Hello there, hope this finds all you denizens of this board good and well. I've just finished reviewing SMiLE (in isolation from The SMiLE Sessions as a whole, as that would take years), as I told myself I would but kept putting it off through a lack of ideas as to how to approach reviewing such a unique piece of music.
As such, I decided to take a bit of a different approach to it, seeing as the particulars of the whole SMiLE story have been ironed out how many thousands of times over elsewhere. So I thought I'd just listen to it and try to put into words where it 'takes' me. It ended up something of a psychedelic children's story a la Alice in Wonderland and Yellow Submarine - so, if you're an easily irked purist, or that kind of thing just sounds like it will bug the hell out of you, please avoid!
http://jonnyabrams.blogspot.com/2011/11/albums-omonth-beach-boys-smile.htmlI'd be interested to know if SMiLE has a similar effect to anyone else on here. Maybe I'm just losing my mind.
All the best,
Jonny
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