Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 17 (1966-1967) Smile Sessions

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Track Listing

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Disc 1

  1. "Heroes And Villains Theme" - 0:53
    • Take 14
  2. "Heroes And Villains Theme" - 1:08
    • Take Unknown
  3. "Heroes And Villains" - 0:54
    • Part 1, 1st Vocal Overdub
  4. "Heroes And Villains" - 0:48
    • Part 1, 2nd Vocal Overdub
  5. "Heroes And Villains" - 0:48
    • Part 1, 3rd Vocal Overdub
  6. "Heroes And Villains" - 0:48
    • Part 1, 4th Vocal Overdub
  7. "Heroes And Villains" - 0:49
    • Part 1, 5th Vocal Overdub
  8. "In The Cantina" - 0:40
    • Vocal Overdub, Take Unknown
  9. "My Children Were Raised" - 0:19
    • Vocal Overdub, Take Unknown
  10. "How I Love My Girl" - 2:02
    • Vocal Overdub, Take 10
  11. "Heroes And Villains" - 1:14
    • Last Part, Mono Mix
  12. "Heroes And Villains" - 0:41
    • Last Part, Stereo Mix
  13. "Heroes And Villains" - 1:11
    • Last Part, Stereo Mix
  14. "Heroes And Villains" - 1:57
    • Mono Mix Attempt
  15. "Heroes And Villains" - 0:54
    • Mono Mix Attempt
  16. "Heroes And Villains" - 1:23
    • Mono Mix Attempt
  17. "Heroes And Villains" - 1:41
    • Part 2, Takes 1 & 2
  18. "Heroes And Villains" - 2:37
    • Part 2, Takes 4 - 8
  19. "Heroes And Villains" - 1:47
    • Part 2, Takes 14 & 15
  20. "Bicycle Rider" - 0:35
    • 1st Vocal Overdub
  21. "Bicycle Rider" - 0:34
    • 2nd Vocal Overdub
  22. "Bicycle Rider" - 0:37
    • 3rd Vocal Overdub
  23. "Do You Like Worms" - 1:11
    • Part 1, Takes 23 & 24
  24. "Do You Like Worms" - 1:20
    • Part 1, 1st Vocal Overdub
  25. "Do You Like Worms" - 1:21
    • Part 1, 2nd Vocal Overdub
  26. "Do You Like Worms" - 1:05
    • Part 2, Rehearsal Final Part
  27. "Do You Like Worms" - 2:57
    • Part 2, 1st Vocal Overdub
  28. "Do You Like Worms" - 2:57
    • Part 2, 2nd Vocal Overdub
  29. "The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine" - 1:43
    • Takes 1 & 2
  30. "The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine" - 1:29
    • Take 4
  31. "The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine" - 2:49
    • Takes 6 & 7
  32. "The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine" - 1:12
    • Takes 10 & 11
  33. "The Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine" - 1:09
    • Mono Mix
  34. "He Gives Speeches" - 1:06
    • Take Unknown
  35. "He Gives Speeches" - 1:10
    • Lead Vocal Overdub
  36. "He Gives Speeches" - 1:13
    • Backing Vocal Overdub
  37. "Wonderful" - 2:54
    • Takes 1 - 3
  38. "Wonderful" - 2:50
    • Takes 6 - 8
  39. "Wonderful" - 0:52
    • Takes 16 - 18
  40. "Wonderful" - 2:16
    • Take Unknown
  41. "Wonderful" - 2:15
    • Instrumental Overdub
  42. "Wonderful" - 2:15
    • 1st Vocal Overdub
  43. "Wonderful" - 6:28
    • Vocal Insert Rehearsals
  44. "Wonderful" - 0:58
    • 1st Vocal Insert
  45. "Wonderful" - 0:56
    • 2nd Vocal Insert
  46. "Wonderful" - 1:05
    • Vocal Insert Stereo Mix
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Disc 2

