Your favorite BEACH BOYS LP besides PET SOUNDS


I generally prefer their Post Pet Sounds LP's.  Mine is Sunflower, with honorable mention to Surf's Up. 

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I like the Capitol mono LP version of "Smile" that Capitol managed to put together with help from Brian Wilson, releaed in 2011.

1967 was such a breakout year for rock--Days of Future Past by Moody Blues, Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, Axis: Bold as Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Doors self-titled, and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. If Brian had gotten any help from Capitol and some cooperation (instead of opposition) from the rest of the Beach Boys, you could have added "Smile" to that list of landmark albums in 1967.
There are currently two album versions of Smile that I know of. The first is the one Brian did in collaboration with The Wondermints in 2004. It was released on WEA in 2004 or 2005.
http://www.elusivedisc.com/Brian-Wilson-Smile-180g-2LP/productinfo/WEALP76582/

I saw that version live when the tour came to Seattle in 2005.

The other is The Smile Sessions on EMI/Capitol released in 2011. I have and like both, though I only have the WEA version on CD and DVD. The LP is a 24/48Khz digital master.

The Capitol one is not only all analog (AFAIK) but is the mono mix Brian's deaf in one ear and always favored mono.

http://www.elusivedisc.com/The-Beach-Boys-The-Smile-Sessions-180g-Mono-2LP/productinfo/EMILP75781/