http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSgOTxcEMk
This is an enigma – the Beach Boys sing about cars, girls, surfing, the beach, cars, girls, the beach, more cars. They have a set, they stick to it, it's perfect. They're a snapshot of culture and history and geography; they'll never not be Cali in the '60s.
But there are exceptions — Pet Sounds is a big one. There's a lot more issues on Pet Sounds. It's the sound of Brian Wilson dealing with abandonment issues, depression and sorrow and the need to expand his life. And Heroes and Villains, not even on Pet Sounds, is the most different. It's about... it's a Gabriel García Márquez novel, about a Carribean town, deserting your family; about seduction and time and mistakes; it invents baroque pop as a genre; it's just different. And I don't know what to make of it, but it's gorgeous and fantastic and layered, and layered and layered and layered.
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