Reviews (page 16 of 16)
Better than I remember it being. I think I just really hate the song "Wouldn't it Be Nice"
man, I grew up with the same classic Beach Boys singles as everyone listening to their parents' music in the 80s, but now as an adult, all I hear is the overproduction that I heard on "Smile," which I got in this project before "Pet Sounds." And that overproduction - the xylophones, the timpanis, the million-part harmonies - makes me think only of the scene from "Walk Hard." "I need more didgeridoos. A thousand didgeridoos!"
Wouldn’t it be nice… to not have so many songs on an album… classics great… rest of it sounded like one long same song
Cool but dull
Completely uninteresting and I don’t get why it’s such a big deal.
Basically a lot of pleasant nothing. Wouldn't It Be Nice and God Only Knows are highlights.
Heard it before?: Yes Enjoy it?: No, I find this one completely overrated, apart from having some of their more iconic and bigger tracks. There is nothing here that makes me want to to put this on a pedestal because every other public opinion is so favourable, very slow and boring. Favourite song: Track 1 - Wouldn’t it Be Nice
I never was really into the Beach Boys. Their music is OK but not my jam.
Heh. So, here we are. One of the most highly regarded albums of all time...no doubt even the MOST regarded album in many people's opinions. And I don't like it. I fully understand this album's influence on modern pop music, and even its significance in the psychedelic music spaces. But for the most part, this album just drags and is uninteresting. To me, it sounds like an LSD trip, which Wilson cited as a big influence, anyway. I found myself wishing all of the other songs were more like "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows", as these songs are outstanding and the crown jewels of this album, as well as among the crown jewels of all Beach Boys work. But no, the rest of the album felt a bit disjointed from these songs. I want to love this more, but it's just really not for me. This may be my most controversial score to date, but here it is. It 100% deserves a spot on this project, though, of that there is no doubt.
Very 60’s. I was never a huge fan of the Beach Boys, but this was alright. Probably won’t be coming back to this album. 2/5
Wouldn't it be nice if this album was any good? Jokes aside, I was surprised that the most popular song on the album and the one it leads with is possibly the worst one on the album. The other songs don't seem to be built with being as catchy in mind, more so they sound more thoughtful or heartfelt. While I didn't particularly like any songs, it wasn't as difficult of an album to get through as most others, it makes for great background noise.
Pleasant enough! File under ‘Easy Listening’. Album propped up by the singles, especially ‘Sloop John B’. ‘Wouldn’t it be Nice’ has been spoilt by being overplayed on TV adverts recently but still a good tube. A mid-table 2 out of 5
Too many weird random noises
more like fart sounds
Really a 2.5 out of 5. The vocal-harmonies are just kinda off putting to me, but I understand that Good Vibrations is one of the most innovative Pop songs.
Not great
The more I’ve tried to like Pet Sounds over the years, the more I don’t get it. It’s aggressively okay?
reminds me of the james patterson book, treasure hunters. i find it remarkable despite having not heard the song when i read it. i lied this is boring
Fine
A beloved album that I've tried a few times now to come around to (the attempts have typically been 5-10 years apart) and I just can't get into it the way so many do. I feel like I can academically understand why it is so beloved and how groundbreaking it was but in the end, I'm just not feeling it. I do love "Sloop John B" though.
Had verwacht dat ik dit nicer zou vinden. Iets te zoetsappig allemaal
I found this a bit brash with a hint of twee
I would play this at the nursing home Luau themed brunch. No track highlights.
Just too slow and soft for me
Love the BBs but this just doesn’t live up.
mikä vittu siinä on niin ihmeellistä?? emotional lyrical content ööö ok?? emotional? mitä vittau se tarkottaa... on joo mutta ei mitään erikoista samaa vitun valkoista westoid lyriikkaa kun aina..the most progressive pop album ever, ehkö 1956 olisi... no ehkö poppia mutta ok? rima ei ole vittu korkea tuolle tittelille. His goal was to create —a cohesive work with no filler tracks, no eipä vittu onnistunut, kolme hyvää biisiä se siinä. wouldn't it be nice imetä mutsis pillukarvoja. miten kehtaa laittaa tätä mihinkään top listoille, So many of these songs are OBJECTIVELY great songwriting OBJEKTIIVISESTI TÄMÄ ON vittu YKSI KAUTTA VIISI mutta annetaan nyt kaksi kun remastered 50 vuotta antaa vitusti eri versioita albumista... tosin kuin pikn floyd another GAY in the wall. eiku dark side of the mon tarkotin, WOKE!!!!!!!!LIBERAL!!! here today
Luscious sounds but was hard getting through it. I can understand it’s importance in its time but not sure I agree with the monumental place it holds in pop music. Of course God Only Knows is the big exception. It’s timeless and an amazing feat of musicality and lyrics. Didn’t realize the Beatles’ animal sounds at the end of Good Morning, Good Morning is basically a rip off of Pet Sounds.
