Some of the acclaimed genius is something you can't hear in the finished album, you'd need to know what the single track studio takes sounded like. Some of thos

Some of the acclaimed genius is something you can't hear in the finished album, you'd need to know what the single track studio takes sounded like. Some of those proclaiming how revolutionary "Pet Sounds" was had working familiarity with such things, but their audience didn't. I think the biggest break was the realization that they were aiming at a low fidelity channel and working to that, rather than holding themselves to a "it would sound good live" standard which was irrelevant because it was never going to be a live arrangement.