rollingstone: With its vivid orchestration, lyrical ambition, elegant pacing and thematic coherence, Pet Sounds invented – and in some sense perfected – the idea that an album could be more than the sum of its parts. When Brian Wilson sang, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older?” on the magnificent opener, he wasn’t just imagining a love that could evolve past high school; he was suggesting a new grown-up identity for rock & roll music itself. The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds was released 47 years ago today.
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rollingstone:

With its vivid orchestration, lyrical ambition, elegant pacing and thematic coherence, Pet Sounds invented – and in some sense perfected – the idea that an album could be more than the sum of its parts. When Brian Wilson sang, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older?” on the magnificent opener, he wasn’t just imagining a love that could evolve past high school; he was suggesting a new grown-up identity for rock & roll music itself.

The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds was released 47 years ago today.

(via hippiesongs)

Source: Rolling Stone

So, Neil Young and Rick James used to be in a band called The Mynah Byrds, the first white group signed to Motown. They recorded and then Rick James got busted for being AWOL from the Navy, and the band split up. 

The Mynah Birds - “It’s My Time”

(via the excellent @dangerousminds)

No, here in L.A., drivers peacefully wait for you to look up (from your smart phone, most likely) and notice the left-hand signal is green. Once you do, you can take your time, inching forward like a glowworm. It’s fine if only one car gets through per green arrow. No one seems to care. And as for intersections without a left-turn arrow—and this is truly confusing—drivers don’t bother to creep into the intersection. They wait, like sedated animals, back at the light.

Leaving Los Angeles : The New Yorker

Congratulations, this is the stupidest, most inaccurate fucking thing I’ve ever read about Los Angeles.

I’m shocked she didn’t steal Woody Allen’s “I’ll have a plate of mashed yeast” joke from Annie Hall when she was referring to kale chips, but then, I’m not surprised, because his line is witty, so it wouldn’t fit here at all.

I mean, there’s a paragraph here detailing the wacky thing she heard a guy say in a cafe mixed with a Scientology joke. Are you fucking kidding me? How lazy are you? Did you honestly believe this was some original take on Los Angeles?

Source: newyorker.com