I'm not going to pretend that I understand the concept behind the album. It lets you hear a lot of details that can be easily missed in the original print. By separating the tracks and hearing them with a lot of space between each instrument, it's fascinating. Where the mono provides us with how it should sound, the stereo gives us an interesting alternative. However, I have grown to appreciate the stereo mix just as much. You could argue that it's exactly how the album should sound and should always be played that way. The original sound is very warm, has a traditional '60s production and fits in perfectly with the rest of The Beach Boys catalogue. The copy of the album I own presents the album its original mono as well as a more recent stereo mix. It just takes a little time to appreciate. But for whatever reason, it works beautifully. It is too soft to be a rock album, it's too complex for a pop album and the concept is so elaborate that it should by all means put off people from both sides of the fence. It is very progressive in a way and strange in so many ways. The album as a whole is an interesting muddled mess of psychedelia and '60s pop. Three stand out songs and for a very good reason. Fans of the band will be quick to point out the fan favourite tracks like the opening, Wouldn't It Be Nice, Sloop John B and of course God Only Knows. It does not have any specific style and instead chooses to utilises many different sounds, some fairly normal for the time and others that are quite unusual. But as I have grown older, I have started to understand the appeal of the album and why it is considered one of the finest records ever made.Įven now, after playing it quite frequently for the past few months, I can still understand why Pet Sounds may rub people the wrong way. It was a bit too strange and out of this world for my immature brain to handle. Pet Sounds is an album that (at least for me), I could never get into when I was younger.
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