Smile (The Beach Boys album)

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Smile (stylized as SMiLE) is an unfinished album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, conceived as the follow-up to their 1966 album Pet Sounds. The project—a concept album involving themes of Americana, humor, youth, innocence, and the natural world—was planned as a twelve-track LP assembled from modular fragments, the same editing process used on their single "Good Vibrations". After a year of recording, the album was shelved and a downscaled version, Smiley Smile, was released in September 1967. The original project came to be regarded as the most legendary unreleased album in popular music history. The album was produced and primarily composed by Brian Wilson with guest lyricist and assistant arranger Van Dyke Parks, together envisioning the project as a Rhapsody in Blue–influenced riposte to contemporary rock trends and the British Invasion. Wilson touted Smile as a "teenage symphony to God", intended to surpass Pet Sounds and inaugurate the band's Brother Records imprint. Consuming...

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