OFF: Buck and Lucky Leif

Michael S. Habiby mhabiby1 at NYCAP.RR.COM
Wed Apr 11 16:44:51 EDT 2001


Douglas Pearson wrote:

>
>
> However, the unreleased follow-up to 'Pet Sounds', 'SMiLE', would have been
> a *very* avant-garde album, with post-Stravinsky atonal strings, electronic
> oscillators, extreme tape delay, free-form spoken/voiced segments,
> experimentation with taped sound effects and unorthodox uses of orchestral
> instruments, etc. (many of these segments were deemed "too weird for
> release", but are now pretty readily available on bootleg).  Many parts of
> it could be considered similar to the early Mothers of Invention albums.

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.

Wish I had held on to that!!!

Nice analysis by the way Doug. Thanks

Mike

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