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   "Derek A. Bill"  wrote in message   
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   >> In short, it wasn't the sublime (and unreleased) Smile   
   >> which derailed   
   >> the BBs, it was Smile's comically inept replacement.   
      
   Personal comment here; Smiley Smile was the first Beach Boys album I DIDN'T   
   buy on its first release.   
      
   I had discovered them when I Get Around broke in the UK (I'm in England) and   
   I immediately started buying up all I could find because I thought they had   
   a good handle on what made a good pop song and the harmonies were obviously   
   superb.   
      
   For some reason, I looked at the track timings of Smiley Smile in the record   
   shop and noticed how few tracks there were and how short most of them were   
   and then totalled the whole recorded time on the album.   
      
   What I was buying looked to be like a big single rather than an album, and a   
   view of the actual disc confirmed that the run out groove was about the same   
   size as the space taken by recorded tracks.   
      
   Now, I've never been one to buy music by the mileage of the tracks, but this   
   album looked like a rip-off of the first order and so I didn't buy it.   
      
   Subsequent heard extracts confirmed I hadn't missed much.   
      
   I didn't come back to the Beach Boys until Holland and Surf's Up and The   
   Light Album persuaded me that they might have found their way again and so I   
   started dipping into the missing years. As two-fers on CD they became worth   
   buying again.   
      
   --   
   Brian   
   "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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