My Pet Sounds Off: Translating the Beach Boys

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My Pet Sounds Off translates 35 popular Beach Boys songs from English to English, updating, editorializing, and fooling around with the poppy lyrics of the world’s favorite surf band.

Put on your sunscreen. Pull out the deck chair. Prepare to revisit - with 21st century eyes and ears - the soundtrack to your adolescent romantic fantasies, crushing break-ups, and endless summers spent at the beach awash in ocean waves, pheromones, and tight harmonies.