Your personal SMiLE mix

[Sheriff John Stone]

Speaking for myself, I just think that You're Welcome is in a sense a response to , "Thank You". It definitely fits at the end for me, but I guess it could fit anywhere...what a simple and profound song!

"You're Welcome" TO COME. I never viewed it as thank you/you're welcome. It's those two words - TO COME - that hang me up. "You're welcome to come" - where, Brian? Where?

I see where your comming from with that.

Your mix looks like a good listen, I was looking at it closer before thinking about how the songs link together. "Your Welcome" at the start is a nice idea.

It's funny, I've toyed with so many opening songs for my SMiLE mixes, and I can't find any that I like better than "You're Welcome". "Our Prayer" always reminded me of a closing/near the end song, or, if I open with it, I follow with "Good Vibrations". For a long time I used "Look", because I like the opening chords and the way it "unfolds", almost like the sun rising. I also like the "Intro To Heroes And Villains" (the bells and whistles), followed by "Worms" or "Heroes"; that really gets your attention. But I keep coming back to "You're Welcome". I often wondered if it was ever seriously considered for SMiLE or BWPS; Brian actually performed it separately from BWPS at a few shows.

[BJL]

1. Our Prayer/Gee (purple chic)
2. Heroes and Villians (purple chic)
3. Old Master Painter (purple chic)
4. Do You Like Worms? (boxset)
5. Cabinessence (purple chic)
6. Workshop song
7. Wonderful (boxset)
8. Good Vibrations (single)
9. On a Holiday (Purple Chic)
10. Windchimes (purple chic)
12. vegetables (boxset)
13. Fall Breaks and Back to Winter
14. Cool cool water (boxset)
15. In Blue Hawaii (purple chic)
16. Cool cool water (sunflower)
17. Surf's up (71)

Fall Breaks is included as Fire, under the theory that Brian would have wanted his candle (and because I prefer it!)
The two versions of cool cool water with in blue hawaii create almost ten minutes of the most soothing music imaginable...and then the album surf's up, because its my favorite!  The rest isn't too exciting, basically, bits and pieces of purple chic rearranged to fit my own day to day fancies. 

[MD]

My Mix...

Prayer...
Do You Like Worms...
I'm in Great Shape...
Barnyard...
He Gives Speeches/With Me Tonight...
Wonderful...
Cabinessence...
Old Master Painter/You are my Sunshine...
Heroes and Villains...
Child is Father to the Man...

Good Vibrations...
Vega-Tables...
Wind Chimes...
The Elements...
Surf's Up...

Bonus Tracks

45 mixes
Good Vibrations..
You're Welcome...

Heroes and Villains...
Vega-Tables...

Surf's Up...
Been Way Too Long...

Good Vibrations (Extended Mix)
Been Way Too Long (Mega-Mix)

[Mahalo]

stupid question, but what's the difference between the 45 mix and album version of Good Vibrations?

MD, what does yer elements suite consist of?

[Don't Back Down]

You're Welcome
Do You Like Worms?
I Love To Say Da Da
The Old Master Painer/You Are My Sunshine
I Wanna Be Around/Friday Night
Look
Good Vibrations

I'm In A Great Shape
Wonderful
Barnyard
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Water
Child Is The Father of the Man
Cabin Essence
Surf's Up
Our Prayer
Heroes and Villains

 

[Sheriff John Stone]

You're Welcome
Do You Like Worms?
I Love To Say Da Da
The Old Master Painer/You Are My Sunshine
I Wanna Be Around/Friday Night
Look
Good Vibrations

I'm In A Great Shape
Wonderful
Barnyard
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Water
Child Is The Father of the Man
Cabin Essence
Surf's Up
Our Prayer
Heroes and Villains

Don't Back Down, with "I Love To Say Dada" following "Worms", were you continuing the "nautical/sailing" theme, and then landing with "The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine"?

