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2001 HDCD remaster of 2 lovely followup LPs to Pet Sounds w/lotsa tracks intended for Smile + 6 more bonus tracks
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is a straight reissue of the original CD two-fer release, with one important difference: the tracks have been remastered and are presented here in HDCD format. Even on bog-standard CD players, the extra rhythm, depth and clarity over the original is stunning. I imagine the sound on an HDCD-equipped player is even more fantastic. The tracks have not been remixed from Brian Wilson's originals (as happened when Pet Sounds was released in stereo), so all the album tracks, including Good Vibrations, the most important track on the album, still exist only in mono. Nevertheless, the sound here is so clear that extra detail is revealed that you'd miss before. Especially improved is the Heroes and Villains SMiLE version. The stripped-down sound of the true Smiley Smile tracks, recorded in about 3 weeks from material left over after the SMiLE sessions collapsed in on themselves, is, taken on its own, quite stunning when it sounds like this. True, GV and H&V are out of place, but SS remains an inventive, interesting and enjoyable album. Wild Honey is an attempt at "white soul", and is great fun, containing no weak tracks and some real surprises that show the magic was still there. The bonus tracks comprise some of the GV sessions and a couple of unreleased songs. The last one, Can't Wait Too Long, is interesting for its sheer length (and is in stereo). A cut-down version of this track appeared in the 1993 Good Vibrations box set. So SS and WH are certainly no Pet Sounds, but both are interesting albums and are musically strong in their own ways. You'll keep going back to this CD, but I doubt you'll play SS right through. One star off because (i) it should have been SMiLE and (ii) EMI should have gone back to the session tapes of GV and done a stereo remix by now.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I think it's a shame that Smiley's Smile is on the cover of this CD...Wild Honey is the better of the two albums. It's first rate pop...very soul influenced. Some great,catchy,up-beat songs...and some stinkers...but the good stuff is very,very good. By no means as clever and as creative as Pet Sounds...but I don't care I love it.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is two albums and some extra bits worth of the most fragile and beautiful music there is. It's all in the details and the fun to be had finding them. The squeeze boxes, the hidden melodies at the end of tracks, the contrast of the two 'big' songs on 'Smiley Smile' with the rest of the album, 'Country Air' and its overwhelming melancholy, I could go on, but you should have got the idea by now. The bonus tracks are essentially 'Good Vibrations' in free jazz form, 'Well, You're Welcome,' a frail cut of pure harmony, a wobbly version of 'Heroes and Villains' and 'Can't wait too long,' more free jazz (or sessions stuck together, but the description sounds better...). Buy it, play it and treasure it. This is the lost masterpiece of the Beach Boys, pants to the 'Smile' fans. Although a box set of that would be nice. Eh, Capitol? Eh??
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Doodles on themes from SMiLE
It is really interesting to listen to the Smiley Smile album in the context of Smile and the recently released The Smile Sessions. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kenneth F. Mcara
Great Great Great!! Buy This Beautiful Album.
As a youngster it was The Beatles all the way, sadly The Beach Boys never even came on to my radar. What an idiot!! Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mark
2 From 1967 From The Beach Boys.
From their earliest surf type harmony recordings The Beach Boys blazed a trail and fought it out with The Four Seasons, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones etc to rule the US and... Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. Thompson
A matter of opinion
I guess one man's meat is another man's poison. I don't like either of these two albums. I also don't like the 'Smile' album released a few years ago. Read more
Published 20 months ago by K. Watton
A good idea of what might have been.
Until the 2004 release of: "Brian Wilson presents SMILE" ,this was the closest a listener could come to experiencing the legendary unrecorded masterpiece. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2009 by Close Range.
sadly underated.
If only we could get rid of the 'it's not Smile' syndrome in dealing with the first album on this '2fer'. No, it isn't, I agree! Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2005 by Old Bluebottle
SMILEY SMILE 4 WILD HONEY 3
Smiley Smile though never completed, until its release a few months ago, is still a great album even though at first it's very hard to get into. Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2004 by gdb
GOOD AND BAD VIBRATIONS!
Ive had the original 2-fer version of this for years now, so the remastered version must be something special indeed.. Read more
Published on 6 April 2002 by Mr. S. R. Dhain
The recovery.
This two-fer CD finds the Beach Boys recovering from the collapsed Smile sessions. Smiley Smile is mostly re-recorded fragments of Smile with a less elaborate production, and while... Read more
Published on 4 April 2002
Makes me Smile!
As the first album of this 2-fer release the 'Smiley Smile' album for anybody that doesn't know was the first Beach Boys album not to be completly produced, arranged, written and... Read more
Published on 3 May 2001 by Film and music appreciator
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