What do YOU think the Train and Barking Dogs mean?

[art rush]

I think is symbolizes the passing of a certain period in the narrarator's life (BW) The period in which the songs describe. Or just the passing of youth into uncertain adulthood.

To me, Pet Sounds is THE best break-up album ever! It starts out with the youthful optimism of a new relationship and then goes through all the usual ups and downs and then a break-up and then the guy sees the girl later and her hair is short and she's now hard and mean and bitter and not the same person he fell in love with.

I agree. To me the whole album is about girl problems, and at the end of it - well, life goes on. There's a train outside, barrelling through.

[Jason]

What's next? Pet Sounds: The Movie? We can make it like Twilight, only a little more grounded in reality. The teens will go crazy over it. And the poor sod actress who gets the "girl" part will be the most hated woman in film by all teenage girls.

[Mr. Cohen]

The dogs were picking up on the vibrations in the air.

[Ganz Allein]

Your pulling my leg with the farting..!!

Actually, he's pulling your finger...and Brian was onto this thing about herrings & tried to communicate it with the "farting" synth sounds on "Love You." 

[donald]

I imagine it is night........maybe around 11:00 P.M.     All has been said.....the writer  is alone, outside in the darkness...melancholly.........feeling the sounds, looking at the moon through a misty fog....the feel and  smell of the night air.......

a train goes by in the distance....and somewhere in the distance a dog barks......

the writer SMiLEs


these are favorite sounds...."pet" sounds.....

[The Heartical Don]

I imagine it is night........maybe around 11:00 P.M.     All has been said.....the writer  is alone, outside in the darkness...melancholly.........feeling the sounds, looking at the moon through a misty fog....the feel and  smell of the night air.......

a train goes by in the distance....and somewhere in the distance a dog barks......

the writer SMiLEs


these are favorite sounds...."pet" sounds.....

Sounds like an Edward Hopper painting...

[donald]

I imagine it is night........maybe around 11:00 P.M.     All has been said.....the writer  is alone, outside in the darkness...melancholly.........feeling the sounds, looking at the moon through a misty fog....the feel and  smell of the night air.......

a train goes by in the distance....and somewhere in the distance a dog barks......

the writer SMiLEs


these are favorite sounds...."pet" sounds.....

Sounds like an Edward Hopper painting...

Now that you mention it.  That is the picture that comes to mind when I hear that train and dog.

[Amazing Larry]

At the end of Pet Sounds/Caroline No.

Haha, Hey Arnold.

[donald]

That'll work!