I guess I should finally add some comments to my own thread!

I really do love both albums, and I voted a bit impulsively with automatically selecting Sgt. Pepper, but I think I'll stand by it...I'll say that there are moments on Pet Sounds that are better than anything found on Sgt. Pepper, but Pepper stands as the better album, that is to say it's more cohesive and functions as a more complete work, while Pet Sounds seems a bit more fragmented, but not really any less brilliant. I think that Pepper has much more variety in its musical explorations than Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds aimed to incorporate a symphonic sensibility to pop, but Pepper aimed to incorporate as much as possible, which makes it the better of the two in a conceptual manner, and I think it has more standout moments...so yeah, Pepper.

I bought Brian Wilson's new release "Gettin' In Over My Head." The Rev and I compared notes in pms.. I was initially disappointed,but Rev dug it immediately. Upon the third listen I succombed to its' charm. Includes a duet with Paul McCartney and a lovely song called "Rainbow Eyes." As Rev advised., I listened to it with sixties'ears. The man is still making inspired music after all this time...a great pit stop in the amazing odyssey of Brian Wilson.

so, if someone (not Digger mind you)
if someone used the word "Corny" to describe it..
how would you respond.

cause I have this er friend see?
and he's heard a couple tracks...

Actually, that was my first reaction. The third listen was the charm...for me. Listen: it ain't "Pet Sounds"...but it's not "The Beach Boys Love You". Instead of "corny" I'd say "adolescently goofy" which has always been part of Wilson's appeal.

brian wilson (after all, pet sounds is a brian wilson album, not really a beachboys album) strikes me as more honest on pet sounds than the sgt. pepper album, maybe because as we all know wilson really was teetering on the edge when he (and his team of studio musicians and lyricist) recorded it.

the lame-o shit about 'you've lost your healthy glow' and 'i wasn't made for these times' would sound like limp paeans in anyone elses hands (usually when i here cornball arrangements and lyrics like that i reach for the dial faster than you can say 'bacharach'), but wilson really convinces me when he says it in a way that the beatles on sgt pepper (for all their admittedly more effective looney studio foolery and having, you know, the advantage of having a whole band instead of one megalomaniacal pop mastermind) dont. The beatles undoubtably wrote better music, more memorable, but brian wilson touched me (!) with an album that was made like a zillion years, with music that at first glanced seems totally relic and cheesy.

i'll go with that

The Beach Boys represent to me a brand of saccharine mawkishness that is overly nauseating, vastly pretentious and really just extremely dull.

You obviously have done no real listening beyond their radio hits, darling...

My roommate thinks the same way about the Beach Boys. We were in my car and "Sloop John B." was playing and he said "When you get your ipod you won't have to listen to crap like this." I turned the radio up and said I didn't catch what he said.

You are entitled to your opinion,of course...but being that so many music professionals and legendary artists consider Brian Wilson a genius and the music he made with the Beach Boys a high watermark for popular music, you may want to consider the possibility that it is, in fact, YOU who are missing something.