Editing Pet Sounds (section)

===Indie pop, chamber pop, emo, and continued impact===
[[File:Stereolab (1994).jpg|thumb|[[Stereolab]] (pictured 1994) were among many bands of the 1990s indebted to ''Pet Sounds''{{'}} influence]]

By the 1990s, ''Pet Sounds'' had become a seminal influence on [[indie pop]],<ref name="flopped"/> with Wilson recognized as a "godfather" to a generation of indie musicians influenced by his melodic sensibilities, studio experimentation, and [[chamber music|chamber]]-pop orchestrations.<ref name="Leas2016">{{cite journal |last1=Leas |first1=Ryan |date=August 5, 2016 |title=Tomorrow Never Knows: How 1966's Trilogy Of Pet Sounds, Blonde On Blonde, And Revolver Changed Everything |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1892600/tomorrow-never-knows-how-1966s-trilogy-of-pet-sounds-blonde-on-blonde-and-revolver-changed-everything/franchises/sounding-board/ |url-status=live |journal=[[Stereogum]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415211345/https://www.stereogum.com/1892600/tomorrow-never-knows-how-1966s-trilogy-of-pet-sounds-blonde-on-blonde-and-revolver-changed-everything/columns/sounding-board/ |archive-date=April 15, 2022}}</ref> "Chamber pop" also emerged as a distinct genre modeled on the musical template established by ''Pet Sounds''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mervis |first1=Scott |date=August 26, 2016 |title=Concert review: Brian Wilson and company re-create the magic of 'Pet Sounds' |work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2016/08/26/Brian-Wilson-and-Company-expertly-re-create-the-classic-Pet-Sounds-pittsburgh/stories/201608260188 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118061459/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2016/08/26/Brian-Wilson-and-Company-expertly-re-create-the-classic-Pet-Sounds-pittsburgh/stories/201608260188 |archive-date=November 18, 2018}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|In addition to "chamber pop", critics and enthusiasts have sometimes described the orchestral-rock fusion style epitomized by ''Pet Sounds'' using terms such as [[symphonic pop]] and ork-pop (short for "orchestral pop").<ref>{{cite news|last1=Salmon|first1=Ben|date=May 25, 2007|title=Classic combo|work=[[The Bulletin (Bend)|The Bulletin]]|url=http://www.bendbulletin.com/slideshows/1516497-151/classic-combo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610031425/http://www.bendbulletin.com/slideshows/1516497-151/classic-combo|archive-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> }}

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| source = —High Llamas and Stereolab member [[Sean O'Hagan]], 1997<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Smith|first1=Ethan|title=Do It Again|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|date=10 November 1997|volume=30|issue=43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-gCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA98|publisher=New York Media, LLC|issn=0028-7369}}</ref>
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During the mid-1990s, underground artists including [[Cardinal (band)|Cardinal]], the High Llamas, Yum-Yum, and members of the [[Elephant 6 collective]] drew inspiration from the album's arrangements, spurring a movement termed "ork-pop".{{sfn|DeRogatis|2003|p=39}} Sean O'Hagan of the High Llamas, characterized by DeRogatis as "the most ''Pet Sounds''-obsessed" of these musicians,{{sfn|DeRogatis|2003|p=526}} channeled its orchestrated approach in works such as ''[[Gideon Gaye]]'' (1994) and ''[[Hawaii (The High Llamas album)|Hawaii]]'' (1995).<ref name="HereToday96"/> [[Robert Schneider]] of [[the Apples in Stereo]] and [[Jim McIntyre (musician)|Jim McIntyre]] of [[Von Hemmling]] founded [[Pet Sounds Studio]], which served as the venue for numerous Elephant 6 projects by [[Neutral Milk Hotel]]<ref name="encyclopedia.com">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Apples in Stereo |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/apples-stereo |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |publisher=Gale. [[Cengage Learning]] |access-date=July 29, 2017}}</ref> and [[the Olivia Tremor Control]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Clair |first=Adam |date=September 21, 2016 |title=Elephant 6 & Friends Reflect on the Legacy of the Olivia Tremor Control's ''Dusk at Cubist Castle'' |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1895598/elephant-6-friends-reflect-on-the-legacy-of-the-olivia-tremor-controls-dusk-at-the-cubist-castle/franchises/sounding-board |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127141230/https://www.stereogum.com/1895598/elephant-6-friends-reflect-on-the-legacy-of-the-olivia-tremor-controls-dusk-at-the-cubist-castle/interviews/ |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |access-date=July 29, 2017 |work=[[Stereogum]]}}</ref><ref name="encyclopedia.com" />
[[File:Thom Yorke 1998.jpg|thumb|upright|Radiohead referenced the initially startling quality of ''Pet Sounds'' when recording their 1997 album ''[[OK Computer]]'' ([[Thom Yorke]] pictured)]]

