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OK, apparently not yet! How about any comments on the SACD or DVD-A version?
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 1966 ( 2012 SACD re-issue )I've never considered myself a Beach Boys fan. I think I bought this album almost of a sense of duty, feeling as though I really needed to hear it because of it's place in the rock canon, this despite the fact that I've avoided their music like the plague all of my life. I've heard it a few times now and I have to say that it is one of the strangest records I own. The weird-to-creepiness innocent fantasy world that the lyrics spring from, the wildly lush (over-)production and arrangements utilizing what seems to be every instrument known to man and everything from a freight train to barking dogs, the sheer brazenly symphonic sound of the thing...what a technical achievement Pet Sounds must have been for it's time. The SACD version just highlights all the oddities laid out here. It's really something, this. I'm just still not sure what. Strangely compelling... D.D.
