“Smile” was a previously unreleased album by The Beach Boys recorded throughout 1966 and 1967. The project was intended by its creator Brian Wilson as the follow-up to Pet Sounds, but was never completed in its original form.. During the years Smile remained unavailable, it had come to be regarded as the most famous unreleased album of all time.
In 2011, some of the surviving Beach Boys revived their own original version of the album, resulting in “The Smile Sessions”.
Featuring a version of the album reconstructed from the original recordings, along with many session highlights and outtakes. This disc re-creates what a mono release of SMiLE could've sounded like.
Box Set Content
- 5× CDs / 2× LPs / 2× 7” singles
- Three-dimensional shadow box lid featuring the original artwork of Frank Holmes.
- 60 page case bound book features liner notes, timeline, sessionography, lyrics, Frank Holmes drawings, Producer’s Notes & more than 60 previously unreleased photos
- 6 panel folder holding 5 CDs and singles. Features photos of original session tape boxes.
- 7” vinyl singles
- “Heroes and Villians” in sleeve art
- “Vega-Tables” in sleeve art
- Gatefold 2 LPs
- Features full tracklisting of proposed unfinished album + Stereo mixes and session highlights (not available on CDs)
- 12” x 12” booklet created for original release features:
- Photos by Guy Webster
- Frank Holmes drawings
- 24” x 36” poster of Frank Holmes cover art