Through 1965, Wilson showcased great advances in his musical development with the albums The Beach Boys Today! and Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). Released in March, Today! departed from the group's earlier sound through orchestral arrangements, introspective themes, and a move away from surfing, car, and simplistic love motifs. Its lyrics adopted an autobiographical tone, portraying narrators as vulnerable, neurotic, and insecure, while the second half of the record contained five songs with a unified theme. Summer Days, issued three months later, bridged Wilson's progressive style with the band's pre-1965 approach.
Wilson and Asher collaborated over a two-to-three week period in early 1966, likely January through February, writing at Wilson's home. Sessions typically started with Wilson introducing musical fragments—such as chord patterns or melodic ideas he had developed over time—discussing records for their distinctive feel, or proposing a lyrical theme. Their preliminary sketches, which they referred to as "feels", were developed with occasional marijuana use. Lyrics were typically completed prior to recording sessions, which often commenced immediately after composition, though studio booking times were never planned in advance.
Asher maintained that his primary role was to provide feedback on Wilson's developing melodies and chord progressions, though they exchanged ideas throughout the process. Regarding their lyrical collaboration, he explained, "The general tenor of the lyrics was always his [...] and the actual choice of words was usually mine. I was really just his interpreter." Asher later cited significant musical contributions to "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times", "Caroline, No", and "That's Not Me" and claimed conceptual input on three songs. He agreed to receive 25% of publishing royalties, a share he considered disproportionate to his contributions.
Asher disputed the notion that he and Wilson had followed templates set by the Beatles or rock in general, recalling Wilson aimed to craft "classical American love songs" akin to Cole Porter or Rodgers and Hammerstein. During their collaboration, they exchanged musical influences, with Asher introducing Wilson to jazz recordings, being promptly "blown away" by records such as Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady" (1932) and Hampton Hawes' "All the Things You Are" (1955). Asher remembered Wilson's limited familiarity with Tin Pan Alley songs and orchestral jazz structures: "He didn't know much about jazz or jazz standards, but he knew the Four Freshmen." Drawing from his own studio experience, Asher advocated for incorporating classical instruments like violins, cellos, and bass flutes into the arrangements.
Much of the album's pessimistic and dejected lyric content stemmed from Wilson's marital struggles, exacerbated by his drug use. According to Asher, he and Wilson drew from extensive discussions about their experiences and feelings concerning women and relationship dynamics to inspire their songs. Asher later clarified that their songwriting conversations remained "theoretical" rather than explicitly autobiographical, focusing on hypothetical scenarios such as "a kid who doesn't fit in".
The album's classification as rock music has been challenged. Journalist D. Strauss argued that its quality and subversion of rock traditions was what contributed to its significance in rock history. He proposed that categorizing it as easy listening (or "elevator music") reveals the album as "historically grounded, if incredibly ambitious". Wilson drew from older popular music styles, as did Spector, and some of his innovations had precedents in incidental music and Muzak arrangements from the previous decade; Strauss added, "Teenagers were so busy sneering at their parent's music that they neglected to notice". Wilson's orchestrations also drew stylistic parallels to exotica producers such as Baxter, Martin Denny, and Esquivel, particularly through the incorporation of culturally diverse timbres.
Arranger Paul Mertens, who later worked with Wilson on live renditions of the album, observed that Wilson's approach to orchestration involved adapting classical instrumentation to rock sensibilities rather than superimposing classical elements onto rock frameworks: "Brian was [not] trying to introduce classical music into rock & roll. Rather, he was trying to get classical musicians to play like rock musicians."
The album's harmonic structure features four tracks maintaining a single strongly established key: "You Still Believe in Me" (B), "I'm Waiting for the Day" (E), "Sloop John B" (A♭), and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" (B♭). Most other songs shift between primary and secondary keys or lack a definitive tonal center. Two tracks—"That's Not Me" and "Let's Go Away for Awhile"—begin and end in distinct keys; others integrate secondary key areas for phrases and sections—"Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows"—or momentary tonicizations ("Here Today", "Pet Sounds", and "Caroline, No").
Lambert posits that the album's "overall unity" is reinforced by shared musical elements that had evolved from Wilson's approaches on Today!, and that these elements, while subtle, were deliberate on Wilson's part, aligning with his aspiration for an album that "felt like it all belonged together". Techniques in Today!, such as recurring scale motifs that permeate arrangements and vocal lines, reached fuller realization in Pet Sounds tracks like "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)", where ascending stepwise vocal phrases (G♭ to C♭) receive mirrored instrumental responses. According to Lambert, this arch-shaped motif serves as a unifying thread throughout the album, appearing in the concluding organ phrase in "I Know There's an Answer" and the vibraphone progression during the second half of "Let's Go Away for Awhile", among other tracks.
