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AOTY regards to release date, not recording date. Yup.

I've waited pretty much my entire life for this album. My excitement can't contain itself.

has it leaked yet?

>>20792039
not yet, my guess is if it hasn't leaked by now it probably wont. Only 5 days till release though.

Can we just go ahead and make this /mu/ core now? We all know it will be.

>>20792032
Are you going to masturbate to it?

No, because there will be many other releases this year that are better than it anyway.

>>20792087
>Implying I haven't masturbated to the thought of SMiLE for years

>>20792098
>implying

>>20792098
sad but true

pic related

so, time for pedantry.

are you guys going to tag this with the release date as the year, or the recording date as the year?

i'm going with the recording date

>>20792098
Totally, my pick is Goblin
SWAGSWAGSWAGSWAGSWAGSWAGSWAG

I heard the album already, its just a big rip off of Merriweather Post Pavilion but dumbed down to be more radio friendly. The singer even tries to sound like Panda Bear.

You know it's just the sessions in order and not a finished album, right?

November 1st will be like Christmas morning for me.

>>20792145
Part of it is as finished as they could make it. The rest of the box set is the sessions.

>>20792145
It's completely assembled and mastered, unlike the bootlegs that have been floating around. The only thing that is unfinished is that a few songs are instrumental when they were originally supposed to have vocals. Wilson said the album was %90 recorded, just needed a few more vocals recorded and to be assembled (which was nearly impossible with 60's recording tech).

You can listen to 30 second clips of each song on amazon. It sounds amazing, way better than the bootlegs.

Am I the only one who thinks the album artwork is shit? Yes I know it was the original artwork planned in 67 but it's just not good. They should have gone with the 2004 Brian Wilson version cover, just replace Brian Wilson with Beach Boys.

http://www.amazon.com/Smile-Sessions-2CD-Beach-Boys/dp/B005J29HCQ

http://www.hmvdigital.com/artist/the-beach-boys/the-smile-sessions

The second one has previews for the whole box. The sound quality is amazing compared to the Sea of Tunes stuff on the Unsurpassed Masters series, which used to be the highest fidelity representation of just the sessions, with no attempted assembly, but and even that stuff can sometimes sound muffled, hissy, staticy, or distorted. And there's a lot of stuff there which quite obviously hasn't been bootlegged.

it wouldnt have been AOTY if it was released when it was supposed to be, so why would it now

>>20792127
Lolwut
Tomboy was very mediocre outside of Last Night at the Jetty

im sorry everyone but can someone tell me exactly what the story behind this album is?

>>20792319
Pet Sounds: Marijuana
SMiLE: LSD

>>20792209
Right. That's what I meant. So it's just the sessions which is all of the planned songs and more.

>>20792273
Comes in a cool shadow box. You can see the store in 3D.

>>20792319
Was supposed to be the greatest thing ever and kick the Beatles' asses but Brian heard A Day in the Life and went crazy, had a breakdown, got fat, released some weird shit, became a recluse, nearly died, came back and finished it after realizing it was really the greatest thing ever.

>>20792336
Nah, Brian was on LSD even when they were doing Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!).

No. It'll probably be shit, just like the rest of the besch boys discography.

>>20792039
uploading, 15%

>>20792382
Yeah, I'm just referring to what Brian himself has said of both albums. When he's talking about Pet Sounds, he talks about Marijuana, and when he talks about SMiLE, he brings up LSD.

>>20792380
>samefag
it only have 14 tracks in it tho.

>>20792319
It was intended to be the follow up album to Pet Sounds, which is often in the top 10 in greatest albums of all time lists. It was probably the most hyped album ever at the time and it never came out.

The music was extremely ahead of it's time. The album orchestrations were so complex and intricate that Brian Wilson literally had a mental breakdown trying to assemble the album with the insufficient recording technology of the 60's (all the drugs he was doing didn't help with his mental issues either).

It literally killed Brian Wilson's creativity, he pretty much gave up on writing music for decades.

There are a bunch of bootlegs of what they recorded and they are amazing. This is finally a complete, assembled version of the album out of everything they had recorded. It's as close to the original vision we are ever gonna get.

So how is this going to compare to the Smile that came out some years ago? That one was pretty good, but not really amazing.

>>20792474
Musically it will probably be similar, maybe a little more psychedelic. The thing that's gonna put it over the top is the original Beach Boys vocals, which if you listened to Pet Sounds, you know how fucking jizz inducing those melodies are. The 2004 version had some ok Beach Boys impersonators and a 60 something year old Brian Wilson who's voice had lost a lot.

>>20792474
Probably better since it's the original vision, but Brian's version is always definitive no matter what in my view.

>>20792474
It will have these kind of vocals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmwksFJpiY&hd=1

If I hated Pet Sounds is there any chance I'd like this?

>>20792824
Not really. How could you hate Pet Sounds though?