Also, I'm always contemplating ending, like you did, with"Heroes And Villains; it's the perfect review song, tying everything together.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Don't Back Down, I really like your mix; I'd like to post an alternate SMiLE mix, using "Heroes And Villains" as the closer:

1. You're Welcome (to come on the SMiLE trip)
2. Do You Like Worms? (we're off!)
3. I Love To Say Dada (keeping the sailing going)
4. The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine (landing)
5. Cabinessence (I'll give you a home on the range)
6. I Wanna Be Around/Workshop (building the home/barn)
7. Vegetables (cart off and sell my vegetables to pay for the home on the range)
8. "I got a big bag of vegetables" (from Hawthorne - mixed into the end of Vegetables)
9. Holidays (off selling the vegetables)
10. Wind Chimes (resting in the late afternoon)
11. Whispering Winds (mixed into the end of Wind Chimes)
12. Good Vibration (on the WIND that lifts her perfume through the AIR)
13. Look (a continuation of the Good Vibrations riff)
14. With Me Tonight (from Hawthorne; it's now night time)
15. Child Is Father Of The Man (mixed onto the last note of With Me Tonight)
16. Wonderful (farther down the path was a mystery)
17. Mama, Mama, Mama
18. Barnyard (the child wanders down the path to the barnyard)
19. Spanish Guitar snippet (that's the cow kicking over the lamp)
20. Fire
21, Water Chant (taken from Sunflower for the thunder/wind effects)
22. Surf's Up (Intro/Track only)
23. Surf's Up
24. Our Prayer
25. Heroes And Villains Suite (10 minutes long, a review/recap of the SMiLE trip)
26. Boys/Girls (a hidden track - 30 second snippet from Hawthorne)

Note: I love how "Surf's Up" follows the "Water Chant"; it sounds cool, we're still in the night time, and it ties in with the water theme. Also, does anybody see a connection between the barn (and parts of Chicago) burning down and "columnated ruins domino"? 

[Andreas]

Vegetables (Andreas mix)

What is the Andreas mix?

Thanks for crediting me.

It's actually an edit of 8 mono mixed sections from SOT 17 and one short section from the Smiley Smile version. Nothing is remixed by me, and nothing is cross-faded. It does not resemble the 2004 version.

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[Andreas]

(An attempt at the proper album)
1. Prayer (GV box set)
2. Do You Like Worms (GV box set)
3. Wind Chimes (SOT 16)
4. Heroes And Villains (Feb. 67 mix, GV box set)
5. Surf's Up (piano solo, GV box set)
6. Good Vibrations (DCC Endless Summer)
7. Cabin Essence (Pastmasters 20/20)
8. Wonderful (GV box set)
9. I'm In Great Shape (third version, Psychedelic Sounds)
10. Child Is Father Of The Man (Vigotone, disc 1, track 5)
11. The Elements Part 1 Fire (mono mix with crackling fire sounds, Archaeology)
12. Water Chant (SOT 16, edited out from Love To Say Da Da to avoid the cross-fade)
13. Love To Say Da Da (GV box set)
14. I Wanna Be Around Friday / Friday Night (SOT 16)
15. Vega-Tables (personal mono edit, from SOT 17 mono mix attempts and a short part from the Smiley version)
(The remarkable thing about this version is that it only uses secion that were
already mixed to mono by Brian. No corss-fades were done, only hard edits.)
16. The Old Master Painter / You Were My Sunshine (Gema Smile)

(Outtakes)
17. You're Welcome (Smiley Smile / Wild Honey twofer)
18. Barnyard (SOT 16, one channel used to avoid fake stereo)
19. Look (SOT 17, "take 20")
20. Holidays (Archaeology)
21. He Gives Speeches (SOT 16)
22. Been Way Too Long (Gema Smile)
23. With Me Tonight (Archaeology, edited out from an assembly of two versions)
24. Tones (Secret Smile)
25. Unknown Instrumental (Secret Smile)

(Some instrumental tracks)
26. Wind Chimes (early track, SOT 17)
27. Surf's Up (track, GV box set)
28. Good Vibrations (track, GV box set)
29. Cabin Essence (track, GV box set)
30. Wonderful (track with additional backing vocals, Vigotone)
31. Heroes And Villains Intro (Archaeology)
32. The Elements Part 1 Fire (long take without overdubs, Archaeology)
33. The Old Master Painter / You Were My Sunshine (track, SOT 16)

(the officially released mixes)
34. Heroes And Villains (single mix, August 1967)
35. Surf's Up (from the album "Surf's Up", 1971)

[Sheriff John Stone]

(Outtakes)
22. Been Way Too Long (Gema Smile)

Andreas, do you know if ANY of this song had its roots in the pre-May 1967 SMiLE sessions? 

