The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains

The first track from the Beach Boys album "Smiley Smile" from 1967.

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• and
• villains
• brian
• wilson

[RAFStudioOfficial]

Mike Love disliked this video 4 times.

[abazanuff]

Taskmaster brought me here.

[Desiree50able]

All i can say is thank you Brian Wilson.

[riffraffselbow]

Not particularly proud of it, but Fantastic Mr. Fox (A wonderful movie by the incomparable Wes Anderson, for what it's worth; shows how insecure I am to be ashamed that I was brought here by it) brought me here.

[DavidCKendall]

@Ingr9821 Have you checked out Van Dyke Parks' solo albums? All glorious and eccentric! 'Clang of the Yankee Reaper' and 'Tokyo Rose', good ones to start with.

[DavidCKendall]

@TheOneartist I've purchased the SMiLE sessions. where it sits sealed on the shelf for a few weeks. I gotta go find a bottle of wine worthy of the 1st listen. Thanks for the recommend.

[Ingr9821]

For Van Dyke Parks' lyrics along the song is brilliant.

My children were raised

You know they suddenly rise

They started slow long ago

Head to Toe

Healthy Wealthy and Wise

[TheBoldImperator]

@briney1973 The mix on the Smile Sessions version was never Brian's - it was entirely Mark Linnett and Alan Boyd's. Heroes and Villains changed shape so many times it's not even funny. The original May 1966 version apparently contained You Are My Sunshine, the later 1966 version used I'm in Great Shape and Barnyard, the familiar Cantina version was from Feburary '67, which was the first part of a planned double sided single, and then it evolved into this.

[manicalhippieboy]

dem harmonies

[sirloine123]

smiley smile is crap compared to the smile sessions

[WALNUTS52]

Believe it or not on the new released SMILE this is done like i've never heard it...smooth with pure vocals.

[alliant]

I actually really enjoy this smiley smile version...the production makes it sound a lot more cohesive and "finished". it's smoother on the ears. I listened to it on a mushroom trip and couldn't fathom how the unfinished, "half assed" version here was a masterpiece in itself (on top of the smile version being one too!)