YMMV / SMiLE (The Beach Boys)

• Awesome Music: The whole album, really. It was incredibly revolutionary for its time, and it's simply beautiful. Doubly so once it finally got completed and released as a Brian Wilson solo project in 2004, acting as a long-awaited moment of closure for a nearly 40-year-long source of anxiety for Wilson.
• Fanfic Fuel: With the album having remained unreleased for decades apart from outtakes and bootlegs, as well as the modular nature of the songs, many Beach Boys fans have taken it upon themselves to release their own versions of SMiLE, rearranging both the track listings as well as the songs themselves.
• Funny Moments: "I threw away my candy bar and I ate the wrapper..."
• Genius Bonus: The title is a Name Drop to the philosophy of drugs pioneer and LSD advocate Dr Timothy Leary, who summed his ideas up as S.M.I2.L.E. – Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life Extension. Leary was a background influence on the psychedelia of The '60s and was a friend of Brian Wilson and other Beach Boys.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The phrase "at three-score and five I'm very much alive" in one unused version of "Heroes and Villains" seems just short of prophetic when one takes into account that Brian Wilson was 62 years old (just three years short of three-score and five) when he finally completed Smile.
• Most Wonderful Sound: An awful lot of the album, especially any time the band's harmonies come in.
• Nightmare Fuel: As detailed on the relevant Beach Boys subpage.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Other portions of the album qualify as this, notably "Our Prayer" and "Love to Say Dada"/"In Blue Hawaii", not to mention "Good Vibrations".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: While Brian Wilson Presents: Smile was released to immense critical acclaim, a good portion of fans detest the changes Brian made to his version, mostly "On a Holiday" and the so-called "pirate rap."

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