[Don't Back Down]

You're Welcome
Do You Like Worms?
I Love To Say Da Da
The Old Master Painer/You Are My Sunshine
I Wanna Be Around/Friday Night
Look
Good Vibrations

I'm In A Great Shape
Wonderful
Barnyard
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Water
Child Is The Father of the Man
Cabin Essence
Surf's Up
Our Prayer
Heroes and Villains

Don't Back Down, with "I Love To Say Dada" following "Worms", were you continuing the "nautical/sailing" theme, and then landing with "The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine"?

Also, I'm always contemplating ending, like you did, with"Heroes And Villains; it's the perfect review song, tying everything together.

You know, I didn't even think of it like that!
Thanks for the kind words Looking at your new mix: I can't believe I forgot Vegetables and Wind Chimes! haha Maybe I'll have to go back and make an edit.
Yeah I wasn't sure where to put Heroes and Villains even though it's at the beginning of BWPS, but then I thought about the ideas from the board about it being a good review as you point out.

[A Million Units In Jan!]

I assume the 'spanish guitar' snippet you refer to is the little piece that sounds like it came out of the movie Dr. Zhivago? What's the name of that instrument again, a balilika or something? That's what that piece always reminded me of.

I do wonder when that was done. You can hear Brian in the studio counting, so he was one of the musicians.

Was there ever a session sheet found for 'Little Red Book'?  That, along with the Spanish Guitar piece, could be seen as Brian starting to 'strip down' the music.

[DAMAGED]

Don't Back Down, I really like your mix; I'd like to post an alternate SMiLE mix, using "Heroes And Villains" as the closer:

1. You're Welcome (to come on the SMiLE trip)
2. Do You Like Worms? (we're off!)
3. I Love To Say Dada (keeping the sailing going)
4. The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine (landing)
5. Cabinessence (I'll give you a home on the range)
6. I Wanna Be Around/Workshop (building the home/barn)
7. Vegetables (cart off and sell my vegetables to pay for the home on the range)
8. "I got a big bag of vegetables" (from Hawthorne - mixed into the end of Vegetables)
9. Holidays (off selling the vegetables)
10. Wind Chimes (resting in the late afternoon)
11. Whispering Winds (mixed into the end of Wind Chimes)
12. Good Vibration (on the WIND that lifts her perfume through the AIR)
13. Look (a continuation of the Good Vibrations riff)
14. With Me Tonight (from Hawthorne; it's now night time)
15. Child Is Father Of The Man (mixed onto the last note of With Me Tonight)
16. Wonderful (farther down the path was a mystery)
17. Mama, Mama, Mama
18. Barnyard (the child wanders down the path to the barnyard)
19. Spanish Guitar snippet (that's the cow kicking over the lamp)
20. Fire
21, Water Chant (taken from Sunflower for the thunder/wind effects)
22. Surf's Up (Intro/Track only)
23. Surf's Up
24. Our Prayer
25. Heroes And Villains Suite (10 minutes long, a review/recap of the SMiLE trip)
26. Boys/Girls (a hidden track - 30 second snippet from Hawthorne)

Note: I love how "Surf's Up" follows the "Water Chant"; it sounds cool, we're still in the night time, and it ties in with the water theme. Also, does anybody see a connection between the barn (and parts of Chicago) burning down and "columnated ruins domino"? 

Man, that looks interesting. Might have to edit this together to see how it sounds.

[Amazing Larry]

It does look interesting but man, i don't like it when people think SMiLE is a concept album.

[Jay]

I don't have the exact running order for mine down pat yet, but my version has the first section of Heroes, up untill "dude'll do". Then it goes into Great Shape/Barnyard, then a snippit of an outtake of CabinEssence as an "intro" for Heroes(reprise), which contains the Cantina verse and concludes with the False Barnyard fade out.

