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It's been two years (as of February, 2006) since Brian Wilson unveiled his lost Beach Boys masterpiece, SMiLE, in London during a series of concerts there. SMiLE had been intended to be the follow-up album to the legendary and influential Pet Sounds, but for a lot of complicated reasons, the sessions were scrapped and the tapes locked away.
In spite of the fact that SMiLE was released in 2004 as an album of completely new recordings by Brian Wilson and his current touring band, the music remains very much an artifact of the 1960s psychedelic era. For that reason, I've decided to place this thread in the 60s forum.
There's a lot to discuss about SMiLE. Tracks surfaced on late 60s and early 70s Beach Boys albums, and bootlegs of the SMiLE sessions (which circulated widely from the 1980s to the present) were directly involved in the process that resulted in Brian Wilson and Van **** Parks revisiting the project in 2003 to prepare it for peformance. It's a very fascinating story with lots of unexpected twists.
So who around here has heard SMiLE (whether via the '04 CD release, the '05 concert DVD, or boots of 60s sessions, or all the above), and what are your feelings and opinions?
In spite of the fact that SMiLE was released in 2004 as an album of completely new recordings by Brian Wilson and his current touring band, the music remains very much an artifact of the 1960s psychedelic era. For that reason, I've decided to place this thread in the 60s forum.
There's a lot to discuss about SMiLE. Tracks surfaced on late 60s and early 70s Beach Boys albums, and bootlegs of the SMiLE sessions (which circulated widely from the 1980s to the present) were directly involved in the process that resulted in Brian Wilson and Van **** Parks revisiting the project in 2003 to prepare it for peformance. It's a very fascinating story with lots of unexpected twists.
So who around here has heard SMiLE (whether via the '04 CD release, the '05 concert DVD, or boots of 60s sessions, or all the above), and what are your feelings and opinions?