>>20792363
More like,
>Brian Wilson records literally the greatest and most experimental album ever over the course of six months
>The Beach Boys think its shitty and refuse to record vocals for most of the songs
>massive hype
>Brian takes so long to put it together that he and everyone who was supporting him loses faith in it
>mixing and mastering an album like this would have taken at least two years
>shelves it a couple weeks before Sgt. Pepper comes out
>realizes that if he finished it, he would have gone down in history as bigger than The Beatles
>copes with the fact by telling himself the music was shit and wouldn't have sold anyway
>even talking about the album gives sends him into a panic attack for the next thirty-five years
>gains 100lb
>smoking ruins his voice forever
>when the band realizes their careers depend on him, they decide to motivate him into writing music with hamburgers
>is addicted to almost every drug by 1980
>his psychiatrist steals millions of dollars from him
>suffers brain damage from elephant tranquilizers prescribed by his psychiatrist
>gets kicked out of The Beach Boys
>tries to attend the session for Kokomo in 1988, but they tell him to go fuck himself
>his solo album is released a week later, nobody notices because of Kokomo's success

that feel when you're Brian Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSLclEJ0IAQ

>>20792824
Yes

It blows Pet Sounds out of the water

>>20792915
>ruins his voice
I think he still sounds really good.

>>20792380
>14 tracks
This is a bootleg, bro. Not The Smile Sessions.

>realizes that if he finished it, he would have gone down in history as bigger than The Beatles

Nope.

>>20792592
I teared up while listening to that.

>>20792824
>hated Pet Sounds
First off, there's something wrong with you. Or you just didn't hear the album correctly, which means listening to either the mono or stereo 40th anniversary edition with good headphones, at a somewhat high volume. At low volume or low quality it just sounds like elevator music, but when you're actually hearing it, the dense instrumentation comes through and it's all astounding. I prefer the stereo version even though Brian mixes in mono simply because there's so much instrumentation and so many voices that the separation makes it easier to digest. Mono seems flat.

But anyway so even if you really don't like Pet Sounds (which doesn't seem humanly possible to me), there is a chance you might like Smile. It's totally different. Totally different from anything The Beach Boys ever made, and totally different from anything else you've ever heard. It's about as 'far out' as you can go. Far out is the simplest description I can give of it.

>>20793005
This is almost as funny as that screen cap where the guy says that Radiohead is the pinnacle of experimental music.

What exactly is special about the way this album and Good Vibrations were recorded?
They did something weird right?

>>20793005
I have the 40th anniversary mono version and it's the only version I've heard, what exactly is wrong with it? What release should I get that's the best sound quality and mixing?

>>20793005

>It's totally different. Totally different from anything The Beach Boys ever made, and totally different from anything else you've ever heard. It's about as 'far out' as you can go. Far out is the simplest description I can give of it.

>>20793114
Diregard this comment, misread your post.

>>20793046
Read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(The_Beach_Boys_album)#Studio_techniques

>>20792305
>http://www.hmvdigital.com/artist/the-beach-boys/the-smile-sessions
Wow, thanks anon....

I have to say, I am disappointed about some of these... Barnyard and I'm In Great Shape, they simply flew in the demo version onto of the backing track, and it sounds like shit.

But I am really glad to hear that stereo Heroes and Villains. I need to change my pants.

So... how do we know it's actually gonna be good?

>>20793046
Everything was recorded in a modular style. It was the first album produced in the modern way, where you come up with tons of small sections and combine them into one whole, layering the production, a kind of collage of sound. Brian Wilson changed the way that you can use the studio, and the way people record music in general.

The problem is that he could only finish about five songs this way in the amount of time it would normally take for an experienced #1 hit maker like him to finish three albums. The only two that were really absolutely finished before the project was shelved were Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations, both singles, only one being generally well-received. The time sink probably came from the technology of the time. Smile was just too far ahead, and required advanced editing capabilities that didn't come around until just a few years ago.

Or, at least that's how Mark Linett describes it. According to him, Capitol has been trying to do a box set like this since the 80's, which is when Smile stuff originally started leaking, but it just wasn't doable with analog tape edits. They were able to do the Pet Sounds Sessions, but Smile is more like assembling a movie.

It's a crap album from a no-good hippy. You should listen to good Beach Boys albums like Surfin' Safari.

>>20793227
You're forgetting Cabinessence.

>>20793005
>Brian mixes in mono simply because there's so much instrumentation and so many voices that the separation makes it easier to digest
No, he does it because he's deaf in one ear.

>>20793202
Because we have heard the bootlegs and the 2004 redo.

>>20793282
Nice try Mike Love.

>>20793409
Can we all agree that Mike Love is the biggest prick in music history?

>>20793296
Well the songs that were close enough to done were Vegetables, Wind Chimes, Cabinessence, Heroes and Villains, and Good Vibrations. Vegetables got several sort of finalized mixes. Surf's Up is almost there. Really the whole album is musically complete, lyrically only about 90% there. By that I mean that anything instrumental you hear on Brian Wilson Presents Smile is there, with much much more that either didn't make it into to any Smile-destined track or ended up unused. Lyrically though, BWPS has probably a few more stanzas than Smile. The tracks I can think of right off hand that The Beach Boys didn't record lyrics for are do you like worms and love to say dada, but other than that, it's all recorded.

