"Pet Sounds" 40th Ann. Edition Preview
By DJ M on August 28th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
LA TIMES "The most scintillating new element of Capitol Records' 40th anniversary reissue of the Beach Boys' watershed "Pet Sounds" album is on the DVD part of a deluxe CD-DVD package. [The DVD includes] an excerpt from "Rhythm of Life," a previously unreleased BBC-TV interview that brings together two of the most innovative and celebrated producers of the rock era: the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Beatles producer George Martin. The musicological gold is the portion in which Martin sits next to Wilson in a recording studio while they roll the master tapes of "Pet Sounds," which represented a quantum leap forward in 1966 for the Beach Boys, both in terms of the intensely autobiographical bent of the songs Wilson wrote primarily with lyricist Tony Asher as well as Wilson's revolutionary approach to recording it."