IVIV surf music

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:20 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> I gues it's hard to impart to US p-listers just how weird (and not  
> necessarily in a good way) surf music sounds/feels to European ears/ 
> sensibilities. Can't speak for all of Europe, of course, but to me  
> the Beach Boys were like aliens. I *still* haven't learned to love  
> Pet Sounds. I kinda admire it, and there are loads of interesting  
> noises on it, but where are the *songs*?

Odd because the atmosphere and harmonic sense of Pet Sounds reminds me  
of Faure. Pet Sounds strikes me as more like art song and less like  
popsong.