The Beach Boys-Pet Sounds (1966)

In 1966, the Californian band The Beach Boys left behind one of the most fundamental albums in rock music, "Pet Sounds", a true contemporary classic. With this release, the eleventh from the group led by Brian Wilson, they reached their creative peak, combining their laid-back surf style with psychedelia. The lineup that recorded this historic album consisted of Brian Wilson (vocals, piano, bass, and organ), Carl Wilson (guitars and vocals), Dennis Wilson (drums and vocals), and vocalists Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and Mike Love. By blending irresistible vocal melodies with psychedelic experimentation, The Beach Boys achieved their masterpiece thanks to immortal songs like "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "You Still Believe in Me", "Let's Go Away for Awhile", "God Only Knows", "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times", "Caroline, No", and "Sloop John B". Its reception was both triumphant and spectacular, achieving multiple platinum records in the United States and Great Britain. However, from this essential work onward, The Beach Boys began their gradual decline, although they would still release noteworthy albums such as "Smiley Smile" (1967), "Wild Honey" (1967), and "Sunflower" (1970).

The Beach Boys-Smile Smile (1967)

By the second half of the sixties and visibly influenced by the Beatles album "Rubber Soul", the founder and leader of the Beach Boys had released the wonderful album "Pet Sounds" (1966), however for his next work Wilson would come up with an even more ambitious work which was titled "Smile".
An album that included endless recording sessions as a result of Wilson's desire to achieve perfection and beat the Beatles.
In these recording sessions, layers and vocal layers were superimposed, inconceivable musical turns for a pop group and complex structures that led to Wilson's own mental instability and an increasing intake of drugs such as amphetamines or LSD.
Proof of the chaotic sessions is that they even feared that the Beatles themselves would order the masters tapes to be stolen or that the songs they composed were even believed to have some kind of supernatural powers such as a famous fire that occurred in Los Angeles at that time, which they captured with the theme "The Elements: Fire"
In this album one of the masterpieces of the group "Good Vibrations" appears, a mini-baroque surf suite, with the characteristic elements of the band, the perfect vocal harmonies, sounds from endless instruments and great emotion.
However, among the many causes that prevented this album from being officially published in 1967, was the failure to meet the deadlines established with the record company, since due to the long recording sessions the project lengthened more and more.
For this and many other circumstances the album was archived for four decades until its re-released in 2011.