The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions
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hel9000
June 4th 2024


1714 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This is so great



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85M95JZ7U_0

Frippertronics
Emeritus
June 6th 2024


19720 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"Brian’s final masterpiece before he fell off his rocker imo"



absolutely hate this narrative because all it does is infantilizes him, so demeaning lol



people get so caught up in some myth that people like him and Syd Barrett were on some Icarus shit when in reality they were already ill in some way and their habits or surroundings only brought that illness to the surface. Brian could've kept making terrible car and surf songs and I feel like what happened to him was going to inevitably happen, whether it were in 1966 or 1976.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
June 6th 2024


19720 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

re: Good Vibrations



it plays a weird role where Brian was workshopping it during Pet Sounds, let it sit and then finished it. I feel more personally that its inclusion on Smile was more for the sake of ensuring there was a song the public recognized to make the total shift more acceptable, that or Capitol pushed for it. Conceptually, I feel it works, but tonally it is different.

onionbubs
December 4th 2024


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

WHO RAAAAAAAAN THE IIIIron horse

StrizzMatik
May 21st 2025


4232 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

If you haven't listened to the Dae Lims AI mix of Smile yet, you're missing out. Probably the closest anyone has gotten to what a completed Smile could have sounded like

Frippertronics
Emeritus
May 21st 2025


19720 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh



by nature, while I appreciate the ambition, someone singing what they imagine Brian and co. would sing and using trained AI Brians, etc. is rather ghoulish lol. Also that version has an atrocious Surf's Up ngl

hel9000
May 24th 2025


1714 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah didn't vibe with the Dae Lims too much. Still a noble effort. I'll say I like SonicLoveNoize's take on the tracklist and probably prefer it to the kitchen sink approach on here.

StrizzMatik
May 24th 2025


4232 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

BOOKOFF SMiLE is another great one

onionbubs
June 11th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

once again i must ask



WHO RAAAAAAAAN THE IIIIron horse



Sowing
Moderator
July 20th 2025


45523 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Best summer album ever / best album ever



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