From: ShakeOften@webtv.net   
      
   Yes. I believe that it all comes down to how the song Little Honda has   
   the simular properties of those found within Black Hole Gas... Stay with   
   me here and I'll explain;   
   From your standpoint if it doesn't have a good beat and you can't dance   
   to it... just like the old American Bandstand's goofy standard of a   
   "good" song... then it can't be that good?! How LIMITED your vision is   
   without proper context.. SMILE took rock music to a whole new level and   
   both Re-Defined and REFINED it. In the context of its day: Did chuck   
   berry or elvis use sound effects to make melody = the keys banging   
   against the top hat were the only percussion used in the song Surf's Up   
   originally. What is rock music...? It had been defined by the beat and   
   its rhythm... so imagine what Brian's peers thought when they heard   
   Bicycle bells + french horns... see- it hadn't been done before in Rock   
   and Roll. Every aspect of it was new... save for the fact that it too   
   was a concept album (i.e., an album that tells a story; begin middle   
   end)- which Brian Wilson also INVENTED but with the album that proceeded   
   Smile-Pet Sounds. Sgt.Pepper COPIED the concept idea! Brian was the   
   first to have his own Record company/label... Which the Beatles also   
   COPIED! (I know that now a lot of PR people even in Brian's camp say oh   
   all ideas were 'borrowed' but BullShit...) That's just today's political   
   correctness and Brian's sweetness. The Beatles et.al. Ripped Brian Off.   
   Yes, SMILE REALLY IS T-H-A-T G-O-O-D... That COMPLEX. That AHEAD of IT's   
   time. I'm not a muscian, but I'm sure there's invention in the way Brian   
   played or recorded instruments backwards and in combinatons =   
   piano-guitar... and overdubbing voices in ways never done before. Making   
   voices sound like instruments...= the swirling voices that lead into   
   "...hum...num..num..num...water water water...ooooo..." The ooooo   
   part... I think  he was using the voices (instead of- OR in place of), I   
   dunno...some form of stringed instrument(?) The " Humm num num   
   nummmm..." part Mike Love does could have been done by an organ(?)   
   hitting the same 2 low notes over and over..or a bass guitar(?)  Listen   
   to Brian with Chuck Britz+Van Dyke Parks during some of the session's   
   bootlegs talking about Oscillators and their effects...Brian produces a   
   simular effect WITHOUT Chuck's Oscillator!    An example from Pet Sounds   
   sessions = the clomping "horse shoe footsteps"<-- in this case in God   
   Only Knows...Brian tells the guy to do them backwards! Not "heel toe,   
   heel toe, but-  toe heel, toe heel... LOL!    So, from a horse walking   
   normally type sound ="Ker-Clomp, Ker Clomp" to  Horsie on Acid:   
   "Clomp-Ker, Clomp Ker" (Weird visual)! Its found in the backround of   
   G.O.Knows Listen to the sessions.  Another example: During the recording   
   of Little Honda, Carl once said that Brian made him slurr his guitar and   
   that he had said to Brian at the time that he thought that it sounded   
   Shitty that way. But Brian got an effect from it that I believe was done   
   in later years by other rock groups using a 'new' guitar invention= a   
   reverb(?) That means that Brian had invented a "sound" out of "nothing"   
   (except his one good ear and how he heard with it.) To Carl's ear and   
   Carl's brain's interpretation of the sound-it only sounded like a   
   "Slurred Guitar". To Brian it was a legitamate musical sound needed to   
   convey his song. That is what GENIUS is. Genius can take something   
   that's been around forever and kinda "fiddle" with it/ re arranges it...   
   to make it new. { Example in SCIENCE = Einstein's theory verses its   
   'opposite' - Quantum Physics= never the two schools of thought COULD   
   ever meet until...a Very weird, crumpled looking guy with an odd sense   
   of reality, glassy eyes + funny speech : (is it always this way?), =   
   Stephen Hawking= Genius capital 'G' put the "opposite" theories   
   together(?) Huh? (Sort of like-the world isn't round or flat...its   
   "Shaped" see? Huh?) and Hawking explained those REAL itty bitty gaseous   
   particles that make up the Humongous physical aspects of the outter   
   edges of those gravity sucking Black Holes! So we now can theorize that   
   A star collapses itself into a black hole which then sucks itself so   
   deeply that it evaporates, and all those scientists within those two   
   seemly 'opposite' schools of theory, can finally stop spitting on each   
   other solely on the basis of this: Their common gas... er, ground }.  So   
   yeah, I bet that there's creation within the harmonies on SMILE too...!   
   Like I said, the top people in each field of expertise;  recording,   
   harmonics, music, lyrics... will be picking the album apart for   
   decades...   
   No I'm not Priore. And its only my opinion,   
   that BOTH versions;  '67s and today's (vocals and otherwise), will be   
   analyzed + marvelled for a long, long time.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)