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Title: Over-rated is an understatement
Review: Look up over-hyped in the dictionary and you'll find a picture of the "Smile" album cover. C'mon. This is pretentious, over-produced fluff that verges at times on incoherence, and is far inferior to the more melodic Beach Boys pop-rock in which Brian Wilson's weirdness was harnessed to the great power-wheel of rock'n'roll, thus producing music that could actually make people smile. I'm glad Brian Wilson's got his life together or whatever, but still and all, I would not recommend this CD. You know the old fable about the emperor, who it turns out, was wearing no clothes. The clothes were an illusion. On this over-produced album, Brian Wilson is the emperor that is wearing TOO MANY clothes.
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