Pet Sounds was a huge success... def. the Beach Boys best album. Other artists like the Beatles and Rollng Stones liked the album and told ppl to get it.

And how can u not like Sgt. pepper? it was so good!

tznekbsbfrvr said:

I'm a big beatles fan, but I don't think Sgt Pepper was all that. It's a bit corny

LittleSmedley said:

I like Sgt. Pepper's quite a bit, but I also think it's by far the most overrated of the Beatles' albums, in fact I think it's the weakest of their post-Help! albums.

Nirvana - Never Mind

superspaceboy said:

Excuse Me.

Have you ever heard it?

Name an album you think is a classic.

I've got to say Stevie Wonder's albums. They always make lists, but I just don't get it what is so great it's just so easy listening, come on I just just called to say I love you must be about the worst song ever and Ebony and Ivory is dreadful dross.
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NDRU said:[quote]Shoot Out the Lights--Richard & Linda Thompson. I've always heard this is one of the best albums of all time. It's aight....

I think I Want To See The Bright Lights tonight is superior and more highly regarded.

Oh yeah.

And "Blood On The Tracks".

AlexdeParis said:

You may have Listened to it, but you evidently haven't HEARD it.

namepeace said:

I've been hearing everybody say its a fresh of breath air. But NP, all I heard was a BIG piece of bore

Really though, I know I'm missing something here,,,coz I like some of her stuff.

Pet Sounds took me a long time to like. It's not rock & roll, and it's not catchy Beach Boys songs. It's complex melodic pop, more like Bacharach than Beatles.

AlexdeParis said:

I find Buckley’s vocals to be waaaaay too hysterical. I know people love it, but Grace definitely does not align with my tastes.

I love the Beach Boys – the early singles, and the post-Pet Sounds albums, Sunflower and Surf’s Up in particular – but I do not care for Pet Sounds in the least. I think it’s a very ordinary batch of tunes gussied up with some overly ornate, borderline flamboyant arrangements.

MikeMatronik said:

Better hope Sexton doesn't see this. This is a classic? The girl's only been out for what? 3 years?

GangstaFam said:

I listened to The Dreaming while driving to class the other day

The studio craftsmanship of Sgt. Peppers may be greater than the worth of the songs. But to separate the two is silly - Sgt. Peppers remains, and rightfully so, one of the greatest albums of all time. The Beatles left behind the simple progressions and structures of rock, pop and blues and singlehandedly ushered in a new era of recording music; forever changing what it meant to be a pop musician. I mean, a couple of days after it was released, Jimi Hendrix was performing the title cut live!!



Listen to it again, mutherfuckers!!!!



As for Ys, I agree - it's horribly overrated.

Harlepolis said:

I agree. Good. Even great... alongside the other crap that was coming out at the time. But I'm lost on "classic."

And, yeah, while other Beatles albums are far more interesting to me musically -- I'm a Revolver and Rubber Soul man, myself -- Sgt. Pepper rightfully takes its place as a classic as it really did raise the bar with regard to production, orchestration, song construction, etc. And thereafter everyone jumped on the concept album wagon. That joint really did change rock and roll.
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NDRU said:

Since when is Bacharach complex?

damosuzuki said:

"Sloop John B." notwithstanding, you're out of your mind. The harmonies, arrangements and chord progressions are all so much more sophisticated then anything that was in pop music, then and now, that my professors at school were still drooling over this record thirty plus years after it's release. I tend to agree with them.


This album and What's Goin' On serve as the cornerstones of my pop music library.

TheKnowledge said:

...and neither one are on any Stevie Wonder album that's ever been called "classic." Name-checking those two songs is usually indicative of someone who hasn't heard his peak (read: '70s) albums.

Word up, Alexa.

TheKnowledge said:

"Knowledge," if you haven't heard Talking Book, Innervisions, or Songs In The Key of Life -- his 70's albums -- I think you'd see what the fuss was about. You're talking about 80's output.

namepeace said:

... or Fulfillingness' First Finale, Music of My Mind, or Where I'm Coming From...

AlexdeParis said:

And I didn't check out Stevie Wonder's 70s work until this decade because all I knew was the same cheesy 80s output that TheKnowledge seems to associate Stevie with.

damosuzuki said:

We're been agreeing a lot lately.

AlexdeParis said:

I'll say this, that man wrote and performed one of the best love songs written in the last 20 years. "Everybody Here Wants You" is nothing short of magnificent.

"Lover, You Should've Come Over" is my ish - that was always his most magnificent song, imho.


Buckley was hardly a "hysterical" singer. He had an expansive range and used alot of vibrato but he wasn't hysterical.

chuckaducci said:

I gotta agree with Damo on that one. Maybe hysterical isn't quite right, though:histrionic?

revolver-the beatles, i tried. i got impatient.

i like Abbey road, part of the white album and some of the St peppers album but thats about it.

chuckaducci said:

Co-sign! He was a young musician in his formative years as an artist trying out new things. Sometimes the things he tried worked, sometimes they didn't.

What about You Are The Sunshine in my Life or Isn't she lovely or Heaven is Ten Zillion miles away, cringe inducing AOR.

I have heard The so called great 1970's albums I woked in A record store for about five years and my boss was well into Wonder. I find it amusing that people try to point me in the direction of albums that might change my mind. I am extremley well listened and would dare to say my musical knowledge far out strips the vast majority of people who frequent these boards.

Back on topic they have there momemnts grated but also choc full and wishy washy stuff.

And Why doesn't anyone ever point out that He hasn't do nothin is just Superstition rewritten.

I'll Try to be Positive and the songs I remeber liking were Maybe Your Baby, Superstition, Higher Ground,Jesus Children Of America, They Wont Go when I go And some others I remeber liking Innervisons the most. Songs inthe Key of Life is AOR at it's worse. And What about Happy Birthday Come on it's just anoying.

The Beatles--Past Masters especially volume II

TheKnowledge said: