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The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1352176

Disk length: 35m 56s (13 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1989

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice 2:24
2. You Still Believe In Me 2:31
3. That's Not Me 2:27
4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) 2:52
5. I'm Waiting For The Day 3:04
6. Let's Go Away For Awhile 2:18
7. Sloop John B. 2:58
8. God Only Knows 2:51
9. I Know There's An Answer 3:08
10. Here Today 2:54
11. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times 3:12
12. Pet Sounds 2:22
13. Caroline No 2:48

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Review

If you need some pointy-headed pundit to sell you on the merits of Pet Sounds, your money might be better spent on an ear specialist. Brian Wilson's gift to 20th-century music elevated this pop album into a beguiling musical and emotional cogency that still operates outside pop culture's fickle space-time continuum--and limited critical lexicon. There's never been another record to compare (Rubber Soul, its inspiration, is close; Sgt. Pepper's, its response, misses the point), and certainly no album has been as dissected, overanalyzed, and predigested for public consumption. In 1997 Capitol Records devoted an entire four-disc box set, The Pet Sounds Sessions, to its thorough deconstruction. The techno-marvel centerpiece of that project--the album's first true stereo mix, painstakingly conjured out of multitape session sources by producer-engineer Mark Linett (under Wilson's supervision)--was at once heresy and revelation. Now the label has gratifyingly seen fit to offer both mixes on a single disc (along with alternate versions of "Hang On to Your Ego," the original title of "I Know There's An Answer"), an idea that should please the orthodox and heretics alike. And while the album has always clearly been The Brian Wilson Show featuring the Beach Boys, David Leaf's concise new notes attempt to be more inclusive of a wider band perspective. The result (three of the five band members claim credit for the album title) sometimes resembles Rashomon. If Pet Sounds forever crystallized the band's various creative (in)differences, it also became Wilson's grand karmic joke on his band mates; its burgeoning reputation (Mojo magazine's panel of pop experts once elected it greatest album of all time) guaranteed they would sing its songs--and praises--until the end. And if putting two different versions of the same album on one disc seems like overkill, look at the bright side: it's a perfect excuse to listen to the glorious Pet Sounds twice. --Jerry McCulley 2000 Hdcd Remaster of the Original Mono Mixes. Does Not Include the Bonus Tracks that were on Previous Issues.

Other Versions

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Pet Sounds

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 35m 59s (+0m 3s)

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Tracks: 13, Disk length: 35m 40s (-1m 44s)

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Tracks: 13, Disk length: 35m 10s (-1m 14s)

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Tracks: 13, Disk length: 37m 48s (+1m 52s)

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Tracks: 14 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 38m 7s (+2m 11s)

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Tracks: 15 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 39m 23s (+3m 27s)

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Tracks: 14 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 40m 26s (+4m 30s)

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Tracks: 16 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 43m (+7m 4s)

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Tracks: 27 (+14 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 52s (+40m 56s)

Pet Sounds

Tracks: 27 (+14 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 54s (+40m 58s)

Pet Sounds

Tracks: 27 (+14 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 54s (+40m 58s)

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