"... And then the release of Smile kept getting delayed. In June of 1967 the Beach Boys canceled out of the Monterey Pop Festival, the pre-Woodstock, Summer of Love anointing of the Byrds, the Dead, Joplin, Hendrix, the Who, Otis Redding, and Ravi Shankar. Was Brian Wilson worried that the Beach Boys were too square for the hippies? And then the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper. Finally, in September of 1967 the Beach Boys released . . . . Smiley Smile. This wasn't progress. This wasn't an advance. This was a collapse, or maybe a retraction, or even a surrender. Not the next Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper. Or an improvement on Pet Sounds. This was . . . what exactly?"
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2010 July: Pet Sounds, 2013 October: The Pet Sounds Sessions.
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