Pet Sounds (50Th Anniversary) (4CD+BRD)

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*** Résumé en anglais seulement ***Limited 24KT Gold SACD audiophile pressing from the Mobile Fidelity label. Pet Sounds is a landmark Pop statement universally acclaimed as one of five best and most influential albums ever made. This pressing boasts reference-quality sonics: mastered from original stereo mixes created by Brian Wilson.. You won't hear a better version! Awash in oceans of sound: production as legendary as the incredible music, laden with unorthodox instrumentation and layers upon layers of sound. Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson's paean to innocence, hope, love, and loneliness a majestic, gorgeous, timeless affair.. Named by Rolling Stone as the #2 greatest record of all time This was pretty much the only occasion on which Brian Wilson managed to articulate his extraordinary musical vision over the length of an album. As such, Pet Sounds is not merely one of the greatest records ever made, but also one of the towering masterpieces of 20th-century art. Every song here, from the exuberant introduction of Wouldn't It Be Nice to the concluding, wistful lament of Caroline No , is definitive pop music. Wilson's fantastical orchestrations and harmonies support a collection of lyrics which are childishly innocent, almost to the point of appearing sinister--no album has ever started with a less traditionally rock & roll sentiment than Wouldn't it be nice if we were married? . When delivered in Wilson's anguished whine, the effect is gloriously heartbreaking--as statements of naked vulnerability go, I Know There's An Answer and I Just Wasn't Made For These Times remain difficult to top. Popular legend has it that when the fiercely insecure and competitive Wilson, a year on from Pet Sounds, heard the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, he was devastated. He needn't have worried. Pet Sounds wasn't trumped then, and it won't be anytime in the future.