Backing track sessions typically lasted at least three hours, with Britz recalling that most time was spent refining sounds, as Wilson knew "exactly" which instruments he wanted and insisted on assembling all musicians simultaneously, despite the financial impracticality. By layering combinations of instruments (such as multiple types of keyboards) playing in unison, slight tuning discrepancies between them produced a chorusing effect, a phasing texture unattainable through electronic means.
Wilson characterized himself as "sort of a square" around these musicians, starting with each instrument's sound individually, typically beginning with keyboards and drums, followed by violins if not overdubbed. Sessions lacked pre-rehearsals, and he usually arrived with only rudimentary musical drafts. He typically composed full arrangements mentally but conveyed them through shorthand notation prepared by session musicians, with separate charts for different instrumental groups. His approach relied on the musicians' improvisational skills; instead of detailed written scores, he hummed or vocalized parts during recording. Blaine recalled using basic chord charts handwritten on standard paper, which Wilson photocopied for the group; they would adjust parts based on his feedback during takes. While maintaining creative control, he welcomed additional input from these musicians and occasionally retained their mistakes if he felt they enhanced the recording.
Compared to Spector's Wall of Sound, Wilson's productions achieved greater technical complexity through his use of four-track and eight-track recording. While Spector recorded live ensemble takes in mono on three-track machines, Wilson employed a Scully four-track 288 tape recorder for initial backing tracks, later transferring them to eight-track. Instruments were grouped across three tracks: drums, percussion, and keyboards; horns; and bass with additional percussion and guitar. A fourth track held temporary reference mixes, later replaced by overdubs like strings. Once Wilson was satisfied with a track, Britz provided a 7½ IPS tape copy for him to take home for further evaluation.
Principal recording commenced on January 18 with the basic track for "Let's Go Away for Awhile" at Western Studio 3. Sessions for "Wouldn't It Be Nice" began at Gold Star Studio A on January 22, while "Caroline, No" was tracked at Western Studio 3 on January 31. February saw more activity: "I Know There's an Answer" (February 9), "Don't Talk" (February 11), "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" (February 14 at Gold Star), and "That's Not Me" (February 15) were all recorded at Western Studio 3. March sessions included "I'm Waiting for the Day" (March 6) and "God Only Knows" (March 10) at Western, alongside "Here Today" (March 10 or 11 at Sunset Sound).
Critiques among the band members focused on lyrics rather than music, with additional concerns about replicating the complex arrangements in live performances. In his 2016 memoir, Brian claimed Carl embraced the album while Love and Dennis initially did not. Dennis, in 1976, dismissed rumors of dissent as "interesting", insisting no member matched Brian's talent or opposed his vision. Carl rejected such reports as "bullshit", declaring universal affection for the project during its creation and later stating in 1996, "We knew that this was really good music." Love stated his sole objection targeted the original lyrics of "I Know There's an Answer".
Brian, in 1976, remembered arguments about the project being "too arty", while Marilyn later said that his bandmates had struggled "to understand what he was going through emotionally and what he wanted to create [...] they didn't feel what he was going through and what direction he was trying to go in." Asher stated the bandmates—"certainly Al, Dennis, and Mike"—frequently voiced objections such as "What the fuck do these words mean?" and "This isn't our kind of shit!", recalling "those were tense sessions." Notwithstanding such remarks, he added that the bandmates never "really challenged Brian" on his direction for the group because they had felt "they weren't talented enough" to make such judgments. He said Love's objections centered on the album's suitability for the Beach Boys' brand—reservations which Jardine shared—rather than its artistic quality. Jardine recalled initial hesitance toward the stylistic shift, saying the material required adjustment but that he "grew to really appreciate it as soon as we started to work on it".
According to Brian, his bandmates were concerned that he might depart for a solo career, as he dominated the album's artistic direction. He acknowledged their resistance to his vocal prominence, stating he "wanted people to know it was more of a Brian Wilson album than a Beach Boys album." Love later wrote that he had desired "a greater hand in some of the songs and been able to incorporate more often my 'lead voice,' which we'd had so much success with." Brian conceded that tensions eased when the group accepted the project "was still the Beach Boys" despite being "a showcase" for himself: "In other words, they gave in. They let me have my little stint."
The vocal sessions demanded unprecedented precision for the group, with Love recalling Brian's meticulous scrutiny of harmonies, often requiring multiple retakes for minor pitch deviations. Love affectionately nicknamed Brian "dog ears" at the sessions due to his acute auditory sensitivity and insisting on exacting tonal and rhythmic accuracy, sometimes discarding completed tracks the following day to re-record them.
