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Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time?

Try as I might -- and I have tried very hard -- I just don't get the "genius" of this album. I know that George Martin said that Sgt Pepper would have never happened without Pet Sounds, but I don't think the two are even in the same league. What am I missing?
jeffreybowman2k

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tomic601
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 @bdp24 I so appreciate your contribution to this board.. !!!!!

the film about smile is of course also fantastic
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and of course the more intellectually challenging work like Smile and Astral weeks for example, require WORK to understand..

this is why you find mostly MINT copies of Night at the Opera, etc...
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I had not planned on playing it today, but a revisit will be fun...snarling 8’ break at the fingers on an incoming flood today...

I can tell you about melancholy wistfulness in a lyric when those surf girls ride by on the bike with a board rack on the side....


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what should we be listening to ??????

As for Pet Sounds, it will outlive you..and me
I breathe surf culture every day
stop by sometime
station #34 Carlsbad North Jetty of the powerstation.....
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