sounds reenters at No. 136 (11,000; up 1,335%). For the ...
This piece was originally published on June 16, 2016 Fifty years ago, the Beach Boys released the milestone album Pet Sounds, a collection of groundbreaking songs that redefined what pop music could ...
What a sunny day for the fellas at Split Record Review to cover the Beach Boys’ magnum opus. The claim that they’re the goats of music is solidified by their 1966 album, “Pet Sounds.” Many writers in ...
The Beatles and The Beach Boys went back and forth at each other in the mid-60s. Their friendly rivalry set the tone for the decade's music.
The closer of “Pet Sounds” remains one of the Beach Boys’ thorniest and most disillusioned songs. “Caroline, No” is where the surfing fantasies and teen romances of the early 1960s ...
The song, co-penned with Jardine’s longtime collaborator Larry Dvoskin (Sammy Hagar, Bad Company), evokes the Beach Boys’ classic Pet Sounds era, with its reflective ache for an innocence lost ...
SHEBOYGAN – Al Jardine, a founding member of The Beach Boys, will perform the iconic songs of The Beach Boys with Brian Wilson’s touring band, The Pet Sounds Band, at the Weill Center this August.
Wilson's genius peaks on 'Pet Sounds' Beatles producer George Martin called The Beach Boys' 1966 opus, Pet Sounds, "a spur" for the Beatles' game-changing concept album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts ...