http://therisingstorm.net/the-beach-boys-smiley-smile/ | therisingstorm.net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://therisingstorm.net/the-beach-boys-smiley-smile/comment-page-1/#comment-239635 Len Liechti Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:57:04 +0000 http://therisingstorm.net/the-beach-boys-smiley-smile/#comment-239635 Just heard that Capitol is about to issue the nearest thing yet to the original SMiLE - a 2CD set with one disc containing the whole of the projected album in mono plus some segments duplicated in stereo and a second disc's worth of work-in-progress cuts. There'll also be a similar 2-LP set and a mega package with innumerable CDs, LPs and 45s (see Wikipedia page for full details). The latter is definitely over-egging the pudding unless you're a Brian completist, but the budget CD set sounds like the real deal after all these years, even allowing for the fact that the sequencing must be treated with caution as an original running order was never finalised prior to cancellation. The loving recreation from 2004 did the music justice but with the best will in the world was never authentic, and its pin-sharp twenty-first century production values lacked the hazy beauty of those original recordings that survived to find their way on to Smiley Smile and Surf's Up. If this reissue sticks to the original final mixes, it looks like it'll be the one. Originally announced last February but due out October 31 in the UK, having (presumably) been cunningly held over for Christmas. Just heard that Capitol is about to issue the nearest thing yet to the original SMiLE – a 2CD set with one disc containing the whole of the projected album in mono plus some segments duplicated in stereo and a second disc’s worth of work-in-progress cuts. There’ll also be a similar 2-LP set and a mega package with innumerable CDs, LPs and 45s (see Wikipedia page for full details). The latter is definitely over-egging the pudding unless you’re a Brian completist, but the budget CD set sounds like the real deal after all these years, even allowing for the fact that the sequencing must be treated with caution as an original running order was never finalised prior to cancellation. The loving recreation from 2004 did the music justice but with the best will in the world was never authentic, and its pin-sharp twenty-first century production values lacked the hazy beauty of those original recordings that survived to find their way on to Smiley Smile and Surf’s Up. If this reissue sticks to the original final mixes, it looks like it’ll be the one. Originally announced last February but due out October 31 in the UK, having (presumably) been cunningly held over for Christmas.

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