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SMiLE

by Brian Wilson

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All Time

of 455,611

128
2000's

of 265,875

4
2004

of 38,943

2
Genres
- Alternative Rock
  - Alternative Rock
    
    of 49,159
    
    30
  - Indie & Lo-Fi
    
    of 13,607
    
    8
  - Indie Pop
    
    of 4,151
    
    4
  - Chamber Pop
    
    of 466
    
    1
- Pop
  - Pop
    
    of 263,892
    
    124
  - Pop Rock
    
    of 64,982
    
    75
- Rock
  - Rock
    
    of 107,774
    
    75

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.6513 SMiLE is ranked overall as 3.6513 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.5960 SMiLE has an avg. critic score of 3.5960 out of 4 stars

SMiLE Rank 4 Reviews

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The Daily Vault Album Reviews

If you readmy review of Scissor Sistersa few weeks back, you would have read how I considered it to be an album of the year candidate. Little did I know that a few mere days later, I would find myself presented with THE album of the year. That album ...more

Adrian Denning.co.uk

It's the day before the release of Smile (26.09.04 ). There are guys posting on the official Brian Wilson Message Board who literally have been waiting the full 37 years for the release of this legendary lost album. Those who pre-ordered it back ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes

Smile is quite simply the greatest triumph in the history of pop music. ...more

Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

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. ...more

Dusted Magazine

Against all expectations, Brian Wilson has achieved what should have been impossible, and has produced what may be the year's most thrilling album. ...more

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Dot Music

This is a brilliant record, just as it's always been. ...more

Amazon.com

Turns out those hypothetical comparisons to Sgt. Pepper's weren't so far off the mark. ...more

Drowned In Sound

It’s spellbinding. ...more

Rolling Stone

It's looser and messier than Sgt. Pepper and, one suspects, always would have been. But its sui generis Americanism counterbalances its paucity of classic pop songs. ...more

cokemachineglow

SMiLE has arrived as incredible and ground-breaking a record as any of us could have hoped. ...more

ShakingThrough.net

While it may not be the ultimate symphonic confection nearly four decades of hyperbole have all but guaranteed, Smile is nonetheless an arresting, audacious, unabashedly whimsical slice of junk-drawer Americana and can-do pop craftsmanship. ...more

Neumu.net

The magic of the album lies in the way Wilson's complex, challenging sonic vision can evoke the optimism, hope, and wonder that gave birth to this album decades ago. ...more

Pitch Fork Media

I was introduced to the Beach Boys by my dad's copy of Endless Summer . It was a two-record compilation from the mid-70s with all their hits, and for many years, was the only thing I knew about them. My sister also had a copy, so I could listen ...more

The Onion (A.V. Club)

The new Smile not only justifies its bearing, but also serves as a major triumph. ...more

Village Voice

Whatever it was supposed to achieve originally, right now SMiLE sounds like a beautifully modulated, funny, sometimes unintentional meditation on a failed United States and counterculture, and the lost paradise, real or imagined, of Southern California, ...more

Billboard

This is pop music like nothing before it, or since. ...more

Pitchfork

The end result is a great album, albeit one more lighthearted than its myth would suggest. ...more

All Music Guide

Infectious and hummable, to be sure, and a remarkably unified, irresistible piece of pop music, but no musical watershed on par with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Wilson's masterpiece, Pet Sounds. ...more

All Music Guide

The white whale of '60s record-making,the Beach Boys' abortedSMiLEalbum gradually gained a legend that not only inflated its rumored importance and complexity, but gave credence to an odd notion -- that completing it, then or ever, was impossible. ...more

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