With that in mind, lets continue along Pet Sounds. We left off with the second song, You Still Believe In Me. The third song of the album is "That's Not Me", which is an interesting song because it doesn't seem to have any part that repeats itself. Each verse has a new background, a new tempo and a totally different sound. Brian Wilson sings the lead vocal about a boy who "once had a dream/so I packed up and split for the city/I soon found out/that my lonely life wasn't so pretty". No one to my knowledge had ever before written about a youth trying to prove himself by moving out, although that was a frequently observed philosophy in that time. The fourth song is "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)", which is a perfect example of the use of instruments and tempos to represent emotions. The best case of this is when Wilson says "don't talk/put your head on my shoulder/and listen to my heart beat", followed by thumping bass beats.
The fifth song is "I'm Waiting For The Day". As the remastered CD sleeve says "After the introduction, the track abruptly shifts into a beautiful oboe line echoing the lead vocal. Listen for the symphonic sound of the flutes, an incredible series of tempo changes, the great background vocals and the warmth of the strings near the tag." The sixth song is "Let's Go Away For Awhile", a beautiful instrumental which blends in perfectly with the rest of the album. This piece proved that while the beauty of early Beach Boys songs may have been the harmonious vocals, what really help Pet Sounds up over all these years was the fact that Brian Wilson new how to arrange pieces and assemble orchestras to produce the exact sound and sentiment he wanted. The seventh song is "Sloop John B.", a remix of an old Kingston Trio song that frequently changes tempos and adds more and more vocals as it goes along. "Sloop John B." Was one of the Pet Sounds songs that did well commercially as well as critically, topping of at #3 on the charts.
