Description
Offered for sale is a still sealed U.S. stereo pressing of Smiley Smile by the Beach Boys.
About this copy: This copy of Smiley Smile is 1967 U.S. pressing on the Brother Records label. This is a first pressing without the credit to Barry Turnbull for the album title on the back cover.
As the album is still sealed, the record is presumably new and unplayed. As the album is sealed, the pressing plant is unknown. There is no pressing plant number on the back cover.
The wrap is fully intact except for a very tiny break at the top left corner. There are a couple of factory “breathe holes” in the shrink wrap. There are small bends at the two left-hand corners.
A beautiful copy of a classic album that is usually found with corner wear.
Background: Released in 1967, Smiley Smile was the twelfth studio album by the Beach Boys, and the album that the Beach Boys released instead of the much-anticipated Smile album, which was never completed during the 1960s.
While Smiley Smile did include the hits “Good Vibrations” and “Heroes and Villains,” those singles were released long before the album. As a result, Smiley Smile only reached #41 on the American album charts, though it did reach #9 on the UK charts.
Allmusic.com gave Smiley Smile a 4 star review:
After the much-discussed, uncompleted Smile project — which was supposed to take the innovations of Pet Sounds to even grander heights — collapsed, the Beach Boys released Smiley Smile in its place. …Heard now, outside of such unrealistic expectations, it’s a rather nifty, if rather slight, effort that’s plenty weird — in fact, it’s often downright goofy — despite Brian Wilson’s retreat from both avant pop and active leadership of the group. … The standouts, nonetheless, were two then-recent hit singles in which Brian Wilson’s ambitions were still intact: the inscrutable mini-opera “Heroes and Villains,” and the number one hit “Good Vibrations,” one of the few occasions where the group managed to be recklessly experimental and massively commercial at the same time.
You can listen to “Heroes and Villains” here:
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| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Brother |
| Catalog Number: |
ST-9001 |
| Year of Release: | 1967 |
| Format: | Stereo |
| Share: |       |