But being all recorded doesn't mean all assembled, and like I said, the modular recording process arrived too early, and the editing tools available have only in the past few years reached the point where it's actually possible to put it together.

>>20793424
mike love is a piece of shit.
theres a special circle of hell for fuckers like him.

Love is reported to have objected to Van Dyke Parks' oblique lyrics to Smile, reserving particular scorn for the song "Cabinessence." During a heated argument at a recording session, Love demanded that Parks explain the song's meaning; Parks demurred and walked out, which led to Parks officially terminating his partnership with Wilson. Although Love allegedly had nothing personal against Parks, he apparently feared the lyrics were too abstract for a Beach Boys record.

>>20793324
The second part of the sentence is why I prefer the stereo. I wasn't commenting on why Brian mixes in mono. I said even though he mixes in mono, this is why I like the stereo.

However, while the fact that he's deaf in one ear does have a little to do with it, the reason he actually mixes in mono is that it gives him the most control over what you hear. With stereo, you can only guarantee the listener is going to receive it as you intend when they're using a decent set of headphones, but if they're hearing it through speakers, there's so many variables that they're just not going to hear what you intend.

He also was aware that the market of the time was AM mono radio.

>>20793282
God just seeing that fuck's face makes me so angry

>>20793227
>The only two that were really absolutely finished before the project was shelved were Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations, both singles, only one being generally well-received.
Untrue. Wonderful and Wind Chimes were the only two that master mix was finished and deemed the final version. Good Vibrations was never intended as part fo the project, and H&V wasn't actually completed until the project was dead in the grave.

>>20792988
I don't think you realize how far ahead Smile was. Brian Wilson practically INVENTED 1967 with Pet Sounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hIV7jwLXt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jotsFVJPHIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afrdo2qneoI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTvhWVTwRnM

All derivatives of Pet Sounds/Good Vibrations. I would link about ten more songs, but I'm pressed for time. Imagine what 1968 would have been like if Smile, an album thousands of leagues above Pet Sounds, would have provoked. For fuck's sake, Pepper was Paul McCartney's conscious attempt at replicating Pet Sounds. He played that record to the other Beatles ad infinitum when it came out.

If The Beatles heard Smile before Pepper was released, they would have flipped their shit. McCartney pissed himself when he heard Pet Sounds, so imagine what his reaction would be to Smile. Remember that before Pepper, The Beatles were on their way out. They stopped touring a year before, and Lennon made a lot of people mad for his Jesus comments. Smile would have changed the industry forever, and Pepper would have been seen as a Beach Boys knockoff.

>>20793040
There's a reason why The Beach Boys are compared to every band associated with indie rock since 1990. Is it even a coincidence that Smile bootlegs began to circulate around the late '80s?

By the way, Thom Yorke has cited The Beach Boys as one of his primary influences.

Yes folks, it ALL began with Brian Wilson. The Beatles have been ripping him off since 1963. If you need even more convincing...
>>20792127
...just remember that Tomboy has a track on it called "Surfer's Hymn".

>>20792127
>implying that album would even exist without SMiLE

sooo how about that smile sessions download?

the real one with 9 discs, not the bootlegs.

>>20793685
My guess is if it hasn't leaked by now, it's not going to. Only 5 more days though!

>>20793685
Hasn't leaked yet

Just got a link.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8l66dn

Will confirm it when I can.

>>20793718
that site seems shady, i aint fucking trying it.

Smile is the pinnacle of classical music.

And I know that's probably not the word I'm looking for here, but what I mean is that it's the best possible extent of sounds that people make with real objects and record in a room with microphones, you know, analog stuff, nothing synthesized. And no auto tuned vocals, no effects at all, save for what you can do with analog tape, echoes and shit.

It was so far ahead of its time that it needed digital editing to actually come together in a timely manner, but given an infinite amount of time to assemble it, it could have happened even without the technology. So it's like the apoapsis of the quality of music that humans can make with objects and their voices.

The only way you can make crazier sounds is with a computer.

Do you guys predict incoming p4k 10/10?

I was never much into The Beach Boys. Could someone explain to me the hype and legacy behind this album?

>>20793777
>>20793777
it's inevitable, they jizz all over it in every review of an album with a minor beach boys influence

>>20793750

Did I hear crazy??

>>20793777
Nice trips but who the fuck cares what they think? Only matters what you think about it.
>>20793796
Read this thread you dumbshit.

>>20793796
Read this thread, I think we've pretty much covered it.

>>20793777

naaa, only geniuses like Kanye West get 10s.

I am calling it my AOTY. Shits gonna be so cash.

>>20793777
Yep, i almost expect it, since it's taken 40 years to come out, and they always 10 reissues and shit, so probably.

>>20793796
when it was originally recorded, it was like nothing else at the time. if SMiLE was released back then, I bet The Beach Boys would have a bigger following

>>20793750
Not really classical. More like Americana. It carried over to Song Cycle too.

There's been at least one thread going on this album at all times for the past week. Lets just get it over with and add it to /mu/ core.

>>20793915
if it gets a 10, i'm sure it will almost be guarenteed a spot in it, but as far as it goes, i think most people would at least have to agree, although i haven't seen many negative connotations about it in the threads.

