RARE MONO "PET SOUNDS" Beach Boys 1966 Capitol T-2458 VG+/EX- Scranton

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THE BEACH BOYS
"PET SOUNDS" ~NAMED THE GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME~
RARE MONO EARLY ISSUE

Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys. Released on May 16, 1966, it met a relatively lukewarm critical and commercial reception in the United States, but received immediate success abroad. The album has since garnered enormous worldwide acclaim by critics and musicians alike, and is regarded as one of the most influential pieces in the history of popular music.

The album was produced by Brian Wilson who also wrote and composed almost all of its music. Sessions were conducted several months after he had quit touring with the Beach Boys in order to focus his attention on writing and recording. Collaborating with lyricist Tony Asher, Wilson's symphonic arrangements wove elaborate layers of vocal harmonies, coupled with sound effects and unconventional instruments such as bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Electro-Theremin, dog whistles, trains, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans and barking dogs, along with the more usual keyboards and guitars. Together, they comprised Wilson's "pet sounds", played in music styles which incorporated elements of jazz, exotica, classical, and the avant-garde. It was led by the singles "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "God Only Knows" and "Sloop John B" while Wilson made his solo debut with "Caroline, No", issued a few months earlier. Due to the level of Wilson's involvement compared to his band mates, many consider Pet Sounds virtually a Brian Wilson solo album.

A heralding work in the emerging psychedelic rock style, Pet Sounds signaled an aesthetic trend within rock by transforming it from dance music into music that was made for listening to, elevating itself to the level of art rock. It was one of the first rock concept albums, and has been suggested to follow a lyrical song cycle format,although Wilson has maintained that the album's real unified theme lies within its cohesive production style. Writer Bill Martin said that within Pet Sounds, "[The Beach Boys] brought expansions in harmony, instrumentation (and therefore timbre), duration, rhythm, and the use of recording technology. Of these elements, the first and last were the most important in clearing a pathway toward the development of progressive rock." Beyond pop and rock, Pet Sounds expanded the field of music production.

Although Pet Sounds was met with strong sales abroad, reaching number two in the UK, it charted lower in the US than the majority of the band's preceding albums, peaking at number ten on the Billboard Top LPs chart. In 1993, it was named the greatest album of all time by NME magazine and The Times, and in 1995 by Mojo magazine. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it second on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Pet Sounds was preserved in the National Recording Registry in 2004 by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant."