The Art of Vinyl
Pet Sounds is the 11th studio album by the Beach Boys. It was released on May 16th, 1966 on Capitol Records. In the US it was initially met with a lukewarm critical and commercial response. It peaked at number 10 on Billboard’s Top LPs chart. In the UK though, the album was lauded by critics…
Associate Professor Mark Pollard Very much a product of its time, the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album was the soundtrack to the 1967 Summer of Love; a psychedelic explosion of sound and colour that pushed back against the last vestiges of Victorian values. Celebrated by many, criticized as over-hyped by others, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club…
Wish You Were Here was released September 12th, 1975 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records. It was their first release on Columbia. The album is based on material the band composed while performing in Europe. Pink Floyd recorded Wish You Were Here over throughout 1975 at Abbey Road Studios in London. Themes you can find throughout the album are criticism of…