Best of 2024: The Beach Boys were midway through their 1966 tour of Japan and Hawaii when their founder, leader and sonic visionary Brian Wilson began the writing sessions that would yield God Only ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martin and the Fab Four weren’t the only ones whose minds were blown in summer of 1966 by the ...

The Beach Boys released “God Only Knows,” “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times,” and “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” in conjunction with Pet Sounds. The production earned praise from artists like Paul McCartney ...

He’s on the road playing the Beach Boys’ best-loved album in its entirety, but there are things Brian Wilson forgets about Pet Sounds. After 50 years, for example, he can’t recall why he felt the need ...

Lush orchestration and beautifully stacked vocals made Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys a high water mark when it comes to pop-rock. The fact they started out as a bunch of teenagers singing about surfing ...

When it comes to the Beach Boys, “Pet Sounds” (1966) is an outlier, the moment when Brian Wilson harnessed the energy and inspiration that he gleaned from repeated listenings to the Beatles’ “Rubber ...

Some know these summer-loving musicians for songs like “Kokomo” and “Good Vibrations.” In 1966, the Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. This production was even called a “religious experience” by Brian ...