Reception
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| Blender | |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Pitchfork Media | 9.5/10 |
| Robert Christgau | positive |
Smiley Smile stands amongst the Beach Boys' most acclaimed albums, receiving numerous accolades and industry praise. Pete Townshend of The Who is a known admirer of the record, as is Robbie Robertson of The Band. In a 2012 interview with Time, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith stated that his "island" music picks would be albums by AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, and Smiley Smile, "Just for the melodic f--- all."
Richie Unterberger of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, calling it "a rather nifty, if rather slight, effort that's plenty weird", and noting that the media-hype of the collapsed Smile project at the time was much to blame for its lackluster reception in the United States. In 2007, Robert Christgau and David Fricke, writing for Rolling Stone, named Smiley Smile one of the 40 essential albums of 1967, declaring: "Towering it's not; some kind of hit it is."
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