"He's always there with us," Al Jardine says as he leads the Pet Sounds Band in revisiting "The Beach Boys Love You" in ...

In 2018, Classic Rock spoke to the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Mike Love about the creation of Pet Sounds, the revolutionary album considered by many to be the greatest ever recorded.

Wilson made the prosaic profound and the personal universal, so here’s my own story: As with a lot of people, “Pet Sounds” is a particularly important album to me.

Brian Wilson occupies a special place in the pop pantheon, the golden youth who blew his mind making mind-blowing music. His 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds remains a benchmark in pop culture ...

Brian Wilson always seemed to keep his ear to the ground for new songs and artists, which led him to develop an incredible ...

And Brian Wilson was the transcendent maestro of sonic magic. The title of the Beach Boys' greatest album is "Pet Sounds," and pet sounds is what Brian built into just about every song he ever wrote.

I wasn’t going to write anything about Brian Wilson, who died last month at the age of 82, because what could I possibly say ...

“God Only Knows” might be the best song on Pet Sounds, but Brian Wilson’s favorite was always the final track, “Caroline, No.” “I did it all by myself,” he said.

Meanwhile, The Beatles, with their own ambitions having been stoked by Wilson and The Beach Boys’ attainments with "Pet Sounds" and “Good Vibrations,” produced generation-eclipsing artistic ...

Brian Wilson at work on Pet Sounds in 1966. His sessions for the album included some of the industry's top session guitarists. . | Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images ...

A full-band version, completed by Brian and Carl Wilson, can be found on the 1971 album of the same title, but buried in the wreckage of the 1966 “Smile” sessions that finally saw release in ...