Radiohead's ''[[OK Computer]]'' (1997) was intended to evoke an initially "shocking" quality similar to that of ''Pet Sounds'', according to [[Thom Yorke]], who praised the Beach Boys' work as "an incredibly amazing pop record, but [...] also an ''album''."<ref>{{cite web | first = Dave | last = DiMartino | title = Give Radiohead Your Computer | publisher = [[Yahoo! Music Radio|Yahoo! Launch]] | date = 2 May 1997 | url = http://music.yahoo.com/read/interview/12048024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070814183856/http://music.yahoo.com/read/interview/12048024 | archive-date = 14 August 2007}}</ref> Collaborating with O'Hagan and Elephant 6 members, [[Cornelius (musician)|Cornelius]]' ''[[Fantasma (Cornelius album)|Fantasma]]'', released a few months later, was created as an explicit homage to ''Pet Sounds''.{{sfn|Roberts|2019|pp=6, 58–59, 61, 66–67}} By 1998, Lester reported that the album had experienced a resurgence in popularity, writing that "today's most interesting acts – The High Llamas, [[Air (French band)|Air]], [[Kid Loco]], Saint Etienne, Stereolab, [[Lewis Taylor]] – are using the Brian Wilson songbook as a resource for their forays into the realms of electronic pop."<ref name="Lester98">{{cite magazine |last1=Lester |first1=Paul |author-link1=Paul Lester |title=Brain Wilson: Endless Bummer |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/brain-wilson-endless-bummer |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |date=June 1998 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> 

''Pet Sounds'' has been cited as a precursor to [[emo]] music, with writer Sean Cureton identifying parallels in the introspective themes of [[Weezer]]'s ''[[Pinkerton (album)|Pinkerton]]'' (1996) and [[Death Cab for Cutie]]'s ''[[Transatlanticism]]'' (2003).<ref name="Cureton">{{cite web |last1=Cureton |first1=Sean K. |date=May 16, 2016 |title=Brian Wilson Alone: The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds 50 Years Later |url=http://www.audienceseverywhere.net/brian-wilson-alone-pet-sounds-50-years-later/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227012932/http://www.audienceseverywhere.net/brian-wilson-alone-pet-sounds-50-years-later/ |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |website=Audiences Everywhere}}</ref> Music critic Ernest Simpson and [[Wild Nothing]]'s Jack Tatum have called ''Pet Sounds'' "the first emo album",<ref name="Pitchfork50" /> with Simpson proposing Wilson as "the godfather of emo", highlighting "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" in particular.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Simpson |first1=Ernest |date=September 20, 2004 |title=The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds |url=http://www.treblezine.com/reviews/the-beach-boys-pet-sounds/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509103454/https://www.treblezine.com/the-beach-boys-pet-sounds/ |archive-date=May 9, 2021 |website=Treblezine}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|Luke Britton of the [[BBC]] dismissed these characterizations, writing that emo's widely recognized origins trace to 1980s [[hardcore punk]] acts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Britton |first=Luke Morgan |date=May 30, 2018 |title=Emo never dies: How the genre influenced an entire new generation |work=[[BBC Online]] |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1tM7yZdRsNn2qZth0WMCRBs/emo-never-dies-how-the-genre-influenced-an-entire-new-generation |access-date=August 9, 2018 |archive-date=August 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813010046/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1tM7yZdRsNn2qZth0WMCRBs/emo-never-dies-how-the-genre-influenced-an-entire-new-generation |url-status=live }}</ref>}} Weezer frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]] recalled being immersed in ''Pet Sounds'' during the early 1990s; it later served as the direct inspiration for his band's ''[[OK Human]]'' (2021), recorded with a 39-piece orchestra.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Eastoe |first1=Dillon |title=Weezer: "I'm very anxious right now about what it means to be human" |url=https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Upset_Magazine_interview_with_Rivers_Cuomo_-_January_29,_2021 |magazine=Upset |date=January 29, 2021}}</ref>

