**FACTORY SEALED ORIGINAL** BEACH BOYS PET SOUNDS US MONO 1st PRESS PRISTINE

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This is a real rarity. A US 1969 pressing still sealed in factory shrink wrap. These rarely show up and rarely come in such pristine condition like this one. The colours on the sleeve are bright and look as fresh as the day it was manufactured. 

The spine is straight with no damage. The edges show no wear and the shrink wrap is perfectly sealed with no splits or torn flaps. 

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Pet Sounds is the 11th studio album by the 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 garnered 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 ($510,000 today). 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 through its introduction of non-standard harmonies and timbres, incorporating elements of pop, jazz, exotica, classical, and the avant-garde. A heralding work of psychedelic rock, the album signaled an aesthetic trend within rock by transforming it from dance music into music that was made for listening to, elevating itself to the level of art rock. Author Bill Martin said that within Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys "brought expansions in harmony, instrumentation (and therefore timbre), duration, rhythm, and the use of recording technology. Of these elements, the first and last were the most important in clearing a pathway toward the development of progressive rock." In 2004, Pet Sounds was preserved in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." One year earlier, Rolling Stone ranked it second on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". 

Tracks:

Wouldn't It Be Nice    2:22

You Still Believe In Me        2:33

That's Not Me    2:27

Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)       2:52

I'm Waiting For The Day     3:01

Let's Go Away For Awhile           2:18

Sloop John B    2:57

God Only Knows       2:46

I Know There's An Answer         3:10

Here Today        2:38

I Just Wasn't Made For These Times          3:21

Pet Sounds       2:20

Caroline No       2:16 

Artist: The Beach Boys

Title: Pet Sounds

Label: Capital T 2458

Year of release: 1966

Country of Manufacture: USA

Grading 

Vinyl - MINT

Vinyl is presumed mint. 

Sleeve - NM/M

In the original factory shrink wrap. No damage and no breaks/splits to the shrink. 

Labels - M

Both labels are presumed mint

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