Beach Boys - Surf’s Up (Smile Sessions Version)
“Canvass the town and brush the backdrop / Are you sleeping?”
When the 2004 middle-aged Brian Wilson version of SMiLE came out, I was 19 years old and living in NYC. I didn’t have any friends in the city and all I did was walk around the Village alone, go to the movies, eat Gray’s Papaya and listen to this record.
It’s kind of hard for me to describe how special this album is to me. It wasn’t my Dad’s Sgt. Pepper or Graceland, it wasn’t the Vonnegut he had me read and it was the furthest I could be from the hometown and girlfriend I was trying not to think about. SMiLE was mine and it felt like it was written for how it felt to explore the city alone.
I don’t know if anybody else I show this record to will ever find it as magical or genius as I do. I have no idea if you’ll feel the same goose-bump serotonin pile of bricks to the head feeling I get during the ‘Child is the Father of the Man’ melody.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, all I know is that when I eventually die (hopefully as an old ass dude) this is a good song to play for people who want to remember me.
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