Brian Wilson’s latest « smile »
A long time, We feared that he dies the heart filled with regrets. That of leaving the duty unusual, to have let go between his fingers what he envisaged as the greatest work of pop music ever recorded, the evil named Smile. We know the story, or we deserve to have it told, how Brian Wilson, at the age of barely 25 years, made his brain melt through working and substances, indeed posed the first stones of what was announced as the most fantastic American symphony of his teenage time before throwing in the towel and staying dazed for eternity.
The bursts of the great work, scattered on Smiley Smile And The following half-dizdience of Beach Boys (underestimated Friends And Surf’s up), were going to haunt global melomania for the years to come – until this day in 2004 when the eternal unstable pop surprised us all by re -record Smile According to his memory from start to finish, accompanied by a bunch of little wonders, then playing it on stage around the world. Was it peaceful? That we are allowed to think that this Smile late, just like the treasure chest of Smiley Sessions containing the most approaching version possible of what would have been Smile if Smile had been finished, has changed absolutely nothing. Smile was a masterpiece even beyond our reach and God Only Knows To what the music would look like, and the world, if the Beach Boys had released it in 1967, in the wake of this Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Who made their brilliant leader in the shadow lead forever.
Brian Wilson, the most brilliant of the innocent – The most innocent of geniuses – from American pop, will have suffered martyrdom for a veille. Because how to live in the regret of anything after having offered the world Pet Sounds – the purest of the biggest albums in the world – and Good vibrations,, Cabinessance,, A day in the life of a tree‘Til i die ? Our regret to us: the man who reappears in front of us, each time we listen to him, as the greatest of all, looks eternally dissatisfied.
