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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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AnthonyLMar 26, 2010Best album ever.
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WJFlywheelSep 30, 2004Good stuff for the Mike Love Fanclub.
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MarycOct 1, 2004I never heard anything like this before.
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ShaneSep 28, 2004
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MikeASep 28, 2004A Masterpiece
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RayGSep 30, 2004
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dfSep 30, 2004STUNNING
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MattWSep 30, 2004This is one of the best records I've ever heard. Seriously.
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StephenMOct 1, 2004Worth the wait.
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JonathanSOct 1, 2004Unbelievable... gets better w/ each listening!
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KentSSep 29, 2004It's great to hear the full thing after tasting only bits for ages. It's really fun,thanks Brian
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NikeshGSep 30, 2004Truly Ace
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TheFirstOneToCommentSep 28, 2004If this album were released by the Beach Boys in 1967, it would likely rank as my favorite album ever. In 2004 the songs are just as brilliant, but you miss the vocals of a sixties-era Brian (as well as Carl). This is still the greatest thing I've heard all year. One of the greatest things I've ever heard, in fact.
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DanielPSep 28, 2004A mind blowing experience. Well worth the wait. Album of the year so far by a mile.
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FeidoVApr 12, 2010A great album.
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BrianEMar 26, 2010Perfection in Sound
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dickjOct 5, 2004Ambitious, banal, silly, over-produced, schlocky, depressing, sappy, 37 years too late and egotistic
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DuncanL.Jan 2, 2010The great thing about this being the best rated album by the music critics is that it shows very clearly just how superficial and sheep like those critics actually are. This is no more than a piece of fluff good for a couple of spins and then put away at the back of the cupboard with that Nirvana record. But hey there are plenty of other sheep who agree with them so they must be right.
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GeneDSep 13, 2008
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JoeGMar 9, 2006I wanted to love this, I really did. It's from a genius isn't it, one of the great lost treasures of 60's pop! A few of the sequences (Heroes and Villians) are excellent, but I struggled to warm to much else, some of which is positively flaky. I've just sold it on Ebay, and hope the buyer enjoys it more than I did.
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markhJun 8, 2006greatest album ever. hahahahahahahahahahha yeah right, refund please.
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erikbMay 7, 2007one of those albums that you'll force yourself to hear all the way through because you "should," and then realize it is totally impossible to listen to. Can't really say I enjoyed this one at all, which is tough to admit given all the hype. Maybe I don't "get it" but I think the emperor's new clothes comment got it right.
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DaveNAug 5, 2005Who would have thought that the band Brian really wanted to play in was the Moody Blues?
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MattMNov 7, 2004Pretty freakin' boring. The only really good songs are the ones we've heard before: "Good Vibrations" and "Heroes and Villains."
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brianwilsonOct 2, 2004It sucks, overrated piece of trash.
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BigStuartOct 9, 2004It has *sheep sounds* in it! god sake! and his voice is incredibly annoying! this sucks so very very bad.
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DustinBOct 26, 2005
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JohnDJan 7, 2005Just awful.
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harrypotterOct 9, 2005Opt for the Beach Boys originals instead. This is the sound of some demented old geezer trying to relive his glory days while equally demented old critics and musos oddly lap it all up. The emperors new clothes springs to mind. Waste of time. Complete and utter.
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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]