Album Rating: 5.0

Exactly. I hear everything from the Beatles to Animal Collective here, and lots more in between.

Album Rating: 5.0

I actually never realized how much my favorite AC records sound like they were derived from this collection

I could go for some more Beach Boys

Only ones on the tracklist from this that are also on my GH are Good Vibrations and Heroes And Villains

Album Rating: 5.0

inb4 ars says smiley smiley is way better lul

Album Rating: 5.0

This is no longer relevant to the conversation but a page ago Rowan mentioned how out of place Good Vibrations feels as a closer and I totally agree. The first time I listened all the way through, the bonus track "You're Welcome" played right after and I felt that was a fitting end, and it also rounds the thing out at an even 20 tracks.

Album Rating: 5.0

...and that's not to mention that half the fun here is rearranging the tracks. Since it was never finished, it makes for an enjoyably interactive record.

Album Rating: 4.4

I just can't imagine not having Surf's Up as the closer in any variation. like it could be the final song Brian ever wrote and I would be totally fine with it. how are you not gonna end this album with that god-tier Child is Father of the Man coda? it's the only ending that makes sense of the album's childlike nursery rhyme kind of influence



Good Vibrations should be right in the middle imo, before things get surreal with the Elements cycle. hell have it close Side One, like Sloop John B on Pet Sounds

that's all valid, rowan. i agree in terms of flow and theming surf's up would be a better final track. in general i'm all for final tracks being the best song on the album

Album Rating: 4.0

The album Surf's Up finishes on, uhh Surf's Up and is chronically under-rated. I have a bootleg of this I prefer but was still thrilled when this came out; definitely a missing integral piece in a complex genealogy

Album Rating: 4.0

bootleg's called AlternateBrianWilson Presents SMiLE if anyone's interested in doing a deep dive

Album Rating: 5.0

those dislikes are bots

Album Rating: 4.4

Surf's Up the album would straight up be my favourite Beach Boys if that godawful Mike Love cut was dropped for any of the Dennis Wilson songs that got shafted from that album for [various dumb reasons]



PS and Sunflower are supreme as is, but Surf's Up is still killer. that closing run of three songs man

Album Rating: 4.4

Feel Flows is like top 10 Beach Boys



Carl was the mf man

Album Rating: 5.0

I really need to get on the rest of their discography. I just can't stop listening to this for long enough to get interested in anything else.

Album Rating: 5.0

@SowingSeason What’s great is a lot of the Smile tracks popped up between Smiley Smile (1967) and Surf’s Up (1972), so you can get a new taste of what the songs sounded like along with Brian’s 2004 Smile.



The Beach Boys are my second or third favorite band. Pet Sounds and Smile Sessions are their greatest achievements, but you have to check all the studio albums from Today! to Surf’s Up. Many of those are extremely underrated.

Album Rating: 4.5

surfs up is the best song ever

Album Rating: 4.5

hyperbolically but it is probably in my top ~100. most likely my favorite beach boys song

Album Rating: 5.0

How do you all feel this compares to Brian Wilson's "Smile"? I had never heard it until today. He's said that he prefers his version over this version. I was shocked though, because I didn't realize his version was entirely rerecorded in 2004 including new vocals. There are some things I prefer, including the overall production, because everything sounds more discernable, but that also defeats the purpose of hearing what the album would sound like in it's original state. I'm interested in watching Wilson's performance of Smile live.

Album Rating: 4.4

this remains disjointed as hell and using post-67 overdubs kinda feels like cheating to me even if It does make for a more complete album lol. even fully sequenced and finished by Brian I don't think this would touch Pet Sounds for me, but also it's unfinishedness is as much a part of its legend as it's quality really



all that to say some of the brief moments that pop up and disappear on here are unbelievable. like that little cascading "haaaave you seen the grand coolie workin on the railroad" or the children are raised part in Heroes are some of the best discrete 20 second chunks of music I've ever heard

Album Rating: 4.0

there's a really great 12 song version I gotta hit you up with Sowing (ends with a composite version of The Elements and Surf's Up) as I've always hated how this ends with Good Vibrations. Always felt like an undeserved ending to such an ambitious piece. (when you gonna check out Smiley Smile because you mention AnCo and I would say SS is very much more AnCo-ish in composition and structure)