Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time?


Try as I might -- and I have tried very hard -- I just don't get the "genius" of this album. I know that George Martin said that Sgt Pepper would have never happened without Pet Sounds, but I don't think the two are even in the same league. What am I missing?
jeffreybowman2k
Perhaps one of the most overproduced albums of all time. Actually it is a masterpiece but in a way not normally associated with other music and not in the way I hold most dear.
Its only most overrated if one accepts the premise of it being a greatest masterpiece.

In my view its a pretty nice album, not up to level of Sunflower and Surfs Up. I certainly don't understand trashing the album, unless melodicism and harmony aren't your thing.

WOW I like that Cash box listening for 1966...Herb Albery really sold like crazy....no wonder why there are so many albums in the cheap bonds now ....

 

I'm 69....and was there as a teenager during the 60s..I grew up in LIC.NY..Now it's the place to live ...lol.it was a working class area,full of Factories.The Beach Boys ,the were West coast Summer Time Beach Music.The Four Seasons were Bigger here.When I heard Sg Pepoers it was totally different, but it was like Roaring Twenties Stuff....The Band ,that was different to but like country western hillbillies crap.Hendrix ,Cream,that was different but Good.It was like 60s Rock and Roll Am radio music DIED....for me anyway...

Well you did have the Doors,they were played on AM alot.....Sorry. I left them out .