The Beach Boys ?Smiley Smile SEALED USA 1ST PRESS 1967 MONO VINYL LP
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Description
Item Details:
Label: Brother Records
Product Code: T 9001
Format: Virgin Vinyl LP - Original Factory Sealed
"File Under: The Beach Boys • T 9001" printed along top right of cover.
Discography About The Record:
Smiley Smile is the 12th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on September 18, 1967. The album reached number 9 on UK record charts, but sold poorly in the US, peaking at number 41—the band's lowest chart placement to that point. Critics and fans generally received the album with confusion and disappointment. Only one single was issued from Smiley Smile: "Heroes and Villains". "Good Vibrations" and "Gettin' Hungry" were also released, but the former was issued a year earlier, while the latter was not credited to the band.
Devised as a simplified version of their then-forthcoming Smile—a different, much more elaborately constructed LP—Smiley Smile contrasts significantly with its minimalist approach and lo-fi production. Following principal songwriter Brian Wilson's declaration that most of the original Smile tapes were off-limits, the majority of recording sessions lasted for only six weeks at his makeshift home studio using what was predominantly radio broadcasting equipment, a detuned piano, electronic bass, and a Baldwin theater organ favored by Brian. The unconventional recording process juxtaposed an experimental party-like atmosphere with short pieces of music edited together in a disjointed manner, combining the engineering methods of "Good Vibrations" with the loose feeling of their 1965 album Beach Boys' Party!. Carl Wilson famously compared the end result to "a bunt instead of a grand slam."
From 1966 to 1967, Smile was repeatedly delayed as the Beach Boys were subject to a considerable level of media hype amid a publicity campaign that proclaimed "Brian Wilson is a genius". When the group dropped out of headlining the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, they began to be derided by a contingent of the rock press as the archetypal "pop music cop-outs". After settling payment disputes with Capitol Records, Smiley Smile was distributed in collaboration with Brother Records, a new record label and holding company founded by the band. Its production was unusually credited to "the Beach Boys" rather than Brian alone, marking the point where he began relinquishing his hold as the group's creative leader. Smile was ultimately left unfinished as the group embarked on a brief tour of Hawaii, and then, the recording of their next album, Wild Honey, released only three months later.
Smiley Smile opened a seven-year string of under-performing Beach Boys albums, but has since grown in stature to become a cult and critical favorite in the Beach Boys' oeuvre. At one point, it was used by some rehab centers to help relieve the aftereffects of intense psychedelic experiences. Regarded as a forerunner to certain bedroom pop acts, in 1974, it was voted the 64th greatest album of all time by NME writers and, in 2000, it was one of 100 albums featured in the book The Ambient Century as a landmark in the development of ambient music.
Tracks:
Heroes And Villans 3:36
Vegetables 2:05
Fall Breaks And Back To Winter (W. Woodpecker Symphony) 2:14
She's Goin' Bald 2:12
Little Pad 2:30
Good Vibrations 3:35
With Me Tonight 2:13
Wind Chimes 2:36
Gettin' Hungry 2:27
Wonderful 2:20
Whistle In 1:02
RECORD CONDITION:
THE VIRGIN VINYL ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED.
COVER CONDITION:
COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP W/ SOME CORNER WEAR AND STICKERS AND SMALL TEAR IN THE WRAP ON THE RIGHT WHERE THE RECORD COMES OUT.
NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:
No split seamsNo creases
No cut-out (drill) holes
No cut-out corners
No saw-marks or indents
No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)
No yellowing from aging
No writing
No tape
No water damage
No warping
No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover
No glue traces or wax residue.
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