What if SMiLE had been released in 1967?

[La Flames Fan]

So I have been thinking this for a long while now, basically the album SMiLE by the Beach Boys was produced (somewhat) but was scrapped on May 6th 1967, just before The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

I was able to listent to a lot of the original recordings (I played Carl Wilson in some movie), and the music while different was exactly what Brian Wilson termed it "A teenage symphony to God".

Would SMiLE have changed the way music evolved? (5 songs to listen to)

[Vulcan]

Not a big fan of the Beach Boys and some people should never have dropped LSD.
The Beatles were in danger of becoming just another boy band when they came out with Sgt. Pepper. Neither band was cutting edge. Me and my friends were listening to Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix, The Doors, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, etc and surfing music,no matter how good, had run it's course.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

Would SMiLE have changed the way music evolved? (5 songs to listen to)

I don't know, but those songs didn't really sound like a big deal or that they would lead to some "evolution". The first one sounded like barbershop. The alternate version of Good Vibrations was cool, but the whole thing pretty much sounded like the Beach Boys to me. There are a lot of noises going on in the background and with the equipment they had in those days I'm sure it was a hell of a job to get it "right", but it doesn't make it particularly special.

I've never been a big a fan. They were an oldies group before I was even born and that feeling has pretty much stuck. Mike Love always reminded me of Terry Bradshaw wearing Jimmy Buffett's clothes and that hasn't helped matters.

Cool that you were in that movie though. I saw you on TV.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Brian Wilson was a brilliant composer. Shackled by commercial expectations.

The Beach Boys were a pop band -- not a surf band in the strictest sense.

[North East Goon]

I still think that The Beach Boy's "God Only Knows" is the greatest song of all time. I know that was on Pet Sounds but still worth mentioning. I saw that movie you were in, it was great.