Smile Sessions spoiler thread **Open at your own risk!**

[buddhahat]

Spoiler alert! I got an advance on the box set and when "Teeter-Totter Love" came on the car stereo my 9-year-old said, 'What the hell is this?' Does that make him a sh*tweasel or a f**khead? Or, mayhaps, a budding music critic? Either way, Jasper Dailey didn't rock, after all. I'm sure he was a great photog, tho.

 

Peter, if you're able to comment:

What's your verdict on disc 1? Rumours of flown in vocals over Great Shape/Barnyard etc. are causing contention on the fan boards. As a long time Smile fan, do these tracks work for you?

What are the high points of the set?

Also, are you able to comment on the structure of the part 2 Heroes mix, please?

Thanks for any insights you can offer!

[hypehat]

Peter, if you're afraid of legal/social/moral recrimination, please ask your kid and post their reviews instead. 

[Iron Horse-Apples]

When you're given an advance copy, you have to sign something promising to come on this board and make cryptic, teasing remarks, then log off again

Come on, we want a 60,000 word review of  every second of music!

[hypehat]

I honestly think it might have something to do with the fact that the press contract reads,

"After you click the link to the encrypted stream, if you mention any pertinent details on public record Capitol Records reserve the right to send you to the moon to never hear the boxset again, and to also tell the worlds press you perpetrated several terrorist attacks/child kidnappings/orphanage frauds/recent broadway musicals/dubstep so no-one ever misses your lunar-bound ass.

Sign here ..................................."

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

QUOTE FROM THE HOFFMAN FORUMS:

So included in that vocal montage is something that is going to destroy our minds and/or completely rewrite SMiLE history??

This intrigues me.... what could be there?

[Chris Brown]

QUOTE FROM THE HOFFMAN FORUMS:

So included in that vocal montage is something that is going to destroy our minds and/or completely rewrite SMiLE history??

This intrigues me.... what could be there?

Very intriguing indeed.  Assuming it's something that only exists in vocals-only form, perhaps it's another "wall of Brian" snippet a la "Don't Talk"?

[pacarlin]

I haven't really had time to focus on it that intently, to come up with precise thoughts and critiques and etc. And while I'm not sure if my copy came with warnings (I bet it did; i bet I just didn't look at them) I bet I'd err on the side of not spoiling stuff. Tho that said, I'm not sure how you can spoil a song or an album or whatever. I'm just listening in bits and fits and starts, and to be honest the main thing I'm thinking is that it sounds a lot sunnier and less mysterious than my younger, pre-BWPS selves would have imagined. Apart from a few curious exchanges/instructions/demands, Brian sounds like a very focused, very controlled producer who knows exactly what he wants and how he wants to get there. The musicians aren't thrown by anything. And on the vocal sessions, the BBs sound completely compliant and eager to do their thing (tho we all know what went on when the mics were off).

[Cam Mott]

I haven't really had time to focus on it that intently, to come up with precise thoughts and critiques and etc. And while I'm not sure if my copy came with warnings (I bet it did; i bet I just didn't look at them) I bet I'd err on the side of not spoiling stuff. Tho that said, I'm not sure how you can spoil a song or an album or whatever. I'm just listening in bits and fits and starts, and to be honest the main thing I'm thinking is that it sounds a lot sunnier and less mysterious than my younger, pre-BWPS selves would have imagined. Apart from a few curious exchanges/instructions/demands, Brian sounds like a very focused, very controlled producer who knows exactly what he wants and how he wants to get there. The musicians aren't thrown by anything. And on the vocal sessions, the BBs sound completely compliant and eager to do their thing (tho we all know what went on when the mics were off).

Yes, exactly.

Edit: I mean based on what was already available, I've not heard any of TSS except what we all have heard.

[runnersdialzero]

I haven't really had time to focus on it that intently, to come up with precise thoughts and critiques and etc. And while I'm not sure if my copy came with warnings (I bet it did; i bet I just didn't look at them) I bet I'd err on the side of not spoiling stuff. Tho that said, I'm not sure how you can spoil a song or an album or whatever. I'm just listening in bits and fits and starts, and to be honest the main thing I'm thinking is that it sounds a lot sunnier and less mysterious than my younger, pre-BWPS selves would have imagined. Apart from a few curious exchanges/instructions/demands, Brian sounds like a very focused, very controlled producer who knows exactly what he wants and how he wants to get there. The musicians aren't thrown by anything. And on the vocal sessions, the BBs sound completely compliant and eager to do their thing (tho we all know what went on when the mics were off).

*raises hand* I don't mind any blatant spoilers, as long as they're marked as such in a thread such as this.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

I haven't really had time to focus on it that intently, to come up with precise thoughts and critiques and etc. And while I'm not sure if my copy came with warnings (I bet it did; i bet I just didn't look at them) I bet I'd err on the side of not spoiling stuff. Tho that said, I'm not sure how you can spoil a song or an album or whatever. I'm just listening in bits and fits and starts, and to be honest the main thing I'm thinking is that it sounds a lot sunnier and less mysterious than my younger, pre-BWPS selves would have imagined. Apart from a few curious exchanges/instructions/demands, Brian sounds like a very focused, very controlled producer who knows exactly what he wants and how he wants to get there. The musicians aren't thrown by anything. And on the vocal sessions, the BBs sound completely compliant and eager to do their thing (tho we all know what went on when the mics were off).

*raises hand* I don't mind any blatant spoilers, as long as they're marked as such in a thread such as this.