Brian Wilson also put out some overblown pretentious crap (ever get a copy of Holland with the weird extra EP included?). I never thought Pet Sounds was the bees knees all around, either in stereo or mono, but then I've never understood quite what was so great about the Phil Spector wall-of-sound being applied to everything and anything.
If "He just wanted it to be good" someone needed to tell him how less is more around then. The double-album is an ego trip many have tripped on though.
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