Felt a bit like a chore to get through, even at under 40 minutes.
Too many songs that don't go anywhere for me
For me, the very definition of overrated. Is it a classic? Yes. Is it essential listening? Yes. But did I enjoy listening? No. Lots of Mid Tempo tracks, and Brian's voice isn't great.
Not a Beach Boys fan
For the life of me I don't get what the big deal is with this album. Yeah, ok, those were innovative recording techniques for 1966. They layered a lot of instruments and there's a theremin in there, yay! Give me Phil Spector's wall of sound any day if the goal is to stuff an entire horn orchestra on a track. For me the songs just drag on and on with the same mid to low tempo, same vocal lines and harmonies. No power, no real groove. The entire sound is really dated. It's not bad, it's just ...meh. But I guess it should deserve some credit since (for some reason) it influenced every musician alive at that time. If McCartney felt inspired and wanted to out do himself because of Pet Sounds, then I guess it does deserves some credit. We got Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road out of this, so no a bad deal. Favorite track: Sloop John B
Unpleasant surprise for me. I never listened to any The Beach Boys album as a whole and I expected this to be full of the upbeat, fun, juicy music I know from any hits collection. But most of it seemed so dull, I felt "fun" feelings being sucked out of me if anything and I expected the exact opposite.
You know, I gave it a go but it's not for me. Melodic in its way but quite samey, his voice often grates, the close harmonies are uninteresting perhaps because they've been so pervasive. It feel brainless, simple and a little one dimensional to me. The Beatles loved them and I really like the song Don't Worry Baby from a different album but this is the third or fourth time I've tried this album and I simply don't care.
Find it annoying and overrated
I don't get the Beach Boys. Yes this is better than (not as terrible as) Kokomo, but it still seems sentimental, twee and juvenile to me, with an undercurrent of incel self-absorption. Yes, God Only Knows is a pretty good song, but it doesn't get this album over the line for me. Comparisons with any Beatles album are ludicrous.
Solo me gustó el único tema que conocía de antemano, y creo que me gusta más cantado por Pedro Aznar
Not exactly what I thought of for a beach boy album. Very relaxed and laid back
I like The Beach Boys as much as I like The Beatles
Meh
Wow! Harmonies!! So cool!!! Bored High 2
I feel they are some sort of institution that I should like but are just a singles band to me
really underwhelmed by this one to be honest. one or two really nice songs but mostly not that great
Från ett musikaliskt perspektiv förtjänar albumet ett högre betyg
Yeah nah. Not a beach boys fan
Kind of a slow album. Not much continuity from song to song. Without the well known Beach Boys hits “Wouldn’t it be nice” and “God only knows” the album is pretty mediocre.
in the words of flavor flav; 'Don't believe the hype'. i just don't get why this was supposed to be such an influential album.
Well. It's classic album. But I can't see why, it's.... niceish, in a cheeey way. Harmony is pleasant, if sometimes a bit over the top. Perhaps you had to be there. I really was expecting something more compelling.
too american for me
Pliisua menoa. Hittibiisitkin pääsee tasolle ihan ok joten ei asiaa tällaisille listoille, kiitos.
Ekan biisin jälkeen lopahti ja nopeesti teki mieli vaihtaa levyä
There was only one song that I have heard previously of in the entire album of course it was 'Wouldn't it Be Nice'. Other than that, the album was a delve into the sound of the 60s pioneering new sounds and instruments used for rock at the time including bicycle bells, French horn, flutes, Electro-Theremin, string sections, and beverage cans. Overall an ok album but not as good as the hype that I have heard surround this record. Best: Wouldn't It Be Nice Worst: Sloop John B 2.5 Stars
Wouldn't it be nice: ihan menevä, ei huono
Pretty okayish... Liked Sloop John B - so far after listening to 10 songs. Let's see how this goes.