>>20793915
Isn't Brian Wilson Presents Smile already generally considered /mu/ core?

So I mean it would be obvious you'd also want to hear the real deal with The Beach Boys vocals and Phil Spector's musicians.

I CAN'T STAND IT GUYS. I JUST CAN'T.

>>20793947
BWPS is on p4k-core, not /mu/core.

Also don't add it to /mu/core please. We want people to smile about Smile, not hate it because it's popular.

>>20793964
actually, that's a good point.

phil spector is like the coolest guy in music; if you didnt know, hed hold musicians at gunpoint in recording sessions and stuff #swag
also the ronettes are really really really really good

>>20793984
Yeah, too bad he shot that one chick.

>>20794002
I remember when WWPT was telling me about that.

>>20793838
>nothing else at the time

The production techniques yes, the avant-garde elements no.

>>20792363

>Brian heard Strawberry Fields Forever and went crazy

>>20794047
the production techniques is what i meant.

>>20794051
I believe it was Brian who said that he had to pull over to the side of the road when he heard A Day in the Life on the radio and freaked the fuck out.

>>20793984
>hold musicians at gunpoint in recording sessions

Well he definitely beat Captain Beefheart on the maniacal musicianship.

>>20794070
if i remember correctly, on the SMiLE dvd, they said it was Strawberry Fields, he said they had made the sound he wanted to make, thus, saying they beat him too it, extremely discouraging him.

>>20794129
>Another source of problems came from The Beach Boys deciding to file a lawsuit against Capitol Records to start their own label, Brother Records. This came at a terrible time when Wilson was trying to finish the album and, right along the way, The Beatles were working on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In April 1967, Wilson — who was suffering growing mental problems — was "deeply affected" by hearing a tape of the Sgt. Pepper song "A Day in the Life", which Paul McCartney played to him in Los Angeles. Soon after, Smile was abandoned, and Wilson would not return to complete it until 2004, when it was released as a Brian Wilson album of the same name.

>>20793718
Where did this come from? I downloaded it and at least the track listing seems to suggest it could possibly be legit.

>>20794150
Keep looking through your sources because Capn is right, Wilson heard SFF and PL on the radio, and had to pull his car over.

Look it up.

>>20794170
They're both correct actually.

>>20794170
Oh I know he's right. The quote I posted was what I was referring to though. I mixed events up. Sorry about that.

>>20793718
>>20794161
>6 disc boxset
>96.91MB
Confirmed for not knowing whatthefuck you're talking about

>>20794150
where did you get that from?

in the dvd, it says him, and a friend (who's name i can't remember) said they were going to a burger place, and on the way heard Strawberry Fields, Wilson pulled over and said "this is it" and the other guy, (i think tony asher) said "what?" and then Brian said "this is what i wanted to make, this sound" then sat their and just started laughing, as they were both incredibly stoned.

Both events are possible, but i never heard about that one, That must have happened after this one. interesting. there was also the Ms O'learys cow incident.

>>20793834
Wow, I'm excited for this now. This is starting to sound like it'll be the best album of all time.

I really hope there will someone around here to share it on November 1.

>>20794202
Capn I know he had also heard an acetate of She's Leaving Home and exclaimed it as one of the greatest songs ever written.

um, brian heard be my baby on the radio and had to pull over and called it the best pop song ever made

>>20794202
Right. Tony Asher was Pet Sounds-era so that's probably when that happened since Good Vibrations was recorded during the Pet Sounds sessions. The A Day in the Life thing was late in Smile right before or after Sgt. Pepper came out.

>>20794201
No, of course it's not the whole thing, but the track list and track lengths does match the whole first disc, or at least the mono assembled Smile album portion of the first disc.

It kind of looks like a leak of a digital download version of the mono album proper minus the bonus tracks on the first cd.

But even though it's done I'm not listening to it yet because I'm watching some stuff I don't want to pause.

>>20794234
Except A Day in the Life was the first song recorded for Sgt. Pepper, in 1966.

>>20794250
you browse /mu/ while you watch porn? I do.

>>20794265
Sometimes, but this time it's food porn, anthony bourdain no reservations.

>>20794223
yeah, brian was extremely jealous of the beatles, he basically felt like he was always over shadowed by them, when really, the beatles were jealous of him too, Paul said Pet Sounds was one of the most amazing things he had ever heard, it's quite a weird coincidence

>>20794234
exactly.

also, anyone interested in the Ms O'learys Cow story.

when they were recording the song, which was about the legend of the cow that kick started the chicago fire, when brian started to record it, he wanted to set up the atmosphere, so he got a bunch of toy fireman helmets, and got a trashcan, and put a fire in it. the dat after recording i believe, a warehouse down the street from the studio burnt to the ground, Brian felt it was his fault and became paranoid. it's just a story i find interesting. the dude was having a lot of bad luck.

>>20794264
Says here it was recorded on January 19 and 20 in 1967 which was a little bit before the recording for Smile started. I doubt Paul McCartney would have played the tape for him that early on, though.

