“they’re all vignettes. You see, that’s Brian Wilson’s greatest work-not the sustained riffs of a blues band, but the little musical vignettes-ten or twenty seconds or verse, a chorus, a shot here or there and then out. And that’s what the whole Smile era was-vocal trips, musical trips, little trips, experiments, they’d go down this allay and maybe it would be a dead end. It didn’t mean it wasn’t good, it just didn’t fit with something, and sometimes things were dropped. Sometimes things fit together and sometimes they were dropped. There’s no way it could be made sensible and logical. It doesn’t follow any patterns you could trace.”
-Mike Love
(“The Beach Boys” by Byron Preiss. 1979)
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