Brian Wilson - SMiLE
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Artist: Brian WilsonEdition: Music CD
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Our Prayer/Gee
- Heroes and Villians
- Roll Plymouth Rock
- Barnyard
- Old Master Painter/You are My Sunshine
- Cabin Essence
- Wonderful
- Song For Children
- Child is Father of the Man
- Surf's Up
- I'm in Great Shape/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop
- Vega-Tables
- On a Holiday
- Wind Chimes
- Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
- In Blue Hawaii
- Good Vibrations
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Free Music Review: Confusing and inconsistent
Hit: 3 Stars
I'd heard that this was one of those missing gems of musical history,so I had to check it out and was mostly confused. I may have even given the album a higher rating than it deserves because my reaction was not angry, but like I was missing something given all the hype. Its not that I would call it bad, it just wasn't all that fun and catchy as pop music, nor did it have any seeming depth as serious experimental music. It just lurched from song to song and lurched within songs. The false endings and sudden restarting of Heroes and Villains became tiresome. And was this supposed to be Rock and roll? Because it came to sound like some sort of experiment with older American music forms Randy Newman might make, but then not release for sale. I'm not the greatest Beach Boys fan, but I'd give Wilson an honest chance.
I think the high marks, as easy as it would be to make catty remarks about them, are superfans who may have other areas of more sensible taste, but are blinded by their love of Wilson in a whole context and mistake the way this album inflames their nostalgia for great accomplishment by the album itself. Maybe it is just one of those controversial taste dividing lines between otherwise agreeable persons. In any case, borrow this before you buy it, otherwise you will be thinking about what you could have done with that $15 for a LONG time to come.
SMiLE Poster
Smile is inarguably the most long-awaited album in modern pop history. It's been more than 37 years since the title first appeared on a label release schedule, intended as the January 1967 follow-up to the groundbreaking art-rock of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. But Smile never made its initial release date. Today, this album is not a mere reconstruction of past performances, but something entirely new, a serious summation of a project that has been gestating for nearly four decades.Japanese pressing of one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of 2004 includes two bonus tracks, 'Heroes And Villains' (instrumental) and 'Cabin Essence (instrumental). Warner. 2004.
Includes Two Exclusive Instrumental Versions of "Heroes and Villains" and "Cabinessence".
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