Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Smile (occasionally typeset with partial capitalization as SMiLE) is a partially recorded concept album by the Beach Boys originally intended to be the follow-up album to Pet Sounds. After the Beach Boys' main songwriter Brian Wilson abandoned large portions of music recorded from early 1966 to mid 1967, the group recorded and released the dramatically minimized Smiley Smile album in its place. Several of the original tracks eventually found their way onto subsequent Beach Boys albums. As Smile's fame grew, details of the original Beach Boys Smile recordings acquired considerable mystique, and it became widely known as one of pop music's legendary milestones.The project was later arranged for solo live performances by Wilson in 2004, and then followed up by the studio-recorded Brian Wilson Presents Smile. Though it received great critical acclaim, Wilson later admitted that his version differed substantially from how he had originally conceptualized the work during the 1960s. Between the thirty-seven years from its cancellation to the release of Wilson's presentation, bootlegged tracks from Smile circulated widely among record collectors, and many attempts were made by outside parties to "complete" the album the way it had been envisioned by Wilson in the 1960s based on contemporary publications and statements made by those who were originally involved.On November 1, 2011 (2011-11-01) The Smile Sessions was released, an approximation of what the completed album might have sounded like, the first disc largely following the template that Wilson's 2004 album presented. Along with this came a sequence of newly arranged surviving recordings and many unreleased session highlights and outtakes. It received unanimous critical acclaim. In 2012 it was ranked number 381 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. In 2013, it won the Best Historical Album award at the 55th Grammy Awards.. }
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- Smile_(The_Beach_Boys_album) abstract "Smile (occasionally typeset with partial capitalization as SMiLE) is a partially recorded concept album by the Beach Boys originally intended to be the follow-up album to Pet Sounds. After the Beach Boys' main songwriter Brian Wilson abandoned large portions of music recorded from early 1966 to mid 1967, the group recorded and released the dramatically minimized Smiley Smile album in its place. Several of the original tracks eventually found their way onto subsequent Beach Boys albums. As Smile's fame grew, details of the original Beach Boys Smile recordings acquired considerable mystique, and it became widely known as one of pop music's legendary milestones.The project was later arranged for solo live performances by Wilson in 2004, and then followed up by the studio-recorded Brian Wilson Presents Smile. Though it received great critical acclaim, Wilson later admitted that his version differed substantially from how he had originally conceptualized the work during the 1960s. Between the thirty-seven years from its cancellation to the release of Wilson's presentation, bootlegged tracks from Smile circulated widely among record collectors, and many attempts were made by outside parties to "complete" the album the way it had been envisioned by Wilson in the 1960s based on contemporary publications and statements made by those who were originally involved.On November 1, 2011 (2011-11-01) The Smile Sessions was released, an approximation of what the completed album might have sounded like, the first disc largely following the template that Wilson's 2004 album presented. Along with this came a sequence of newly arranged surviving recordings and many unreleased session highlights and outtakes. It received unanimous critical acclaim. In 2012 it was ranked number 381 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. In 2013, it won the Best Historical Album award at the 55th Grammy Awards.".