Word: smileyness
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...collection of 8 to 20 disparate ones: singling out all the great songs here won't tell you all you need to know about why this Eggs record continues to amaze me, any more than describing how much fun "Good Vibrations" is to listen to would tell you why Smiley Smile is such a good album...
...like I really need it, because I still remember what everyone wrote to me. But I treasure the writing, the personal element. So the book stays in my room at home, the smiley faces and numbers still blazoned on the pages...
...must learn new languages (like UNIX), new forms of address (like president whitehouse.gov and new ways of expressing feeling (like those ubiquitous sideways smiley faces), and you must master a whole set of rules for how to behave, called netiquette. Rule No. 1: Don't ask dumb questions. In fact, don't ask any questions at all before you've read the FAQ (frequently asked questions) files. Otherwise you risk annoying a few hundred thousand people who may either yell at you (IN ALL CAPS!) or, worse still, ignore...
...Beach Boys were nearly undone by Smile and by the eventual release of Smiley Smile, a much simplified version of the original that Brian's lead- guitarist brother Carl Wilson referred to as "a bunt instead of a grand slam." The seven albums that the Beach Boys went on to release between 1967 and 1972 sold something like a million copies, total. Wilson retreated, becoming rock's foremost eccentric, a kind of beach-bound Sasquatch; the band struggled on, often without his participation, becoming largely a nostalgia act, a confection for sentimentalists and California dreamers...
...gays in the military, not Powell. But even if Powell must serve as a symbol for the unjust ban, then he should not be hated for his reasoning. Powell's only crime is pessimism. Instead of pink triangles, perhaps protesters should influence Powell by greeting him with yellow smiley faces...