This is it man.....the big one,the one I can't put down,the one I love so much I've lost friends over it!!!The sweetest,most intelligent,most personal, most full-of-love-for-all-of-us piece of music I've ever had the good fortune to come across....
I love this album 'cos it loves me back....it talks to me, tellin' me everything must be alright with the world to say there's music like this,a re-affirmation of god's love for us by Brian....

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I recommend reading the rest of this with a copy of PetSounds at hand, otherwise it can be pretty hard to follow…

I remember first hearing this CD when I was about 15 or 16 and didn't look much beyond the Beatles and Oasis when it came to music.I had often seen Pet Sounds mentioned in 'Top10 Albums Ever' lists and was always a little intrigued by it. I mean,The Beach Boys, like how more totally unhip and darnright socially unacceptable could this album have appeared to me?But then I listened to it.......didn't quite know what to make of it at first, I just hadn't heard anything like it before. It took a little while to understand it, it took a little while for it to grow on me, to get to know me, to show me the things about it that make it so special, to appreciate just how much digitally encoded love was on that disk, but oh how it was worth the effort!
    From the very first tinklings at the beginning of Wouldn't it Be Nice it'll start to get ya, and when those sweet sweet vocals come in and play with the tune mischievously, that's when I start to smile, that's when  I start to move and make some pretence towards dancing....oh what a song to dance to,you just have to...cos'it gets ya!
    And what about the start of You still believe in me???What is it ,how did he do that?It's like he's making the sign of the cross through the music, like he's saying 'Listen up a minute God, I think I'd like to get a few things off my chest" !!!!!What a prayer, what a way to tell God that hey I know I ain't been doing too good lately but  man,I really appreciate the fact that you still got love for me.
   And next up 'That's Not Me' we're just saying that man,I can do it now...I got it all off my chest now with him upstairs and he still loves me and all the bad stuff was just a learning experience, that I  can be strong enough to do what I need to now and I 'm going to hit my dreams like a tidal wave,yeah just me man, me and that fat bass line that keeps flowing along in the song, I'm just going to piggyback that man and let it carry me all the way I'm going...
  But oh I never said it was going to be easy......There's going to be these times when we're sad and need comforting and need to hear and smell the things that we did when we were kids and Mom made everything right just by holding us and telling us it was alright....and that's what this song  is saying -"No need to talk love..I know it hurts,but just relax and listen to the strings and heart-pumping bass and smell Mom's sweet perfume...."
   And sure enough it works!Old Mom always makes things better and now we're back on track!!!We got hope now for the first time in a while and a bit of perspective! It's like we've copped on to life a bit more- that we've realized that life isn't always going to be a mile a minute ...that you some times gotta slow things down before they can start happenin' again........we'll get there in the end...
  And next we just got to get a bit more perspective..enjoy things the way they are now for a little while 'cos pretty soon things might explode and never be the same...so yeah...we're just going to enjoy this meander-along kinda trip for a while...
    And didn't I tell ya things'd explode! Me and the boys are together on this one....and our happiness in being together again is the songs strength...no more relaxing meanders...this one rocks!
  "Um,God?Thanks,man.......I did this for ya and hope ya like it!"This one's just so free and uninhibited...no more holding back,no more anything that isn't me....cos this is me and this is how I feel,exactly how I feel..and I can't change that now and wouldn't want to anyway...This is the one they sent straight from Heaven via Brian...and ain't Brian just the greatest mailman you could ever have?
    The next one's quite an ego trip though....there's morals in there somewhere I'm sure.Or maybe its a map...the map that they gave Brian in Heaven to show him how to get the music back to all the rest of us...yeah this is the explanation...a 'hey guys this is where it's at' kinda thing....Or maybe it's an invitation to the party??
  Well now we're partying!!! 'Here Today' and just today cos we ain't looking no further man!!!This is a celebration of the rest of the album,of a Mom&Pop&Bud&'Lil'Sis America.........but it's Brian's party and he'll cry if he wants to, cos for all the dancing and revelry he's warning us here...about the dangers of taking what we love for granted...It's like he's hosting the party and seems to ba all smiles and kicks, but underneath it all he's just doing it to get the girl he lost-man everyone loves me but her! There's a lot of older-brotherly love on this one......
  Next up we find Brian  all alone when the party's over...he ain't got the girl and all the guys are off with their women just when he needs them...who needs them anyway?I'm not like them!I'm not like any-bloody-one am I? It just makes me feel so sad and though I know you love me God, I just can't help it...after all we've been through me and the guys are just that little bit different from each other and there ain't nothin' can be done to stop that from making me feel bad.....
 Pet Sounds feels like it's Brian trying to remember the good stuff....it's slow coming and some of it's a bit sketchy but it's all good...this is a really camp number and is just so full of laughs and smiles! There's a remarkable acceptance of the way things are to be heard in Caroline,No. From the tempo of the song, such a slow and deliberate statement, to what is(in my humble opinion) an almost paternal tone of voice that Brian sings with....this one is real grown up and is a fitting end to the album 'cos it's shown us just how much Brian has been growing all the while...

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