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Greg Schwepe: I’ve long known that the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is a holy grail album for many artists and fans, one that is always talked about, mentioned as an influence, and ends up on many ...
The Beatles and The Beach Boys went back and forth at each other in the mid-60s. Their friendly rivalry set the tone for the decade's music.
On the Billboard 200, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys, released in 2003, jumps 180-52 (15,500 units; up 71%) and Pet Sounds reenters at No. 136 (11,000; up 1,335%). For the ...
This piece was originally published on June 16, 2016 Fifty years ago, the Beach Boys released the milestone album Pet Sounds, a collection of groundbreaking songs that redefined what pop music could ...
On the cusp of their artistic peak, The Beach Boys had crafted a number which threatened to wind up both the religious right and countercultural underground.
I wasn’t going to write anything about Brian Wilson, who died last month at the age of 82, because what could I possibly say ...
Paul McCartney has long been on record as saying that “Pet Sounds,” the Beach Boys’ 1966 album, “blew me out of the water” the moment he heard it.
The Beach Boys at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction (1988) Love's brilliance, ... Pet Sounds, which came in 1966, changed his life, and the music world.
Beach Boys devotees might be revisiting their melodies more lately because just ... "'Sloop John B' is a traditional folk song that was popularized by The Beach Boys in their 1966 album Pet Sounds.
SHEBOYGAN – Al Jardine, a founding member of The Beach Boys, will perform the iconic songs of The Beach Boys with Brian Wilson’s touring band, The Pet Sounds Band, at the Weill Center this August.
Brian Wilson was an off-stage presence for this 1971 Beach Boys concert, ... Most of the post-”Pet Sounds” work has gone unheard. The group’s last top-10 record was in 1966.
The 1966 album “Pet Sounds” was voted No. 2 in a 2003 Rolling Stone list of the best 500 albums, losing out, as Wilson had done before, to the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club ...