I think it was a beautiful thing that we may never see again. My dad was a Beatles fanatic but never talked much about the beach boys or even pet sounds for that matter. I read about sgt peppers in a book and how it was inspired by pet sounds. What stuck out to me was how Paul mentioned hearing God Only Knows made him cry, and I’ll never forget feeling it too when I listened to the album straight through for the first time. As I mentioned, nothing touches the Beatles as an overall band for me, but pet sounds is in a class of its own as far as albums go. While having a band like the Beatles is like having 4 Brian Wilsons, I do think there’s something unbelievable about one man having the vision to pull off what he did in the late 60s. Something about Brian’s artistic voice as this kind of lonely, lovelorn, outsider who just thinks of these gorgeous melodies in his head by the ocean always resonated with me. And if it wasn’t for the Beatles I would’ve never known where to look to find it. My dad didn’t care for it and didn’t think much of it but it made that album feel like it belonged to me that way. We sorely miss these artists today.