"An impossible dream has become reality. Smile, the great lost Beach Boys album, finally received an official release on Capitol Records in 2011. The musical jigsaw that Brian Wilson couldn’t quite piece together in 1967, has, thanks to the wonders of digital editing, been assembled 44 years behind schedule. It may only be a version of Smile – using the 2004 album Brian Wilson Presents Smile as a template – but that’s good enough for Wilson. ... Pet Sounds (1966) had been a symphonic, heart-tugging album about adolescent love and the coming of age. The intention with Smile – briefly called 'Dumb Angel', a title soon jettisoned – was to explore America’s landscape and history in a theatrical (but also cinematic) style, executed in a spirit of gaiety and fun. ... 'We wanted to try something different with music,' says Brian today. 'We wanted to do something a little more advanced. We wanted to try and top Pet Sounds.' Wilson and his lyricist Van Dyke Parks conceived Smile as a journey across America from east to west; a movie in widescreen Surreal-O-Vision, featuring pioneers and frontiers, cantinas and log cabins, railroads and 'waves of wheat'. ..."
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YouTube: Surf's Up (Bootleg, From "SMiLE (Millennium Edition)", Heroes & Villians (Barnyard Suite) [Smile Millennium Edition, Bootleg]
YouTube: Surf's Up (Brian Wilson solo, Autumn 1967), 'Surf's Up' -Brian Wilson's Piano Demo Master Take and Finished Song
YouTube: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks talk about SMILE
2010 July: Pet Sounds, 2013 October: The Pet Sounds Sessions, 2016 July: Enter Brian Wilson’s Creative Process While Making The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds 50 Years Ago: A Fly-on-the Wall View, 2017 May: "Caroline, No" - Brian Wilson and Tony Asher (1966)
2012 July: Van Dyke Parks, 2015 December: Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove (1998), 2016 November: Song Cycle (1967), 2017 March: Jump! (1984), 2017 April: Orange Crate Art - Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks (1995)
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