>>20794250
OK< I'm not gonna lie, I already started dling before I even replied to you lol

I'm at 30%, I'll be able to tell you exactly what SMiLE this is based on The edits of I'm In Great Shape and Barnyard. We'll see.

>>20794129
i just messaged you on steam to see if you wanted to listen to smile with me for the first time in a mumuplayer since i have no one else to do it with

awkward

>>20794302
uhhh. i should probably check that then. hold on lol.

>>20794294
Later on he dismissed the bad vibes as just plain bad music.

Then it won a Grammy for best instrumental.

>>20794319
yeah, that instrumental is pretty great.

>>20794297
Hmmm, I'm impressed you called me on that, but dismayed I was off by a few weeks.

Either way, acetates of rough mixes were coming and going, and other artists heard what The Beatles were doing.

>>20794298
so... what happened?

>>20794480
tis legit.

>>20793718
This is the official disk 1.

>>20794505
>>20794502
Yeah. Thanks to Mr. David O'Malley.

>>20794480
>>20794502
>>20794505
>>20794528
Holy shit, it's legit!

The give-away is the backing vocals on Fire, that was not on any circulating bootlegs.

>>20794528
so it's here, like, right now. I'll wash the jizz in my pants from the last months an then... woah.

All the ranting about the beach boys made redownload Pet Sounds. Damn, it's good. The non-single songs are so gorgeous, they are quite personal and sincere

Is that slow for everyone? 20 min, come on

>>20794575
Re-upping on alternate mediafire. Hold on.

>>20794598
sweet thanks man.

>>20794598
Waiting with great anticipation

Anyone have a link to a good quality Pet Sounds?

Nothing on PB...

>>20794647
http://www.mediafire.com/?94gesg84rmdsayc

>>20794664

Thanks bro.

>>20794647
40th anniversary flac megaupload http://sacredmonster.com.ar/blog/?p=405

>>20794610
>>20794609
At 60%

so far, it's all pieces we've all alreday had... sound quality is exceptional though. The acoustic reverse appregrios on Worms is so clear--it was always in the background... The fuzz bass on the chorus is clear.... The Kini waka poola part, you can hear some things I've never heard before in the backing track.

Don't really like this H&V. To me the Cantina version was THE version. All other versions are post-breakdown Wilson and are thus not SMiLE versions is you know what I mean...

I'm In Great Shape, the demo is flown in, kinda weird how did they did it. Same with Barnyard. Not sure I like it. I did better synchs of Surf's Up myself.

>>20794691
almost ready bro?

>>20794819
you could have just gotten the sendspace file in that time.

>>20794819
Oh, I'm sorry. A bunch of people alreday posted their links, so I didn't bother posting mine.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vmtb2f9u2eubuyi

It's renamed so it doesn't get taken down.

>>20794835
yeah, I actually got it, but thanks anyway... im nervous/excited/shocked

>Beach Boys
>better than the Kinks
>2011

>>20794835
I was, it had like 10 minutes left but since >>20794851 uploaded it I can have it in 15 seconds.

>>20794851
I just want you to know that I love you.

>>20793718
And I love you too

>>20794865
I love you too
I love you all guys, life is so beautiful.

I do not like this construction at all. Good god, what a mess. Really disappointed. I will be waiting for the entire box to put this shit together how it should have been.

>that feel when no bonus tracks or second disk

>>20794915
when i get the CDs I will upload them all to mediafire

It finally leaked?

>>20794945
si

>>20794953
cool.

>that feel when slacking off on HW, come to /mu/ and find out Smile leaked

The ending on heroes and villains was a nice surprise.

Do you like worms(Roll Plymouth Rock) has some new parts I haven't heard.

whats the difference between this and Brian Wilson's version?

>dem dark colors on the cover
Fuck that shit

>>20794528
>high quality AAC

even better!

So it is blasphemy that I'm going to listen too this without listened to Smiley Smile?

I'm in Great shape sounds completely new.

>>20795004
mmmm, i dunno, you should definitely listen to smiley smile though, there is a song dedicated to mike love on there.

The mixing on Barnyard sounded great to me.

We need a new thread for this, to celebrate

>>20795011
Is it She's Goin' Bald

Wow, I love the extra part added to the end of you are my sunshine!

>>20795026
lol yes

>>20794993
Less but better quality vocals on this one.

The only thing I don't like it is they didn't change Good Vibrations. It very closely resembles the single version. It lacks Tony Asher's original lyrics, the gotta keep those lovin good vibrations a-happenin part and a few others, etc.

Everything else I'm not really upset with, I mean it's exactly what I've heard just in perfect quality and with some stuff I haven't heard, edited better than prior bootlegs. Plus the other discs will have many many goodies and different versions of shit that will be probably more awesome than this. Just having the album is more like a teaser for the box really.

>>20795011
shall do!

Cabin essence doesn't sound different, but what a great song.

>>20795043
Less lyrics I mean. Less lyrics and some vocal sections missing but overall better quality vocals and instrumentation.

But to be honest the people who recorded Brian Wilson Presents Smile hit it dead on because listening to some of the instrumental sections on here side by side with the new ones you couldn't tell a difference.

