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Music CD - The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
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Music CD: Pet Sounds
Artist: The Beach Boys
List Price: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. You Still Believe In Me
3. That's Not Me
4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
5. I'm Waiting For The Day
6. Let's Go Away For Awhile
7. Sloop John B
8. God Only Knows
9. I Know There's An Answer
10. Here Today
11. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
12. Pet Sounds
13. Caroline No
14. Hang On To Your Ego - (bonus track)
15. Wouldn't It Be Nice (Stereo Mix)
16. You Still Believe In Me
17. That's Not Me
18. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
19. I'm Waiting For The Day
20. Let's Go Away For Awhile
21. Sloop John B
22. God Only Knows
23. I Know There's An Answer
24. Here Today
25. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
26. Pet Sounds
27. Caroline No
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724352626625
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 1999-07-13
Studio: Capitol
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Summary: All I can say is "Whaaaaaaat?!?!"
Comment: Ok, maybe I have to listen to this on a beach with headphones or something and then maybe I'll get it. I've been a music fan since age 4...50 years now. ONLY TODAY I've learned that this is supposed to be THE MOST influential album ever. I asked my husband if he knew the album (another avid music fan) he said no, but we DID know "Sloop John B", "God Only Knows" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and never thought of those songs as anything spectacular. We were baffled. I listened now to each of the samples on this page and am still in shock. THIS is considered better than 99.999% of all albums? Holy cow! But who has even heard of the majority of these songs? And they all sound alike to me! I don't hate the Beachboys, I've liked some of their music, but never ever considered them to be "influential" or outstanding.
I guess this is a musician thing?? AND the reason this album is probably discussed so much is because people like me DON'T GET IT? I thought I'd buy the album and listen more carefully, but why should I if the samples don't appeal to me.
Anyway, just wanted to add to the "other side", those of us whose ears aren't working. You may think my ears aren't working, but I'm thinking I'm that kid in the "Emperor's New Clothes".
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Summary: Don't buy this version of Pet Sounds
Comment: Pet Sounds is a great album musically, but the sound on this particular version is so bad it's like taking an icepick to the ear (the Capitol version 'The Complete Album in Stereo & Mono 72435-26266-2-5): shrill and bright in the upper midrange, edgy, and just plain annoying. It's hard to believe Capitol let this thing out the door this way. Doesn't anyone at Capitol listen to these things before they're released? Instead look for the superb DCC version of Pet Sounds (GZS-1035) mastered by Steve Hoffman in 1993, which sounds wonderful and does service to this great music.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the great ones
Comment: Has no one else noticed?
What amazes me about this, one of my all time favorite albums of all time.
The Beach Boys only sing on it. They play absolutely no instruments on it.
Produced by Brain Wilson & Phil Specter. They can make anyone sound this good.
At least The Beatles played on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, didn't they?
And golly gee, Paul McCartney did get so upset the way Phil Specter produced Let It Be.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pet Sounds
Comment: The Beach Boys-Pet Sounds ***
Honestly I don't get it. I have tried time and time again to give The Beach Boys a chance and I just don't get it. I know it is good time music and summer fun but for the most part I really just think they are overrated and I feel the same way about Pet Sounds. I totally understand that it was a landmark album and changed the way music was recorded and the way it could sound, but other then the production I don't get it. Yes it inspired Srg. Pepper by the Beatles but so what, so did Freak Out! by Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention and that doesn't get half the acclaim this does.
I think 'God Only Knows' is a great song....lyrically that is. Music wise I do feel the band could have done better. The melody is smooth as ice though. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' is hands down one of the greatest pop songs of all time, no debate, I would even fight someone who dare says a bad thing about that tune. I must say though that 'Sloop John B' could have been better. The title track is really awful to my ears. 'Here Today' was misguided. 'Caroline No' may be the best song on the album and it rarely is spoke about.
Now I know everyone is gonna vote not helpful on my review just because they disagree with me I wish you would be open minded about where I am coming from though like I have tried to be time and time again with The Beach Boys before you click no. I am just saying that this is not an album for everyone there for I don't understand the claim that it is one of the ten greatest albums of all time. Maybe someone could leave me a comment explaining it to me because I am not saying this is a bad album because its not, but it isn't amazing either.
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Summary: It's good, but terribly overrated
Comment: Yes, there are good songs here, but the sound quality is AWFUL. Compared to other recordings of its time (and earlier, much earlier), it doesn't sound much better than an AM radio. Tinny, way too much reverb, no clarity to the instruments, etc. I had read so much about this album, and when I finally got it, I was terribly disappointed that it sounded so awful. Oh well...
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Editorial Reviews:
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If you need some pointy-headed pundit to sell you on the merits of Pet Sounds, your money might be better spent on an ear specialist. Brian Wilson's gift to 20th-century music elevated this pop album into a beguiling musical and emotional cogency that still operates outside pop culture's fickle space-time continuum--and limited critical lexicon. There's never been another record to compare (Rubber Soul, its inspiration, is close; Sgt. Pepper's, its response, misses the point), and certainly no album has been as dissected, overanalyzed, and predigested for public consumption. In 1997 Capitol Records devoted an entire four-disc box set, The Pet Sounds Sessions, to its thorough deconstruction. The techno-marvel centerpiece of that project--the album's first true stereo mix, painstakingly conjured out of multitape session sources by producer-engineer Mark Linett (under Wilson's supervision)--was at once heresy and revelation. Now the label has gratifyingly seen fit to offer both mixes on a single disc (along with alternate versions of "Hang On to Your Ego," the original title of "I Know There's An Answer"), an idea that should please the orthodox and heretics alike. And while the album has always clearly been The Brian Wilson Show featuring the Beach Boys, David Leaf's concise new notes attempt to be more inclusive of a wider band perspective. The result (three of the five band members claim credit for the album title) sometimes resembles Rashomon. If Pet Sounds forever crystallized the band's various creative (in)differences, it also became Wilson's grand karmic joke on his band mates; its burgeoning reputation (Mojo magazine's panel of pop experts once elected it greatest album of all time) guaranteed they would sing its songs--and praises--until the end. And if putting two different versions of the same album on one disc seems like overkill, look at the bright side: it's a perfect excuse to listen to the glorious Pet Sounds twice. --Jerry McCulley
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