Late overdubs, such as strings for "Don't Talk" (April 3) and a final adjustment for "I Know There's an Answer" (around April 17), completed the album's principal recording. Mixing occurred within days in a single nine-hour session, initially planned for vocal overdubs on "Let's Go Away for Awhile" before Capitol redirected it to mixing. Most time was spent blending vocals with the pre-mixed mono instrumental track.
The original mono mix featured numerous technical flaws that contrasted with its refined arrangements and performances, alongside countertextural aspects emphasizing its recorded nature. Among the most prominent examples: an audible tape splice occurs in "Wouldn't It Be Nice" between the chorus and Love's bridge vocal entrance, while a distant conversation was accidentally captured during the instrumental break of "Here Today" amid a vocal overdub. Biographer David Leaf characterized these imperfections as "not sloppy recording, [but] part of the music". Wilson's mixing process faced technical constraints, such as simultaneously recording overdubs while mixing existing tracks and combining multiple recordings into a single mono channel in real time, which risked unintended artifacts like noise or oversights due to limited monitoring. Granata posits Wilson "felt that performance and feeling outweighed technical perfection", akin to Spector's production ethos, and may have overlooked minor anomalies that were less noticeable on 1960s playback systems.
Wilson included "Sloop John B" at Capitol's insistence, anticipating its commercial success following its single release. Commentators often refer to the track as diverging thematically from the album's introspective love songs and personal reflections, being the only composition not written by Wilson. Fusilli contends that its textural elements—including "chiming" guitars, doubled basses, and staccato rhythms—align with the album's sonic palette.[273] Perone and music historian Jim DeRogatis highlight its thematic consistency with the album's exploration of emotional displacement, particularly through lyrics expressing a longing to escape difficult circumstances. The refrain "I want to go home" echoes motifs present in the title of "Let's Go Away for Awhile" and lyrics of the later track "Caroline, No".
"Run, James, Run" served as the working title for the second instrumental track, "Pet Sounds", initially intended for use in a James Bond film. Its percussion involved Coca-Cola cans and a güiro. Perone observes that while the piece emphasizes lead guitar—aligning with the Beach Boys' surf music background—its "elaborate arrangement", featuring layered "auxiliary percussion", "abruptly changing textures", and minimal use of traditional rock drumming, distinguishes it from a surf composition. Lambert interprets the track as a "musical synopsis" of the album's key themes and a reflective pause for the narrator following the emotional climax of "Here Today".
On October 15, 1965, Wilson recorded an instrumental titled "Three Blind Mice" with a 43-piece orchestra; the piece was unrelated to the nursery rhyme of the same name and later debuted on the Beach Boys' 2011 compilation The Smile Sessions. That day, he also recorded instrumental renditions of "How Deep Is the Ocean?" and "Stella by Starlight". Leaf states the latter song was reportedly a coincidence, as it was a favorite of Asher. Biographer Mark Dillon surmised these recordings were experimental exercises in capturing orchestral sounds, possibly preparing for the string ensemble used in "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)", and likely never intended for release. Another instrumental, "Trombone Dixie", was recorded on November 1. According to Wilson, "I was just foolin' around one day, fuckin' around with the musicians, and I took that arrangement out of my briefcase and we did it in 20 minutes. It was nothing, there was really nothing in it." It was released as a bonus track on the album's 1990 CD reissue.
The front cover depicts the band members—Carl, Brian, and Dennis, Love, and Jardine (left to right)—feeding apples to goats at the San Diego Zoo while wearing coats and sweaters. A green band header displays the artist name, album title, and track list, partially using the Cooper Black typeface. Johnston, who had joined the band unofficially, is absent due to contractual restraints with Columbia Records. The back cover includes a monochrome montage of the touring band performing onstage, posing in samurai attire during their Japan tour, and two images of Brian.
Jardine expressed disappointment with the zoo photo, stating he had wanted something "more sensitive and enlightening". Johnston dubbed it the "worst cover in the history of the record business", while biographer Peter Ames Carlin deemed the back cover's design "even worse" than the front. Author Peter Doggett contrasted its aesthetic with mid-1960s sophisticated cover art by contemporaries like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones, calling it "a warning of what could happen when music and image parted company: songs of high romanticism, an album cover of stark banality."
In his memoir, Love wrote that Capitol organized the cover shoot after proposing the album title Our Freaky Friends, with the animals representing the "freaky friends". When asked about the cover's origin in 2016, Wilson could not remember who suggested the zoo. Jardine recalled that Pet Sounds had already been selected as the title prior to the shoot, initially misunderstanding "pet" as slang for romantic encounters, and attributed the final concept to Capitol's art department. Though some sources cite Remember the Zoo as a working title, this originated as a 1990s fan-created hoax.
