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I read this book as part of my link text book group. This is the fourth book in the 33 1/3 collection that has been suggested and the second that I have read. Because I read a lot of music autobiographies and biographies Amazon often recommends 33 1/3 books to me.
I was really expecting something different from this book. I was hoping that it would be about the situation around the band and the producing of the album and why it was never fully completed. The disappointment that I found in the 33 ...more
I was really expecting something different from this book. I was hoping that it would be about the situation around the band and the producing of the album and why it was never fully completed. The disappointment that I found in the 33 ...more
I liked the author's overall point that Smile was not a left-turn for Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, but a synthesis of what they were ultimately about. That Brian and Van Dyke Parks' "American Gothic trip" was the way the group should have redefined themselves as the culture progressed.
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