SMILE and PET SOUNDS contain some of the most emotionally moving music I've ever heard. There's an AI infused version of smile.on KZfaq which is one of the best versions ive ever heard. It's sad that Brian spent so many years not being able to decipher his own work due to his mental health issues , but I'm glad he became well enough to give us more than one official version of something that could be deemed SMILE.

Great video. It's worth noting too that during '67 - '71 bits of Smile were salvaged for various Beach Boys albums.

I saw BW in Melbourbe Australia with the Smile show. People turned up in fire helmets. It was totaly stunning.

A slow start? In the very first writing sessions with VD Parks, they wrote Surfs up, Wonderful, Heroes and Villains and Cabinessence. Almost half of SMiLE... And a hell of a great sand box!

Not only was SMiLE wonderful when Brian finished it with Darian Sahanaja's Protools assistance--and I got to hear Brian & Band perform it live in 2004 (Ann Arbor) and 2005 (Chicago) in person--but I was SHOCKED later in 2011 when I first heard THE SMILE SESSIONS release of The Beach Boys' version of the same material because in relation to the 2004 BW Band recording the Beach Boys version itself was NEARLY COMPLETE. Unless Brian had much further to go with writing more BB version material for the original album and then never covered that extra creative distance ahead of the 2004 version but merely 'reconstructed' it to where the BB had left off, the original version was itself REALLY ALMOST DONE when it got shelved. The 2004 BW Band version is very satisfying and of a perfectly suitable length, ending with GOOD VIBRATIONS (including VDP's unaltered lyics) as the conclusion of the song cycle. To me, the special tragedy of SMiLE is that it originally got SO close to completion; but its vindication in 2004--and especially the praise Brian and VDP received for it at that time--including from Paul McCartney and George Martin, who both WELL UNDERSTOOD its historical context and its artistic achievement--though long in coming, was both sweet and much-deserved. Whereas The Beatles transitioned successfully through the self-reinvention of their public image as Sgt. Pepper's Band, the parallel commercial-pop to Picasso-esque art-pop self-reinvention that The Beach Boys MIGHT have made as well never happened, for the various reasons that biographers cover in their studies of BB history of the time. However, the self-reinvention path also led (in some part, however small) to the end of The Beatles after a decade, whereas The Beach Boys in one form or another have continued down to the present. I find this a strangely interesting, mirror-image reversal of things for the two groups, both of which underwent interpersonal turmoil along the way. For The Beatles this turmoil proved fatal to the group identity; for The Beach Boys it proved fracturing.

Brian was a GENIUS

Smile, as an album concept, was so far ahead of its time that it was necessary to wait for the proper technology to actually be invented in order to complete it.

Brian was misdiagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia but later correctly diagnosed with schizo-effective disorder....God bless Brian Wilson...a champion advocate for mental health and one of thr greatest composers in the history of music. He transcended rock n roll and is a living legend.

0:48 Revolver was 1966 not 1967

One of my favorite novels is Glimpses, by Lewis Shiner. It's about a man who can travel in time to collect music that was never properly released. Smile was a huge chunk of that story. That was how I got turned onto Pet Sounds.

Nice little video 😊Enjoyed watching!

I really wish Smile wouldl've actually had been released in 1967. Also, I admire both The Beatles and The Beach Boys so much, and I can gurantee that their rivalry was a friendly rivalry. Long Live The Beach Boys

"Orange Crate Art" is a great(if also underappreciated) album!

Sergeant pepper blew his mind and drove him crazy trying to compete with it

Do you edit videos using adobe premiere?

Amazing video!

Wasn't this that section near the end of Walk Hard?

We heard songs from Smile on 20/20 1969

it's a challenge to put the finishing touches on a teen symphony to god when you're as far removed from teendom as wilson was when it was completed. we'll never know what the final product could've been or how our ears might have fallen under its spell, its one of those grand mysteries that will remain. i think it would have eclipsed the prevailing genius of peppers.

Has anyone ever considered Brian talking out of one side of his mouth is a result of his hearing loss? I just realised he speaks in the direction of his ear that can hear... I wonder if he developed this habit so he could hear himself better when he spoke. Literally just thought about this for some reason haha

Smiley Smile is my favorite album.

(1) The rivalry between the Beatles and the Beach Boys started in 1964. (2) Revolver was released in 1966 (not 1967). (3) Revolver was not an influence to create the "Smile" album. Instead, it was an attempt to "reclaim" American music from British bands.

