Tiny Mix Tapes

Bands That Are Trying To Make Pet Sounds, Again

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"It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John [Lennon] so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. "God Only Knows" is a big favourite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe in Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favourite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-coloured harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine." -Paul McCartney

01. Beulah - "If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart" (When Your Heartstrings Break)
02. The Explorer's Club - "Don't Forget The Sun" (Album)
03. Tenki - "Desirous" (Red Baby)
04. The Grifters - "Mysterious Friends" (Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Sampler)
05. Sufjan Stevens - "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" (Illinoise)
06. Olivia Tremor Control - "I Have Been Floated" (Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol.1)
07. Apples In Stereo - "Submarine Dream" (Discovery of a World Inside the Moone)
08. Frank Black - "Hang On To Your Ego" (Frank Black)
09. The High Llamas - "Sparkle Up" (Retrospective Rarities & Instrumentals)
10. Beachwood Sparks - "Something I Don't Recognize" (Beachwood Sparks)
11. Bullion - "God Only Knows" (Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee)
12. Animal Collective - "Winter's Love" (Sung Tongs)
13. Golab - "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (http://www.golabgo.com/petzounds.html)