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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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markfOct 7, 2004
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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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paulaOct 7, 2004the best 45 minutes of popular music i've ever heard.
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williamfOct 7, 2004never was that much of a brain wilson fan, but wow!!!!! this is a classic
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DavidPOct 7, 2004
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LarryJOct 6, 2004It just keeps getting better with each time I listen to it. I especially love the middle suite of "Childhood" songs -- "Wonderful." If the original BB had been involved in this production, particularly the late-Carl Wilson, it would have rated off the chart. The album and Brian's backstory, in my opinion, serve to reinforce the overall theme of these tracks. I'm happy Brian can SMiLE.
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dickjOct 5, 2004Ambitious, banal, silly, over-produced, schlocky, depressing, sappy, 37 years too late and egotistic
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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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EoinOct 5, 2004A good album, but the songs are not as strong as on Pet Sounds. But as concept albums go it's quite good.
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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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BrianFOct 4, 2004The second "suite" is worth the purchase price alone...brilliantly beautiful! Deduct 1 point for the odd animal and power tool songs - give me more music!
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ChristopherFOct 4, 2004A wonderful concept album fully realized. Comparisons to Sgt. Peppers are not inaccurate because Sgt Pepper isn't a concept album: it has no central theme. Brian Wilson is a phoenix rising form the ashes, again.
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RobbieWOct 4, 2004I always thought "Pet Sounds" was the best LP Brian Wilson would ever make. Now I have to say that "Smile" is even better. Even though I had high expectations, this CD has exceeded them. A++++
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m.toupsOct 3, 2004Mama mia that's a spicy meatball!
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JMOct 3, 2004Who would have thought it could turn out this good almost 40 yrs later? I can't stop listening to it!!!
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alcOct 2, 2004love this album the most!!
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TazmanianDevilOct 2, 2004Can't stop listening... enjoy every moment of this CD
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FrankAOct 2, 2004SMiLE's time is NOW!
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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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brianwilsonOct 2, 2004It sucks, overrated piece of trash.
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RICHARDBOct 2, 2004Not much to say, except "blown away!" This goes into my top 5 of all time. The tracks released on the Good Vibrations box set really wetted my appetite, and now the complete album...it's....it's...words don't do justice.
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JackBOct 1, 2004
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JonathanSOct 1, 2004Unbelievable... gets better w/ each listening!
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MarycOct 1, 2004I never heard anything like this before.
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StephenMOct 1, 2004Worth the wait.
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JensKOct 1, 2004Forget about 1967, this is a great, great, great record today!
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StevieOct 1, 2004
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VinceH.Oct 1, 2004
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TabPSep 30, 2004I am still stunned. It is so much better than I expected. Absolute perfection.
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NikeshGSep 30, 2004Truly Ace
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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]