OFF: Buck and Lucky Leif

[Douglas Pearson]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:44:51 -0400, Michael S. Habiby
<mhabiby1 at NYCAP.RR.COM> wrote:
>Douglas Pearson wrote:
>> However, the unreleased follow-up to 'Pet Sounds', 'SMiLE',
>> would have been a *very* avant-garde album ...
>
>I had no idea that SMiLe was "unreleased" .  In HS in the 70's I had Pet
>Sounds B/W Smile as a double album.

The album that came out in place of 'SMiLE' was called 'Smiley Smile',
which is probably what you had (although I thought the double-LP twofer
combined it with uh ... either '20/20' or 'Friends', I forget now ... or
perhaps you had a European version).  'Smiley' has re-recordings or re-
mixes of some of the songs that would have been on 'SMiLE', but
the 'Smiley' versions are extremely "stripped-down" (although still pretty
weird) compared to the original 'SMiLE' versions.  About half the songs
from 'SMiLE' (although again, not much of the truly far-out stuff)
eventually trickled out on later BB albums when Brian Wilson was
incapacitated (in bed for a couple years ... a classic case of the reality
being too weird to have been made up) and the rest of the band was unable
to come up with enough quality material.

>Wish I had held on to that!!!

It's very good music, even if not actual "unreleased" material.

>Nice analysis by the way Doug. Thanks

Thank you too, but all it goes to show is that with enough facts (I didn't
make any of this up!  trust me ... and I didn't even mention the recordings
of Paul McCartney crunching on vegetables!), you can support just about any
thesis you want ...

    -Doug (who will talk about the BB's for hours if you let him)
     ceres at sirius.com