Pet Sounds is rightly one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released It has also been written about pored over and analyzed more than most other albums put together In this disarming book Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album on Brian Wilson s pitch...

Smile is not merely a great unfinished album but a living work of art that is all at once expansive indeterminate and resolutely pop In the early 1960s The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne California to become emissaries of a post war American dream that fused middle...