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The Beach Boys' Faded Smile, by Charlie Finch of Artnet Magazine

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In December of 1966, I opened my copy of the Brit music newspaper Melody Maker, and espied a whimsical picture of a corner store selling pop images of smiles. The ad copy read, "coming in January the new Beach Boys' album Smile." Last week, 45 years later, I walked over to Norman Isaacs' music store near Cooper Union and finally bought the album, now a two CD set, dubbed The Smile Sessions, from Capitol Records.

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The Beach Boys' Smile Album's Original Graphics (1966), by Artnet Magazine

 

It has been so long, this promise of the greatest rock album never released, that, when I called my friend, the artist Sherry Wong, in San Francisco, to crow about Smile, she, age 33, replied, "Never heard of it, Charlie. Besides I don't do albums, I just download songs." For those who don't know, Smile is what Brian Wilson called "a teenage symphony to God." Originally titled Dumb Angel, this collaboration between Wilson and a nerdy songwriter from Scarsdale named Van Dyke Parks, combines elements of John Cage, Charles Ives, Tin Pan Alley, Gregorian chants and, of course, surf music, to describe a historical tour of America.

 

Click here to read the entire Artnet Magazine article by Charlie Finch, co-author of Most Art Sucks.

 

I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (more...)
 

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