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Please excuse the pretentious thread title. I just mean, what Smile songs sequence well together, and really I'm talking about what songs or fragments follow well one after the other (compatible keys and all that), not what songs fit together thematically. I know it's a tired old thread idea, but when the smile bug bites, what else can you do!?

I've been listening a lot to my latest Smile mix and it's one that I feel really content with. A few things sound absolutely amazing together, as if Mr BW c.67 himself strolled right into my living room, all redi-whipped up, and laid some of his latest acetates on me.

Here goes:

Dada (bird sounds version) into Windchimes. You have to try this. The last bird whistle notes of dada ascend as if they are reaching for something, but for what exactly? Well, the opening bass note of Windchimes of course!! What a perfect match. All the blissed out bird noises, and then Carl's mellow vocals kick in, and the keys work perfectly. Not that I think for a minute that they were meant to be sequenced together, but he could've done far worse with his tracklisting.

Great Shape + Barnyard. There's strong evidence that these two fragments would've run one after another (the humble harv demo), but I know that there's some disagreement as to whether Brian would've put any other fragments or segues in between. Anyway, forget about it because my mix sounds so perfect it has to be exactly what BW was intending: Basically take version two of Great Shape on the Heroes & Villains Sessions Vol 2 Boot and splice Barnyard in right at the point where the tape explosion effect is at its loudest. I swear if I posted this edit on here and claimed that it was part of some acetate I bought from Durrie Parks garage sale, this board would implode with excitement. That's not to say it sounds slick or professional. The Great Shape excerpts are all pretty rough and ready, but it's exactly that makes it so convincing for me imo.

Anyone else got any good Smile song combos they want to share?

PM me your mix, please. If ya can.

*Parody Mainly of Pretty Much everyone on here who takes the Please Make joke on here to a Pretty Moronic extreme*

 :police:

A few months ago I did a mix of Vega-Tables, which was my first Smile mix of any kind since 2002. I started it out with the first two minutes or so of the box set version up to the "bop bop bop bop" vocals and dead air, then spliced in the a cappella "Smiley chorus" and did it like the Smiley Smile version's ending up until the first "your favorite..." and then cut it off with the April 1967 "bop bop bop bop" bit, which cuts right into the Child is Father of the Man refrain that's on SOT 16, with just the piano and vocals. Then it goes into the "Wonderful" fade and fades into Our Prayer, which goes into Mrs. O'Leary's Cow. This is near the end of the "album" mix I made around the same time.

When was this garage sale? 
I'd swear she told me she'd call before she had one, and now you have alll the acetates? 
Just doesn't seem fair....

These aren't Smile songs, but they are all influenced by the Smile sessions, and work great together: "Cool, Cool Water", "Diamond Head", and "Little Pad". There are a lot of interesting ways you can combine those tracks, and it really works great. Breaking out of an outro of a song with the thunder of "Diamond Head" is always effective. A true water suite.

I once made a wonderful mistake on Wind Chimes. During the fade of the Smile version I put in the Smiley version right at the 'honk' sound that is followed by the whisperin wind section. Somehow, the left and right got split, so the SS version came in on the left speaker, while the right speaker continued to play the fade of the Smile version. As soon as the fade was complete, the honk happened on the right side. Then you had a perfect round....

Oh whisperin winds (oh whisperin winds)....

It blew my mind!