From: Pintar@webtv.net   
      
   Even though it's a Van Dyke album by composition, it's a major   
   indication of how "Smile" would have sounded if finally released in   
   1967.  To me, "Orange Crate" has a fresher quality because it was   
   conceived, produced and finished all in the same time frame.  "Smile",   
   of course, has such a huge gap that, even in its finished form, untold   
   inspiration will always remain missing.   "Smile" is more or less a   
   tribute to a lost album rather than the album itself.  Listening to it   
   reminds of reheating a good pizza.  Even with this recent release and   
   some great great moments, I'll never feel that the album was intended to   
   be an album of fragments, but rather one with all complete compositions   
   ala "Orange Crate Art".   
      
   "Orange Crate" however has a definite concept and song structure, with   
   truly complete music.   
      
   Elmer Pintar   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)