Some of you may remember when I posted awhile back about how I was playing music to get my daughter to sleep. Well, it appears that I’ve found the perfect album…and, what a surprise, it’s an album that I already knew was perfect: the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. The one-two-three punch of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “You Still Believe In Me,” and “That’s Not Me” is so powerfully soothing that, by the fourth track, she’s put her head on my shoulder, sound asleep. I’ve been using it as her bedtime soundtrack for a week now, and, even on her worst night, I’ve still never gotten to hear my favorite song on the album (and one of my favorites of all time), “God Only Knows,” which is track #9.
Fortunately, she still gets to hear it; I put the disc on “repeat.”
