Pet Sounds - BBC4 21:00 hrs Tonight

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,966

Living In a Box

• Jul 24, 2016

• #1

Arguably one of the greatest albums ever made in the world. This was the Beach Boys finest bit of work so this should hopefully be a very good program.

 

Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster

Jul 5, 2003

72,015

• Jul 24, 2016

• #2

There are some great tracks on the album and I know it is rated as one of the all time greats but quite a few tracks leave me a bit Meh. I prefer their surfing stuff personally and my favourite Beach Boys album by a margin is Holland

I'll give it a look though because I like the Beach Boys

 

Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster

Jul 5, 2003

72,015

• Jul 24, 2016

• #3

Rod Stewart being incredibly fey in the lead up Sounds of the 70s programme. Great song though

 

vegster

Sanity Clause

May 5, 2008

27,892

• Jul 24, 2016

• #4

Nice to see, Brian Wilson was so far ahead of his time.....I would recommend seeing the film Love and Mercy as an add on.

 

T soprano

New member

Oct 27, 2011

8,018

Posh end of Shoreham

• Jul 24, 2016

• #5

vegster said:

Nice to see, Brian Wilson was so far ahead of his time.....I would recommend seeing the film Love and Mercy as an add on.

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Love and Mercy, brilliant film, watched it on sky a few weeks back, went straight onto iTunes and bought Pet Sounds after watching it

 

R

Robinjakarta

Well-known member

Jul 14, 2014

2,056

Jakarta

• Jul 25, 2016

• #6

I read somewhere that at that in 1966, The Beatles realised that The Beach Boys had overtaken them, and that this pushed The Beatles on to come up with Sgt Pepper in 1967. Pet Sounds, 1966. A great album in a great year for music.

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash

Jul 6, 2003

70,161

• Jul 25, 2016

• #7

Just in case anybody missed the announcement, Brian Wilson will be performing Pet Sounds at the Together The People Festival in Preston Park on Saturday 3rd September. No Albion match that day either.

http://www.togetherthepeople.co.uk/

 

The Sock of Poskett

The best is yet to come (spoiler alert)

Jun 12, 2009

2,802

• Jul 25, 2016

• #8

Must catch up with this one. Incidentally, now up on iPlayer is The People's History of Pop: 1966-76, presented by Danny Baker. Very watchable if you're of that vintage - and educational if you're not! Plenty of good footage of the Isle of Wight Festival, Bolan, Ziggy era Bowie et all, and a rare excerpt from the original demo of Space Oddity.

 

brakespear

Doctor Worm

Feb 24, 2009

12,326

Sleeping on the roof

• Jul 25, 2016

• #9

Didn't notice this so will watch on catch-up. Also noticed over the weekend that 'Love and Mercy' is on Sky Movies/Now TV. Great as 'Pet Sounds' is though, 'Surf's Up' is my favourite Beach Boys album

 

Buzzer

Languidly Clinical

Oct 1, 2006

26,121

• Jul 25, 2016

• #10

Every interview and documentary I read/see about the Beach Boys confirms my prejudices about Mike Love. No doubting his talent but he was/is avaricious, narcissist and a bully.

 

Hamilton

Well-known member

NSC Patron

Jul 7, 2003

12,454

Brighton

• Jul 25, 2016

• #11

I think Pet Sounds is very over-rated. Some nice tunes on there, but half of it feels like a bit of a drag.

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash

Jul 6, 2003

70,161

• Jul 25, 2016

• #12

Hamilton said:

I think Pet Sounds is very over-rated. Some nice tunes on there, but half of it feels like a bit of a drag.

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According to last night's programme, the record company were pretty much of the same opinion.

 

Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull

Aug 27, 2011

8,546

Brighton

• Jul 25, 2016

• #13

Hold on.
THE Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds LIVE on stage.
Kids go along and find out what good music is all about.

 

The Albion Roar

97.2FM

Aug 11, 2003

2,728

The Open Market

• Jul 25, 2016

• #14

They were right about 'California Girls'. The first 22 seconds (the intro) was as imaginative and brilliant as anything Brian Wilson arranged, and set the tone for Pet Sounds a year later.