BRIAN WILSON SMILE 2 LP SET 2004 180 GRAM OUT PRINT + 7" GOOD VIBRATIONS SINGLE

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BRIAN WILSON'S SMILE RARE FACTORY SEALED OUT OF PRINT 180 GRAM TWO LP SET NOW OUT OF PRINT & REALLY RARE PRESSING

PLUS THE RARE PICTURE SLEEVE 7" SINGLE FROM BRIAN WILSON'S SMILE LP SET WITH THESE TRACKS THIS with GOOD VIBRATIONS 4:45 ON SIDE A & OUR PRAYER (LIVE IN LONDON) 1:33 &  GOOD VIBRATIONS (LIVE IN LONDON) 5:04

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2005 Grammy Awards:
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow

Smile is inarguably the most long awaited album in modern pop history. It’s been more than 37 years since the title first appeared on a label release schedule, intended as the January 1967 follow-up to the groundbreaking art-rock of the Beach Boys’PET SOUNDS. Some 400,000 Smile record jackets and booklets were printed; ads were taken out in Billboard and teen magazines; admiring journalists were allowed into the studio to observe what Wilson and his precocious lyricist arranger, the 22-year-old Van Dyke Parks, were so fastidiously creating. "Good Vibrations" was a harbinger of this concept album to come: a stunningly arranged, spiritually uplifting, goose-bump-inducing "pocket symphony," in Wilson’s words, that became, in 1966, the Beach Boys’ first million-selling single, topping the charts in both the U.S. and the U.K. After Leonard Bernstein heard Wilson perform a solo piano version of "Surf’s Up," an elegant and impressionistic ballad also destined for Smile, he deemed the song "an important contribution to 20th Century music" and hailed Wilson’s gifts as a major composer.

But Smile never made its initial release date, delays mounted along with the pressure, and the project as Wilson had originally envisioned it was finally abandoned. Until now, Smile was, as Newsweek declared, "the most famous pop music album never released." The complicated circumstances surrounding its withdrawal have inspired documentary films, book-length investigations and at least one critically acclaimed novel, Paul Quarrington’s "Whale Music." Tantalizing bits and pieces of Smile have surfaced on subsequent Beach Boys albums; a global network of song-swapping fans cobbled together their own wishful-thinking versions of this seemingly lost masterpiece.

In 2003, a rejuvenated Wilson, encouraged by performing PET SOUNDS live, finally decided to revive Smile, at least in concert form, backed by the enthusiastic young musicians he’d been touring with and helped behind the scenes by Parks. Fans from around the world gathered at London’s Royal Festival Hall on February 20, 2004 for this momentous event, fearing it might be the only opportunity to hear the completed piece. To call the performance a triumph might be an understatement; as a critic for London’s independent raved, "We knew we’d witnessed a miracle of sorts."

Buoyed by this reception, Wilson returned with his stage band to Sunset Sound in Hollywood, where he’d originally cut portions of "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains," to create a definitive studio recording of Smile. The resulting album is not a mere reconstruction of past performances, but something entirely new, a serious summation of a project that has been gestating for nearly four decades, by an artist who has surmounted years of personal and professional struggle. It’s also an unexpected gift to all who kept the dream of Smile alive. The music and message couldn’t have come at a better time. As the Los Angeles Times put it in a front-page review of its London premiere, Smile "makes perhaps the most persuasive argument for the ‘hippie dream’ of the ‘60s: that music and love really do have the power to transform the world."

"...Brian Wilson's three-part suite has finally been recorded with a top-notch band, as Wilson had originally intended. Beach Boys fans will appreciate the silky vocal harmonies and Van Dyke Parks' borderline-silly lyrics. Those who never understood Wilson's genius will discover a carefully crafted and ingeniously orchestrated gumbo that coheres without a trace of rough edge, dead spot, or spurious fluff, just as the best classical and jazz orchestral works do." - Robert J. Reina, Stereophile, February 2005

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