2) Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

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All songs by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, except where noted.

Side one
1. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (Wilson, Asher, Mike Love) – 2:22 * Features Brian Wilson and Mike Love on lead vocals
2. "You Still Believe in Me" – 2:30 * Features Brian Wilson on lead vocals; originally titled "In My Childhood"
3. "That's Not Me" – 2:27 * Features Mike Love [w/Brian Wilson] on lead vocals
4. "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)" – 2:51 * Features Brian Wilson on lead vocals
5. "I'm Waiting for the Day" (Wilson, Love) – 3:03 * Features Brian Wilson on lead vocals
6. "Let's Go Away for Awhile" (Wilson) – 2:18 * Instrumental, Originally titled "The Old Man and the Baby"
7. "Sloop John B" (Trad. arr. Wilson) – 2:56 * Features Brian Wilson and Mike Love on lead vocals

Side two
1. "God Only Knows" – 2:49 * Features Carl Wilson on lead vocals: Brian & Bruce on the tag.
2. "I Know There's an Answer" (Wilson, Terry Sachen, Love) – 3:08 * Features Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Brian Wilson on lead vocals; Originally titled "Hang On to Your Ego"
3. "Here Today" – 2:52 * Features Mike Love on lead vocals
4. "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" – 3:11 * Features Brian Wilson on lead vocals
5. "Pet Sounds" (Wilson) – 2:20 * Instrumental; originally titled "Run James Run"
6. "Caroline, No" – 2:52 * Features Brian Wilson on lead vocals; The barking of his dogs Banana and Louie closes the song

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From Rolling Stone:

"Who's gonna hear this shit?" Beach Boys singer Mike Love asked the band's resident genius, Brian Wilson, in 1966, as Wilson played him the new songs he was working on. "The ears of a dog?" Confronted with his bandmate's contempt, Wilson made lemonade of lemons. "Ironically," he observed, "Mike's barb inspired the album's title."
Barking dogs -- Wilson's dog Banana among them, in fact -- are prominent among the found sounds on the album. The Beatles made a point of echoing them on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- an acknowledgment that Pet Sounds was the inspiration for the Beatles' masterpiece. That gesture actually completed a circle of influence: Wilson initially conceived of Pet Sounds as an effort to top the Beatles' Rubber Soul.
Wilson essentially made Sounds without the rest of the band, using them only to flesh out the vocal arrangements. He even considered putting the album out as a solo project, and the first single, "Caroline, No," was released under his own name. The deeply personal nature of the songs, which Wilson co-wrote primarily with lyricist Tony Asher, further distinguished the album from the Beach Boys' typical fare. Its luxurious sound convey a heartbreaking wistfulness, as songs such as "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" and "I'm Waiting for the Day" bid farewell to the innocent world of the early Sixties and to the Beach Boys' fun-in-the-sun hits.
Unfortunately, Capitol Records proved no more enamored of Pet Sounds than had Love; the label actually considered not releasing the album at all. Not yet vindicated by history, Wilson withdrew further into his inner world. "At the last meeting I attended concerning Pet Sounds," Wilson wrote in his autobiography (which took the name of the album's opening track, "Wouldn't It Be Nice") about his dealings with Capitol's executive brain trust, "I showed up holding a tape player and eight prerecorded, looped responses, including 'No comment,' 'Can you repeat that?' 'No' and 'Yes.' Refusing to utter a word, I played the various tapes when appropriate."

Total album sales: 1.6 million
Peak chart position: 10

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