First time listen, and I am really shocked all the indie people love this album so much! It’s talked about in the same breath as the White Album. I expected something really different based on the hype. California falsetto harmony/layered singing brass surf pop, and that falsetto harmony/layered brass surf pop thing doesn’t spark joy for me. Listened twice just in case I was missing something.
x1
Yes, there are some famous songs there, but now I know why you don’t get to hear the other songs
Well, it started out great... and something weird happened at the end of I'm waiting for the day...
Starts out nice and peppy. What you expect the BB to sound like. But then kinda drones on and gets monotonous.
I think if Dylan, the Beatles and the stones created the rock/pop sounds from the 60s to now, the Beach Boys were the last gasp of the proto rock. Falsetto voices, harmony, nothing getting out of first gear. It's well performed and exceptionally well recorded, but it's just not my jam. I suppose it's better than ZZ Top and bovine Jovi and whatever else rock turned into.
I’ve never understood why this is such a revered album. Aside from “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “God Only Knows” this album is a snooze fest. Give me the version of The Beach Boys that’s all about girls, surfing and fun.
This would be better if I didn't A. hate The Beach Boys and B. Hate the singers voice. Some of the instrumentals are good though
I am starting to see a pattern in these picks. Obviously, the albums in their entirety are not seen as the "need to listen to", but specific songs that have been influencial in general. This is a nice album for easy listening, but it isn't my go to, and I probably won't listen to it in it's entirety again. Sorry to Beach Boys fans! :P
I’m bored. God Only Knows is the only redeeming song.
What a vapid album. I've heard it's supposed to be really good, but I've listened a few times over my life and I still don't get it. I listened again several times and it's even worse than I remembered since I looked at the lyrics. Take a song like I know there's an answer. We're dealing with safe spaces and people getting in bubbles worse than ever today and you think he's going to have an answer, but he has no fucking answer. It's so unsatisfying. All these songs are boy-girl love songs and it just stinks. The only thing keeping it from 1 star is that the instrumentals can be good. Most of the time, it's pretty plain jane. It's basically like stupid beatles. It's fake progressive - progressive for people who wear boat shoes. NEXT.
nice lyrics, but a bit off to me
Litt for slapt - langt mellom bangerne
Volumes have been written about this album, it’s production and orchestration, the 60+ musicians, all the firsts. I’ve listened to it a couple of times over the last few years and I think I've watched more than one documentary that looked at the “making of”. I was never too crazy about the Beach Boys surf pop sound. It was a style that got discarded quickly as the 60s progressed and despite this lavish production, I'm still hearing that style, albeit a more sophisticated version of it.
Uhhhhhhh.. I don't really get the hype, kinda Sounded like early Beatles covered in Saran wrap. I know they were influential but man it felt like Mr Rogers made a record
I've read the glowing reviews and I've listened to this 3-4 times now thinking huh, WTF am I missing? But I still don't get it. I suppose it was highly innovative for its time but I just don't like the glorious harmonies, corny arrangements and sappy lyrics. Many others give it a 5 calling it a masterpiece but this is not Sgt Pepper, DSOTM or Ziggy Stardust. I give it a 1, +1 for its production values.
Lots of harmonies, a bathe by echos. Not my scene.
eh
The beach boys have a couple good songs but the album gets annoying with a lot of unneccessary vocalizing
Ich bin mit den Beach Boys nie so richtig warm geworden. Die Pet Sounds ist sinfonischer als alles, was die Beatles gemacht haben, und doch nie so gut. Für mich kommt sie insgesamt nicht an die songwriterische Klasse von Lennon/McCartney ran.
wouldn't it be nice..
I was expecting something way more ground breaking. It was ok
Dont wanna
Not for me. I can only think how corny it sounds even compared to contemporaries
Buns
Listened to many times... I don't get it!!
Pure unfiltered ass
Sugar pop singing - not really my jam.
A band that has always made me feel slightly nauseous, and apparently still do. "Let's go away for awhile" was okay.
Mentiría si le diera más de una estrella. No es un álbum para mí personalmente.
I always wanted to get around to listening to this, but I find it cloying and awful.
Nope
awful.