The cover photo was taken on February 10, 1966, by photographer George Jerman. Local KFMB-TV reporters filmed the shoot; their footage was lost until 2021. A San Diego Union report stated the group visited the zoo for their album Our Freaky Friends, with zoo staff initially objecting to the title but relenting when told animals were popular with teenagers. The Beach Boys had aimed to capitalize on this trend before the rock band the Animals, who had released an album titled Animal Tracks months earlier. The zoo banned the group, accusing them of mishandling animals, though the ban was later lifted.
During the March 1966 dog barking studio session for "Caroline, No", Brian proposed photographing Carl's horse at Western Studio, an exchange that was documented on tape. Brian later told biographer Byron Preiss the album was named "after the dogs ... That was the whole idea". Love credited himself with coining the title Pet Sounds, a claim Wilson and Jardine endorsed in 2016. Love recalled suggesting the title in a studio hallway, inspired by the zoo photos and animal sounds on the record." Wilson consulted Asher, who disapproved, feeling that the title had "trivialized what we had accomplished".
Carl stated in 1996 that he was uncertain who devised the title, but recalled that it originated from Brian's concept of compiling his favorite musical "pet sounds", remarking, "It was hard to think of a name for the album, because you sure couldn't call it Shut Down Vol. 3. Brian also suggested the name paid homage to Phil Spector through shared initials (PS). Wilson's 1991 memoir claims the title was inspired by Love dismissively asking, "Who's gonna hear this shit? The ears of a dog?"—a statement Love denied in 2016.
Granata described the promotional campaign as "halfhearted" and "self-serving", while journalist Peter Doggett disputed claims of deliberate sabotage, which he called "a pop myth", asserting Pet Sounds was promoted as heavily as the Beach Boys' prior releases. Capitol's campaign for the album included full-page Billboard ads and radio spots that maintained the group's established image without acknowledging the album's new direction. The radio spots featured comedy skits by the band that omitted musical excerpts, depending solely on their name recognition. Johnston and Carl later criticized Capitol's efforts, alleging insufficient promotion compared to past releases. Carl suggested the label relied on existing airplay instead. Some observers surmised Capitol viewed the album as commercially risky, targeting older general audiences over the band's core younger female demographic.
Carl stated that while the Beach Boys recognized shifting music industry trends, Capitol had maintained a fixed perception of the group that conflicted with their desired artistic presentation. In March, the band hired Nick Grillo as their manager after switching management firms and recruited Derek Taylor, the Beatles' former press officer, as their publicist. Taylor's reputation helped provide a credible external perspective on the band's evolving image and activities. Responding to Brian's complaints regarding public perception of his talents, Taylor championed him as "a genius" as part of an effort to rebrand and legitimize the group.
In the UK, the band experienced limited commercial success until March 1966, when "Barbara Ann" and Beach Boys Party! both reached number 2 on the Record Retailer charts. Two singles were issued in April: "Sloop John B" peaked at number 2, while "Caroline, No" did not chart. Capitalizing on their rising British popularity, the group filmed two music videos for Top of the Pops—one for "Sloop John B" and another for "God Only Knows"—with Taylor as director. Though intended to incorporate excerpts from "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "Here Today", the BBC slightly edited the "God Only Knows" video to reduce runtime. The "Sloop John B" video debuted on April 28.
Conversely, British music journalists had an overwhelmingly favorable response, a reception partly attributed to promotional efforts by Taylor, Johnston, and Fowley. Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner later recalled that British fans viewed the Beach Boys as "years ahead" of the Beatles and hailed Wilson as a "genius". Disc and Music Echo critic Penny Valentine praised the album as "Thirteen tracks of Brian Wilson genius", describing it as "far more romantic" than the group's typical upbeat fare: "sad little wistful songs about lost love and found love and all-around love." Norman Jopling of Record Mirror reported that the LP had been "widely praised" and subjected to "no criticism". He prefaced his review as "unbiased", writing that his only "real complaint" with the album was the "terribly complicated and cluttered" arrangements, and speculated it would primarily appeal to existing fans. A contrasting review in Disc and Music Echo argued the album's "ambitious" instrumentation and contemporary relevance would attract "thousands of new fans", declaring it a "superb, important, and really exciting collection" that elevated the group's previously uneven output.
As Wilson's mental health declined, his participation in the Beach Boys diminished, prompting the group to release subsequent albums that were less ambitious and received little critical attention. Wilson, in 1976, cited the band's 1968 release Friends as his second "solo album" after Pet Sounds. The album was a commercial failure, leading the group's fanbase to abandon "any hope that [he] would deliver a true successor", according to a Mojo contributor.
