Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band
| Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
|---|---|
| Remix album (Mashup) by The Beachles (Clayton Counts) | |
| Released | September 5, 2006 |
| Recorded | July 12, 1965 – c. April 17, 1966 (The Beach Boys sessions), 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967 (The Beatles sessions) |
| Genre | |
| Length | 69:21 |
| Label | Self-released |
| Producer | Clayton Counts |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Entertainment Weekly | favorable |
Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a track-for-track mashup of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Clayton Counts. Released under the pseudonym The Beachles, it was posted to Counts's blog on September 5, 2006.
The album received favorable mentions in Entertainment Weekly and USA Today, as well as various blogs around the world. Shortly after release, Counts received a cease and desist order from EMI's attorneys around September 8, 2006. Notably, the letter included a demand for Counts to hand over the IP addresses of everyone who downloaded or streamed the songs. Counts removed the songs, but refused to give up the IPs and fired back with a lengthy missive on his blog. The incident drew the attention of the Associated Press and Rolling Stone, and resulted in a letter-writing campaign and a boycott of EMI and Capitol Records on behalf of Counts.
Counts linked to the tracker site isoHunt as a place to still download the album after his cease and desist letter.