Pet sounds is a masterpiece! Listened to lots of music and this is still one of the best.

Good video - thanks for sharing. I am convinced that had this album been released, it would have been the greatest of all time. When the Smile sessions was released it blew my mind - amazing stuff by a true genius. I absolutely love The Beatles but Smile is better in my opinion. One last comment around the argument with Van Dyke Parks. This occurred mainly from persistent challenges of the band over lyrics. Mike Love was the main instigator of this and Brian had become so unstable that he could not defend Van Dyke leaving him very hurt and disappointed. Van Dyke therefore left the project. With so many things going wrong and people not backing him, Brian simply shelved the project and bottled up all the feelings and emotions over many years.

Having listened to Smile sessions all the way through, I don't think of it as Dennis famously said--"so good it makes Pet Sounds stink"---but rather, a companion piece, or a sequel to Pet Sounds. At least that's the way I interpret Smile. Its a continuation of the story from Pet Sounds

Background music 4:50?

Nice video. Thank you.

You must be talking about Stars And Stripes Volume One....

Young man : Ok, 1st : in the summer of '63, BW also did not tour. Instead, Al Jardine returned to the group, took his place onstage, as BRian stayed home & composed what became the " Surfer Girl " album , re;leased in September of '63, the 3rd album the group produced that year ! -------------2nd : When he stopped for good in late '64, as the group toured with at 1st Glen Campbell, & then, Bruce Johnston, writing the music that would become " The Beach Boys Today " & then, " Summer Days & Nights " , both, in '65. It wasn't until the fall of '65, as the group went to Japan on tour, that BW & Tony Asher began work on what became, " Pet Sounds " . ---------OK ??????? PLEASE, get your history straight. -----------------------MJL, 76 y/o, & a fan since the Fall of 1962.

Why is there an AI-generated thumbnail? The rest of the video is fine, but this really bothers me. It's not like there aren't any real photos of this time period.

Smile was supposed to have good vibrations as head song

revolver was released in 1966 not '67

7:38 lol, I do that to songs too

The Elements: Fire is probably one of the earliest examples of Grove Metal if you remove all the sirens and other bullshit.

SMiLE would've been a flop in the States the same way Pet Sounds was, but it would have been a success in the UK and Europe. And no, it would not have eclipsed neither Revolver or Sgt. Pepper in the general public's eyes, only with Beach Boys and Brian Wilson fans.

Why do people always say the album that nearly killed him? It was the DRUGS.

SMiLE had the potential to be a better listen than most Beatles albums. Just off the lyrics alone, they really appealed to the "life" ethos without sounding too pretentious, cryptic or downright bizarre like in many Beatles songs. Imo the final release and some fan edits/rearrangements rival the White Album. Better than Sgt. Peppers for sure.

The Beatles rivalry thing was a bit overdone. Paul said his favorite song ever is God Only Knows.

Thank-you

The music was all Brian Wilson------------and, Van Dyke Parks . The rest of the group had nothing to do with the creation of " Smile ". ------------------------MJL, 76 y/o

Good argument that 😂

1:27 haha

Pet Sounds is THE greatest l.p ever, of any decade! Smiley smile & Wild Honey are great too as was Summer Days, Today,All summer long & later w/ Sunflower, surfs up, Holland, & lastly Love you .

The previously unreleased smile recordings, as we have them, are a country mile better than sergeant peppers. But thats not too hard, cause peppers isnt very good overall, being half duds. Anyway, the travesty of it all was a little more work with thw mastertapes you'd have a complete masterpiece of an album.

“Kind of the leader of The Beach Boys” Brian didn’t have schizophrenia, he was doing wayyy too many drugs. this guy barely did his research and it shows over and over in this video but regardless I’m just happy there’s more Beach Boys content.

Ok you have a few things wrong but all in all you made a great video.

I never knew Brian had a falling out with Van Dyke Parks. I thought he just quit working with the band and wrote for other people, I guess Love and Mercy left out a few things

Musical mental breakdown set to music?

The Beach Boys were never near as great as The Beatles.

Love Pet Sounds but it’s not greater that Rubber Soul! No way!

Drugs destroyed Brian like it did Sly Stone. Thats why Smile never came to fruition. Brian lost focus in the music. John and Paul might have dabbled a little but always kept their focus on the music

No where near as good as the beatles

It should have killed the Beach Boys. Brian should have gone solo.

Don,t forget the drugs a s well.