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Whoa, that's something! It'll be neat to see what he comes up with. Hopefully it does it justice.

Sounds neat.

So is this a confirmation that we're getting a 40th anniversary limited edition Pet Sounds?

Let's hope not.

Oh yeah, it's coming. There's a space for it the BBs scetion in HMV. Says "Pet Sounds 40th anniversary edition - Coming June 6th"

You don't have to buy it.

I'm glad to hear it.  I would buy a new pet sounds every week if they came out with one. 

Yes, I do...

I still don't know why we need another Pet Sounds. Unless there's significant remastering done, I probably won't be buying it.

If publicity from the new release reaches one person who otherwise would have missed the album, it's worth it.

How can you miss it nowadays? It shows up in virtually every album countdown and on virtually every television show about popular music. How much more promotion does it need? There's a difference between promotion and saturation.

Consider me the Gideons of Pet Sounds.

I think the blueboarders would disagree.

But the only people that care about that are "music people" anyway, who would've heard it to begin with. Like I'm sure people in the baking world know what the world's best cake is because it's in all the baking magazines, but do we know about it? No.

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Mmmmm...cake.....

I love Peter Blake, so I'll be buying it JUST FOR THAT.

His cover for GIOMH was the best thing about the album -- and this from a guy who doesn't dislike the album.

I wonder if Blake's art will draw from the classic Green/Yellow/zoo animals theme, or if it will be competely removed from that.

I was hoping it would be pics from the tours following the release of Pet Sounds...I can definitely see a drawing of Carl on the lead during GOK...word!

Got to agree here.  As I posted elsewhere, I responded to the call in one of the eighties books to take Pet Sounds to dinner parties in lieu of a bottle of wine, etc.  I usually don't foist my musical taste on people unless asked, but I gave away about five or six copies on vinyl and (later) a few on CD.  And most of my longtime friends and relatives who didn't get a copy from me directly have ended up buying a copy at some point anyway out of curiosity, and with a few it's taken serious root.

One of my brothers sent me an e-mail a few years ago and said that he had pulled out the CD late at night and listened several straight times and had finally "gotten" it- he could see what I was obsessing over.  He ended up flipping over SMiLE and turned several of his friends onto it.  That's how it works.

Spring of 1990 and all that publicity was a renaissance period for Pet Sounds and Brian, and more than doubled the number of us who are out there .  I bet most of you here were caught in that wave or its distant backwash from about 1990 to 1995.  2004 was the next big wave and we're riding that one now.  (I came in on the second wave around 1974).

Brian's music is not for absolutely everyone on earth, but it would be a tragedy if anyone it is for didn't get turned on to it.

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I am already broke enough from them.