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Smile Sessions

The Beach Boys (Artist) Format: Audio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars 551 ratings
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Track Listings

1 Our Prayer
2 Gee
3 Heroes and Villains
4 Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)
5 I'm in Great Shape
6 Barnyard
7 My only Sunshine (The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine)
8 Cabin Essence
9 Wonderful
10 Look (Song for Children)
11 Child is Father of the Man
12 Surf's Up
13 I Wanna be Around / Workshop
14 Vega - Tables
15 Holidays
16 Wind Chimes
17 The Elements: Fire (Mrs. O'Leary's Cow)
18 Love to Say Dada
19 Good Vibrations
20 You're Welcome
21 Heroes and Villains (Stereo Mix)
22 Heroes and Villains Sections (Stereo Mix)
23 Vega - Tables (Demo)
24 He Gives Speeches
25 Smile Backing Vocals Montage
26 Surf's Up 1967 (Solo Version)
27 Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls Into a Piano
28 Capitol Smile Promo (Hidden Track)

Product description

Never Before Released Original 1966-67 Album Sessions Between the summer of 1966 and early 1967, The Beach Boys recorded a bounty of songs and drafts for an album, SMiLE, that was intended to follow the band's 1966 masterpiece, Pet Sounds. The SMiLE Sessions presents the recording sessions for the album, which achieved legendary, mythical status for music fans around the world.

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  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 14.2 x 0.99 cm; 104.04 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Universal Music
  • Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 4667794
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2013
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Universal Music
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005KGNM90
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • 鶹 Rank: #3,326 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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    4.6 out of 5 stars 551 ratings

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  • darryl
    5.0 out of 5 stars wow !
    Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2024
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    so many songs on one cd , good vibrations !!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars However Brian Wilson has managed to create such a complex and beautiful masterpiece that the more I listen to it the ...
    Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2016
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    ok , Im not gonna lie, this one took a little while to grow on me, as did pet sounds. However Brian Wilson has managed to create such a complex and beautiful masterpiece that the more I listen to it the more I love it, there is just so much to be enjoyed here! I recommend for anybody that APPRECIATES music .
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  • Sugarbaby22
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection. Period.
    Reviewed in Canada on April 20, 2016
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    This album is just amazing. There will never be another Brian Wilson. I feel absolutely blessed that he was able to finally release his music for this album. The liner notes.. Oh my, that made me cry. Such a sweet gentle man. Pet Sounds and Smile are my everything. Thank you Brian. Carl and Dennis would be so proud.
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  • SH
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good intro to Session
    Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2018
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    Good subset of the full sessions. Can then decide if you want to purchase the full set of sessions
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  • Ron Ferguson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Happy To Add This To My Collection
    Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2019
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    It's the Beach Boys; and as a fan of their sound, I really enjoy having a quality record album of theirs.
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  • Flyguy1
    5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential 60's Album
    Reviewed in Canada on October 14, 2015
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    This in my opinion is better that Pet Sounds and Sgt Pepper. I have been a die hard Beatles fan for 30 years and still absolutely love them but I underestimated how good the mid-period Beach Boys stuff really is.
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  • darryl
    5.0 out of 5 stars waited for this. studio tracks and all.
    Reviewed in Canada on August 28, 2017
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    waited for this . studio tracks and all.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on June 14, 2017
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    Great album.
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  • LAURENT Alain
    5.0 out of 5 stars QUARANTE CINQ ANS DE RETARD !
    Reviewed in France on March 21, 2012
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    Après avoir acquis le "SMILE" de Brian Wilson de 2004, je n'ai pu résister à la tentation de réunir les différents morceaux enregistrés par les BEACH BOYS figurant sur différents albums de compilation édités il y a quelques années !

    Je ne m'attendais pas à trouver sur un même CD (dont je doute qu'il ait pu en son temps faire l'objet d'un unique album) un ensemble aussi harmonieux et si bien construit.

    Il est bien trop tard aujourd'hui pour dire que cet album aurait sans doute été "l'Album du Siècle", car il se démarquait bien trop des productions de l'époque, et aurait sans doute connu le même sort que "PET SOUNDS", qui a eu bien du mal à émerger, même s'il a par la suite été reconnu comme l'un des meilleurs du moment !

    J'ai depuis acquis le coffret intégral, dont les cinq CDs n'apportent pas grand chose de plus, si ce n'est quelques morceaux qui auraient mérité d'y figurer. Mais c'est alors un triple album vinyle qu'il aurait fallu concevoir, et ce n'était pas dans l'air du temps.

    Il y avait alors des choix à faire, et je comprends fort bien que Brian WILSON ait renoncé à le faire, d'autant que le concept lui-même ne faisait pas l''unanimité au sein des BEACH BOYS, à commencer par Mike LOVE qui ne semble pas s'être montré trés coopératif.

    Que de regrets, sauf celui d'avoir acquis ce double CD qui se suffit à lui même et incitera peut être ceux qui ne connaissaient pas Brian WILSON à s'intéresser davantage à son oeuvre !
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  • Yael Cabello
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto
    Reviewed in Mexico on September 9, 2019
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    Muy buen disco, sin duda alguna es de colección
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  • Kalyan Kamal Roy
    2.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Disappointing
    Reviewed in India on September 11, 2020
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    SMILE was not concluded and released in 1967. And thankfully it was not released. Else career of The Beach Boys would have been over then only. Extremely disappointing album.
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  • Vito Calise
    5.0 out of 5 stars Il confronto...
    Reviewed in Italy on November 30, 2018
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    Registrazioni inedite di cinquant'anni fa, oggi tornate alla luce: belle e interessanti (ci sono anche tracce ancora da miscelare); il confronto con la versione realizzata in tempi recenti da Brian Wilson (ma senza gli altri Beach Boys) è a favore di quest'ultima: migliorate le armonizzazioni vocali, limato qualche passaggio, migliorata ovviamente la qualità dell'incisione. Pietra miliare da non perdere.
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  • steve_manassas
    5.0 out of 5 stars The world's most famous "lost" album...at last!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2011
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    Note: This review also applies to The Smile Sessions Box Set.

