№ 2 of 100
Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys (1966), № 2 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Lennon and McCartney played it on loop through the spring of 1967. Every pop arrangement that treats inner-voice harmonies as the story rather than decoration is downstream.
Read the full deep dive — pressing guide, session reconstruction and scoring data — on The Lead-In.