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Originally Posted by Laughing Boy
Yeah I don't see how you could listen to Pet Sounds and say there was no Beatles influence at all except for the flow of the tracks.
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Well the two albums are in completely different musical styles. Rubber Soul is the Beatles' take on the folk rock of the time as pioneered by The Byrds and so forth. Pet Sounds is Wilson's foray into Baroque Pop and orchestral music. The albums are entirely dissimilar.
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Pet Sounds took me a long time to appreciate or even like because I thought it was nothing more than a pop album the Rolling Stone had placed at number two for no reason but like the Beatles its completely unconventional pop, but the oddness is subtle and more in Brian Wilson's producing and arrangement as opposed to 5 minute plus sitar songs. Which isn't a knock at George Harrison or anything.
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I agree that the subtle greatness of the album is in Wilson's production and arrangement. This album is way better than many people today give it credit for. That guy running the Pitchfork site blatantly disrespected the album and gave it like 7.4 or something. The idiots in this world...