When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. But that was then. Today, Pet Sounds is regarded not only as the equal of those records but, in ...

The Beach Boys appeared in Full House and had “California Dreamin’” featured in Stranger Things. This band intended for one song to appear in a James Bond film, even if the details surrounding the Pet ...

After Brian Wilson’s death, Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys returns to Billboard’s charts, debuting on the Top Album Sales and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts. Portrait of members of American Rock ...

The Beach Boys are the artists behind Pet Sounds, a fan-favorite album featuring the song “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.” With a confusing title and animal-based cover art, one member of the Beach Boys thought ...

“Catch A Wave” is very much in the style of the band’s early surf rock material, but it’s one where you can already see the gears turning in Brian’s mind to go beyond standard rock and roll chord ...

Well, there are quite a few factors to consider. That notoriety has to come from somewhere. There’s no smoke without fire if an album is consistently called one of the greatest albums of the 20th ...

The Beach Boys’ change of course initially was a commercial disappointment, but Pet Sounds soon was embraced by the music world, and now is considered by many to be one of the all-time great pop-rock ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

The year was 1966. The music industry was about to be rocked by one of the most innovative and groundbreaking albums ever created. The album was "Pet Sounds" by The Beach Boys, and its creator was ...

When it comes to the Beach Boys, “Pet Sounds” (1966) is an outlier, the moment when Brian Wilson harnessed the energy and inspiration that he gleaned from repeated listenings to the Beatles’ “Rubber ...

Brian Wilson was behind many of the band's biggest hits. The Beach Boys are known not only for hit singles like "California Girls," "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around" and more, but also for one ...

The Beach Boys will play a string of summer U.K. shows with more U.S. concerts scheduled both before and afterward. See a ...