What would have happened to music nowadays if this was released

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Nothing.

literally nothing. it's like not anybody took notice of smiley smile is it?

dinoasaurs

>/mu/ still trying to make the beach boys a thing

It would be a huge hit with critics and musicians and influence generations of music, but it would probably have meet the same fate as Pet Sounds with regards to the general public (minor success followed by relative obscurity then later retrospective veneration).

yeah not much like people are saying

maybe except that the beach boys probably wouldnt be seen as a cheesy surf pop band to most people

smiles influence has already taken place because of its bootlegs,etc

i think it would have blown paul mccartneys cock off and he would have killed himself afterwards because he didnt have a cock any more

>>71199231
The myth of Smile has always been more important than the actual album. Anyone who disagrees must have only discovered it after the 2004 release.

>>71199257
this

>>71199231
Brian Wilson was so washed up at this point that this album would have literally done nothing besides to the faggots who obsess about them, especially now. We need to stop putting these people on pedestals, like seriously. Fuck this album and fuck this band. Bye.

Good album tho.

The bigger thing is that they didn't perform at Monterey Pop Festival.

>>71199634
Were they invited? If so then yeah that would've caused problems.

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This might have been released maybe a decade earlier and people would have realized other music is obsolete by now.

The members of A Sunny Day In Glasgow would be considered the most important cultural figures of all time too.

>>71199647
They helped organize it and were set to headline.

>>71199356
this.

faul mccockless would never have made wings and the abominable Dance Tonight would never have been made, preventing thousands of mass suicides

>>71199231
The Beatles would have still eclipsed their talent and creativity

>Smile (stylized as SMiLE and called SMiLE: A Psychedelic Symphony in the original liner notes) is the twelfth studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys, released on May 30, 1967. A follow-up to the group’s groundbreaking album Pet Sounds, the record was a highly-ambitious project for Brian Wilson, who looked to push the boundaries of pop music production, utilizing the same production and composition techniques he experimented with and pioneered on the single “Good Vibrations”.

>Beginning with the creation of “Good Vibrations” in early-1966, the writing and recording of Smile was a long, arduous, and stressful process; Wilson worked for over a year with lyricist Van Dyke Parks and dozens of session musicians, recording various music fragments that were largely disjointed; and avant-garde vignettes centering on themes of love, health, childhood innocence, and Americana, with recurring experimental, psychedelic, baroque, jazz, and classical motifs. Parks nearly left the project in April 1967, as Wilson’s increased drug use, mental stress, and paranoia hindered his ability and motivation to work. Additionally, tensions between him and the members of the Beach Boys, notably Mike Love, made Parks uneasy about continuing the partnership. However, fearful of Wilson’s declining health, Parks convinced him to declare the project – for which hours of music had already been recorded – complete. Wilson and Parks rushed to mix and sequence the final product, which they now recall as “only a fraction” of what they had set out to make.

>>71199231
is this the most overrated album of all time?

>>71199819
>Originally scheduled for release in December 1966 or January 1967, Capitol Records continuously pushed back the release date of the highly-anticipated album and put considerable pressure on the Beach Boys, who were ultimately forced to abandon their plans for an independent record label. Capitol released “Here Today”, b/w “You Still Believe in Me” as a single in January 1967 to fill the gap. Smile was finally released on May 30, 1967, right as the band’s popularity and reputation in the US was slipping amidst the rise of the psychedelic era. Containing a gatefold cover, a booklet of photos and illustrations, liner notes, and lyrics, it was one of the first LPs to use its packaging as an extension of the musical experience.

>The album initially polarized critics, with many celebrating it as an artistic triumph and Brian Wilson’s magnum opus, and others dismissing it as confusing and unfocused. Tragically, the album also caught the ear of a young man by the name of Charles Manson, the charismatic leader of a “hippie cult” which referred to themselves as “The Family”. Believing that the psychedelic lyrics foretold the coming of an apocalyptic race-war, Manson and his “Family” embarked on a series of gruesome murders, hoping to incite the conflict themselves. This “murder spree” culminated in a violent attack on the Beach Boys themselves during a late night recording session.

>>71199835
>Band member Mike Love was the only member to survive the assault, having earlier left the studio after an altercation with bandmate Brian Wilson over the future direction of the band. Three years later, his testimony before Congress would prove influential in the passage of the controversial “Broadcasting Decency Act of 1970” which provided restrictions on commercial pop music recorded in the United States. Over the next decade, the newly-formed House Committee on Music Recording and Promotion would continue to tighten the restraints on the American pop market until rock ‘n’ roll and most of its derivative subgenres had disappeared from the charts, stifling creative freedom and artistic challenge in the medium. By 1980, the pop scene in the United States consisted mostly of sanitized easy listening and country-western – with rock, jazz, soul, and experimental music relegated mostly to underground subcultures. That year, however, Mike Love returned to recording with the straight-up rock album Looking Back, with lyrics that reflected on his time with the Beach Boys and coping with his brothers’ deaths. Ironically, the singer that had scolded Brian Wilson for disrupting the formula was now doing just that.

>>71199673
Dude fuck off. This band is so mediocre and this album is lame as hell.