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The Beach Boys made their names on songs like “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and “I Get Around,” bubblegum pop odes to carefree living.
However, in 1966, lead creative force Brian Wilson presented the surf rock sensations with reams of paper upon which he had scrawled entire compositions and poetry. Gone was the sand and surf and shiny superficiality; this was something entirely different: Wilson had envisioned their seminal album, Pet Sounds, the first rock concept album and one experimenting with music production, instrumentalism, and so on, which would lay the foundations for American progressive rock and change the course of music history.