Wilson attempted several professional comebacks in subsequent years, including the 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You, which marked his brief return as the group's primary songwriter and vocalist. He regarded Love You as a spiritual successor to Pet Sounds, citing its autobiographical lyrics, and his feeling of creative fulfillment regarding the work. In 1988, he released his debut solo album Brian Wilson, aiming to revisit the sensibilities of Pet Sounds. Co-producer Russ Titelman promoted it as "Pet Sounds '88". It included "Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long", a thematic follow-up to "Caroline, No".
Wilson wrote, arranged, and produced the album with meticulous control over every phase of its creation, an approach that Charles Granata—in his 2003 book covering the album's making—credits as redefining the role of record producers. While artists such as Les Paul, Sinatra, and Bob Dylan had previously functioned as their own producers, Wilson became the first major pop artist to comprehensively oversee all aspects of an album's production. Virgil Moorefield, in The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music (2010), wrote that Wilson, building on the work of Leiber and Stoller, had sought to realize the full potential of the recording studio, effectively "composing at the mixing board" and using the studio itself as a musical instrument; as both songwriter and producer, he was involved in every detail of the sound production, making on-the-spot decisions about notes, articulation, and timbre, thereby merging the roles of composer, arranger, and producer—a model later adopted industry-wide.
Despite limited initial commercial success, its impact was immediate and far-reaching, later influencing artists across rock, pop, hip hop, jazz, electronic, experimental, and punk. Lenny Waronker, then a staff producer at Warner Bros. Records, said that Pet Sounds elevated studio artistry among West Coast artists: "Creative record-making took a giant step and it affected everybody who was caught up in it. It was a landmark record". In the UK, where it became a focal point in music circles, it signaled to songwriters that pop had ascended to a new level of creative ambition while numerous groups furthered their exploration of experimental recording techniques. Historian John Robert Greene, in his 2010 book America in the Sixties, credits "God Only Knows" with redefining the popular love song; it is frequently praised as one of the greatest songs ever written.
The album's production techniques remained foundational in modern music production through the 2010s. Composer Philip Glass, comparing its legacy to that of the Beatles' and Pink Floyd's recordings, felt that the album's "structural innovation", incorporation of classical elements in arrangements, and novel "production concepts", with hindsight, clarified its status as a defining work of its era. Atlantic contributor Jason Guriel wrote in a 2016 editorial—headlined "how Pet Sounds invented the modern pop album"—that Wilson's approach had anticipated contemporary methods reliant on digital tools and prefigured artists like Michael Jackson, Prince, and Radiohead, whose expansive studio projects echoed the album's ambition.
Guriel argued that Wilson served as a precursor to modern producer-centric pop through Pet Sounds, marking popular music's first extended exploration of auteurism, from which Wilson "patented" the archetype of the reclusive studio-bound genius. Wilson's delivery of a masterwork album, together with his subsequent decline and aborted follow-up, later served as the object of comparisons between Syd Barrett, original frontman of Pink Floyd, and Kevin Shields, frontman of My Bloody Valentine, whose 1991 album Loveless was described by journalist Paul Lester as "the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock".
Wilson's pioneering use of doubling for virtually every instrument—a technique previously limited to classical music—marked its first occasion in rock music within Pet Sounds. Rock critic Ben Edmonds wrote in 1971 that the album's "most impressive" feature had been "the fully integrated use of orchestration, an area glossed over all too lightly in those days." "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" was the first piece in popular music to incorporate the Electro-Theremin as well as the first in rock music to feature theremin-like sounds. The album is also cited as a precursor to synthesizer adoption; music writer Jeff Nordstedt contends that Wilson's layered instrumental combinations, achieved without electronic tools, foreshadowed and "fueled the drive toward" the synthesizer's capacity to unify organic tones into novel timbres: "Wilson maniacally synthesized sounds on Pet Sounds before such a device was available."
The juxtaposition of upbeat music with underlying moods of melancholy and longing, exemplified by "Wouldn't It Be Nice", became foundational to the power pop genre. Chicago Reader's Noah Berlatsky posited that the Beach Boys, together with "Wilson's brand of vulnerable genius", helped bridge a gap between the polished pop harmonizing and "melancholy" of the Drifters and the "psychedelic" experimentation of the Chi-Lites, influencing the development of smooth soul.
The Beach Boys' rivalry with the Beatles played a significant role in advancing psychedelic music, as both groups pushed the boundaries of rock's stylistic and compositional range, inspiring later artists. Scholar Philip Auslander supports that, although psychedelic music is not typically associated with the Beach Boys, the album's "odd directions" and "experiments" were instrumental in creating opportunities for acts like Jefferson Airplane to achieve broader recognition. DeRogatis places the album among the earliest psychedelic masterpieces, alongside Revolver and The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (October 1966). Psychedelic albums sometimes regarded as "the British Pet Sounds" include the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle (1968) and Billy Nicholls' Would You Believe (1968).
