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ORIGINAL MAY 1966 《 UK 》RELEASE OF BEACH BOYS~PET SOUNDS•Cat# T-2458 (Capital RAINBOW)

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》MEDIA~EX Black SHINE w/ tiny initials H.H.C on SIDE A Label...CAN YOU SEE IT ? Audio Is NM (Please be SURE TO GIVE A THOROUGH CLEANING BEFORE PLAY THOUGH.)

Pet Sounds is a slice of pure pop perfection.

This is pop rock at it's best. "Wouldn't it Be Nice" remains one of the bands all-time songs, even after having heard it on radio and T.V.commercials for the vast majority of our lifetime. "Good Vibrations" would have been right at home here (and perhaps should have been), but even without it, this album shines like no others, than possibly the Beatles creative work in the same time period. Besides the extremely well-known songs (Sloop John B, Caroline No, God Only Knows), the tracks which were not released as singles - still have extreme merit. "You Still Believe in Me", "Here Today", and the even the (unfairly) oft-dismissed title track "Pet Sounds" are all stellar recordings in their own right.

Pet Sounds was not supposed to be a final destination. Pet Sounds was to have been a stop on the journey of Brian Wilson’s continually evolving musical vision. Next up was to have been an album titled Smile, and who knows what was to follow. Brian Wilson’s fertile mind would create the magnificent single “Good Vibrations” shortly after the Pet Sounds sessions, but he would then be hampered by illness for years. Smile would not be released for decades, so we are left with the brilliant Pet Sounds and the sadness of roads not traveled afterwards.

     The technical merits of Pet Sounds are apparent even 52 years later. Brian Wilson built his skills in the studio for years prior to the album release, which brought them to full flower. Pet Sounds was an album recorded like a single. Many may tend to agree after being rated by THE ROLLING STONES☆Top 100 Greatest all time Albums @ #2.