Smile Sessions reviews anyone?!

[Jimmie_R]

http://www.examiner.com/beach-boys-in-national/the-beach-boys-smile-review

I was actually debating recently whether to start with disc 5 or not. Think I will now and then move to 1-4.

I think that calls for a new topic... How to begin your SMiLE sessions listening experience.

[ESQ Editor]

If you start with disc 5, you're doing yourself a great service.

http://www.examiner.com/beach-boys-in-national/the-beach-boys-smile-review

[Shady]

New Rolling Stone is out tomorrow, I would guess the SMiLE review is in that edition

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Well I was right re MOJO magazine. Five star review. No feature though unfortunately... Nice interview with brian however, in which he claims his favourite SMiLE tracks are Heroes and Villians and - wait for it! - Fire. Truely he is an unpredictable man...

A deeply average review in Q magazine though. 3 stars. Mind you, in the same issue they give the latest unimaginative snooze-fest from Coldplay 5 stars...

[Shady]

Guardian review, 5 stars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/27/beach-boys-smile-sessions-review?CMP=twt_fd

[desmondo]

Guardian review, 5 stars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/27/beach-boys-smile-sessions-review?CMP=twt_fd

A very well thought out review IMHO

[buddhahat]

Guardian review, 5 stars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/27/beach-boys-smile-sessions-review?CMP=twt_fd

We all know Mojo and Uncut were going to rate this highly, but the Guardian was never a sure thing so this review is really pleasing to read. Well written and considered  too. Thanks for posting.

[homeontherange]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/4xgw

[SMiLE Brian]

Guardian review, 5 stars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/27/beach-boys-smile-sessions-review?CMP=twt_fd

Many interesting points in this review.

[The Shift]

"Wilson may have been a genius, the greatest songwriter and studio technician of the 60s, but he was never cool. The LA hipsters who flocked around him in the mid-60s sneered behind his back at his terrible taste, his galumphing attempts to grasp the counter-culture. And Smile was the sound of a square mind unleashed by LSD. What came gushing out was a warped version of straight-arrow, white-collar American pop culture, the stuff most rock stars in 1967 deemed hopelessly naff."

Superb. Nail on head stuff.

[desmondo]

Another great review - this person gets it

http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/beach-boys_1011.htm

[jimmy1949]

Rolling Stone has a mid-size review and gave it a ****1/2....It gave the U2 Achtung Baby box set a *****..go figure

[Shady]

Rolling Stone has a mid-size review and gave it a ****1/2....It gave the U2 Achtung Baby box set a *****..go figure

The comedy never ends

[SMiLE Brian]

Will never understand the world's love affair with U2

[Shady]

Not everybody wants 20 different versions of Heroes and Villains..

We gotta live with that, hard as it may be  

[runnersdialzero]

U2 are pretty okay. The Beach Boys are good. imo.

WHATEVIERJ O K OK OK OK

[SMiLE Brian]

Not everybody wants 20 different versions of Heroes and Villains..

We gotta live with that, hard as it may be  

We smiley smilers should protest outside rolling stone for saying that statement

[Shady]

Not everybody wants 20 different versions of Heroes and Villains..

We gotta live with that, hard as it may be  

We smiley smilers should protest outside rolling stone for saying that statement

"Occupy Rolling Stone" 

I don't get it, I just read the review and it's very flattering, it ends with "the greatest pop album ever made is in there somewhere", yet they gave it 4 and a half..

I really don't know

[Bill Tobelman]

Another review that's not too hot.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-the-beach-boys-the-smile-sessions-emi-2376705.html

[Shady]

These reviews are really just saying the box set is a little tedious at times

SMiLE it's self  is getting it's deserved praise

[runnersdialzero]

"On lesser tracks like "Vega-Tables" and "Wind Chimes", the material doesn't merit the exposure."

"The material doesn't merit the exposure"? Are people who say this sort of sh*t really serious?

[Bill Tobelman]

Like here:

http://thelosangelesbeat.com/2011/10/cd-review-the-beach-boys-%E2%80%93-the-smile-sessions-super-deluxe-edition-capitol-emi/

[monicker]

"On lesser tracks like "Vega-Tables" and "Wind Chimes", the material doesn't merit the exposure."

"The material doesn't merit the exposure"? Are people who say this sort of sh*t really serious?

Don't you like stuff like Weezer and Oasis?

[sidewinder572]

Another review that's not too hot.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-the-beach-boys-the-smile-sessions-emi-2376705.html

It's funny that because it's SMiLE a 4/5 star review is considered not too hot, but let's face it the box set is not for everyone. It's for the hardcore fans only. The two disc and vinyl versions are for the casual fans. The average fan is going to find endless sessions of "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains" tedious. We're going to find them endlessly fascinating.

[Wirestone]

Frankly, a lot of the 5-star reviews were used up for BWPS: http://www.metacritic.com/music/smile/brian-wilson/critic-reviews

This is cleaning up the loose ends.