By the early 1970s, the LP had become rock's primary medium, a shift Starr attributes partly to Pet Sounds. This coincided with a growing cultural preference for self-contained artists over collaborative processes, as orchestration became increasingly associated with older generations. By the mid-1970s, more melody-focused songwriters adapted the progressive rock genre for mainstream radio, leading to a progressive pop resurgence. Musician and journalist Andy Gill suggested that Pet Sounds ultimately inspired rock bands to "get clever" and experiment with orchestration and time signatures, remarking: "Before you know it, you've got Queen." Eric Woolfson of the Alan Parsons Project remarked that the Beach Boys became "the classic example of a band moving [...] to phenomenally progressive stuff." Composer and journalist Frank Oteri recognized the album as a "clear precedent" to the birth of album-oriented rock and progressive rock. By 2010, Pet Sounds was listed in Classic Rock's "50 Albums That Built Prog Rock".
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1965 is the date given by most sources. Others state that Wilson had met Asher during a social gathering at Schwartz's house. Carlin dates the initial meeting between Asher and Wilson to early 1963.[19]
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December 1965 is the date given by Carlin.[20] Asher recalled that Wilson called him when the rest of the band were out of the country.[21]
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Granata 2003, p. 81. - Granata, Charles L. (2003). Wouldn't it Be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-507-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=eduXp1caQ4YC
This is Charles Granata's rough estimation. As of 2003, most of the documentation that could have provided a more definitive chronology of the album's writing had been lost.[22] Carlin dates the start of the writing sessions to December 1965.[23] In 2009, Wilson himself recalled that he may have been writing with Asher as early as November 1965.[24]
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Wilson's writing process, as he described in 1966, started with finding a basic chord pattern and rhythm that he termed "feels", or "brief note sequences, fragments of ideas". He explained, "once they're out of my head and into the open air, I can see them and touch them firmly. They're not 'feels' anymore."[27]
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Author Carys Wyn Jones attributes this characterization to the record's "uniform excellence" rather than an explicit narrative or musical motif,[41] while Lambert acknowledges the album's "unifying threads of melodic figures and harmonic devices".[42]
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The absence of a single on the North American release further reinforced its identity as an artistic whole.[46]
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Asher recalled Wilson playing him the album and declaring a desire to surpass it,[56] while Johnston remembered Wilson praising its thematic cohesion after a Christmas 1965 listening session.[57] In a 2002 foreword for Mojo, Wilson wrote that although he had already begun working on some of the songs, the urge to express his feelings after hearing Rubber Soul led to his decision to seek out a new lyricist.[58] Conversely, he told David Leaf in 1996 that he believed he was introduced to the LP by Asher.[59] In 2009, he said he wrote "God Only Knows" with Asher the morning after listening to the album for the first time.[24]
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Asher also shared standards like "Stella by Starlight", believing their harmonic complexity would appeal to Wilson's interest in unconventional progressions, such as those in "The Warmth of the Sun" (1964).[62] /wiki/The_Warmth_of_the_Sun
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Musician Jim Irvin agreed that the "dense, lush arrangements" were indebted "at least as much to Nelson Riddle" as they were to Spector's arranger, Jack Nitzsche.[66] /wiki/Jim_Irvin
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In a March 1966 interview, Wilson acknowledged contemporary music trends' influence on his work,[67] though Marilyn later stated he was singularly focused on creating "the greatest rock album ever", unconcerned with industry developments.[68]
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Was, Don (1995). Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (Documentary film). /wiki/Don_Was
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Rolling Stone editor David Wild characterized the lyrics as "intelligent and moving, but [...] not pretentious", comparing them to Tin Pan Alley's craftsmanship.[79] /wiki/David_Wild
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Soon after his first LSD experience, Brian began suffering from auditory hallucinations[83] and significant paranoia throughout the year.[84] He attributed LSD's influence to it "[bringing] out the insecurities in me, which I think went into the music",[85] and credited marijuana with encouraging his creative growth.[86] /wiki/Auditory_hallucination
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These discussions encompassed Wilson's doubts about his marriage, his "sexual fantasies", and his "apparent" attraction to his sister-in-law, Diane.[87] His wife interpreted songs like "You Still Believe in Me" and "Caroline, No" as directly addressing their marriage.[88]
