On August
29, 2013 we
had a CATS & DOGS PARTY at T.R.A.C.S.
I not want
to repeat my self with cat and dogs songs:
But I want to mention:
Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds is the
eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released May
16, 1966, on Capitol Records. It has since been recognized as one of the most
influential records in the history of popular music and one of the best albums
of the 1960s, including songs such as "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and
"God Only Knows". Pet Sounds was created several months after Brian
Wilson had quit touring with the band in order to focus his attention on
writing and recording. In it, he wove elaborate layers of vocal harmonies,
coupled with sound effects and unconventional instruments such as bicycle
bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Electro-Theremin, dog whistles,
trains, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans and barking dogs,
along with the more usual keyboards and guitars.
Although Pet
Sounds was met with strong sales abroad, reaching number two in the UK, it
charted lower in the US than the majority of the band's preceding albums,
peaking at number ten on the Billboard 200. A heralding album in the emerging
psychedelic rock style, Pet Sounds has been championed and emulated for its
dramatic and revolutionary baroque pop instrumentation. It has been ranked at
number one in several music magazines' lists of greatest albums of all time,
including NME, The Times and Mojo Magazine. It was ranked number two in Rolling
Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. It was preserved into the
National Recording Registry in 2004 by the Library of Congress for being
"culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant."
Cover photo and
title meaning
On February 15,
the group traveled to the San Diego Zoo to shoot the photographs for the cover,
which had already been titled Pet Sounds. George Jerman has been credited for
taking the cover photo. According to the Pet Sounds' liner notes, "The
photos of The Beach Boys feeding an assortment of goats was a play on the
album's chosen title, Pet Sounds."
Both the origin
and meaning of the album title Pet Sounds are uncertain. Brian Wilson has
claimed at one point that the title was "a tribute" to Phil Spector
by naming the album using his initials. Carl Wilson later spoke about the album
title: "The idea he had was that everybody has these sounds that they
love, and this was a collection of his 'pet sounds.' It was hard to think of a
name for the album, because you sure couldn't call it Shut Down Vol. 3."
Mike Love also
has laid claim to coming up with the title. "We were standing in the
hallway in one of the recording studios, either Western or Columbia, and we
didn't have a title," he recounted. "We had taken pictures at the zoo
and ... there were animal sounds on the record, and we were thinking, well,
it's our favorite music of that time, so I said, 'Why don't we call it Pet
Sounds?'"
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Vespasius Cracescu made this video and
wrote:
"A tribute I made for one of my
favorite albums."
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