You may recall SirQ's Good Elements remix project which was shared here, like, half a decade ago. Now, a number of years in the making, we have pretty remarkable new version. Enjoy "Wind Chimes", "Gettin' Hungry", "Wonderful" and "Whistle In" as you've never heard them before.
The final instalment of the Symphony to God trilogy, a collaboration between Woodstock, Rab2591, and myself, is up at last! It's called Hawthorne Sunset and you can download it here, or listen to it here:
Here's the second instalment in a three-part series by Woodstock; Dumb Angels, the follow-up to Symphony to God. This pastiche focuses more on obscurities and the group's lesser-known 70s output. A lot of decent stuff here. Extra help from Rab2591.
Here's another very nice stereo mix of The Smile Sessions by }{eywood, creator of the excellent Ear to Ear Expansion. Included as bonus tracks are two more versions of "Good Vibrations"; a live 1966 performance and an alternate mix with Tony Asher's lyrics.
A fresh new way to listen to the Beach Boys. This is a personal project from Woodstock, a pastiche of some of the best Beach Boys songs (many presented in slightly tweaked versions) linked with interviews from various sources. Extra help from Rab2591.
I swear, this took me AGES to find. But here it is - MQR's very inventive "ear-to-ear expansion" of Smile. There are flac versions out there (and by 'out there' I mean on torrents that won't bloody seed), but unfortunately the best I could get were 320kbps mp3s. Oh well.
CD1 - the mix CD2 - bonus tracks, including a half hour vocals montage
Here's something that was posted to the Smiley Smile board in June 2012 by seltaeb, a collection of Smile soundbites which fanmixers may find most useful. Included are a heap of BWPS isolations, Barnyard/ Great Shape/ Wonderful isolations, and other bits and bobs used by seltaeb in his fantastic SMiLE AD mix.
Memory Man's stereo mix of the Wild Honey album. Includes fake stereo mixes of "Aren't You Glad", "I'd Love Just Once To See You", "How She Boogalooed It", and "Mama Says".
Here's a free-form compilation by a friend of mine, SirQuacky, who also recently completed a restoration of Frank Zappa's film 200 Motels. This is apparently one in a series of "mixtapes", and here he tackles the SMiLE Sessions and other Beach Boys bits and pieces. Many tracks have been remixed and on a couple he's even added a new instrumental part here and there. It comes highly recommended!
Side One
Our Prayer (20/20) Heroes And Villains* (SirQuacky Edit)
Do You Like Worms?* (SMiLE Sessions)
She Gives Speeches (Smiley Smile Plus)
The Old Master Painter* (SMiLE Sessions)
You're Welcome* (SMiLE Sessions) Gettin' Hungry (Smiley Smile Plus) Vegetables (Smiley Smile Plus)
Side Two
Cabin Essence (20/20) Wonderful (Smiley Smile Plus)
Diamond Head (Friends)
Little Pad (Smiley Smile Plus) Wind Chimes (Smiley Smile Plus)
'Til I Die (Surf's Up)
Surf's Up (Surf's Up) Whistle In (Smiley Smile Plus)
Another stereo mix of Smile, plus a ton of bonus tracks.
01. Our Prayer
02. Gee
03. Heroes and Villains
04. Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)
05. I'm In Great Shape
06. Barnyard
07. My Only Sunshine
08. Cabin Essence
09. Wonderful
10. Look (Song For Children)
11. Child Is Father Of The Man
12. Surf's Up
13. I Wanna Be Around/ Workshop
14. Vega-Tables
15. Holidays
16. Wind Chimes
17. The Elements: Fire
18. Love To Say Dada
19. Good Vibrations
20. You're Welcome
21. Heroes and Villains (part 1 - stereo)
22. Heroes and Villains (part 2 - stereo)
23. Good Vibrations (instrumental sections)
24. He Gives Speeches
25. Wonderful Tag
26. Carl Wilson
27. You're With Me Tonight
28. Cool Cool Water
29. I Don't Know
30. Tune X
31. Smile Retail Promo Advert
32. Carl Wilson - Coda
"So, as you can probably tell from the terminology, this is a two suite, "what would SMiLE have been had it came out in the 60s?" mix rather than the three suite "everything and the kitchen sink" mixes I've seen a lot of recently. My goal was to make a tight, flowing album. No mood or rhythm killing starts and stops like in the official 2011 release, and no BWPS fly-ins. I tried to give each side its own thematic identity, and I purposefully used a track order as different from the '04/'11 standard as possible.