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Responding to the songwriters' denials of a conscious lyric theme, journalist Nick Kent observed that the album's lyrics predominantly depict a male protagonist's struggles with self-identity and crises of faith in love and life, excluding "Sloop John B" and the instrumentals.[95] Granata writes that while these tracks disrupt the album's "thematic thread", they enhance its pacing.[96] /wiki/Nick_Kent
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Lambert distinguishes "theme albums"—collections of songs linked by shared lyrical content but lacking musical cohesion—from concept albums, which integrate recurring melodic, harmonic, or structural elements into a unified artistic presentation.[42] With regards to the issue of authorial intent, he felt that artists' commentaries on their work may reflect external agendas or lack objectivity, and that the artwork itself should remain the primary basis for analysis.[98]
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Music journalist Alice Bolin characterized Today! as bridging the group's doo-wop roots with "the lush and orchestral" style of Pet Sounds,[107] while Scott Interrante highlighted Wilson's early experimentation with blending ballad and uptempo structures, adding that Today! had reflected the optimism of adolescence in contrast to Pet Sounds' melancholic tone.[108] Leaf identified the Today! outtake[109] "Guess I'm Dumb", later produced as a 1965 single for Glen Campbell, as a leap in Wilson's development, being "one of the first records that consolidated all [Brian's] ideas into a coherent sound" that culminated in Pet Sounds[110] Howard referenced "Please Let Me Wonder" as further signaling Wilson's progression toward his subsequent project.[111]
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Berlatsky argued that while Pet Sounds is rarely regarded as an R&B album and, in some respects, is seen as a counter to R&B traditions, this perception had been shaped by prevailing stereotypes about race, authenticity, and vulnerability, particularly regarding soul music, typically viewed "as less important—or more often just forgotten altogether."[118] /wiki/Soul_music
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Denny's former bandmember Julius Wechter contributed percussion to the album,[121] and Wilson indicated in his second memoir that he had enjoyed Baxter's "big productions that sounded sort of like Phil Spector",[122] but stated an unfamiliarity with Denny and "exotica music" in a 2017 phone interview.[123]
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While Spector similarly employed dense orchestration, baroque pop distinguished itself through melancholy first-person Romantic narratives, intimate string arrangements, and classical-influenced melodies with reduced blues elements.[140] Other genres attributed to the album have included pop rock,[141] psychedelic rock,[142][143][144] experimental rock,[145][146] avant-pop,[147][148] experimental pop,[149] symphonic rock,[150] and folk rock.[151] /wiki/Romantic_music
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DeRogatis, in his book about psychedelic rock, contrasts the album's introspective tone with the Beatles' post-LSD focus on societal issues.[155] Hegarty and Halliwell also describe Pet Sounds as combining "personal intimacy" with a "trippy feel" linked to Wilson's LSD use, distinguishing it from contemporaneous psychedelic music such as the San Francisco sound.[154]
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Among other reasons given for the album's perceived psychedelic quality, DeRogatis argued that its layered melodies mirror the gradual revelations of a psychedelic experience, unfolding new details with repeated listens.[157] Musician Sean Lennon suggested that psychedelic music often involves epic, ambitious records, and likened experiencing Pet Sounds in full to temporarily "entering another world", akin to an LSD trip.[158]
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Referring to "Wouldn't It Be Nice", Perone opined that the track sounded "significantly less like a rock band supplemented with auxiliary instrumentation [...] than a rock band integrated into an eclectic mix of studio instrumentation."[165]
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This contrasted with the Beach Boys' reliance on simple triads on earlier albums.[174] /wiki/Triad_(music)
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"I'm Waiting for the Day" extends a verse-refrain structure through three repetitions before concluding with unrelated thematic material.[180]
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"Kiss Me Baby" had featured a four-note titular motif transformed through choral interplay and instrumental reinforcement, while "Good to My Baby" constructed its melodic framework around persistent stepwise patterns mirroring lyrical themes of emotional ambivalence.[182] /wiki/Kiss_Me_Baby
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A reversed version appears in the closing of "Wouldn't It Be Nice", the instrumental accompaniment throughout "I'm Waiting for the Day", while interlocking standard/inverted bassline forms in "God Only Knows", with chromatically altered variants emerging in the first half of "Let's Go Away for Awhile".[184]
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Lambert 2008, pp. 118–120. - Lambert, Philip (March 2008). "Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds". Twentieth-Century Music. 5 (1). Cambridge University Press: 109–133. doi:10.1017/S1478572208000625. S2CID 162871617. https://www.academia.edu/17300178
Lambert speculated that Wilson's rekindled interest in this device, which he had used on Surfin' Safari and Surfin' U.S.A., may have been inspired by "I'll Be Back" from Beatles '65 (the American version of Help!).[190] /wiki/Surfin%27_Safari
