Brian Wilson SMILE(S)

[theSoulfulMofo]

Caught this article on my NYTimes email. It got me interested in buying the anticipated album just by the backstory. (I do have 2 or 3 Beach Boys CDs)

Rebuilding Brian Wilson's 'Smile'

Rebuilding Brian Wilson's 'Smile'
By BERNARD WEINRAUB

Published: September 12, 2004

LOS ANGELES - THIRTY-SEVEN years ago, Brian Wilson nearly completed what he hoped would be his masterwork, an album called "Smile" that he described as "a teenage symphony to God." This year, in a way, he finished it.

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"Smile" was to be even more ambitious than Mr. Wilson's "Pet Sounds," the intricately orchestrated, structurally far-reaching 1966 album that the Beatles tried to top with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." More than 400,000 "Smile" album covers were printed.

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The album will be released by Nonesuch on Sept. 28

continued at New York Times link

 

[Salome]

I'm still very much looking forward to this one

 

[U2girl]

Speaking of Wilson, I read that he and Paul McCartney are to record an album together, to be released next year.
The two legends at work...

 

[Wild Angel]

So he's finally putting it out. Good!