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Pet Sounds
by Beach Boys
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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
3.8889
Avg. Critic Score:
3.9055
Pet Sounds Rank 4 Reviews
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Rolling StoneRecorded and released in 1966, not long after the sunny, textural experiments of "California Girls", "Pet Sounds", aside from its importance as Brian Wilson's evolutionary compositional master piece, was the first rock record that can be ...more
Slant MagazineWhenever pundits, critics and intelligentsia decide that some work of art or other is worthy of being designated "the absolute greatest painting/recording/novel/lint collection of all time," there's always someone with claws out, waiting to pounce ...more
The Daily Vault Album ReviewsRaise your hand if you did something or held an opinion in your youth that wasn't that smart. I'm willing to be most, if not all of us have. Case in point: my former underappreciation of the Beach Boys masterpiecePet Sounds.When I first purchased ...more
Adrian Denning.co.ukThis is a record that embraces adult themes of love and spirit. It embraces you the listener – inviting you into its world of love, beating hearts, lost relationships and resting a head upon the shoulder of a loved one. Its an album with impeccable ...more
Rolling Stone"Who's gonna hear this shit?" Beach Boys singer Mike Love asked the band's resident genius, Brian Wilson, in 1966, as Wilson played him the new songs he was working on. "The ears of a dog?" Confronted with his bandmate's contempt, Wilson made lemonade of ...more
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musictap.comWhat more can be said about The Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' that hasn't been said already? Not much. The music and arrangements are exquisite, the harmonies sublime, and the lyrics pretty much define "wearing one's heart on one's sleeve". Pet Sounds is ...more
MP3"You're not really musically educated until you've heard Pet Sounds." Paul McCartney had once said of the record that topped MOJO Magazine's 1995 Top 100 Greatest Records of All Time List. It's the unsung hero of 1960's American Pop music, and for that ...more
Sputnikmusic.comTo call this album classic doesn't do it justice. A rival with only two or three albums as the greatest album of all time. It is this good.
The Beach Boys are often dismissed as surf pop, bubblegum music (think "Fun Fun Fun" or "Surfin U.S.A."), by ...more
All Music GuideThe best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. ...more
Amazon.comIf 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 ...more
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