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For example, "Here Today" employs a similar descending bass line (1–♭7–6–♭6–5) but substitutes a secondary dominant on ♭7 for the ♭VII chord used in "Pet Sounds". Wilson later highlighted this motif by drawing attention to the trombone in the choruses. The opening of "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" begins with another descending bass progression, while "Let's Go Away for Awhile" incorporates a harmonically varied descent.[189] /wiki/Secondary_dominant
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This pattern begins in "Wouldn't It Be Nice", modulating from F to D, and recurs in tracks like "That's Not Me" (A to F♯ major) and "Let's Go Away for Awhile" (F to D). Side B continues the motif: "Pet Sounds" shifts to G major within B♭ while "Here Today" and "Caroline No" employ minor submediants. The sole exception is "God Only Knows", which modulates up a fourth instead of using submediant relations.[178] Lambert adds that while submediant key relations were new to Wilson's "intra-album thematic" approach, earlier Beach Boys albums had featured diverse tonal shifts—one "specific precedent" being "Your Summer Dream" (1963)—and similar techniques had occasionally appeared in contemporaneous pop; however, for Wilson, influenced by jazz harmony, such progressions were habitual.[182]
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Charlie Gillett observed that the album's "naïve innocence" diverged from the skepticism permeating contemporary works by Dylan, the Beatles, and the Stones,[411] whereas Jon Savage saw that Pet Sounds preserved emotional sincerity amid cultural shifts, contrasting the Rolling Stones' "icy mod cool" with its tender vulnerability.[362] /wiki/Charlie_Gillett
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According to Jones, the interplay between the two bands during this era remains one of the most noteworthy episodes in rock history.[421]
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According to Larry Starr, the "historical importance" of Pet Sounds is "certified" by McCartney's admission that it served as "the single greatest influence" on Sgt. Pepper.[93] John Covach states that "Pet Sounds "prodded the Beatles to experiment more radically" with Sgt. Pepper,[408] while David Howard writes, "Undeniably, the song-cycle construction of Pet Sounds was the catalyst" for the Beatles' album.[91]
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According to musician Lenie Colacino, McCartney "didn't start using the upper register on his Rickenbacker bass until after he heard Pet Sounds. The bass parts for 'Here Today' directly influenced the way Paul played on 'With a Little Help' and 'Getting Better'."[429] Granata writes that, by the time the Beatles recorded Magical Mystery Tour (November 1967), "it was clear they'd fully assimilated the essence of Brian's eclectic arranging style."[374] Lambert observes that the structural key relationships in Pet Sounds parallel those Walter Everett identified in Sgt. Pepper, particularly the recurring use of B♭ as a tonic key in four of six songs within the album's latter half.[178]
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George Harrison reflected that the group had felt threatened by the album.[431] Asked in 1966 for the musical person he most admired, Lennon named Wilson.[432] Singer Tony Rivers recalled "talking to John for about 20 minutes at the NEMS Enterprises Christmas party one year. And the main part of the conversation was the Beach Boys, and how great they were."[419]
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Greene further cites songs such as "Good Vibrations", Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" as later works influenced by the experimental trajectories initiated by Pet Sounds and the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows".[433]
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Forever Changes was recorded at Sunset Sound, the same studio that hosted the recording for "Here Today", and shared much of the same personnel as Pet Sounds, including the Wrecking Crew and studio staff engineer Bruce Botnick.[451]
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Asked in a 1968 interview about the Beatles' role in rock's "progress toward an art form", Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page responded, "I think the Beach Boys tried to do it first. I think there were lots of Beach Boy things on the Revolver album. Especially, the vocal harmony. Wilson really said a lot in his Pet Sounds album."[459] Pet Sounds is viewed as the first work of art rock by Leaf,[134] Jones,[133] and Frith.[460] Rolling Stone writers described the album as heralding the art rock of the 1970s.[461] Academic Michael Johnson said that the album was one of the first documented moments of ascension in rock music.[462] Bill Holdship said that it was "perhaps rock's first example of self-conscious art".[463] /wiki/Led_Zeppelin
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In addition to "chamber pop", critics and enthusiasts have sometimes described the orchestral-rock fusion style epitomized by Pet Sounds using terms such as symphonic pop and ork-pop (short for "orchestral pop").[478]
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Additional musicians who have praised Pet Sounds have included Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Roger McGuinn, Randy Newman, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Daryl Hall, Elton John, Alice Cooper, Jackson Browne, Eric Carmen, Lindsey Buckingham, Ann Wilson, Tom Petty, Stephen Bishop, Elvis Costello, Billy Idol, and Gustavo Dudamel.[499] /wiki/Carole_King
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