For six nights last year, Brian Wilson re-created Pet Sounds live at London's Royal Festival Hall. Though his behavior is a tad nutty and his voice a bit frail, he and his crack band do the majestic album justice, especially on "You Still Believe in Me" and "God Only Knows," on which the fifty-nine-year-old Wilson sounds pristine. When he falters a bit, it's OK: The momentary weakness helps him bring out the melancholy of "Caroline, No" and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times."

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.