"I call it, SMiLE: Reflections, with Side One representing a look back on America and Side Two on Childhood. All audio is from the boxset except Look which I took from SMiLE AD 4.0, which is by far the best version of that song (in my opinion) and which I had no chance of topping. The pics in the video are by me. Please enjoy, constructive criticism is highly encouraged. If nothing else, it's a unique mix if I say so myself, and I hope it gives others ideas. Additional info is in the video descriptions." - Mujan
Track List:
Side One
Our Prayer/Gee
Heroes and Villains
Cabin Essence
Do You Like Worms?
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Vega-Tables
Heroes and Villains (Reprise)
Side Two
You're Welcome/Whispering Winds
Wind Chimes
Child is Father of the Man
Wonderful
Look (I Ran)
Cool, Cool Water
Second Day
Surf's Up
Here's a mix from 2005 by Mattix, a hybrid of Brian Wilson Presents Smile and the original '66-67 recordings following the 2004 template. Unlike many of the other pre-Smile Sessions edits, the sound quality of the 60s material is generally quite good here, though often entire chunks of BWPS are used over several tracks. A fine mix all in all, but as always I'd say if you want a good seamless hybrid of '67 and '04 material, try this one.
Here's another Smile by myself, although it's not really a new mixas much as it is a slight alteration of someone else's (and yes, it's that one I go on about all the ruddy, ruddy time). This fuses the original 60s material with Brian Wilson Presents Smile; obviously it is nothing like what the record would have sounded like had it come out in 1967, but it offers arguably the most full and complete cut of the album possible.
So now everything is in stereo, and there are just a couple tweaks here and there of mine (eg stereo "Gee" from the boxset seamlessly mixed with Barnshine's own edit, plus minor annoyances like the "I believe" vocals removed from BWPS CIFOT and all that). Nothing very new or interesting, but it's another one. In pompous fashion I have named it Smile: Ultimate Edition.
It was also kindly uploaded to YouTube by psychedelicpiper along with the original 3971 edit:
01. Our Prayer / Gee
02. Heroes & Villains
03. Do You Like Worms?
04. Barnyard / The Old Master Painter / My Only Sunshine
05. Cabin Essence
06. Wonderful
07. Look (Song For Children)
08. Child Is Father Of The Man
09. Surf's Up
10. I'm In Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Friday Night
11. Vega-Tables
12. On A Holiday
13. Wind Chimes
14. Fire (Mrs O'Leary's Cow)
15. Love To Say Dada
16. In Blue Hawaii
17. Good Vibrations
Released in 2011, this was the first disc of a proposed 9-disc companion to The Smile Sessions as well as a complete toolkit for fanmixers of all known Smile songs, fragments, and test mixes. This is what was intended:
Only disc 1 has been released and there's been no updates from the author of any progress on disc 2...
Whether or not the rest of the project is going forward, here's disc 1, a lovely stereo mix of The Smile Sessions' reconstruction.
Here's an ambitious Smile boot from 2000, which tries for full, wide stereo (it doesn't really pull it off and sounds a bit crap in places). But here it is on the blog anyways because historical signamifacance
Zach Steiner's 2008 Smile reconstruction is available at his website, though for me at least the files aren't working, so I converted 'em back and put a .zip up on Mediafire.
01. Our Prayer - Gee
02. Heroes and Villains
03. Do You Like Worms?
04. Barnyard
05. Old Master Painter
06. He Gives Speeches
07. Wonderful
08. The Child is Father of the Man
09. Cabinessence
10. Bicycle Rider
11. Good Vibrations
12. Look
13. Vegetables
14. I Wanna Be Around - Workshop
15. Holiday
16. Windchimes
17. Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
18. Love to Say Dada
19. Can't Wait Too Long
20. Surf's Up
