[ Nonesuch Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 4 October 2004
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
Thirty-seven years after its anticipated release by The Beach Boys, the all-new studio recording of SMILE - often referred to as the most famous unreleased album in history - is now available!
It was intended as the January 1967 follow-up to the groundbreaking art-rock of the Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS - but SMILE never made its initial release date. Today, this 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.
The Los Angeles Times said: "What we do know now is that Wilson created a glorious piece of music whose grand ambition is outstripped only by its inherent beauty and cumulative power."
In London, The Guardian referred to SMILE as "the grandest of American symphonies." A Must Have!
1. Our Prayer / Gee
2. Heroes and Villians
3. Roll Plymouth Rock
4. Barnyard
5. Old Master Painter / You are My Sunshine
6. Cabin Essence
7. Wonderful
8. Song For Children
9. Child is Father of the Man
10. Surf's Up
11. I'm in Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Workshop
12. Vega-Tables
13. On a Holiday
14. Wind Chimes
15. Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
16. In Blue Hawaii
17. Good Vibrations