[Sheriff John Stone]

I don't have the exact running order for mine down pat yet, but my version has the first section of Heroes, up untill "dude'll do". Then it goes into Great Shape/Barnyard, then a snippit of an outtake of CabinEssence as an "intro" for Heroes(reprise), which contains the Cantina verse and concludes with the False Barnyard fade out.

Show us what you got - so far. Hey, all SMiLE mixes are works in progress; one is never completely satisfied; there's always new ideas....

[Jay]

I'm working on a "humor" section that would kind of look like this:

1. Vegatables(cornocopia version)

2. Vegatables Promo

3. He Gives Speeches(two minute edit)

4. With Me Tonight(uptempo version with Mike singing)

5. Wonderful(rock with me henry version)*

*possibly....

[Glenn Greenberg]

Submitted for your approval:

1. Our Prayer
2. Heroes and Villains (single version with "cantina" section added, as per BWPS)
3. Do You Like Worms?
4. Barnyard
5. The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine
6. He Gives Speeches
7. Cabin Essence
8. Wonderful
9. Look
10. Child is Father of the Man
11. Good Vibrations
12. I Wanna Be Around/Workshop
13. Vega-Tables
14. Wind Chimes
15. Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
16. I Love To Say DaDa (with "Water Chant" incorporated at the beginning)
17. You're Welcome
18. Surf's Up (Anne Wallace version--it simply cannot be topped)

[Sheriff John Stone]

I'm working on a "humor" section that would kind of look like this:

1. Vegatables(cornocopia version)

2. Vegatables Promo

3. He Gives Speeches(two minute edit)

4. With Me Tonight(uptempo version with Mike singing)

5. Wonderful(rock with me henry version)*

*possibly....

A 4th movement for the rock opera, the Humor Movement!

[Sheriff John Stone]

Submitted for your approval:

1. Our Prayer
2. Heroes and Villains (single version with "cantina" section added, as per BWPS)
3. Do You Like Worms?
4. Barnyard
5. The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine
6. He Gives Speeches
7. Cabin Essence
8. Wonderful
9. Look
10. Child is Father of the Man
11. Good Vibrations
12. I Wanna Be Around/Workshop
13. Vega-Tables
14. Wind Chimes
15. Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
16. I Love To Say DaDa (with "Water Chant" incorporated at the beginning)
17. You're Welcome
18. Surf's Up (Anne Wallace version--it simply cannot be topped)

I like it, Glenn. Very similar to BWPS, with "Surf's Up" and "Good Vibrations" flip-flopped; but I agree with the change. I'm curious if you ever experimented with flip-flopping "Our Prayer" and "You're Welcome"?

[Bicyclerider]

I'm working on a "humor" section that would kind of look like this:

1. Vegatables(cornocopia version)

2. Vegatables Promo

3. He Gives Speeches(two minute edit)

4. With Me Tonight(uptempo version with Mike singing)

5. Wonderful(rock with me henry version)*

*possibly....

I don't find With Me Tonight particularly humorous . . . nor He Gives Speeches!  I'd edit in the Chicago taxidriver, the party reel "fall into the piano" bit, and the Wonderful tag "mama mama mama" bit. 

[sockittome]

I'm working on a "humor" section that would kind of look like this:

1. Vegatables(cornocopia version)

2. Vegatables Promo

3. He Gives Speeches(two minute edit)

4. With Me Tonight(uptempo version with Mike singing)

5. Wonderful(rock with me henry version)*

*possibly....

What?  No H&V Nuclear Bomb rant?  You gotta have that in there.  Now THAT'S comedy!

[Mr. Cohen]

What?  No H&V Nuclear Bomb rant?  You gotta have that in there.  Now THAT'S comedy!

Are you talking about that "H&V" bit with Mike ranting about how badly "H&V" bombed? Or something else? All of this smog has my mind so muddled that I can't figure anything out. I'm about to toss my computer out of my bedroom window, this smog has me so irate.

[Jay]

Question, for nobody in particular: What is the best Dada approach? I like both "part 1" and "part 2", but I don't favor one over the other. They both have parts I like, but not one more so than the other. Also, where does the "water chant" go? Do I put it at the start as an intro? Do I stick it somewhere in the middle to "bridge" the two parts?

[Amazing Larry]

You should use the alternate version of part 2 off of Secret SMiLE.