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This Jane Smiley song is really pretty reminds me of Chinese Apple, bit of Wreckroom also with the end. Really enjoying it. --Mike

Here's the Amazon listing Disc: 2: 1 I Love My Label 2 Message From Mid‐Bar 3 Speak into the Rose 4 Black Moon

Yeah, mine is only 128 mp3, but that's not too bad for a rip, this is only to tide you over for a few weeks til it comes out (or a higher quality link leaks). --Mike

I have a link, feel free either e-mail (mpolak21@gmail), PM, or Facebook.com/mpolak21, whichever is your preference, and I'll take care of you. --Mike

Only got to hear the first three sides. Before my stream kicked out. Loved what I heard, Capitol City is an early fav. Lot of great layers, strong songwriting. Nels and Glenn have rarely sounded better and the keyboard sounds are incorporated brilliantly. Somewhere Jay Bennett, cig in hand, smiles approvingly. --Mike

I've got a rip of it also, but I am having some connectivity issues on VC with my iphone. Feel free to hit me up via e-mail, mpolak21@gmail.com. Or facebook.com/mpolak21. --Mike

Part of me thinks, I'm just going to download this on the internet for free.

Would be much obliged if you could help us moderators out this weekend by following two simple requests: a.) Though we are not officially affliated with the Wilcos, we do keep the band's wishes in mind with our rules and regulations, so I ask please no direct download links to rips of the stream. You can share it via PM, you can direct people to a blog where it is, but any posting of megaupload, mediafire, rapidshare, sendspace, etc. links are prohibited by board policy. b.) Argue as much as you want with the opinion, but try to be as respectful as possible to the person who has the opini

It'll be up until Sunday morning (24 hours), plenty of time to sneak in a post game listen. And I can almost guarantee by 1:30 central time, a rip of the stream will be circulating. --Mike

It would show pretty amazing self-restraint to know there is a place where people are talking about you and not at least have the temptation to peer in every once and awhile. --Mike

He posted here once under Sue's account around the time of AGIB, in response to a troll thread about him getting his lyrics from other poets. Can't find our old archive site to direct you to it, we may have lost that site when we switched servers. --Mike

Just read a relevant and quite spot on tweet from Long Winters frontman, the immaculately bearded, John Roderick: "If I had to act "angry" in a movie, I would just imagine Beach Boy Mike Love describing his theory of the universe." So, it's hard for me to say because as obsessed as I am with the music and culture of that era, I was born in 85 so I have no real sense of what would have been accepted culturally in 67. I would think though with Good Vibrations being as big of a hit as it was in the fall of 66, Smile would have been accepted. It might not have sold like Pepper did, but I think b

Hope he goes full Fredo Corelone in Godfather Two: "I'm smart!!! Not like everybody says!!!" I'm of the opinion that by wrecking momentum on Smile, Love single handedly did more harm to his band's legacy and potential than anyone else in the history of music. Ultimately, Brian was going to have emotional issues regardless but if Love would have just trusted Wilson's genius not only would we have had Smile in 67 but what would have happened after Smile w/a confident Wilson. Still what we got from them from 67-73 was very impressive, I like the Surf's Up album as much as anything. --Mike

. Was that the show where his Mom was in the audience too? --Mike

How great are the Mike Love linear notes going to be on this thing? Is he going to go the revisionist route and claim he was in favor of it, is he going to eat crow, this might be worth the price of admission alone. --Mike

http://www.examiner.com/vintage-rock-n-roll-in-national/unboxing-the-beach-boys-smile-sessions-video Preview vid from the examiner. --Mike

I think Foxtrot is their best. YHF, Summerteeth, and A Ghost is Born all rotate places as my "favorite" record of theirs, these days and really since Jay died, it's been Summerteeth for me. That was the first one I had (though YHF came out like a week later), it has the heaviest emotional resonance with me. Being There and the Mermaids are fantastic, I still listen to them fairly regularly. I have been known to spin and poorly sing along with SBS every once in a blue moon. I don't really listen to AM or WTA enough to even have an opinion on them anymore. --Mike

Me too, that's my favorite way their albums have been revealed in the past. It gives that first listen a communal sense even if you're listening to it alone in a room with headphones, which I really enjoy. --Mike

Emotional connection trumps everything else when it comes to judging music, I believe at least. It doesn't surprise me at all people love SBS, there's a lot of beautiful stuff on that record. It's really about recovery in a lot of ways. I think it's probably the most vulnerable lyrically of anything they put out. All of their albums prior to it certainly went to darker places, but I always get sense of "I'm miserable, but fuck you" from the stuff on Being There, Summer Teeth, YHF, AGIB. And from the interviews from around the time of that record it seems like Jeff really wanted to take a lot o

I'm going to eventually get the big set but I'll probably wait for awhile and get it used when it's a little cheaper on Amazon (that's how I got the Pet Sounds box). Until then all of the boots I have will tie me over. --Mike

Living Room show, I believe. It's never circulated. --Mike

Patton had the best joke of that night for me: "My fellow Americans, I am proud to -- hold on. What? (...long pause) Really? (*sigh*) Cat Stevens leaves behind a legacy of song..."

Yuck Monkey Fest would also be a pretty awesome album title/bandname as well.

Surf's Up is my favorite non-Pet Sounds official release of theirs.

Yeah, Smile really couldn't have worked as three suites in 1967, because it would have been impossible two divide over two-sides of 25-minute vinyl. I have every intention of buying the deluxe set the day it comes out if not pre-ordering it. But then again I spent like three hours riffling through a record collection at a garage sail trying to find a copy of "Sunflower" that he "promised" was in there. It was actually Surf's Up, but I bought that one anyway. This has come so close to coming out before, I am really happy that's it almost there. It'll be so nice to have versions of all the bo