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Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966, by Capitol Records.It was initially met with a lukewarm critical response in the United States, although it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.
"I Know There's an Answer" (alternately known as "Hang On to Your Ego") is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson , Terry Sachen, and Mike Love , the song was inspired by Wilson's experience with the drug LSD and his struggle with ego death .
Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds Live is the second live album by American musician Brian Wilson. It features a performance of the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, recorded by Wilson and his band at the Royal Festival Hall in London in January 2002.
Giles Martin on Mixing the Beach Boys’ Classic ‘Pet Sounds’ for Dolby Atmos — and Why the General Public Is About to Get Much More Lost in Spatial. Chris Willman. June 27, 2023 at 12:54 PM.
It is one of two tracks on Pet Sounds where Wilson's lead vocal is not augmented with backing vocals, the other being "Caroline, No", [29] and one of three tracks where he is the only Beach Boy performing. [28] [nb 4] After bouncing the tape, on April 3, Wilson overdubbed the string sextet at the same studio. [28]
"God Only Knows" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, it is a baroque-style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and complexity, unusual instrumentation, and subversion of typical popular music conventions, both lyrically and musically.
Some of the largest sources of Beach Boys bootleg material have derived from the Pet Sounds and Smile sessions; their underground circulation eventually resulted in the officially issued compilations The Pet Sounds Sessions (1997) and The Smile Sessions (2011). In 2013, the latter won the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.
"Here Today" was written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher for the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album in early 1966. [2] Although Wilson claimed that Asher only provided the words to his music, Asher credited himself with contributing musical ideas to several songs on the album, [3] including this one, as Asher stated, "'Here Today' contains a little more of me both lyrically and melodically than Brian."