Yes, it will, according to this Billboard article: Beach Boys’ Lost ‘Smile’ Album to See Release in 2011.
I love Brian Wilson and am glad to see this. However, I hope fans realize that this will not really be the “Smile” album in any real sense, as “Smile” never was finished being written or recorded, though most of what was recorded has been dribbled out in bits and pieces over the years. Even the version Brian re-recorded and released a few years ago was only an approximation, based on what had been recorded. Clearly, there are flashes of genius in some of the recordings, but many are also testaments to Brian’s fragmented mental state at the time of the original recordings — meandering, unfinished, unrelated pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. My own suggestion would be to view the coming release as a snapshot . . . or a series of snapshots from a nice vacation in which the tourist wasn’t sure which country he was visiting, but put all the photos together just to show you he’d been traveling.
Of course, this is only my take. Many were thrilled with the version of “Smile” that Brian and his current band re-recorded and released in 2004. I found it charming but not definitive because, obviously, it couldn’t recreate what hadn’t yet been written or recorded at the time of the original sessions in the ’60s. But since engineer Linett says he’s using the more recent version as kind of a road map for putting the original sessions in order, it somewhat perpetuates an illusion that “Smile” was finished.
– Rich Horton
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Previously in East Portland Blog:
Confessions of a Rock Snob: How I Repented & Invited the Beach Boys Into My Heart, by Rich Horton
OUT-SPECTORING SPECTOR – Richie’s Reprisal: Thoughts from the Pallid Pilgrim, by Rich Horton
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