What's your favorite version of SMiLE, /mu/? Or do you just listen to the unmastered studio recordings all the way through?
I like the version made by a /mu/tant, I think you can still find it on the archive. Image related.
General SMiLE and Beach Boys thread.
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I have to listen to SMiLE in its original Sessions release. I've grown so fond of the eclecticism, even if people have found better ways to transition the record. Brian Wilson's final rendition was great still.
>>73299911
My favorite is the snl version, but i do still really love the Smile Sessions and Smiley Smile. I see them each as their own unique album though with snl being at bootleg. I think the snl version comes the closest to what it would have sounded like if release in 67 though. Someone posted a version with thirteen tracks that ends with Your Welcome and has Cabinessence as track six that I've been meaning to check out. In all honesty, the Smile Sessions is probably my album of the decade so far. That or Age of Adz.
>>73299922
I've never actually never heard Smiley Smile as a whole before before, this is super weird. If SMiLE was an explosion, this is the weird convulsed psychedelic aftermath. It's very nice.