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Pet Sounds

 is the eleventh

 studio album by

 American rock band 

The Beach Boys,

 released on

 May 16, 1966. 

It initially met with a

 lukewarm critical 

and commercial response

 in the United States,

 peaking at number 10

 in the Billboard 200, 

a significantly

 lower placement

 than the band's 

preceding albums.

 In the United Kingdom, 

the album was hailed by

 its music press 

and was an immediate

 commercial success, 

peaking at number 2

 in the UK Top 

40 Albums Chart

 and remaining

 among the

 top ten positions

 for six months. 

Pet Sounds 

has subsequently gathered 

worldwide acclaim

 from critics and

 musicians alike, 

and is widely considered

 to be one of the most 

influential albums 

in music history.

The album was produced

 and arranged by 

Brian Wilson, 

who also wrote 

and composed almost

 all of its music. 

Most of the 

recording sessions 

were conducted between 

January and April 1966,

 a year after he

 had quit touring

 with the Beach Boys 

in order to focus more

 attention on 

writing and recording. 

For Pet Sounds,

 Wilson's goal 

was to create

 "The greatest rock album ever made" 

 a personalized work 

with no filler tracks.

 It is sometimes considered a 

Wilson solo album, 

repeating the themes 

and ideas he had

 introduced with 

The Beach Boys Today! 

one year earlier.

 The album's lead single,

 "Caroline, No", 

was issued as his

 official solo debut.

 It was followed by

 two singles credited

 to the group

 "Wouldn't It Be Nice" 

backed with

 "God Only Knows" 

and

 "Sloop John B".

Collaborating with lyricist 

Tony Asher,

 Wilson's 

symphonic arrangements

 wove elaborate layers 

of vocal harmonies,

 coupled with

 sound effects

 and unusual 

instruments

 such as 

bicycle bells,

 buzzing organs,

 harpsichords, 

flutes, 

Electro-Theremin,

 trains, 

Hawaiian-sounding 

string instruments,

 Coca-Cola cans, 

and barking dogs, 

along with the more 

usual keyboards 

and guitars. 

Unified by Wall of 

Sound-style

 production techniques, 

the album comprised

 Wilson's

 "pet sounds", 

consisting mainly of

 introspective songs like

 "You Still Believe in Me", 

about faithfulness,

"I Know There's an Answer", 

a critique of LSD users, 

and

 "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times", 

an autobiographical statement

 on social alienation

as well as the first use of

 a theremin-like instrument

 on a rock record

 Recording was 

completed on

 April 13, 1966, 

with an unprecedented 

total production cost that

 exceeded $70,000

 (equivalent to $520,000 in 2016).

 A follow-up album,

 Smile, 

was immediately planned, 

but left unfinished. 

In 1997,

 a "making-of" version of

 Pet Sounds 

was supervised by 

Wilson 

and released as

 The Pet Sounds Sessions, 

containing the album's 

first true stereo mix.

Pet Sounds 

is regarded by 

musicologists 

as an early concept album 

that advanced the field

 of music production,

The Beach Boys

• Al Jardine – lead, harmony and backing vocals, tambourine 
• Bruce Johnston – harmony and backing vocals
• Mike Love – lead, harmony and backing vocals
• Brian Wilson – lead, harmony and backing vocals, organ, piano, dog whistles, sound effects
• Carl Wilson – lead, harmony and backing vocals, guitar, twelve-string guitar
• Dennis Wilson – harmony and backing vocals, drums

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