― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know. I thought you were being flip in reviving a thread about a pretty serious piece of work and just going, "Dud, can't get through it." So I thought I'd be flip right back atcha and imply that Pet Sounds is Ellingtonian in scope. Not so far off base, is it?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 8 May 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 8 May 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 8 May 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
As is, very near the top.
― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 8 May 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Those are easily the best songs on "Sunflower".
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 May 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
SNAP! Fucking Aussies.
― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought it was a gunshot when I heard the sound ("Brian Wilson's finally lost it!")
― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Sunday, 8 May 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 8 May 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Zed Szetlian (Finn.MacCoo...), May 8th, 2005.
I don't think it's a rock-and-roll album at all. I realize you may just be using the term as a catch-all, but I do think (in light of the recently resuscitated Rockism discussion) that there's a tendency for people who primarily like rock and roll to find this one "ok to like" because it gets grouped with rock. But to me it bears more similarity to elaborately arranged pop music, like maybe Roy Orbison.
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 9 May 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 9 May 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been listening to it on repeat for the last few days and one thing that's struck me is that 'I'm Waiting For The Day' is the album's unheralded masterpiece. Does anyone else agree?
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 July 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
and i agree on the strange demand the record makes for singing along...with lots of people...all mangling the various harmonies..especially after a few drinks. such a wonderful place.
i love Brians fluttertone rhythms used throughout and taken even further on smile
― b b, Friday, 8 July 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if I will believe that tomorrow though...
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I was hoping you said Rock Cannon.. as in an AC/DC prop or something.
"FOR THOSE ABOUT TO PET...."
"SOUNDS!" *BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST*
"BRIIIIIIIAN WIIIIIIIIIIIILSON!"
― donut e- (donut), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut e- (donut), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Friday, 8 July 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph Cowart (Joseph Cowart), Saturday, 9 July 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, that's basically true. But then, I'll take as much LHRW as you got.
― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 10 July 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
what do the ppl who heard it think of it?
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 17 May 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
xp is there something about the Carl and the Passions version that sets it apart?
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:30 (one month ago) link
the tapes they used were supposed to be top notch/early master/etc. can't remember the details. i'm sure there is a very long internet story about it. i'm sure there are people here who can tell you more! some people swear by it as the go-to mono pressing. it sounds good from what i remember. i've sold a bunch of them.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:35 (one month ago) link
yeah, that's the one i have - i just remember buying that double-lp set and being pretty sure the shop had no clue it was included. just looked up the discogs prices and was shocked how much mid quality even goes for.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:43 (one month ago) link
i've had pristine early pressings that look unplayed and i think they are going to blow me away and they sound like mud. it happens. Capitol vinyl can be like that. which is why people prefer certain pressing plants from that era. and which is why it was so nice to hear this copy i was playing from 2016. they did a heck of a job with it. but it also doesn't sound...you know, digital. like a CD. too clean. too overdone as far as a new mix goes. people can go overboard with new tech to change the inherent qualities of a record. make it sound like what they THINK it should sound like. this just really sounds like what i imagine an actual reel-to-reel of the album sounded like in 1966. only louder probably.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:44 (one month ago) link
I truly wanted to love this album, but I just can't.
― BriefCandles, Sunday, 3 March 2024 00:34 (one month ago) link
its a weird one.
― scott seward, Sunday, 3 March 2024 00:51 (one month ago) link
in 2019 i got to listen to this album while riding the Pacific Surfliner and walking around the San Diego Zoo (the site of the cover shoot). Balboa park instantly struck me as the visual universe of Pet Sounds, also this music loves giraffes. It was 70F and sunny, and there are so many plants i've never seen anywhere else in the zoo.
I don't think Pet Sounds is overrated by the dad rags, if anything it was underrated by the wider public for so long. i'm sure it's pretty hard to have an original thought about Pet Sounds but one dimension the title takes on for me- it's an album about the vulnerable, dependent kind of love, like that of a pet for its owner.
the thing with the dad rag praise, calling Pet Sounds the best album ever made implies a lot of things that i've grown uneasy with, like that art should never be limited by practical constraints...
i'm happy with my cd versions (1990 mono with trombone dixie etc, 97 box set)
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 3 March 2024 03:28 (one month ago) link
I don't think Pet Sounds is overrated by the dad rags, if anything it was underrated by the wider public for so long.
I think so too. And also Rolling Stone (especially editor Dave Marsh) were actually pretty hard on it whenever I came across any mention of it published in the '70s or anything Marsh wrote in the '80s and '90s. They didn't hate it, but they constantly argued it was pretentious and beneath their earlier hits. Even Robert Christgau and I believe Greil Marcus maintain that argument.
They're older now, but the first newspaper critics I remember reading in the '90s were part of a later generation and really championed it. Everyone I knew back home who adored it was high school or college age at the turn of the millennium - Wilson's big revival (which began with that first Pet Sounds tour) probably fed off that and vice versa. I haven't heard as much about it now, but I think that's more reflective of changes in pop with the music most consciously influenced by Wilson having less of a mainstream presence now. I personally don't care - I never bought into the idea that musical trends defined "greatness" to the extent that a work is taken down a notch simply because other things have become trendy. Pet Sounds hasn't lost anything for me, it's still brilliant and beautiful for so many reasons - absolutely one of the great landmarks in rock history.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 3 March 2024 06:09 (one month ago) link