I listened to this again today for the first time in a year and I found it to be pretty mediocre overall...

I listened to this again today for the first time in a year and I found it to be pretty mediocre overall. Not bad or anything, it was just OK.
I cannot understand even remotely why this is praised to the level it is. It's as foreign of an idea to me as if a Monkees album was seriously considered to be a contender for one of the greatest albums of all time. The Beatles and the Kinks are much better.
Can someone explain to me why people care so much about this? I swear this isn't bait either, these are my true feelings on it.

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Listen to it again

I re-listened to some of the songs afterwards but not the whole album. I had also listened to it once a year prior. It's still just mediocre.

Don't worry about it, eventually it'll click. Pet Sounds is an inherently difficult album

Yeah it’s mostly a meme album by contrarian oldfag anons who want to be special. Production sounds like tinny shit and dated and the harmonies are not something you couldn’t already hear from 50s doo wop. Surfs Up is a much better album but unfortunately they have severe clunkers in it.
Beatles BTFO anything beach boys made album wise.

I'm not going to re-listen to it over and over waiting for me to get so habituated to it that I think I like it. That'd be autistic.

No, autistic is what you just posted

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Ok

>Yeah it’s mostly a meme album by contrarian oldfag anons who want to be special
i didn't know they still performed lobotomies on people. hope you're doing okay

Holy shit how does one even get filtered by the damn Beach Boys. This album is instantly accessable by anyone with a soul

ITS MEDICORE
go back to your RYM hole tripfag

>dude he didn't like an accessible pop album it must mean he was filtered!!!!!!!!!!

Yes. You were filtered by the most well crafted pop album of the past century

>*blocks your path*

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No Beach Boys fans have addressed the question I posed in the OP yet. What’s so great about this album? Why do people care so much about this?

i never like albums when i listen to them blind in full. I tend to warm up to albums when a random song from them turns up randomly on the radio or on shuffle and I have a compulsion to listen to it over and over again, and later I check out other songs from the album and the cycle repeats for all of them, until I discover that I really like the whole LP.
This was the case with Pet Sounds and the first song that really caught my attention was Here Today.

That doesn’t happen for me normally. Usually I’ll like something immediately on a first listen and then grow to appreciate it more on relistens. I genuinely liked Trout Mask Replica on my first listen.

>That doesn’t happen for me normally.
doubt it happens to many people desu, i just may be a little autistic lole

Wouldn’t It Be Nice and the two instrumentals stuck out the most to me when I listened. Wouldn’t It Be Nice is very nostalgic for me, I remember loving it as a young child. I also thought the two instrumentals showed off the production really well too, much better than most of the songs with vocals. A lot of the other songs, while not bad, are kinda boring to me. It’s pleasant but it isn’t anything outstanding.

Nothing in music better expresses the feeling of melancholy than this record

Just from that decade alone, the Kinks do it better. They use those same sort of bittersweet themes of nostalgia to much greater effect.

>couldnt already hear from 50s doo wop
such as?
I’ll wait.

I’d rather listen to the Ink Spots than the Beach Boys desu

Same. I feel like a dork when I put this on too.

You know I’m coming around on this album.

>Just from that decade alone, the Kinks do it better. They use those same sort of bittersweet themes of nostalgia to much greater effect
Except they were self aware and emotionally dishonest

Music theory fags love this album. Essentially, what gets praised is how it sounds like nothing strange is going on. It sounds like a pop album to anyone listening to it blind but theoryfags point out a lot aspects to it which were somewhat uncommon at the time.
Take for example Wouldn't It Be Nice; sounds normal enough and it has a standard pop structure. Short establishing intro, a verse, chorus, verse, chorus, reprise and coda. What is unusual however is the establishing intro and reprise; the intro sets the key as A major however when the verse happens it modulated to F major. Nothing mindblowing today but in the context of the times, this was not a common practice in pop. Highly influential.
That's Not Me is a surprisingly minimalist song (not many instruments compared to the rest of the album) but it's emotional content partially comes from multiple modulations which give it a unique feeling. I believe the verses are in E major, the first chorus modulates to B major and the second chorus is in C major. I believe the part at the end modulates every few bars.
There are many examples of unusual structural elements on this album. None of this inherently makes it quality; you could do a whole album of modulations which sounds like garbage and in which, all of the changes are very obvious. What I find impressive about the music on this album is how it sounds so pop-esque, it sounds as if nothing strange is occurring. That says nothing about the emotional content of the album of course, that's entirely different. I relate to Brian's feelings quite a bit and he tried to create his masterpiece with this album, he wanted it to be highly relatable.
Take that for what it's worth, that's what theoryfags love about this album. I think it's interesting to read about and it's influenced my songs quite a bit. It may just not be your thing.

I would love to take a crack at remixing the production. I don't think it was produced very well. But still some of the songs are beautiful and brian was a genius

Slow down there big boy

>I don't think it was produced very well
In what way? I personally love the production, to me it sounds rich and very clear. I can hear every instrument and I think the levels are appropriate. What would you change?

Accept OK Computer, Mazzy Star, and RHCP

>Accept

What does that even mean. I would hope you're aware when you're playing a guitar

And what's more emotionally dishonest than your ENTIRE backup core of singers not wanting to do the album

>What does that even mean
Not him but I'd guess he meant that they set out deliberately to create nostalgic and sad music whereas Brian was going thru an emotional breakdown. Brian was going full schizophrenic and thinking Phil Spector was bugging his house, all he wanted was to return to when he was younger. I'm not big on the history of The Kinks but I don't believe they were experiencing anything similar.

Everything sounds muffled and unclear and I think the large room they recorded it in sounds hideous. Like a highschool auditorium.

lol

You don't know what tripfag means

How do you feel about the production on The Smile Sessions user?