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have you listened yet to Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Jeff Tweedy was heavily influenced by Pet Sounds. I'm gonna have to dig through my vinyl to give it a listen again.

The Beatles were reportedly seriously PO'ed that a "surfer" band beat them to the sound. Kinda funny.

and then there was that god-awful rolling stones attempt at the symphonic rock sound...couple of good tunes, but overall, what a train wreck.

for the record, i never really "got" the moody blues sound. Maybe it was the bass player in a band I was in years ago who insisted on singing Knights in White Satin in a monotone, an out of key monotone at that. But he now lives in Malibu, and I'm stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again (actually Baltimore). I hope he's not reading this thread, we're doing a gig in a few weeks (no singing for him).