I'm sorry; I know this album is super important, but I have to be honest with myself and admit this did absolutely nothing for me.
I am not a Beach Boys fan at all. I find the singing to be whiney and the songs drone on and on. I rate this a 1. Would not listen again.
I have no idea what koolaid everyone is drinkin. This is one of the worst, most over rated albums of all time. From the first awful sounding note to the terrible, off key vocals and harmonies. It’s like a 10 year old wrote this (not a Mozart). Way too much falsetto (not good either). The lyrics are childish and not deep at all. And arrangements are like nails on a chalk board. I seriously do not get this. The only song that I can listen to all the way through is Sloop. But there’s like 7 boring songs before it. And the album cover is terrible too!
Wouldn't it be nice if I never had to listen to this bullshit again? Yes
Ещё парочка альбомов поп музыки 50-60х и я дропаю этот челлендж.
Oh please God no!
didn't listen
Nope, nope and nope again
Not really my thing
Absolutely boring and generic. Did not like it at all. 1/5
I cannot stand the beach boys
Not for me...
Not my type of music, didn’t love the preppy nature
Dreadful. Overrated.
Supposed to be great, I really don't like it.
This does nothing for me Not technically bad, just boring
Just bury it in the sand.
I really wanted to like this. The album sounds a bit bland and repetitive. Some of the lyrics are very nice tho. Like “Caroline, No”. But I can see why it’s a classic.
Meh, Wouldn't It Be Nice is a banger but the rest I listened to was pretty irritating
Hear is a record that I have never listened to (stop groaning) and I see previous review on beach boys i just don't get them. But in the spirit uof the list (and to appease everyone else in the world who loves this record) i will give it a good listen Nope still don't get it 😕
naee
i knew that i'd would probably hate them, i only underestimated the amount...
I knew going in the Beach Boys really wasn't for me, and this just confirmed that for me 👍🏻
One or two good ones but very new to me. Felt like listening tos tuff that’s probably classic/overplayed
Eh
I really find it odd how much beach boys are on this list. It just seems so lame. There are far worse things on this list, but I can at least see why someone would have opted for it. But The Beach Boys? I guess if there was one beach boys album that should make the cut it would be this one. And hopefully this is the last. I’m not willing to grade on a curve for this one though. This was painfully boring, and just not that good.
I will never understand the appeal of the Beach Boys. I tried. JFC, "Sloop John B" has got to be the worst song ever recorded.
Never understood the critical popularity of this album. Perhaps you had to be there? I was a BB fan during the 60s based on their radio hits but never owned any of their studio albums.
Didn't like it then, and I don't now.
I have never understood Pet Sounds being in the same conversation with The White Album or Exile on Main Street. IT truly feels like America looking at the music of the world at that time and going 'we got nothing'. Not to say that the US doesn't have great artists. But so many are 'Artists' not bands. The bands all felt derivative of something that already happened in England. I'd say the greatest American band of all time is the Grateful Dead. Unique, uncompromising, a touring extravaganza. Yet they never seem to be mentioned in the same way The Beatles or Stones are, just The Beach Boys.
Interestingly I got this the day after Brian Wilson passed. RIP. I've reviewed a couple of their albums from this list already, one got a 2 star and the other a 3. I just can't stand the vocals mostly. The "ooooh oooohs, "aaaah aaaahhhAAAAAAs", "ooooh eeeees" and high pitched shrieking are too much. It's almost comical. Like I said in a previous review, I can appreciate they were the most revered boy band and the girls went limp listening to them, but their music needs to stay where it was, it has no place in the modern world.
Timely suggestion, but still shit
Not my thing sorry
sounds weirdly christmas-y
Oh fuck off 1001. No sooner does one of them die, then this comes up the very next day. Anyone else get this. Sweet sugary shit.
1. nice - 1.5 2. believe - 1.5 3. me - 1.5 4. talk - 1.5 5. day - 1 6. auuay - 2 7. zloop - 1.5 8. god - 2 9. anzuuer - 1.5 10. today - 1.5 11. timez - 1.5 12. pet - 1 13. caroline - 2 14. ego - 1.5 15. nice - 1.5 16. believe - 1 17. me - 1.5 18. talk - 1.5 19. day - 1 20. auuay - 1 21. john - 1.5 22. god - 2 23. anzuuer - 1 24. today - 1.5 25. timez - 1.5 26. pet - 1 27. caroline - 2
no me gusto, sonidos demasiado saturados, simplemente no me gusto
0/10. Hated it. One of the worst albums I’ve ever heard
Fuck these spoiled brats
Stale bread in the form of music. Fuck off.
