Obviously music is in the long run, a subjective medium and thus any music is going to be subject to favorable and unfavorable critique (as it should be)
Perhaps though some historical perspective ?
In the mid 60's "Rock" music, aka "Rock & Roll" was simply a new moniker for the changing face of "Pop" music,,,, or "Popular Music".
As such it was a fairly diverse "genre" Especially in light of what could be heard on any single given " Popular Radio" channel .
It more or less encompassed what has now morphed into multi sub genre's of things like .... Folk Rock , Jazz Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Motown, Psychedelic Rock and the beginnings of things like Metal, and "Alt Rock"
Now:
As to why Pet Sounds is considered to be a seminal album is arguably more for the historical importance in production than of the songs themselves. In fact according to Wiki "initially met with a lukewarm critical and commercial response in the United States, peaking at number 10 on Billboard Top LPs chart."
But is considered as being one of the first" concept" type albums, one of the first "self produced" albums (by the artist/s) And one of the first to bring in a number of different musical sounds and elements, not normally associated with a Popular or Rock production.
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