One of the earliest [[tribute album]]s dedicated to ''Pet Sounds'' is the Japanese release ''[[Smiling Pets]]'' (1998), including contributions from [[Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her]] and [[Melt Banana]].{{sfn|Roberts|2019|p=66}}{{refn|group=nb|Further tribute albums have included ''[[Do It Again: A Tribute to Pet Sounds]]'' (2005), ''[[The Vitamin String Quartet|The String Quartet Tribute to the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds]]'' (2006), ''[[MOJO Presents Pet Sounds Revisited]]'' (2012), and ''[[A Tribute to Pet Sounds]]'' (2016).<ref>{{cite web |title=Tribute Albums |url=http://www.beachboys.com/tribute.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819092539/http://www.beachboys.com/tribute.html |archive-date=August 19, 2014 |access-date=August 17, 2014 |website=Beach Boys: The Complete Guide}}</ref>}} In 2007, producer [[Bullion (musician)|Bullion]] created a [[J Dilla]] mashup of the album, ''[[Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee]]''.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Chris |date=November 13, 2007 |title=J Dilla vs. The Beach Boys |url=http://www.gorillavsbear.net/j-dilla-vs-beach-boys/?trackback=tsmclip |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121120/https://www.gorillavsbear.net/j-dilla-vs-beach-boys/?trackback=tsmclip |archive-date=December 15, 2018 |publisher=[[Gorilla vs. Bear]]}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|Hip-hop producer [[Questlove]] recalled that the Beach Boys had been unfashionable among black teenagers in the 1980s, and in the late 1990s, Detroit hip-hop artists including J Dilla mocked his admiration for ''Pet Sounds'' before later recognizing its merits.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ross |first1=Danny |date=November 1, 2018 |title=Questlove Talks Beach Boys, Podcasting And His 19 Jobs |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/dannyross1/2018/11/01/questlove-talks-beach-boys-podcasting-and-his-19-jobs/#4746566a482c |website=[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]] |access-date=November 3, 2018}}</ref>}} By 2007, there had been at least three books dedicated to ''Pet Sounds''.{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=95}}{{sfn|Lambert|2007|pp=223, 391–392}} In Japan, Jim Fusilli's book was translated by the novelist [[Haruki Murakami]].{{sfn|Roberts|2019|p=66}} In 2014, the biopic film ''[[Love & Mercy (film)|Love & Mercy]]'' included a substantial depiction of the album's making, with Wilson portrayed by [[Paul Dano]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tapley |first1=Kristopher |date=May 21, 2015 |title=Bill Pohlad wants 'Love & Mercy' to take you inside the genius of Beach Boy Brian Wilson |url=http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/bill-pohlad-wants-love-mercy-to-take-you-inside-the-genius-of-beach-boy-brian-wilson |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601214434/http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/bill-pohlad-wants-love-mercy-to-take-you-inside-the-genius-of-beach-boy-brian-wilson |archive-date=June 1, 2016 |work=[[Hitfix]]}}</ref>

To honor the album's 50th anniversary, 26 artists contributed to a ''Pitchfork'' retrospective on its enduring influence, including comments from members of [[Talking Heads]], [[Yo La Tengo]], [[Chairlift (band)|Chairlift]], and [[Deftones]], among others.<ref name="Pitchfork50"/> That year, ''[[PopMatters]]'' contributor Danilo Castro acknowledged the album had "restructured the landscape of modern music in its image", with its influence extending to <!--- Weezer and Radiohead also cited but already mentioned elsewhere --->[[David Bowie]], [[the Flaming Lips]], [[Frank Ocean]], [[Fleet Foxes]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], and [[Kanye West]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Castro |first=Danilo |date=May 16, 2016 |title=Why the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' Remains a Pillar of Pop Excellence |url=https://www.popmatters.com/why-beach-boys-pet-sounds |website=PopMatters |access-date=April 1, 2025}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|Additional musicians who have praised ''Pet Sounds'' have included <!--- Already mentioned elsewhere in this article: Paul McCartney, George Martin, Phillip Glass, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton --> Burt Bacharach, [[Carole King]], [[Roger McGuinn]], [[Randy Newman]], [[Jeff Beck]], [[David Gilmour]], [[Daryl Hall]], [[Elton John]], [[Alice Cooper]], [[Jackson Browne]], [[Eric Carmen]], [[Lindsey Buckingham]], [[Ann Wilson]], [[Tom Petty]], [[Stephen Bishop (singer)|Stephen Bishop]], [[Elvis Costello]], [[Billy Idol]], and [[Gustavo Dudamel]].<ref name="WilsonWebsiteQuotes">{{cite web |title=Quotes |url=https://www.brianwilson.com/quotes |website=brianwilson.com |access-date=July 25, 2023}}</ref>}}