When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. But that was then. Today, Pet Sounds is regarded not only as the equal of those records but, in ...

Well, there are quite a few factors to consider. That notoriety has to come from somewhere. There’s no smoke without fire if an album is consistently called one of the greatest albums of the 20th ...

Back in the turbulent, game-changing 1960s, America celebrated, thanks to the pop songs of The Beach Boys, the wholesomeness and good vibrations of an idealized sunny Southern California with its ...

The death of Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson reminds us all that the great artists don't live forever, and we should cherish their masterworks while they're here. Wilson's career spans more than ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

Pet Sounds found The Beach Boys leaving behind the surfing and street racing for trenchant self-examination, with music as sophisticated and ambitious as anything in pop/rock to that time. It ...

It was greeted with some confusion by fans and even members of the band, but the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album has attained more reverence and legend as the years move along. It is today considered ...

What a sunny day for the fellas at Split Record Review to cover the Beach Boys’ magnum opus. The claim that they’re the goats of music is solidified by their 1966 album, “Pet Sounds.” Many writers in ...

The Grammy winner was convicted of illegally funneling millions in foreign contributions to Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign. "Pet Sounds has always been my dirty little secret. In all our minds, ...

Pet Sounds includes … pet sounds. The song “Caroline, No” features barking dogs near the end of the track. The use of animal noises in the album was one of Brian Wilson’s most innovative moves. To ...