Brian Wilson : Smile

[JKiF]

------------------------------------------------------------------------From Piccadilly site:

 

"Wow, I don't feel worthy enough to even review this! Thirty-seven years since it's first sleeves were printed and thousands of bootlegs later, Brian Wilson's follow-up to "Pet Sounds" is finally with us. This is no con or sad cash-in, one listen and you'll know this is a totally unique event in pop History. And it's happening right now, this weekend in 2004! Beautifully produced with 17 songs split into three suites, this 'teenage symphony to God' is given the scale and grandeur it always deserved. Maybe it sounds even better (with modern recording techniques and what not) but comparisons are futile; this is it, how it was meant to be, and it's brilliant. There's horses' hooves, steam trains, tin whistles, trombones; melodies overlap and recur....it truly is a magnum opus. The second greatest album of all time?!"

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

I'll be the judge of that.

 

I wonder what the reviewer considers the best album of all time, then? Probably Nevermind by Nirvana or something.

[JKiF]

sort of qhat i was thinking..............is it THAT good?

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Dare say I'll buy it at some point. I'll let you know!

[GazzaBTFC]

Quote:

I'll be the judge of that.

I wonder what the reviewer considers the best album of all time, then? Probably Nevermind by Nirvana or something.

Of course Zeal, you are the "God" of musical taste.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Indeed I am, and it's nice that you've recognised that.

[GazzaBTFC]

You will "doff" your hat in my direction when you hear the David Crosby album.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Arriving Monday, so an email reliably informs me.

[GazzaBTFC]

Well let me know what you think, matey boy. Still waiting for you assessment of Jethro Tull

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Still waiting to listen to it, actually. I'd forgotten all about that one. Will have to stop filing as soon as I buy something, and go back to having a "still to listen to" pile.

[GazzaBTFC]

I do that. Put on a listen pile and then take out of the filing. There are be loads of CD's I have bought and not played

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

I'm pretty good generally, although I must have hundreds that I've only listened to the once.

 

This Jethro Tull one is that only one I can think of that I've filed away without actually playing. Electric Warrior too maybe, although I used to have that on a tape copy.

[JKiF]

 

long shot

heard this?

 

 

  New Age of Earth  by

Ashra

[GazzaBTFC]

I bought Electric Warrior but file that away as I used to have it on vinal and played the b*ll*cks off it when 1st released....God I feel old now.

 

Apologies for any spelling mistakes....had a heavy lunch.

[Big J R]

I made my views known to 'The Herb' by PM regarding the legendary Brian Wilson. (Still bearing up ??)

 

The Freebie CD issued recently by a well known Tory publication was MAGNIFICENT !

 

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