The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread (funk, hardcore)

[1986wasayear]

I never got into Pet Sounds. I could be retarded though, I'm not an authority on that crap.

[sleepy jack]

I think some people just don't fully understand Pet Sounds, I don't mean that in the cocky Tool fan I think there's even plenty of fans that don't understand it. The fans who don't are the kind that always think of The Beach Boys as the fun Surfin USA singing California guys and just look at the Beach Boys as good pop, that's what they are but I don't think they realize Pet Sounds is very innovative and how good of an arranger Brian Wilson was/is.

I think Pet Sounds is kind of an underrated because I think it's very important to American music. You have the Beatles and Zeppelin and Sabbath but they were all british, I'm not doing any ADELE elitist type stuff here but I think Pet Sounds is one of the few 60s classics that was American (off the top of my head I can think of the Doors and the Velvet Underground) like I don't know where I'm going this I just feel its important to American music, much more than its given credit for. Sure it wasn't bluesy or psychedelic but I think it's sort of a quiet, unnoticeable revolution. You look at Pet Sounds from the outside and its this good time pop album but on the inside its beautifully arranged and crafted and its (next to Smile) Brian Wilson's finest effort production wise, which I think says alot. I'll add on to why I personally love it later, I'm kind of tired.

[sleepy jack]

I didn't mean it in a bad way but when you look at the big albums of the 60s are generally British: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Black Sabbath (70s but whatever), etc the amount of American artists who put out albums put on the same pedestal as them isn't as much.

Back to why I like Pet Sounds. It's pretty simple I just think it's a beautiful pop album hah.

[jackhammer]

Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

Simply put you have to stoned to apperciate it, most pink floyd albums are like that

Floyd are my favourite band. However DSOTM is nowhere near my fave Floyd album.

[Rainard Jalen]

Alright, here's one. Somebody help meh out! Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On: heralded by many as one of the best albums of the 1970s, I don't see how it's even one of the best FUNK albums of the 70s. I'm not even sure it's the best SLY album of the 70s. I've listened to it at least a dozen times. All I took away from it is that:

- it has about 3 very good songs,
- and another 35 or so minutes of what might as well be background music for a bar or a movie, devoid of any real hooks or anything particularly memorable
- the icing on the cake is that all of those non-singles tracks seem like some sort of great shameless drug-infused mess - which was probably never supposed to happen in the first place

So...am I missing something? Enlighten me.

[sweet_nothing]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Floyd are my favourite band. However DSOTM is nowhere near my fave Floyd album.

What is your favorite? Mine is Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

[The Unfan]

Originally Posted by Comus

ELP's Tarkus.

I've tried several times to get into it, but it just reallly bores me. I love most prog epics but tarkus just seems to drag on and onnnn.

The juxtaposition of the simplicity of the individual elements of the music and the way they fit togther with the complex strong structure is what makes it a very stand out album. Its a prog epic that can be considered accessible by some means, with a sort of laid back radio friendly innocence to it. You could probably cut any 4 minute chunk out of the song and use it as a single and it'd stand on its own fairly well.

[jackhammer]

Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

What is your favorite? Mine is Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Animals closely followed by Piper.

[sweet_nothing]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Animals closely followed by Piper.

Oh! How could i forget Meddle? The track "echoes" alone is worth the buy, a beautiful song.

[Seltzer]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Floyd are my favourite band. However DSOTM is nowhere near my fave Floyd album.

Hmmm, odd. For some reason I thought that was your favourite album and I did find that unusual because that isn't normally the case with big Floyd fans. My favourite would probably be Meddle, but Wish You Were Here is rather godly too.