Brian's original vocals for wonderful are amazing ;_;. This mix is wonderful.

OMG, Look (song for children) has some vocals mixed in. My favorite instrumental from the sessions.

God I wish I had good headphones for this.

Younger Brian ftw.

>>20795118
ftw

everytime

>>20795107
They also added a new part towards the end...amazing. And damn, the intro for Child is the father of the man is new and sounds great.

can't wait ten minutes!

My uncle is Brian Wilsons current guitar player. One of anyway. Nick Walusko. Although I'm a metal guy it's still cool.

Surf's Up sounds amazing ;_;

>>20795155
Best version of this song I ever heard...

a broken man too tough to cry ;_;

Someone make a listen-along thread pronto

>>20795182
how many would be willing to join in?

>>20795189
I'm guessing everyone in the thread plus people who haven't heard the news

>>20795189
>>20795182
I'm already 4 tracks in, I don't want to start it over

New parts added to vegetables! Sounds great.

>>20794851
Wait wait wait.

So this is it? For sure? This link right here is Smile?

>>20795222
yeah

>>20795222
It is SMiLE.

You will pick up good vibrations.

>>20795216
Best version of Vegetables that I ever heard...so far. Even has a heroes and villains theme added at the end.

guys, I love you, all of you!

>>20795222
It's the 14 track mono album version of Smile, yes. It's from the Smile Sessions, but it's not even the whole first disc of the Smile Sessions, just the first 14 tracks of the first disc.

Still a good preview though.

Downloading now. This is truly a great day. /mu/ is the best board.

>tfw this thread is a part of history

>>20795258
There's 19 tracks brah.

The wind chimes theme at the end of Holiday is making me ;_;

>>20795258
...oh.

>>20795270
Yeah I'm stoned. And really distracted by this wonderful shit. But anyway the actual first disc has 27 tracks.

>>20795276
And it's the whispered version at the end of wind chimes on smiley smile...;_;
This version of Wind Chimes is clearly the best also...getting hung up on wind chimes.

>>20795286
Oh god, a lot of new instrumentals were put into the instrumental breaks on wind chimes, it sounds wonderful. Plenty of great instrumental breaks...best version ever.

I'm up to Fire, and as someone pointed out before..this version sounds amazing and you can hear the bass lines!

>>20794851
Wait, so this is the official?

>>20795306
Wow different ending, this sounds crazy and fuzz guitar parts...

dat do you like worms-i'm in great shape-barnyard transition

New vocals on I love to say dada

Brian Wilson has said of The Smile Sessions, he just wants it to be honest, not perfect. And that people listen to it with good headphones.

He knows what he's talking about I guess.

i don't think it came with the download, but the track you're welcome, is supposed to be the real ending to SMiLE and it's sad to listen too it.

>>20795035
;_;

>>20794922
Thank you very much, Cap'n. <3. I shall be waiting eagerly.

>>20795332
Yeah however you're listening to that, we're going to need a piece of it, stat.

I mean I'd be ecstatic with just the rest of the first disc.

>>20795339
i was in a mumu with that guy who was talking to me on steam, and he had it, and i didn't think too ask, i'll try to find it somewhere.

>>20795337
no problem man.

>>20795332
Yeah, ending on Good Vibrations isn't that great...this just sounds like the old single version. The entire album before this had some new parts and was amazing. You got the 30 second preview off amazon?

heros and villians is like 4 tracks in 1

>>20795328
>that feel when listening on a sound system at 11:30 at night

this is special.

>>20795332
really? damn.

>>20795345
No wait, they added a new part at the end of good vibrations. Well I'm done, that was a great album. I want to hear more, damn. I have listened to the smile bootlegs about 5000 times according to last.fm

My headphones died yesterday ;_;

>only smoke pot on special occasions
>SMiLE has leaked
>my face when Gee hit

>>20795357
been without mine for like 2 weeks.

;_;

just started I'm In Great Shape

>>20795345
>>20795350
>>20795354
i can't seem to find it, but the version i heard was kinda sad by what was said at the end. i think it will be in the sessions

Brian Wilson Presents Smile is one of my favorite albums so I'm really excited to listen to this

>>20795378
Yeah, I just noticed that I have it. "well your well your welcome, well your welcome to come."

>>20795403
in the version i heard, in the end, Brian says "alright, well see you guys later" and it's said because nothing really followed up, let alone SMiLE being released

So what do you guys think? Does it make the 2004 version obsolete?

>>20795415
Oh man, that's pretty sad.

>Mahalo lu le, mahalo lu la
>Keeni waka pula

I'm glad I pre-ordered this.

>>20795419
i meant sad but yeah, it's just like, he wanted to do all this stuff, and it never really went his way.

>>20795415
http://www.mediafire.com/?d4gepf2ijbyjrjy
This has that version of You're Welcome if you want

>>20795435
man, i'm gonna have like 5 versions of SMiLE now.

>>20795418
I really like that the 2004 version is a 60 year old man finally finishing his life's greatest work, even if it's sort of extra-musical it adds a really nice sentiment to the album to me to hear Brian's old man voice singing the songs

>>20795435
I haven't been following this so I'm a bit confused. Is the download that was posted earlier and tagged as the SMiLe Sessions the remaster that's about to be released?

