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The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - SACD

Product no.: CAPP 067 SA

£29.93

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Analogue Productions - CAPP 067 SA - Hybrid SACD Mono & Stereo

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Limited Edition - Hybrid SACD plays on ALL CD Players

The ultimate pressings of the Beach Boys discography from Analogue Productions!

Stereo mixes produced by Mark Linett and Alan Boyd / Mixed by Mark Linett

Mono mixes created under Brian Wilson's supervision

Audio production — Mark Linett - For Brother Records — Elliott Lott

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, most from the original master tapes

Hybrid Stereo/Mono SACD plays in both CD and SACD players, as well as all SACD-compatible DVD players

"These are the best sounding and best-looking versions of the Beach Boys records that have ever been produced. We want everything about these to be better than the original."

"It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water…I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life. I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album." – Paul McCartney

"All of us, Ginger (Baker), Jack (Bruce), and I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everything that's ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one." – Eric Clapton

A musical legacy that began in Hawthorne, California and went on to conquer the world. Analogue Productions presents the ultimate pressings of 14 essential Beach Boys albums! Mastered by Kevin Gray, most from the original master tapes, now presented on Hybrid Stereo/Mono SACD, these are awesome recordings to experience.

For the early part of the Beach Boys career, all of their singles were mixed and mastered and released only in the mono format. Hits were made on AM radio in mono. And the mono of those times worked well for Brian Wilson — famed co-founder, songwriter and arranger — who suffers from partial deafness. The mono mixes were where Wilson paid intense attention, and the dedication paid off!

We’ve taken 10 of the most classic, best-sounding Beach Boy titles ever and restored them to their mono glory!

But there’s no disputing that the close harmonies and one-of-a-kind rhythms of hits like “Surfer Girl,” “In My Room,” “Little Deuce Coupe” and more lend themselves naturally to stereo. So we’ve got your 2-channel needs covered with prime stereo mix versions as well.

Pet Sounds is famous for its use of multiple layers of unorthodox instrumentation as well as other cutting edge audio techniques for its time. It's considered the best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound.

Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs, and more. It wouldn't have been a classic without great songs, and this has some of the group's most stunning melodies, as well as lyrical themes which evoke both the intensity of newly born love affairs and the disappointment of failed romance (add in some general statements about loss of innocence and modern-day confusion as well). The spiritual quality of the material is enhanced by some of the most gorgeous upper-register male vocals (especially by Brian and Carl Wilson) ever heard on a rock record.

"Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows," "Caroline No," and "Sloop John B" (the last of which wasn't originally intended to go on the album) are the well-known hits, but equally worthy are such cuts as "You Still Believe in Me," "Don't Talk," "I Know There's an Answer," and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times." It's often said that this is more of a Brian Wilson album than a Beach Boys recording (session musicians played most of the parts), but it should be noted that the harmonies are pure Beach Boys (and some of their best).

Tracklist
Stereo
1   Wouldn't It Be Nice
2   You Still Believe In Me
3   That's Not Me
4   Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
5   I'm Waiting For The Day
6   Let's Go Away For Awhile
7   Sloop John B
8   God Only Knows
9   I Know There's An Answer
10   Here Today
11   I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
12   Pet Sounds
13   Caroline No
Mono
14   Wouldn't It Be Nice
15   You Still Believe In Me
16   That's Not Me
17   Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
18   I'm Waiting For The Day
19   Let's Go Away For Awhile
20   Sloop John B
21   God Only Knows
22   I Know There's An Answer
23   Here Today
24   I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
25   Pet Sounds
26   Caroline No

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