Beach Boys' SMILE - Pocket Symphony Mix (2026 Re-Shared After Takedown)

DOWNLOADABLE MP3: https://archive.org/details/smile-poc... This is a re-sharing of my favorite SMiLE Mix, which was taken down by youtube a few years ago. Smile's release in 1967 should have been the Beach Boys' closing argument on the future of music, but Brian Wilson's well-publicized creative implosion prevented him from finishing it, and SMiLE became one of rock and roll's legendary "lost albums." This mix imagines what might have been, combining over 100 tracks--mixes, demos, sessions, outtakes, comedy bits--into a single, continuous musical experience, a modern mash-up inspired by Brian's wish for SMiLE to be a total reinvention of the album: A Pocket Symphony. He'd said at the time, "I'm using some new production techniques that I think will surprise everyone. The album will include lots of humor - some musical and some spoken. It won't be like a comedy LP - there won't be any spoken tracks as such - but someone might say something in between verses. I never want it to get boring. When you’re stoned, 30 seconds feels like 2 hours." The Pocket Symphony Mix applies the unconventional quality of the individual pieces to the album as a whole, reimagining it not as a collection of songs but instead as a free-flowing psychedelic experience—a rhapsody that leaps from one idea to the next, incorporating comedy skits, studio tricks, and meandering musical interludes into its architecture. To hear Smile presented this way is to render all of Brian's heretofore-inscrutable ideas into a perfectly understandable gumbo, a vivid pointillist painting instead of 100+ colorful dots. Sources: TSS Box Set 1967 Sunshine Tomorrow Good Vibrations 30 Made in California Hawthorne, CA Vegitone 110, 111 BWPS Seltaeb's Smile A.D. http://bit.ly/2GkkH4C Daniele Catalucci http://bit.ly/2Dm5fBW Soniclovenoize http://bit.ly/2FtUSle IheartMikeLove http://bit.ly/2HslsYw Summertime Blooz http://bit.ly/2Ikd3b2 sydsutcliffe's Alternate Smile: https://bit.ly/2GwMUV6 Opens with unused Heroes and Villains piano mixed with Brian's Smile Party recording from Vigotone 111, including TSS’ Our Prayer dialogue and rehearsal takes then into sydsutcliffe's stitch of the Our Prayer sessions. Gee is a combination of TSS dubbing session and Soniclovenoize’s stereo mix. H&V begins with sydsutcliffe's Durie Parks mix, into Daniele Catalucci’s stereo mix, into the Smile A.D. mini-mix. I was inspired by Brian's Piano demo to go into TSS Great Shape before right back to HV next verse, then the flutter trombone segues us to Barnyard (soniclovenoize’s mix, plus my own original one), a comedy mashup of the two (my own mix incorporating Brian’s piano demo interview off TSS) into OMP/sunshine (Summertime Blooz and TSS), before segueing into Saltaeb’s mashup of With Me Tonight/Vegetables (which is made from several different Vegetable mixes combined by me), into Saltaeb’s mashup of the Vegatables Fade/Heroes leads to a stripped-down reprise of HV with acoustic rehearsal chorus from 1967 Sunshine tomorrow and a vocal verse with the backing track inserted. In the Cantina section, after “you’re under arrest,” I go into a mashup of Fire/chimes (got the idea from the Smiley forum!), then into nedstuff’s mashup of Underwater Chant /I Wanna Be Around. Three Blind Mice is used as tag after I Wanna Be Around, segueing via Bridge to Indians into... Do You Like Worms is BWPS’s verses with Soniclovenoize’s pre-chorus and chorus and there’s some Endless Smile in there too I believe. He Gives Speeches off Smile Sessions links to the sunshine fade (from alternative smile mix) followed by a bit of Brian’s Smile Era Party recording where he yells “Put on another tape!” Cabinessence has such a beautiful instrumental arrangement put together from TSS in the alternative smile mix that I open with it, into my own mix combined with Summertime Blooze’s for the chorus vs verse, with an extended Grand Coulee Dam section mixed from soniclovenoize’s combined with Saltaeb’s vocal mashup. TSS’s “I don’t know” made the perfect outro to me with the banjo feel. Wind Chimes is a few sources including summertime blooz’s mix for the syncopated bass section but I also love the Piano Tag, which I added some party sounds underneath… As Heroes and Villains is throughout the album, this leads into a personal mix of Children Were Raised, to a Heroes and Villains Part 2 chant that uses another TSS piano part as a bridge into... Wonderful is Sydstutcliffe’s and Summertime Blooz’s mix with TSS backup singing added in by me. Look is several mixes together (Smile AD mostly) going into an original assembly of a bunch of TSS’s Good Vibrations sessions for a little comedy bit before… Child is the Father of the Man, a combination of about ten things-- TSS, Alternative Smile Mix, BPWS, Daniele’s, Summertime Blooz’s, and Saltaeb’s-- then a final Heroes and Villains chant mashed-up over Darien Sahanaja’s amazing bridge into Surf’s up which combines every source on this list.