    Other than The Beatles' GET BACK album, which still has not been released in its original form (the Spectorized Let It Be (Remastered) and the remixed, de-Spectorized Let It Be... Naked notwithstanding), The Beach Boys' SMiLE project is the most famous (and maybe infamous) unreleased album in rock history. Originally planned as a follow-up to 1966's Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson scrapped the project in mid-1967 after months of work, believing he had lost his competition with The Beatles, and the pressures from the other Beach Boys, plus legal problems with Capitol Records, finally wore him down.

    A replacement album, Smiley Smile, cobbled together by the group using only the "Good Vibrations" single and fragments from the original sessions - the rest of the album was rerecorded - was a critical and commercial flop. Fragments of SMiLE were issued on later Beach Boys albums such as 20/20 and Surf's Up. In 1993, about an hour of lost SMiLE music was issued on the Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys boxed set. Then, in 2004, Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks completed a new version of SMiLE and recorded it with Brian's new band, The Wondermints (Brian Wilson Presents Smile); a live concert version, recorded earlier that year in London, was also issued on DVD.

    Now, with the impending 50th anniversary of The Beach Boys approaching, Capitol Records, along with Brian, has released two versions of THE SMiLE SESSIONS - a basic two-disc version, and a nine-disc box set (five CDs, two vinyl LPs, and two vinyl 45 RPM singles). The first CD, which contains the same contents in both releases, contains a newly revised SMiLE album, using the same running order as the 2004 remake, giving us an idea of what the album would have sounded like in 1967. Most of the tracks are mono, as Brian always preferred; he was deaf in one ear, and could not hear stereo sound properly, and as a producer, he believed that only mono mixes could present the music to the listener as he wanted it heard. Stereo, Brian believed, left too much to the listener's equipment setup. While I would have loved to have a stereo version of the album, as was done with The Pet Sounds Sessions box set in 1996, the producers explained that unlike Pet Sounds, most of the multi-track masters and many of the components were lost, so a stereo remix of SMiLE was impossible to produce.

    The second CD of the first version contains session highlights from "Our Prayer" to "Good Vibrations" - more than enough to satisfy the casual Beach Boy fan. The deluxe box set is aimed more at collectors and die-hards, and what a collection it is. CD1 is identical to the first version, but CDs 2 through 5 contain a very comprehensive view of the SMiLE sessions. So comprehensive, in fact, that the "Heroes and Villains" sections take up about 90 percent of CD2, and the "Good Vibrations" sessions take up all of CD5. While somewhat repetitive, the session tapes offer fascinating listening, showing Brian's perfectionism and dedication to getting the right sound. I'm sure he drove the other musicians and the other Beach Boys crazy, but it was obviously worth the effort.

    The two-LP vinyl album in the deluxe edition follows tracks 1-19 of CD1 for the first three sides. The fourth side contains rare stereo mixes that are not included on the CDs. The two 45s are the singles that never were, the two-part "Heroes and Villains" single, and the "Vega-Tables"/"Surf's Up" single.

    Packaging and amenities are impressive. The two-disc set includes a colorful 36-page booklet, a SMiLE button, and a fold-out poster of the album artwork. The deluxe edition is even more impressive; the artwork on the box cover has 3-D graphics; the inside of the box lid has the original back cover of the Duophonic (fake stereo) release of the album, had it been issued. Inside the box are a 60-page hardcover book with additional essays and a complete sessionography; a double-gatefold sleeve with slots for all five CDs and the two vinyl 45s; the two-record vinyl album in a mono jacket with a gatefold sleeve and a 10" photo album inside; and a giant-economy-size version of the album artwork poster.

    The casual fan will probably make do with the two-disc set, but collectors will want both.

    I'd love to see The Beatles and Apple do a similar box set for the GET BACK SESSIONS, not to mention the long-lost LET IT BE DVD.

    Some additional observations:

    1) The vinyl LP and singles sound fine. I especially enjoyed the stereo mixes on Side 4, but wish that they had been on the CD releases. Although I grew up with vinyl, after listening to CDs for over 20 years, vinyl just sounds flat.

    2) The 45 versions of "Vega-Tables" and "Surf's Up" are the same as on the LP and CD.

    3) If you have the big box set, "Heroes and Villains Part 1" and "Heroes and Villains Part 2" are only available on the vinyl 45, though the individual modules for these tracks are probably scattered throughout the four Sessions CDs. The only way to get the full versions of "Heroes and Villains Part 1" and "Heroes and Villains Part 2" on CD is to buy the two-disc set (Tracks 2 and 3 on CD2). All of the other tracks on that disc can be found on the session box set, although some of them are edited (particularly the "Good Vibrations" sessions).

    4) I compared the 20/20 versions of "Cabin Essence" and "Our Prayer," and the 1971 version of "Surf's Up," to the SMiLE versions. Save for stereo remixing and overdubs, the versions are almost identical. It's amazing that the 1968 overdubbed vocals on "Our Prayer" are almost perfectly in sync with the 1966 originals - another tribute to Brian's production genius.
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