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Title: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: The Heartical Don on April 26, 2009, 07:04:44 AM ...it is a mere 24'38" long. I'd never guessed that. Many bands released EPs, 12" singles, etc. longer that that...
...and still it is a classic, albeit a minor one. I always thought 'Friends' was the shortest one. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: sofonanm on April 26, 2009, 08:40:21 AM and yet... it feels like quite a long record to me.
[especially if you're high/tripping] then it spans ages. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: JeffRetro on April 26, 2009, 08:48:26 AM And when you take the three A-sides off, that leaves the other eight songs adding up to about 15 minutes! A paradigm of minimalism if ever there was one.
Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Bicyclerider on April 26, 2009, 08:59:33 AM After the uncharacteristically (for the Beach Boys) long Pet Sounds, I felt a bit cheated with the shortness of Smiley.
Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: The infamous Baldwin Organ on April 26, 2009, 10:23:47 AM I remember from looking at Andrew's site a while back that there were a few outtakes from the Smiley sessions; has anyone ever heard these, or is there any more information on them?
Personally, I really love this album and the whole period of the group at that time. But, I also wasn't alive at the time it was released to have been dissapointed by SMiLE's non-release. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Chris Brown on April 26, 2009, 06:24:04 PM [especially if you're high/tripping] then it spans ages. Which is exactly the condition Brian was in while he made it...remember in the Don Was documentary, he was talking about how "twenty seconds of music sounds like two hours when you're stoned." Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Alex on April 28, 2009, 11:02:28 AM [especially if you're high/tripping] then it spans ages. Which is exactly the condition Brian was in while he made it...remember in the Don Was documentary, he was talking about how "twenty seconds of music sounds like two hours when you're stoned." 3 minutes of repeating "on and on she go dum de doo ba" and "remember the day, remember the night, all day long" probably felt like 5 hours to Brian! :smokin :hat Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: sofonanm on April 28, 2009, 02:08:51 PM Smiley is good to listen to while youre vegetating on your couch, stoned
its not the sort of thing you can put on and go for a nice drive, stoned that right belongs to the Meat Puppets, stoned Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Shady on April 28, 2009, 04:25:29 PM Smiley is good to listen to while youre vegetating on your couch, stoned its not the sort of thing you can put on and go for a nice drive, stoned that right belongs to the Meat Puppets, stoned lmao ;D Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: The infamous Baldwin Organ on April 29, 2009, 03:32:07 AM Any info on Smiley Smile outtakes?
Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: brianc on April 29, 2009, 09:48:09 AM [especially if you're high/tripping] then it spans ages. Which is exactly the condition Brian was in while he made it...remember in the Don Was documentary, he was talking about how "twenty seconds of music sounds like two hours when you're stoned." 3 minutes of repeating "on and on she go dum de doo ba" and "remember the day, remember the night, all day long" probably felt like 5 hours to Brian! :smokin :hat That means that, like, our whole solar system... could be, like... one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: hypehat on April 30, 2009, 10:52:57 AM Any info on Smiley Smile outtakes? Got this from Brad Elliotts bit in LLVS - apparently they're called 'Hawaiian Song', 'Good News', and 'Good Time Mama', but they haven't been booted. There's also that 'indian wisdom' bit which is probably Smiley-era. One wonders how bad they had to be to avoid inclusion on a 24 minute record.... ??? Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Andrew G. Doe on April 30, 2009, 11:09:13 AM Any info on Smiley Smile outtakes? Got this from Brad Elliotts bit in LLVS - apparently they're called 'Hawaiian Song', 'Good News', and 'Good Time Mama', but they haven't been booted. There's also that 'indian wisdom' bit which is probably Smiley-era. One wonders how bad they had to be to avoid inclusion on a 24 minute record.... ??? Amazing - someone still believes, at this late date, that there's a BB track called "Indian Wisdom". :o Part of "Hawaiian Song" was used in "Little Pad". Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Alex on April 30, 2009, 11:20:44 AM [especially if you're high/tripping] then it spans ages. Which is exactly the condition Brian was in while he made it...remember in the Don Was documentary, he was talking about how "twenty seconds of music sounds like two hours when you're stoned." 3 minutes of repeating "on and on she go dum de doo ba" and "remember the day, remember the night, all day long" probably felt like 5 hours to Brian! :smokin :hat That means that, like, our whole solar system... could be, like... one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. Are you Larry "Pinto" Kroeger or something like that? Quote Amazing - someone still believes, at this late date, that there's a BB track called "Indian Wisdom". What about that instrumental track with the Spanish guitar called 'Doves of Free"...wasn't that the one that people were calling "Indian Wisdom"? Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: hypehat on April 30, 2009, 11:27:50 AM Any info on Smiley Smile outtakes? Got this from Brad Elliotts bit in LLVS - apparently they're called 'Hawaiian Song', 'Good News', and 'Good Time Mama', but they haven't been booted. There's also that 'indian wisdom' bit which is probably Smiley-era. One wonders how bad they had to be to avoid inclusion on a 24 minute record.... ??? Amazing - someone still believes, at this late date, that there's a BB track called "Indian Wisdom". :o Part of "Hawaiian Song" was used in "Little Pad". I know that, i couldn't just refer to it as 'untitled song' or 'it's got organ and guitar on it', could i? 'indian wisdom' was the name i heard from my uncle's hairdresser's sister's private detective.... :angel: Good News = Celebrate The News? just a thought.... Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Andrew G. Doe on April 30, 2009, 11:45:34 AM What about that instrumental track with the Spanish guitar called 'Doves of Free"...wasn't that the one that people were calling "Indian Wisdom"? Friends outtake, logged as "New Song". See gigs & sessions for 1968. :) Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Andrew G. Doe on April 30, 2009, 11:47:32 AM Any info on Smiley Smile outtakes? Got this from Brad Elliotts bit in LLVS - apparently they're called 'Hawaiian Song', 'Good News', and 'Good Time Mama', but they haven't been booted. There's also that 'indian wisdom' bit which is probably Smiley-era. One wonders how bad they had to be to avoid inclusion on a 24 minute record.... ??? Amazing - someone still believes, at this late date, that there's a BB track called "Indian Wisdom". :o Part of "Hawaiian Song" was used in "Little Pad". I know that, i couldn't just refer to it as 'untitled song' or 'it's got organ and guitar on it', could i? 'indian wisdom' was the name i heard from my uncle's hairdresser's sister's private detective.... :angel: Good News = Celebrate The News? just a thought.... Slight snag: "GN" is a BW composition. "CTN"... isn't. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: hypehat on April 30, 2009, 12:00:43 PM 'Slight snag: "GN" is a BW composition. "CTN"... isn't.'
Ah. there goes my dream of an acid casualty doo-wop CTN... :'( Ta for the info Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: donald on May 05, 2009, 07:08:03 AM [especially if you're high/tripping] then it spans ages. Which is exactly the condition Brian was in while he made it...remember in the Don Was documentary, he was talking about how "twenty seconds of music sounds like two hours when you're stoned." 3 minutes of repeating "on and on she go dum de doo ba" and "remember the day, remember the night, all day long" probably felt like 5 hours to Brian! :smokin :hat That means that, like, our whole solar system... could be, like... one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. And one tiny atom in our fingernail could be another ...tiny...little....universe! Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Jonas on May 05, 2009, 02:55:10 PM [especially if you're high/tripping] then it spans ages. Which is exactly the condition Brian was in while he made it...remember in the Don Was documentary, he was talking about how "twenty seconds of music sounds like two hours when you're stoned." 3 minutes of repeating "on and on she go dum de doo ba" and "remember the day, remember the night, all day long" probably felt like 5 hours to Brian! :smokin :hat That means that, like, our whole solar system... could be, like... one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. And one tiny atom in our fingernail could be another ...tiny...little....universe! If thats the case, I just spat a whole bunch of universes into the garbage can. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Mr. Cohen on May 05, 2009, 04:35:36 PM Another cool fact: Hunter S. Thompson said that Smiley Smile's "Wind Chimes" was the closest thing he ever heard to a real acid trip put on record.
Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Alex on May 06, 2009, 12:47:31 PM Another cool fact: Hunter S. Thompson said that Smiley Smile's "Wind Chimes" was the closest thing he ever heard to a real acid trip put on record. Niiice! :o :o I didn't even think Thompson would've ever paid attention to the BBs. What was he doing in '67 and '68 that was more important than convincing the "hippies"/"hipsters"/"cool people" that the Boys weren't really squares?? :lol :lol Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Rocker on May 07, 2009, 08:26:18 AM This thought just came to my mind:
Brian didn't want "Good vibrations" on SmileySmile (I think too it doesn't fit, no matter how great it is). So what do you think how many people would've bought it without GV ? I guess some buyers got it only because of that, without listening to the record first. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Bicyclerider on May 07, 2009, 08:59:20 AM Well that's why Capitol insisted on it's being included. That was supposed to be the selling point - milllion selling single on the album. Too bad it didn't work. I agree sales would have been even worse without Vibrations on there.
Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: Alex on May 07, 2009, 12:45:41 PM Well that's why Capitol insisted on it's being included. That was supposed to be the selling point - milllion selling single on the album. Too bad it didn't work. I agree sales would have been even worse without Vibrations on there. They could've also threw The Little Girl I Once Knew onto SS...it hadn't been on any albums yet. Title: Re: Smiley Smile Fact Post by: The infamous Baldwin Organ on May 07, 2009, 01:56:39 PM I think that would've stood out worse than Good Vibrations, because that's more of an earlier 'Spector-type' production, in my opinion.
Maybe if they had included 'Graduation Day' or 'Their Hearts Were Full of Spring'? I would've liked that too. |