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"TWA" or "A Doll's House" ???
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--- Quote from: Moogmodule on March 16, 2023, 08:36:39 PM ---They did put a lot more thought into their covers than most bands of the time. They always seemed to care about the presentation and had the status to not get fobbed off with some hurried thing by the record company. Paul had a go at Brian Wilson once saying the Beach Boys needed to get better covers. Considering Pet Sounds just had a rather lame photo of the band with barn animals I get his point.
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Moog, 1966 was a very special year for music, bands and album covers. A teenager at the time, I thought the Pet Sounds album cover was pretty good. The Beach Boys were moving away from the "Surf Sound" and the album cover certainly emphasized that as did the name of the album.
The album cover photoshoot was done at the "petting paddock" of the San Diego Zoo's children's park in May 1966. No doubt that's how the name for the album came to be.
Here's a good article on the subject which shows many of the pictures from that photoshoot: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - Album Cover Location - San Diego Zoo, California - May, 1966
In turn, Paul McCartney has said that Pet Sounds insipired the writing of Sgt. Peppers.
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