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Title: So, it IS His Sgt. Pepper after all!
Review: Remember all the years you heard the tall-tales that `Smile' was Brian Wilsons response/retribution to `Sgt. Pepper'? Then he went nuts, and unfinished it? Well, it seems that The Greatest Album That Never Was actually IS. Proving that there is life after the abominable `Imagination', Wilson delves back nearly 4 decades to finish the unfinishable. This ain't no Beach Boys record - he knows that, we know that - and with his voice wavering from age and the Beach Boys legacy pandering in Kokomo with John Stamos, he vindicates his lost years by reneging the nay-sayers and sycophants both - his desire to please no one and everyone but to commit to his own dreamscape. And yes, `Good Vibrations' was better before, but this will still make you weep in its sonic beauty and absolute joy - for the first time in many a decade, you could actually hear the rapture in his weathered voice - croaks and all. A revelation. My grade: A+
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