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| Length = | Label = Brother/Capitol | Producer = The Beach Boys | Last album = ''Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2'' (1967) | This album = ''Smiley Smile'' (1967) | Next album = ''Wild Honey'' (1967) | Misc = }} ''Smiley Smile'' is the twelfth studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on September 18, 1967. Though the album reached number 9 on UK record charts, ''Smiley Smile'' only resonated moderately with US audiences, reaching number 41 – the lowest chart placement the band had yet had for a record. Critics generally received the album with confusion. Discounting the inclusion of standalone single "Good Vibrations" and the solo-credited "Gettin' Hungry", only one single was issued from ''Smiley Smile'': "Heroes and Villains". Devised as a simplified version of their then-forthcoming ''Smile'' – a different LP which would have contained elaborately orchestrated compositions labored over for several months – ''Smiley Smile'' is best known for its contrasting lo-fi production with an avant-garde and protominimal rock approach to arranging. The album was recorded in a span of six weeks at Brian Wilson's makeshift home studio following his declaration that the ''Smile'' tapes were now distinctly off-limits. After settling payment disputes with Capitol Records, ''Smiley Smile'' was distributed in collaboration with Brother Records, a new record label and holding company founded by the group. ''Smile'' was left unfinished while the group embarked on new projects. Carl Wilson famously compared ''Smiley Smile'' and ''Smile'' to "a bunt instead of a grand slam". ''Smiley Smile'' has since grown in stature over the years to become a cult and critical favorite in the Beach Boys' oeuvre. In 1974, it was voted the 64th greatest album of all time by ''NME'' writers. In 2000, it was one of 100 albums featured in the book ''The Ambient Century'' as a landmark in the development of ambient music. ==Background== (詳細はGood Vibrations", an elaborately produced single which had major international success. ''Smile'' was conceived as an extension of the song's recording approach, and, together with lyricist Van Dyke Parks, Brian Wilson composed several songs intended for ''Smile''. Several months later, the project was shelved due to technical problems, internal resistance, and legal disputes.〔 After the announcement that ''Smile'' was cancelled in May 1967, the Beach Boys were still under pressure and contractual obligation to record and present an album to Capitol Records. On June 2, 1967, Wilson declared to his band mates that the material recorded during the ''Smile'' era was now distinctly off-limits. In 1968, Wilson intimated on the subject of "Surf's Up" and other ''Smile'' material: "() was supposed to come out on the ''Smile'' album, and that and a couple of other songs were junked…(I ) didn't want to put them on the album. I didn't think that the songs were right for the public at the time. I just didn't have a…commercial feeling about some of these songs, what we've never released. Maybe some people like to hang on to certain songs as their own little songs that they've written, almost for themselves. You know, what they've written is nice for them ... but a lot of people just don't like it." In January 1968, Wilson elaborated further to journalist Jamake Highwater in an interview to promote the Beach Boys' forthcoming ''Stack-O-Tracks'' compilation: "Around '64, all of a sudden I found myself in the studio taking hours and hours just going through track experiences. Then all of a sudden, the two came together: the vocal and the tracks. Then all of a sudden I began to realize it was all one art, all one thing. And now, God, it's come so far, I don't really know what to say about it." Wilson claimed that he had run out of ideas "in a conventional sense," and that he was "about ready to die". After finally giving up his production pace, he says: "I decided not to try any more, and not try and do such great things, such big musical things. And we had so much fun. The ''Smiley Smile'' era was so great, it was unbelievable. Personally, spiritually, everything, it was great. I didn't have any paranoia feelings. In 1983, brother and band member Carl Wilson reflected: "It was also a thing of, 'What if it didn't turn out to be great, what if it had totally flopped?' That would have completely destroyed him (). We would have lost him forever in terms of having any communication with him. In the middle of all this, Brian just said, 'I can't do this. We're going to make a homespun version of it instead. We're just going to take it easy. I'll get in the pool and sing. Or let's go in the gym and do our parts.' That was ''Smiley Smile''." Dennis Wilson called the album a product of its context, saying "''Smiley Smile'' was just something we were going through at that time connected with drugs, love, and everything." In 1968, he said, "We got very paranoid about the possibility of losing our public. We were getting loaded, taking acid, and we made a whole album which we scrapped. Instead, we went to Hawaii, rested up, and then came out with the ''Smiley Smiles'' album, all new material. Drugs played a great role in our evolution but as a result we were frightened that people would no longer understand us, musically." When the Beach Boys declined at the last minute to headline the Monterey Pop Festival in June, their cancellation was seen as "a damning admission that they were washed up () unable to compete with the 'new music'", in the words of Steven Gaines. David Leaf explained: "Monterey was a gathering place for the 'far out' sounds of the 'new' rock, and the Beach Boys in concert really had no exotic sounds (excepting 'Good Vibrations') to display. The net result of all this internal and external turmoil was that the Beach Boys didn't go to Monterey, and it is thought that this non-appearance was what really turned the 'underground' tide against them."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smiley Smile」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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