The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions

Guess Brian didn't burn the masters after all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/14/beach-boys-smile?CMP=twt_gu

I like the beach boys and all but don't understand the hype around this one. will def check it out though.

It's basically been the unreleased follow up to Pet Sounds for over 40 years. Brian rerecorded Smile and released it as a solo album a few years back, but this is what was to be the real thing.

oh that other one was rerecorded?

Yeah it was completely rerecorded based on the original compositions.

awesome. the first smile was amazing, can't wait to hear it.

  On 3/15/2011 at 6:34 AM, SPD² said:

Yeah it was completely rerecorded based on the original compositions.

oh snap I was not aware of that. now I'm psyched for this.

  On 3/15/2011 at 8:58 AM, jules said:

  On 3/15/2011 at 6:34 AM, SPD² said:

Yeah it was completely rerecorded based on the original compositions.

 

oh snap I was not aware of that. now I'm psyched for this.

Right, but what's coming out is the original recordings circa '66/'67.

yea that's why I'm psyched. I've had that other smile and was always meh. now I know why. I never really looked into it before but I'm really curious to hear the original.

so stoked!!

i wonder how many animal collective hipsters are going to say the beach boys stole panda's sound for their new album.

  On 3/15/2011 at 9:08 PM, jules said:

i wonder how many animal collective hipsters are going to say the beach boys stole panda's sound for their new album.

bahaha

And yeah this will be cool, though it's hard to not see it as a cash grab from Capitol

Always loved The Beach Boys.

i spent my teenage years completely bonkers about the smiles out takes,

Will be great to hear this. I like the new version a lot, but the production feels a bit too slick to me.

has it leaked yet?

  On 3/17/2011 at 9:54 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

Will be great to hear this. I like the new version a lot, but the production feels a bit too slick to me.

you've heard the new one??

edit: oh you mean the newer rerecorded one I think.

  On 3/15/2011 at 9:10 PM, blacks said:

  On 3/15/2011 at 9:08 PM, jules said:

i wonder how many animal collective hipsters are going to say the beach boys stole panda's sound for their new album.

 

bahaha

 

And yeah this will be cool, though it's hard to not see it as a cash grab from Capitol

Probably less a cash grab than just a survival reflex, I mean w/ major labels like dying and all.

  On 3/18/2011 at 2:43 AM, jules said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 9:54 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

Will be great to hear this. I like the new version a lot, but the production feels a bit too slick to me.

 

you've heard the new one??

 

edit: oh you mean the newer rerecorded one I think.

Yeah, the one from a few years back.

so this is out and no one has commented on it...

It's absolutely fucking fantastic.

I've got countless bootlegs but of course this canes them all as everything is in top quality and all the pieces sound consistant. It's fantastic to hear them in an order selected by Brian as it does flow through really well. Alot of people who assembled bootlegs were on the right track but they always got the Heros and Villains edits wrong, they put in too many takes.

  On 11/7/2011 at 6:19 AM, Greg Reason said:

It's absolutely fucking fantastic.

 

I've got countless bootlegs but of course this canes them all as everything is in top quality and all the pieces sound consistant. It's fantastic to hear them in an order selected by Brian as it does flow through really well. Alot of people who assembled bootlegs were on the right track but they always got the Heros and Villains edits wrong, they put in too many takes.

agreed. this is amazing. i just started digging into it, but i'm really enjoying it.

Jesus, Mike Love is the biggest fucking idiot.

this is amazing stuff.

i can relate to jules lack of interest in the brian wilson re-recorded version. i tried listening to that a few times and there was very little about it that grabbed me. this version is just so much better. it actually sounds like the followup to pet sounds it was supposed to be. very excellent ^^

I've been very fond of a great smile sessions bootleg called Purple Chick (supposedly a reconstruction made by the session engineers themselves) - can someone who's heard the bootleg provide a comparison to this?