ALBUM THE THIRD!

Pet Sounds, by The Beach Boys. While technically this is a Beach Boys album, this is, in actuality, a Brian Wilson album more than anything else. It is also the album that basically drove Brian Wilson insane. Scientists think that he put so many ideas into this album that he ran out of ideas and so his brain was empty and a virus moved in to his brain and made him insane. That's sort of the technical explanation.

If you are only familiar with the big Beach Boys hits, then you might not know this album too well. It does have some very popular songs: "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "God Only Knows", "Sloop John B.", etc. But in general, this album is not about hit songs, but about a sound. The whole things is dense and layered and complex. In fact, the ending vocal parts of "God Only Knows" is a great example of counter-point, a musical composition technique which was used extensively by Bach and Mozart.

"God Only Knows"


"That's Not Me"