From: BOBHUGHES@TTLC.NET   
      
   On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:52:19 -0500, "John"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >I've listened to Smile in all of it's incarnations countless times over the   
   >years.  I "get" it as much as the next guy who finds it a compelling enough   
   >subject to discuss at length on internet message boards.   (I'm special!   
   >I'm different!  I really am!  I was in "Who's Who Among American High School   
   >Students"!)  I find it disturbing and creepy, albeit quite interesting as it   
   >was recorded at the beginning of one human being's drug-infused downward   
   >spiral into a madness from which he will never recover.   It serves as an   
   >excellent artifact of what one can achieve when he throws himself over the   
   >edge.   
   >   
      
   I can understand disturbing, I suppose, unsatisfying, disjointed,   
   unfinished.. not that I would agree.  Creepy, I don't get.  Why   
   creepy?  Which parts?  How could Wonderful/ChildIsFatherTo the   
   Man/Surf's Up be creepy?   
      
   How can a Jolly song about Pirates be Creepy?  Or a luau in Hawaii?   
   Or vegetables?  They're good for you for Chrissake!   
      
   This is pretty happy music for the most part.   
      
   Now Smiley Smile is creepy, fer sure.   
      
   Bob Hughes   
      
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   truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music.  Music is best."   
      
                                                        Frank Zappa   
      
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