Pet Sounds  by The Beach Boys

The first studio album by the Californians Beach Boys was released in October 1962. As outrageous as it sounds, in May 1966 – not even four years later – the Beach Boys released Pet Sounds, which is the eleventh album of their career (!)

Pet Sounds is a landmark album for the pop & rock music of the 1960s and beyond. Brian Wilson is the main creator of it, who, under the influence of drugs, composed the songs of the album in which he combines the pop music of the mid-'60s, jazz, classical music as an entire orchestra participates, avant-garde. He records and uses sounds from bicycle bells and flutes, experimental electric sound-producing devices, and whatever else comes to his mind. His goal is to create the best album of all time and, of course, to surpass the Beatles. The legendary photograph of the band members feeding the animals at the San Diego Zoo was taken on February 10, 1966, by photographer George Jerman. It is certainly one of the most unorthodox album covers of all time.

The album reached No.10 on the Billboard, sold 1,000,000 copies in the United States, and 600,000 copies in Britain.