So, I went to buy some crushing fucking death metal

[kleo706]

. . . and got "Pet Sounds" from the Beach Boys. I love myself now.

 

[AndICried]

You pwn.

 

[Steve]

I've had Pet Sounds for years.

 

[capeda]

Pet Sounds is probably one of the top 50 best albums ever.

 

[Josh Seipp]

seriously such a good call

 

[LuminousAether]

I've tried to get into Pet Sounds... but it's the Beach Boys. I've always found them to be lame.

 

[capeda]

Why is it lame?

 

[xfer]

we already had this discussion like a year ago when i made fun of the beach boys and got totally fucking mocked for it.

but i kind of came around afterward.

 

[goatschool]

way to go, kleo. you just played the part of enabler.

how's it feel?

 

[avi]

sunflower/wildhoney is a good CD set too



sayin'.

 

[LuminousAether]

I think the Beach Boys attitude was lame. That whole fun in the sun bullshit. I can't identify with that whole Cali surfer mindset, so the music always never did anything to be besides offer pretty melodies. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with biases grown in my teenage years, but even when bands I love like Mr Bungle do the surfer rock stuff it still leaves me out in the cold.

 

[avi]

LuminousAether has obviously never really listened to Pet Sounds and 70s-era Beach Boys material

 

[LuminousAether]

Yeah, I downloaded that album a few months ago. I didn't make it all the way through before I deleted it. It didn't interest me.

 

[lizard]

luminousaether and I are traumatized by the 270 sniper. we are not in the mood for light airy melodies.

 

[avi]

if you really paid any attention at all to Pet Sounds, you'd realize it was far from light and airy. there's some serious melancholy going on.

 

[lizard]

oh yeah, I understand. Brian had/did have serious issues.

 

[Steve]

Yeah, I downloaded that album a few months ago. I didn't make it all the way through before I deleted it. It didn't interest me.

what a surprise

 

[LuminousAether]

Are you saying I don't buy albums? I own well over 400 albums, which is more than most people I know. If I like an album enough, I buy it after downloading it. Just a few weeks ago I did that with the new Coheed and Cambria. Hell, of my top albums of the year the only one I don't own is Beloved - Failure On because I have never seen it in a store.

 

[Static]

I think the Beach Boys attitude was lame. That whole fun in the sun bullshit. I can't identify with that whole Cali surfer mindset, so the music always never did anything to be besides offer pretty melodies. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with biases grown in my teenage years, but even when bands I love like Mr Bungle do the surfer rock stuff it still leaves me out in the cold.

I agree...

 

[TheNewChupe]

i don't have Pet sounds. it's on my list of things to get, along with like 500 other records i can't afford.