The Beach Boys - Smile (It's Lost It's Found Version)

 

Fan made bootleg

Side 1 - Our Prayer/Heroes and Villains/Do You Like Worms/I'm in Great Shape/You are My Sunshine/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop/Heroes and Villains

Side 2 - Vege-Tables/I Love to Say Da Da/Cool Cool Water/Tune X/Wind Chimes/Mrs. O'Leary's Cow/Fire

Side 3 - Child is the Father of the Man/Underwater Chant/Cabin-Essence/Look (I Ran)/Psycodelic Sounds/Laughing/Surf's Up

Side 4 - Wonderful-With Me Tonight-Good Vibrations-You're Welcome

I've recently had a Beach Boys phase. It made me recall a time a few years ago before post 'Pet Sounds' records received critical re-evaluation (some were still unavailable) and when mythical lost album 'Smile' was still unreleased.

I would visit record fairs hoping to find more pieces of this mysterious record, looking to find the parts that made it make sense. Like a lot of fans, I assembled my own version.

Over the years the story of 'Smile' changed. Brian Wilson first toured and then recorded and released his modern version of the album with his touring band in 2004.

'The Smile Sessions' were released in 2011, but these contemporary releases were missing something.

Last year, I assembled my own, new, version of Smile using all available material. I wanted to include some of the odder moments not used on the 'official' version. I was trying to retain the spookiness and strangeness I felt when I discovered a new piece of Smile music.

Readers here will probably know the story well, so I won't repeat it. I'm not trying to an authorative stamp on this version or declaring this is closest to Wilson's vision or anything like that. It's just the version I like to listen to.