Review
Pet Sounds: 40th Anniversary
(Capitol)
Release Date: 08/29/2006 12:00
Reviewed by Douglas Wolk
Few albums are less in need of a new reissue than Brian Wilson’s exquisite, sui generis song cycle about romantic longing and disillusionment — it’s already available in mono, stereo, DVD-Audio, box-set, nasal-inhaler and suppository form. (If by some misfortune you’ve never heard it, put down this magazine and go buy the cheapest copy you can find.) The bait for this blatantly unnecessary piece of product, aside from its fuzzy case, is the DVD appended to the current edition of the CD: a couple of not-too-revelatory making-of documentaries, some goofy promo videos from 1966 and more multichannel mixes of an album whose famously precise, sound-sensitive auteur created in mono because he could hear only in one ear. It’s so sad to watch a sweet thing die from overexposure.

Download: “Sloop John B,” “You Still Believe in Me”
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