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The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile/Wild Honey Audio CD

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The Beach Boys Band: The Beach Boys
Title: Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
Rating:
Release Date: 2001-04-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Heroes and Villains 2: Vegetables 3: Fall Breaks and Back to Winter (W. Woodpecker Symphony) 4: She's Goin' Bald 5: Little Pad 6: Good Vibrations 7: With Me Tonight 8: Wind Chimes 9: Gettin' Hungry 10: Wonderful 11: Whistle In 12: Wild Honey 13: Aren't You Glad 14: I Was Made to Love Her 15: Country Air 16: Thing or Two 17: Darlin' 18: I'd Love Just Once to See You 19: Here Comes the Night 20: Let the Wind Blow 21: How She Boogalooed It 22: Mama Says 23: Heroes and Villains [Alternate Take][*] 24: Good Vibrations [Various Sessions][*] 25: Good Vibrations [Early Take][*] 26: You're Welcome [*] 27: Their Hearts Were Full of Spring [*] 28: Can't Wait Too Long [*]

Less is more...
Listening to Pet Sounds was one of the most magical moments in my lifetime. First off, I am 16 years old and am a huge Beach Boys fan, Pet Sounds being my first Beach Boys album. It is easily my favorite record. So when I bought Smiley Smile, I was expecting a similar sound. After listening to the first few seconds of the record, I almost was disappointed hearing the relatively minimalistic production when compared to Pet Sounds. But after a while, the album really started to shine in its own special way. The minimalistic experimentation on the record is, quite possibly, the most brilliant thing since Pet Sounds. Take "Vegetables" for example. The song is extremely simple in composition, and yet so effective. Wild Honey is also a treat as well. It has a more Rock & Roll/R&B sound as opposed to the experimental minimalism on Smiley Smile. Wild Honey is a pleasure from start to finish. I highly recommend both albums to anyone looking for a different approach to music. Both albums get an A+!.


Poor word choice
Not only does this poor choice of words betray the common erroneous use of this word to connote "divided", it also unfortunately presents an embarrasing affront to Brian Wilson who, sadly, suffers from the aformentioned psychiatric condition. Just a comment on editorial reviewer Jerry McCulley's description above of Smiley Smile as an album that was inadvertantly "schizophrenic" in its approach. It is a tribute to Brian that he manages to display his musical genius in spite of his problems throughout these 2 wonderful CDs. .


Wild Honey is a Lost Masterpiece

Let's face it, Smile is overrated, too much filler, the musical textures
and structures are brilliant, but Van Dyke Parks lyrics are annoying and
not up to the high standard set by the music, Wild Honey had at least 3
songs that should have been top 20, Aren't you Glad(with a Motown beat)
Let The Wind Blow(Lennon & McCartney didn't compose anything better than
this)and even the cover of I Was Made To Love Her should have charted,
that Capitol ignored this album and did not push these songs is criminal,
it was 1967 and Brian Wilson was still king. Brian Wilson's obsession with taking the Beach Boy's sound to another
level, like the Beatle's had done with Revolver & Rubber Soul, gave us
Pet Sounds and would later bring about the Good Vibration sessions and
the aborted Smile project, but for my money Wild Honey is the masterpiece
that Brian was trying to make, by accident or by design, this album was
everything that Rubber Soul was, every song stands out by itself, there
is continuity, the songs flow together in a fashion that nothing on
Pet Sounds or the patchwork bits & pieces that made up Smile every could.

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An Elegantly Flawed Disc
The music is unbelievable especially Smiley Smile. I feel that this grouping of albums is a blessing in that you can get two important but slightly flawed albums of Tehe Beach Boys for a low price. It is exhilirating to hear Brian Wilson's genius in this stripped-down form. What is there just teases you as to what it would have been if all the problems of Smile hadn't occured. The second half, Wild Honey, is just fun Beach Boys, no psychedelia at all, just fun. It's a great summer album all together, the first half for when your blazing, the second for when your driving around in the hot summer air. I recommend this album.


Goodbye Surfing, Hello God !
If you ever wanted to hear what the Beach Boys would sound like on Hashish and laying on their backs while singing harmony stoned, get this, it's really good. Smiley Smile - The "released" version of Smile is here in a smaller scale.
Wild Honey - White soul before there was white soul and 10 years before Hall & Oates and the white Philly soul movement, The Beach Boys did it in 1967. .


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