>>20795447
yeah, the one up higher is the first 19 songs from the SMiLE sessions.

>>20795439

>>20795447
No this is a bootleg

The Smile Sessions is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vmtb2f9u2eubuyi

>>20795450
>>20795455

Thanks. I did meant that one as well, I just quoted the wrong post.

dat feel when no lyrics yet for holidays

So I'm pretty stoned, and I'm almost up to Surf's Up. How incredible is it going to be?
So far this is the greatest thing I've ever heard.

>>20794851

This is a piece of shit, sounds like it was recorded and mixed in 1929. They probably sucked each others dicks between the sessions.

Brian Wilson's solo version is far superior.

>dat feel when now and then a tear rolls off my cheek

>>20795502
do you have tootsie rolls stuck in your ears?

>>20795502
>They probably sucked each others dicks between the sessions.

lol.

>Columnated ruins DOOOOOOOOOMIIIIINOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>dat Carl's voice outta fucking nowhere

My Only Sunshine is amazing. I shed a tear.

Ok so get this guys me and my father have never really had any real bonding like ever, but one thing I know he loves is the beach boys. He was in middle school in the 60's etc.
So anyway I downloaded the album jizzed then put it on my ipod I walked over to him and said he should listen to this new album i just got. He reluctantly put on the headset and said yeah brian wilson is cool then i showed him the screen and he almost lost his shit.
He finished listening to it and we talked for a litle and actually bonded.
Im sort of in tears right now and shaky but from the bottom of my heart i want to thank you kind Anon, Never change /mu/

im about to listen to this

maybe this is the album which will cure my writer's block

Confirmed for worst new album, since I have concluded that it is essentially a piece of shit.

Goddamnit
Which one these am I supposed to download?


I once heard the entirety of Pet Sounds played all th way through commercial free on a local radio station. Its was good oh yes it was good.
So which PetSounds download is the the one to download?

>>20795534

>>20795534
can't tell if legit or not...

but if so, right on.

>>20795555
I couldn't make this up if i tried
nice 5's btw

>>20794851

0.0/10

Wow this sounds like shit

>>20795566
nice double consecutive digits, sir

>>20795569
0.0

>>20795534
Dude, that's awesome. I'm genuinely happy for you and your dad. This album hasn't even been officially released and it's already working miracles.

everybody sing along!

I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations

>>20795534
>>20795535
>>20795485
>>20795265
>>20795266
>>20795251

This whole fucking thread

>Wind Chimes
>my face right now

>>20795602
everybody's gettin' good vibrations

Surfs Up. Just wow.

should we archive this? or.....

>>20795620
>The day SMiLE leaked
I like the sound of that.

>>20795620
sure.

>>20795624
right?

>>20795625
>>20795624
http://chanarchive.org/request_votes

>>20795620
Someone, clearly Mr. David O'Malley, has the whole thing, so if someone posts links to the other discs, at least the first two, yeah I'd say archive it.

And the original poster still hasn't said, where did that link come from? Maybe there's at least the rest of the first disc at the source.

> congrats, this thread has been requested 4 times and will now be archived: http://chanarchive.org/4chan/mu/

How is this different than Brian Wilson's SMiLE?

How are the unreleased bootlegs different than Smiley Smile?

Holy shit. How did I miss this thread, which link is the best?

It was so good, I think I'll have to try it a second time!

>A wa wa hawa

If this thread gets archived, this comic here needs to be in it.

In fact it should be in every archived thread ever.

>A children's song, have you listened as they play?
>Their song is love, and the children know the way.

>>20795639

>>20795631
Who's this Irish dude and how can we get the whole album from him?

HUUUMMMM BE NUUUMMMM
HUUUMMMM BE NUUUMMMM

>>20795652
He purchased, and I assume also packaged and uploaded the files we're listening to.

And cruelly left out the more interesting portion of the first disc.

>>20795652
>>20795674
silly muffin left his email in the audio files

I'm going for another round and adding You're Welcome from the bootleg posted earlier.

/mu/, sometimes you're alright.

I don't even know If i have the right version. It says it's the Smile Sessions and it's listed as 2011 so I guess I'm good.

Im honestly so proud of /mu/ for once

>that feel when half way through Marquee Moon when SMiLE leaks
this dilemma

this is the best thing I've ever heard

>>20793718
Don't mean to turn this into an interrogation or anything, but

WHERE did this link come from? I mean nobody has it, google doesn't even know what to make of it, all of the aggregate filehost search sites haven't seen a file with this name on any site including sendspace, it isn't on any private tracker, etc. And why not post the whole first disc? And this appears to be a purchased audio file, that would make this a digital download version, meaning everyone else has also already gotten their download, meaning it should be on every site already, in full, but it isn't. So what's with that?

Just so many questions about this.

Okay guys. I've never heard any version of SMiLE.

Im taking the plunge.

Just finished our prayer. God-tier harmonies.

>>20795745
I was halfway through Rain Dogs. Listening to it now though

>Vega-Tables

>>20795751
Gee was fun but kinda seemed pointless.

