So, Pet Sounds.
I've listened to it on average 3 times per day for the last 2ish weeks and once a day for 2 weeks before that. It's fucking amazing. I can't believe how much I enjoy it. I've never heard an album like this. There's something special about all of the songs, the musicality in the writing and performance is unlike anything else. I could crap on about each song for hours.
God Only Knows has so many clever things in it. The 3 bar chorus uses a bizarre chord progression of I - V - vi. The chorus consists of an imperfect cadence, followed by an interrupted cadence. It builds suspense so that when it finally resolves back to chord V at the end there's an astounding sense or arrival. The use of Cdim -> E as an almost perfect cadence in the verses is amazing, too. The songs are full of little things like this.
I have mixed feelings towards Sloop John B. In some ways it feels out of place in the album about love. On the other hand it breaks the melancholy. There's a fucktonne of melancholy in this album.
Everyone should buy this album.
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