KidA24 wrote:ReasonablySober wrote:Jez2983 wrote:
I don't know if this is an insult or not
Recently I read about how Good Vibrations changed pop music. It was really interesting. So maybe it's less that the albums are 'good' and more about their affect on music.
I have to believe it's this, because this album filled with mostly fine but uninteresting samey sounding pop songs has the longest goddamn Wiki I've ever seen. It's considered by a bunch of folks to be the best of all-time!
Compare the depth of sound, layering and use of instruments of (for example) Sloop John B to Surfin Safari and you can really hear the massive difference between the two.
Pet Sounds almost immediately became the new standard for rock and roll production.
Even the Beatles said that Pet Sounds changed the way they wrote and recorded music. Brian Wilson pioneered things that had never been done or conceptualized.
Regardless, lists like this are stupid because "greatest albums" are impossible to quantify. Great because they brought and demonstrated new songwriting and recording techniques? Great because of the cultural impact they had on the moment? Great because of how they are remember in this moment? Great because the band left an enduring legacy and the list needs to fit them somewhere? Those type of articles suffer from a lot of inconsistent criteria.
