

Today the world acknowledges Pet Sounds as a masterpiece. Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder.And they, despite an often meandering search, helped him find and create that sound. With his band mates on the road, he used LA’s famous Wrecking Crew to create the sounds he wanted. It took Wilson months to produce Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson Pet Sounds Studio Studio Studio Even the single “Caroline No” was released as a Brian Wilson song, not a Beach Boy song. Sales of the album, while good, were not what their previous albums had done. Mike Love for one felt Brian Wilson was heading in a nowhere direction.

So did Brian Wilson and he decided he’d up the ante and create something even better. That was the Beatles’ Rubber Soul with songs like “Norwegian Wood,” “Girl,” “I’m Looking Through You,” and “In My Life” fans heard something different than “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” Dylan and the Beatles met and while the Beatles were already electric and in 1965 they went Dylan: writing songs that meant something to them as well as, hopefully, something to us. Little did this 15-year-old realize what that change meant. He’d declared that he wasn’t goin’ to work on Maggie’s farm no more. Brian Wilson Pet Sounds 1965’s tipping pointīob Dylan had gone electric in 1965. Various fears and a need to create led to his decision to stay in LA. We likely also didn’t realize the Brian had left live performances up to the rest of the group. The loss of hearing in one ear may have been the physical result, but the psychological impact would be life-long. Little did we realize Brian’s internal turmoil, that he had to endure paternal abuse.

As an East Coast kid, the sunny surfing imagery intoxicated me: girls in bikinis, the Pacific Ocean, funny cars…and did I mention girls in bikinis. Brian Wilson Pet Sounds Released May 16, 1966įor five years Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys had given us fun (fun fun) songs.