Bukvalno isto kao onaj beatles album samo kao da je malo više namijenjen odrasloj publici. Ništa bolji ni gori. Mrzim ovakvu muziku.
Heard it before 2 times and the 3rd time now hasn't changed how I feel about it. I might get stoned for this opinion but I just don't get this album at all. I don't hear what's so supposedly groundbreaking about it. Maybe 2 songs on the album are enjoyable on their own 1/5
scares me
can’t stand them
Jeuk. Jeuk. Jeuk. Het begint gelijk met Wouldn't it be nice...Sta je al op -5 sterren. Wat is dit album verder een lege huls zeg. De andere hit is het enige nummer met body.
The Beach Boys have never been on my list of must listen to bands Even though Pet Sounds is lauded as a turning point for the band and their style it still feels lyrically challenged in the main while musically attempting to be more mature than they can pull off.
Music by and for limp wristed latent homosexual frat boys. The overtones of bestiality on the album cover are also a bit much.
So I get that this was incredibly technically innovative for it's time, pushing the limits of the multitrack recording technology of the day. But nothing really stands out on it. At least not for me. Of course, this album was released 27 years before I was born and, even at that, the Beach *Boys* were Beach Men at this point and the music reflected that. Pedantry regarding the naming aside, this isn't my jam and that wouldn't change if it had been released under a different name or by a different band. I'm glad it exists because I understand it's place in modern pop music history and I'm glad it demonstrated that a modern studio held far more potential for unique art than had been previously illustrated. But I'm also glad I'm finished listening to it.
caroline.... no
Outdated! The Beach Boys always sounded too “sweet to me”.
I realise this is meant to be a masterpiece of an album, but I'm not getting it. I grew up with my parents playing a few of these songs and that's probably where this album should stay, in the past
Yep, it’s still overrated. Would have been better to release a single of Wouldn’t it be nice with SloopJohn B as the B side.
I hate this album. Listening again did not change my opinion.
Non
OVERPLAYED as badly as the Beatles, I find no joy in listening to these guys anymore. 1 Star.
Nope... still hate the Beach Boys.
Surfs up duuude Shit album cover award
This sounds like what heavens gate was listening to when they ascended. Let me go home... Where I won't be listening to this album. Ever. Couldn't finish
I can't. I couldn't finish it. I just don't like this style of music.
I don‘t know why, but I don‘t like the Beach Boys. Perhaps there was a time, I heard too much of them.
Wouldn't It Be Nice is obvi classic. Let's Go Away For A While and Pet Sounds would've been far better with some singing. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times is pretty good. Sloop John B isn't as good as we thought. The things I found interesting in the songs just didn't seem fully baked. I've tried listening to this album a few times and I always found it kinda boring and samey even for 60s music. I really don't see why this is considered a GOAT. I guess it's kind of romantic/dreamy? idk. Not for me. I guess this is a new Hot Take for me: Pet Sounds as a whole sucks. 1/5
Hard no.
not for me
While I can’t say this is an objectively bad album, it certainly isn’t something that captured my attention in anyway.
Trash
Tired. Over it. Cannot stand 5 mins. Must be just me!
Sounds like blissful ignorance
God I can't stand the vocals, at least the songs are short. Cheesy sappy 60's songs about love are not my favorite at all.
Can’t stand The Beach Boys. Schmaltzy, thin-sounding crap.
Not for me
MEH
Riding that echo hard...
Not for me. Derivative of Beatles
blech. a victim of their own success.
not the biggest fan. Felt like I was listening to church boys singing nervously on the beach. nothin real po e t ic about it. Loled at the horn in the 2nd song.
Beach Boys fans are going to hate you if you don't like this album but you have to be a Beach Boys fan to care about anything here. If you e been in a grocery store in the last 30 years you've heard Wouldn't It Be Nice. That's pretty much the album just never meeting the catchiness of that track.
Fuck the beach boys jesus
Hvis man kan lide Beach Boys, så er det ok.
-Move (drum solos) -Jeru (easy listening) -Godchild (trumpet) and really the whole thing