The Beach Boys An Introduction to "SMiLE Sessions"

A brief introduction to the legendary "SMiLE Sessions" the most famous unreleased album of all time In Stores and online November 1st.
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The expanded boxed edition of The SMiLE Sessions will be released November 1st 2011, featuring the main SMiLE album tracks, plus four CDs of additional audio from the legendary sessions, a double vinyl LP set, and two 7" vinyl singles. The deluxe box also contains a 60-page hardbound book with rare and previously unseen photos and memorabilia from The Beach Boys' archive and newly-written essays by Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, and Bruce Johnston, as well as by Beach Boys historian and author Domenic Priore and many other inner-circle participants.

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• The Beach Boys
• SMILE Sessions
• Good Vibrations
• Brian Wilson
• Mike Love
• Al Jardine
• Bruce Johnston
• Capitol Records
• Rock
• Pop
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• Psychedelic Rock

[FlingsPooAtTheZoo]

@bhertzbe Yeah, apparently Brian said it ("the tapes were destroyed") in '99, but a year later said, "the tapes are in a safe place" lol. (Maybe some of the MIXDOWNS were destroyed.)

I wonder to what extent the proliferation of SMiLE outtake bootlegs--and such popular compilations as the "Purple Chick" version of SMiLE--available on the internet served as a motivating factor in the release of this masterpiece? Maybe I'll know more after watching the rest of these great videos.

[SuperEdu1965]

@dvs2751

[AceFaceMedia]

Miss you Carl...

[galoon]

@pmoyer50 Mike wasn't jealous; he really did hate the lyrics. I think his concerns about a change of direction were valid; an established act is taking a risk by deviating from the formula to this degree--it might work; it might not. They didn't have the benefit of hindsight like we do. Having said that, Brian did the right thing by growing and expanding musically--the public's tastes were changing, and Pet Sounds & Smile were his answer to that.

[pluginhoney]

@deweypug I think everyone knows Mike has only been in it for the money and riding the nostalgia gimmick for decades now. He doesn't care about art or music nearly as much as wringing dry the Beach Boys name, and although he should be scorned for dismissing Pet Sounds and probably ruining Smile and Brian's confidence in his own music, it's his revisionist and take-credit-for-everything bullshit that should be scorned even more. He's just extremely unlikable.

[GlennKidd]

Brian Wilson is a musical genius. Pet Sounds & SMiLE are masterpieces.

[TheMrOdagled]

@blueticecho Hahahahahaha!! All I can do is laugh at people like you. Lol!

[TheMrOdagled]

It is life changing

[deweypug]

@leichenzedeichen Uh, not even close pal.

[deweypug]

@pluginhoney No truer words ever spoken... Everyone involved with recording those tracks knew that Mike disliked Pet Sounds and really did not like Smile, arguing that the music was non-sense... Short sighted fool that he is.