It’s inexplicable how Holden overlooks Brian Wilson’s contributions, especially since he sticks in a giant quote with links showing the influence of Pet Sounds:
Promoted there as “the most progressive pop album ever”, Pet Sounds garnered recognition for its ambitious production, sophisticated music, and emotional lyric content. It is considered to be among the most influential albums in music history …
Holden uses Coltrane’s musical content as a contrast:
Pet Sounds came out more than a year after legendary jazz album A Love Supreme! I don’t want to get carried away about what my subjective taste says, but … even if A Love Supreme isn’t your cup of tea, I’d guess you’ll think it’s a great deal more complex, cohesive, impressive, and interesting in just about every way (other than the lack of prominent “studio effects”) than Pet Sounds. And it’s not even clearly less accessible—looks like they sold a similar number of copies?3
So I’m probably going to get black balled from future funding, but I don’t understand jazz or Coltrane. My knowledge of jazz comes from La La Land:
But my guess for what is going on that Coltrane is different in style and has a more cerebral focus on musical content, so it’s unfair and prejudicial to use it as a lens to judge Brian Wilson’s contributions (in studio production, popular music and psychedelic music, etc).
It’s inexplicable how Holden overlooks Brian Wilson’s contributions, especially since he sticks in a giant quote with links showing the influence of Pet Sounds:
Holden uses Coltrane’s musical content as a contrast:
So I’m probably going to get black balled from future funding, but I don’t understand jazz or Coltrane. My knowledge of jazz comes from La La Land:
But my guess for what is going on that Coltrane is different in style and has a more cerebral focus on musical content, so it’s unfair and prejudicial to use it as a lens to judge Brian Wilson’s contributions (in studio production, popular music and psychedelic music, etc).