Pet Sounds

...on life influenced by Indian culture and music (Spitz, 2005). Lennon and McCartney both claimed the Beach Boys' seminal 1966 album Pet Sounds as a great influence going into the studio to make Sgt. Pepper. According to MacDonald,...

In this article: Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Revolver, George Harrison, Greg Kot, John Lennon, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and John Cage

...a worthy substitute. *** I'm assuming that the screeners sent to critics weren't just using Brian Wilson's "Smile" and the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" as temp music. The tracks off those albums, complete with Wilson's immersive production...

In this article: The Prisoner, AMC, Jim Caviezel, Patrick McGoohan, Jamie Campbell Bower, Ruth Wilson, Lennie James, and Ian McKellen

...in a bedsit, the composer of No. 3237 will sit, shoulders slumped, head down, crying at life's unfairness. Was it Sergeant Pepper's, Pet Sounds, Dark Side of the Moon, Astral Weeks, Nevermind? Indeed, never mind. Music isn't a...

In this article: Dodo bird, Astral Weeks, National Public Radio, Karl Lagerfeld, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Oasis, and Blur

...Rubber Soul - Norweigan Wood in particular - that he decided he'd make an album just as good. Wilson then created the legendary Pet Sounds Grabbed - John tries to evade fans in July The band are threatened by an angry mob in the...

In this article: The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys, Top of the Pops, Paperback Writer, Rubber Soul, Not Only But Also, and Imelda Marcos

...to the South of England. It was an hour-and-a-half drive, and we sat there in the back of his car playing Pet Sounds saying look at how it changed all of our lives. I've worked with Brian off and on over the last five years. We did a tribute...

In this article: Brian Wilson, Anne Murray, Phil Ramone, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Engelbert Humperdink, Dusty Springfield, and Burt Bacharach

Our conspiratorial joy reached a crescendo in 1966 with the rapid-fire releases of "Revolver," "Aftermath," "Buffalo Springfield" and "Pet Sounds. " I'll always remember the brass band, harmonica and drums opening "Blonde and Blonde" and...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Chess, Blowin' in the Wind, Aftermath, Revolver, Gotta Serve Somebody, and Tim Drummond

...other acts - whose continuing existence seems equally surprising - have pulled the same trick as Spiritualized: Brian Wilson performed Pet Sounds in full on his 2002 tour; The Pixies played Doolittle for its 20th anniversary; and Idlewild...

In this article: Spiritualized, Doolittle, Jason Pierce, OK Computer, Aspirin, NME, Royal Festival Hall, London, and Idlewild

...production. Elaborately orchestrated and unlike anything else of its time, it has been put on a par with the Beach Boys's Sixties classic Pet Sounds, its creator, Jason Pierce, cast as a latter-day Brian Wilson. That comparison was almost...

In this article: Jason Pierce, Spiritualized, Royal Festival Hall, Derivative, Can't Help Falling in Love, London Community Gospel Choir, Phil Spector, Elvis Presley, and Brian Wilson

...in the mid-'60s, taking the Beach Boys well beyond the frothy songs about surf, cars and girls. That culminated in the group's 1966 album "Pet Sounds" and its planned follow-up, "Smile." But "Smile" was shelved because of dissension within the...

In this article: George Gershwin, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys, Orchestration, and Tin Pan Alley

...lover had left him and his reflections in the early hours of the morning. Brian Wilson certainly brought big ideas to the Beach Boys. Pet Sounds in 1966 brought new depth and complex arrangements to the themes of love and loneliness. It is...

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