If the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album was such a masterpiece, why did they end up being depicted on its cover cavorting with a bunch of goats? Band member Al Jardine provides the answer in a documentary about the 1966 album that premieres on Showtime ...

THE most scintillating new element of Capitol Records’ 40th anniversary reissue of the Beach Boys’ watershed “Pet Sounds” album is on the DVD part of a deluxe CD-DVD package. Along with “The Making of Pet Sounds” documentary and several ...

May 16 -- Today marks the 35th anniversary of the release of what many consider to be the greatest album of all time: Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. It was a landmark album in so many ways. For the Beach Boys, it marked a whole new chapter in their career.

The Beach Boys are the artists behind Pet Sounds, a fan-favorite album featuring the song “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.” With a confusing title and animal-based cover art, one member of the Beach Boys thought the album title was actually about making out or ...

Following up "Pet Sounds." A daunting prospect, don't you think? Surely it helped contribute to Brian Wilson's anxieties back in 1966. The next music project for Wilson and The Beach Boys was "Smile," which was buried for a few decades, and basically every ...

Let’s hope Brian Wilson changes his mind again. I was there for the 2007 retirement party for “Pet Sounds” at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, when the Beach Boys legend performed the classic album for what was supposed to be the final time in concert.

God only knows what fans would do without this Beach Boys album. The surf rock group premiered Pet Sounds in 1966. Several songs from this collection were written and mixed by Brian Wilson. On Spotify, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and Tony Asher are credited ...

Brian Wilson is one of pop music's original mad geniuses. In the 1960s, he pushed the boundaries of what a band could accomplish in the recording studio, even as he pushed himself almost to the point of no return. His eccentricities and breakdowns, some ...

To say that Brian Wilson seems uncomfortable or ill-at-ease on stage would be a massive understatement. He sits motionless behind a rarely played piano, blankly staring off into the distance and making a break for the relative comfort of his dressing room ...

“Catch A Wave” is very much in the style of the band’s early surf rock material, but it’s one where you can already see the gears turning in Brian’s mind to go beyond standard rock and roll chord progressions and melodies. The verses are mostly ...