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Until September, no official Smile album had ever existed. Brian Wilson made more than fifty trips to the recording studio in 1966 and 1967, intending to record the follow-up to 1966’s Pet Sounds, but nothing came of it. The Beach Boys, with Wilson now an indifferent participant, moved on to other projects, and would be increasingly marginalized as has-beens in the decades to come...
...performance of Smile itself (and other Beach Boys hits, including one from Pet Sounds) was more equivocal than the concert’s sloganeering: Brian Wilson is clearly a more constrained musician than he once was. Where the Smile album succeeded in cloaking Wilson’s vocal limitations behind other singers and an excellent production, the live show necessarily did not. He ran out of breath during “Surf’s Up.” He was flat during “Vegetables.” Often, he simply delegated lyrics...
...unclear how Smile will come to be regarded with respect to the Beach Boys’ Sgt. Pepper, Pet Sounds, or even with what it could have been had Wilson finished it in 1967. One potential conclusion is that no completed album could redeem the mystique of the Smile bootlegs...
...album that never quite made it, and a man who was psychologically destroyed in the process, joining Mr. Barrett as poster boys for 60s burnouts. My choice is the Beach Boys’ Smile, Brian Wilson’s long-deferred masterpiece, intended to top the sublime Pet Sounds and to render the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper obsolete before it hit the shelves. This album’s failure to appear reflects almost too perfectly the abortive and tragically naïve vision of 1960s drug culture and makes it the saddest and most romantic all-time drug album...
...grimaced behind his lectern. When he leaned down and in to make a point, he appeared to be ducking for cover. As the debate wore on, his pauses lengthened--several times he had that lost look on his face, the look he had when he was stuck reading My Pet Goat after learning of the 9/11 attacks. The next day, Rush Limbaugh was screaming at his audience, berating the ditto-heads for sending him defeatist e-mails with suggestions about what Bush might have done better. He called Kerry an s.o.b. who wanted a "freaking" global test...