Releases
On September 28, 2004, Brian Wilson released his newly recorded studio version of Smile, earning critical praise, and scoring 97 on critical aggregator website Metacritic, the fourth highest score awarded to an album. For the new version Brian, Wondermints leader Darian Sahanaja, woodwind player/string arranger Paul Mertens, and lyricist Parks based their arrangements on the original, unreleased Beach Boys tapes to give it a coherent and fresh, updated sound. Although Wilson originally included "Good Vibrations" as the closing song at Capitol Record's insistence, a new version of the song featuring Pet Sounds collaborator Tony Asher's original lyrics were used rather the better known version penned by Mike Love.
The was followed by two U.S. tours, with its featured stop in New York's Carnegie Hall; a combination of the two shows were broadcasted on NPR's Creators at Carnegie series. The concert series also went to Australia and New Zealand, as well Europe.
The Showtime cable network released a documentary film called Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile in the fall of 2004. A DVD of the concert performance Smile (shot in an L.A. studio) was released in May 2005.
Colombia Pictures, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was a Golden Globe and Emmy Nominated comedy featuring an entire segment in parody of Wilson artistically creating 'Smile'.
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