My first favorite song was “Sloop John B”. I listened to it with my Grandpa Lang on an old 45. Man, we loved that song. We never talked about why, exactly. Maybe it was the glockenspiel. Or maybe it was the opening line.
The bulk of my memories of listening to “Sloop John B.” with my grandpa must be from around 1983. In 1983 Pet Sounds was seventeen years old. My grandfather must have considered it current in the way I consider Is This It? by the Strokes to be current.