Bruce Johnston said in 2008: "I think as an exercise in keeping him occupied, it's interesting. ... I talk to him every once in a while. But I'm never going to tell him that I'll take "Pet Sounds" over what he's doing now. Al Jardine said in 2013 that he "didn't give it a whole lot of thought; I didn't want to go there at that time. They were good enough to send me a copy. So I dropped the needle, as they used to say, and listened to a few cuts, and it was very nice. But there's nothin' like the [vintage recordings."