Oh god the Heroes and Villians bass is like an orgasm to my ears.

III, I LOVE THE COLORFULLL CLOTHES SHE WEAAARS

>>20795762
And the waay the sunlight plaays uponn her haaiirr

Really digging heroes and villains. Especially the slow to fast parts. It reminds me of a weird dream. quite "out-there"

I can't for it to be on what.cd.

imagine, during freeleech...

>>20795776
It just gets better and better.

I ordered the $150 set today. Lucky for me, it was my birthday, so I got a ton of money in the mail today.

Do You Like Worms actually made my jaw drop

Brian Wilson is one crazy bastard. In the best kinda way.

is the $150 set really limited edition or anything? Will I still be able to buy it in mid-November?

>>20795786
I jelly
I'm just gonna buy the 2CD set as soon as possible, and then buy the 2LP set later

>>20795786
Err, Yesterday. The 27th.

bumping for first timer listening

>On Cabin Essence
>Dat banjo.

"I'm in great shape" made me lol

well, this is definitely better than the 2004 version

and the 2004 version was one of my absolute favorite albums

goddamn

Barnyard.

holy what

>>20795751
Oh wow so you're going to go from hearing this, the real deal first, to then hearing the re-recorded and lyrically complete Brian Wilson Presents Smile version next.

that's so weird man it's like you're living in a parallel universe

Wonderful is the most beautiful thing I've heard.

>>20795817
I never got around to listening to the re-record either. I'm so happy now that I'm hearing the real deal first.

>Almost 1 am
>Just download the album

Sidenote: does anyone know how to delete songs from an iPod using the Foobar plugin? I want to get rid of the bootleg SMiLE on my iPod in favor of this one.

>>20795817
Strange right?

Really liking the dissonent melody change on "you are my sunshine" andthe other part's harmonica was great.

now onto cabinessence.

>>20795746
I couldn't agree more.

I always thought Brian was crazy for thinking SMiLE was better than Pet Sounds. I loved BWPS a lot but I thought Pet Sounds always had that extra something, and I've finally figured out what that was; the Beach Boys. Now that's changed, and I have never been so happy to admit that I was wrong.

Brian, shine on you crazy motherfucking diamond.

wait so
which of these links is the real one?

Holy fuck... Surf's Up is up next. Heard so much about this song.

>>20795834
see
>>20795455

Cabin Essence almost brought some manly tears, and I dont even know why

bump

enjoying wonderful

still downloading
fuck my slow internet

>>20795853
dem harmonies

also

>one,one,one

That's crazy that people are listening to this without ever hearing the bootlegs or Brian Wilson's solo version. It's like you skipped the decades of crummy versions to get the best possible version of it. I hope you can appreciate it.

>>20792305
Brian falls into a microphone
By far the best song on the album

>Look (song for children)

piano jolts of orgasm

>>20795867

I realize this. I feel privileged as all hell

bumpety.

Child is father of the man is blowing my mind

>>20795888
That was my favorite song on the bootleg SMiLE. How does this one compare?

just started
this is the greatest moment of my life

>>20795894
It's much better.

>>20795888

dunno. Never heard any other version.

btw Surf's up is a fucking saga

bump

>>20795909
>314 posts

it's autosaging, bro.

Surf's up

>that feel when no vocals on Holidays

>>20795894
I would say, every track here is better than all other versions I ever heard of except for Good Vibrations, which is really similar to the single version except for a new track added at the end.

>>20795917
but... I havent finished it yet...

D:


well guys, we did a good thing tonight

>>20795927
You still have like 3 hours until it gets to page 15.

best thread in a long time.

>>20795932
Smile of a lifetime

britfag here who just woke up to find this thread. I fucking love you guys.

>>20795934

>>20795922
I could hear a very faint "rock rock rollllll, rock rock rollllll plymouth rock roll overrrrrr" in my head.

>>20795932
>>20795934
I SMiLEd the whole way through

I hope you guys like it.

Goodnight, /mu/.

ROLL PLYMOUTH ROCK IS SO MUCH BETTER

>>20795922
It has the wind chimes theme from the smiley smile sessions on it.

>>20795748
I was the original person who posted I got it from this guy on last.fm when I saw he was scrobbling the album: http://www.last.fm/user/K1ngSh0t

When I asked him where he got it, he never answered. I doubt he's the original source. Have the other discs seriously not leaked yet? Wow. Thousands of people have already purchased it, so I'm actually a little mad about it. What the fuck are you guys waiting for? Rip it already for crying out a loud... ;_;

>>20795134
Nick Walusko, part of The Wondermints along with Darian Sanahaja. That guy is the reason why we're even able to listen to Smile right now.

>>20795966
http://www.amazon.com/Smile-Sessions-Vinyl-2LP/dp/B005J29HD0

The fourth side has material that is exclusive to the vinyl, cannot be found on any of the cds.

Can we pretend this came out in 1967? I want to show plebs the album without the story about it and see what they think of it.

>>20795950
Sleep well and thank you.

new thread

>>20796000
>>>20796000