It's not that they're releasing outstanding new albums; it's just that, through bands like Wilco, their unique sounds are seeping into pop's contemporary consciousness. With this in mind, an album like Pet Sounds gains a timeless appeal. This is Brian Wilson's masterwork, offering stellar tracks like Wouldn't It Be Nice and I Just Wasn't Made for these Times. This version is Wilson's stereo re-mix, completed in the mid-90s. This edition includes the mono version and bonus tracks in mono, including Hang on to Your Ego. With this release, old fans have a way to update their collection while new fans discover this seminal American pop group for the first time.
It sounds silly to say this, but the Beach Boys really did change my life...I'm not sure when exactly I discovered that they were more than the fun songs I heard on the oldies station when I drove somewhere with my parents. But, reading an editorial in my local newspaper one day, I noticed they mentioned that Brian Wilson was a musical genius. This greatly intrigued me, and I just had to discover who this Brian Wilson guy was...then I continued reading and found that he was the leader of the very familiar..
I'm a Beatles connoisseur. A die-hard. I've walked across Abbey Road (with a cigarette in hand, though it was too brisk to go barefoot), quaffed pints in the Reeperbahn, and could point out fifty "Paul is Dead" clues. I've burned through a bookshelf of biographies about the band and I noticed that the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds is continually mentioned whenever the end of the Beatles' touring days and the start of their `studio years' is discussed. With its 40th anniversary looming I started to wonde..
There are some good and bad aspects of this release.Good:- The sound is much better than the official CD and marginally better than the bass-heavy DCC. If you like the DCC's sound, then save your $30. If you think the DCC is a little bottom-heavy, then splurge on this. It is more open and present, though one should keep in perspective the fact that we're talking about a mono recording from the '60s. It's no sonic marvel.- That's about it. Try before you buy on your local BitTorrent tracker to see wheth..
