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(N.B. I have no fiduciary interest in these concerts or this album. I am not part of a marketing team or street team. I don't own any stock in Carnegie Hall, Nonesuch Records or Halliburton.)
If you've heard anything from the forthcoming album or from the original 1966-67 sessions, you know Carnegie Hall is the appropriate venue for this momentous NYC tour stop.
I'm posting about it so far in advance because after selling rather gradually over the past month, ticket sales have suddenly picked up and it looks like both shows are going to sell out.
The most renowned unfinished album in history is now finished and it's coming out Sept. 28. For the uninitiated, SMiLE was started in the 1960s as a Beach Boys album, the follow-up to "Pet Sounds," but producer/composer Brian Wilson shelved it and the vastly inferior rush job "Smiley Smile" came out instead. Last year, Wilson and original lyricist Van Dyke Parks finished and sequenced the work for a rapturously received European tour, and Wilson recorded a new studio version this past summer.
I've heard lots of it, and I fervently believe anyone who loves pop music will love SMiLE. This ain't "Fun Fun Fun" or "Be True To Your School," it's a through-composed three-movement pop symphony. The range of novel sounds, catchy melodies and intricate arrangements is dazzling. The lyrics are alternately impressionistic and heart-tugging, poetic and funny. Themes include westward expansion, loss of childhood innocence, the alchemical elements, pirates and vegetables.
If you're interested, tickets are available at carnegiehall.org. You can hear tracks from the album in lo-fi .mp3 at smilethealbum.com.
If you've heard anything from the forthcoming album or from the original 1966-67 sessions, you know Carnegie Hall is the appropriate venue for this momentous NYC tour stop.
I'm posting about it so far in advance because after selling rather gradually over the past month, ticket sales have suddenly picked up and it looks like both shows are going to sell out.
The most renowned unfinished album in history is now finished and it's coming out Sept. 28. For the uninitiated, SMiLE was started in the 1960s as a Beach Boys album, the follow-up to "Pet Sounds," but producer/composer Brian Wilson shelved it and the vastly inferior rush job "Smiley Smile" came out instead. Last year, Wilson and original lyricist Van Dyke Parks finished and sequenced the work for a rapturously received European tour, and Wilson recorded a new studio version this past summer.
I've heard lots of it, and I fervently believe anyone who loves pop music will love SMiLE. This ain't "Fun Fun Fun" or "Be True To Your School," it's a through-composed three-movement pop symphony. The range of novel sounds, catchy melodies and intricate arrangements is dazzling. The lyrics are alternately impressionistic and heart-tugging, poetic and funny. Themes include westward expansion, loss of childhood innocence, the alchemical elements, pirates and vegetables.
If you're interested, tickets are available at carnegiehall.org. You can hear tracks from the album in lo-fi .mp3 at smilethealbum.com.