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Generally favorable reviews- based on 522 Ratings
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Positive: 398 out of 522
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Mixed: 39 out of 522
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Negative: 85 out of 522
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KimMMay 2, 2009Simply superb.
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ToddSMay 9, 2009Absolute perfection!
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SethG.Jul 13, 2009I've listened to this album so much. At least once a week, sometimes much more. It's so good!
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TiagoA.Sep 18, 2009A great album, this have soul and it's brilliant.
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AdamSSep 8, 2009Sounds like a good album, but 97! I think this score may have been boosted by critics nostalgia trips.
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DriJan 15, 2010Classic album of a genius.
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RobertB.Jan 8, 2010I love this album. He makes it all seem so easy. Don't think I have ever listened to a pop record that is this far ahead of the game.
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ChrisHNov 1, 2004
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BrianVNov 13, 2004Absolutely, genius. Brian Wilson and his masterwork. Thank you for giving us this Brian.
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stevebNov 18, 2004
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LynnC.Nov 20, 2004It's amazing. It's so musically sophisticated. There's really nothing like it out there still. It feels more like musical progression has gone backwards since 1967, when this would have come out originally. If it would have, I bet Beach Boys would be thought of very different than they are today. It's so joyous yet odd. Love it. Can't quit listening.
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DavidROct 12, 2004First listen, I liked it but thought it was a bit odd. Then pieces began to surface in my memory. After a few more listens, I convinced it's one of the most original, wonderful, pieces I've ever heard. I love it.
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FatciderjohnTheBassbeastNov 26, 2004This arrived the day before my first born son-Lucas. Frankly, I've not stopped playing it. Complete Wilson Genius. Incredible, I really did think Brian had lost it until this. I knew it would be good after seeing it live in the summer. I just knew it! Brian I love you. A thousand thankyoooooos.
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DevinBOct 13, 2004
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JoeMOct 14, 2004I am biased and a huge Brian Wilson fan and I admit that, but SMiLE, 38 years late is still a triumph. Believe it or not, it is even better and more powerful performed live. I love this music!
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RyanM.Oct 2, 2004It's good. But, seemingly, people seem to think after keeping a good record on the shelf for 37 years it becomes great. This may be true for wine, but not for "Smile". Though this is a solid album, and better than most crap that's out today, it's not great...then, or now.
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FrankAOct 2, 2004SMiLE's time is NOW!
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RichHOct 22, 2004Greater than the sum of it's parts this record satisfies. There are moments when the music felt so right that tears welled up and I got a lump in my throat. Only the very best can do this to me.
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davidjDec 2, 2004The 37 year wait and finally......its here,probably the greatest album in the world.....EVER....Brian Wilson The Messiah brings a Masterpiece to his loving flock.
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CaptainStubingDec 2, 2004
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kevinsDec 30, 2004Unf**kinbelieveable. 37 years later this masterpiece is recreated by a ubertalented group of Brian Wilson minions. Absolutely fantastic. Miss it and lose out on the best album that you'll likely hear this side of 2000. Dig it or die.
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ealonrrigbyDec 5, 2004excellnt
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DavidFDec 6, 2004Absolute Classic. Smile sounds so fresh, even though it was conceived all those years ago. Anyone who has heard and enjoyed the Unsupassed masters Vol. 17 Smile Sessions 3 cd set, will be thrilled that Brian has managed to weave all the threads of Smile into a cohesive whole.
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MarkAOct 29, 2004Simply put ... Stunning! I've listened to it several times a day for three weeks and I still love hearing it. My opinion is that it is better than Pet Sounds, better than Sgt Pepper.
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m.toupsOct 3, 2004Mama mia that's a spicy meatball!
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DavidLOct 4, 2004Smiles and a few tears for what this great artist has accomplished in his lifetime and the joy in music that he has brought all of us who never quit listening.
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RyanKOct 5, 2004This album is a blast of 1960's psychadelia that is sure to inspire many strange trips... It's beautiful and innocent... why don't people make music like this anymore?
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KrisOct 7, 2004best album of the year no doubt, you´ll have alot of fun if you get this one
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markfOct 7, 2004
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ebokwSep 28, 2004if this came out in when planned it would be considered one of the 10 best albums ever made.
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Awards & Rankings
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Smile is quite simply the greatest triumph in the history of pop music.
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Smile's post-adolescent utopia isn't disfigured by Brian's thickened, soured 62-year-old voice. It's ennobled--the material limitations of its sunny artifice and pretentious tomfoolery acknowledged and joyfully engaged.
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Los Angeles Times"Smile" emerges as a beautiful and cohesive work, at times deeply moving, at others oddly whimsical, at still others eerily disturbing but celebratory. [27 Sep 2004]