  1. "Child Is Father Of The Man" - 4:53
    • Part 1, Takes 1 - 4
  2. "Child Is Father Of The Man" - 0:42
    • Part 1, Take 8
  3. "Child Is Father Of The Man" - 1:38
    • Verse, Takes 1 - 10
  4. "Child Is Father Of The Man" - 1:01
    • Take Unknown
  5. "Look" - 1:24
    • Takes 1 & 2
  6. "Look" - 1:10
    • Takes 4 & 5
  7. "Look" - 2:12
    • Takes 6 - 13
  8. "Look" - 1:07
    • Takes 14 - 19
  9. "Look" - 2:51
    • Take 20
  10. "Vega-Tables" - 1:31
    • Part 1, Piano Track
  11. "Vega-Tables" - 1:32
    • Part 1, Vocal Overdub
  12. "Vega-Tables" - 1:30
    • Part 1, Vocal Overdub Attempt
  13. "Vega-Tables" - 1:32
    • Part 1, Instrumental & Vocal Overdub Attempt
  14. "Vega-Tables" - 1:32
    • Part 1, Instrumental & Vocal Overdub Attempt
  15. "Vega-Tables" - 1:32
    • Part 1, Instrumental & Vocal Overdub Attempt
  16. "Vega-Tables" - 1:37
    • Part 1, Vocal Overdub Attempts
  17. "Vega-Tables" - 1:36
    • Part 1, Vocal Overdub Attempts
  18. "Vega-Tables" - 1:34
    • Part 1, Vocal Overdub Attempts
  19. "Vega-Tables" - 1:36
    • Part 1, Vocal Overdub Attempts
  20. "Vega-Tables" - 5:15
    • Part 1, Instrumental Insert Takes 1 - 8
  21. "Vega-Tables" - 1:10
    • Part 1, Vocal Insert Rehearsals
  22. "Vega-Tables" - 2:35
    • Part 1, Mono Mix Rehearsals
  23. "Vega-Tables" - 1:23
    • Part 2, Take Unknown
  24. "Vega-Tables" - 1:31
    • Part 2, 1st Vocal Overdub
  25. "Vega-Tables" - 1:27
    • Part 2, 2nd Vocal Overdub
  26. "Vega-Tables" - 2:20
    • Part 2, Track Rehearsal
  27. "Vega-Tables" - 1:28
    • Part 2, 1st Vocal Overdub
  28. "Vega-Tables" - 1:30
    • Part 2, 2nd Vocal Overdub
  29. "Vega-Tables" - 1:31
    • Part 2, 3rd Vocal Overdub
  30. "Vega-Tables" - 1:30
    • Part 2, 4th Vocal Overdub
  31. "Vega-Tables" - 1:21
    • Part 2, Mono Mix
  32. "Vega-Tables" - 1:45
    • Part 3, Take 12
  33. "Vega-Tables" - 1:47
    • Part 3, 1st Vocal Overdub
  34. "Vega-Tables" - 1:50
    • Part 3, 2nd Vocal Overdub
  35. "Vega-Tables" - 1:16
    • Part 3, Mono Mix
  36. "Vega-Tables" - 1:58
    • Various Mix Rehearsals
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Disc 3

  1. "Wind Chimes" - 2:47
    • Takes 1 - 3
  2. "Wind Chimes" - 1:49
    • Take 4
  3. "Wind Chimes" - 3:23
    • Take 5
  4. "Wind Chimes" - 1:34
    • Takes 6 & 7
  5. "Wind Chimes" - 4:06
    • Pick-Up Takes 1 - 5
  6. "Wind Chimes" - 2:03
    • Takes 8 & 9
  7. "Wind Chimes" - 3:05
    • Track
  8. "Wind Chimes" - 3:02
    • 1st Vocal Overdub
  9. "Wind Chimes" - 0:39
    • Last Part Take 3
  10. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 1:00
    • Take Unknown
  11. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 0:57
    • Take 1
  12. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 2:25
    • Take 2
  13. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 3:17
    • Takes 3 - 7
  14. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 1:32
    • Takes 11 & 12
  15. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 2:15
    • Takes 15 - 18
  16. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 1:49
    • Overdub Take 1
  17. "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" - 1:41
    • Mono Mix
  18. "Friday Night" - 2:19
    • Take 1
  19. "Friday Night" - 1:24
    • Take 2
  20. "Friday Night" - 2:28
    • Takes 6 - 10
  21. "Water" - 1:01
    • Take Unknown
  22. "Water" - 1:00
    • 1st Vocal Overdub
  23. "Water" - 0:59
    • 2nd Vocal Overdub
  24. "Water" - 1:01
    • 3rd Vocal Overdub
  25. "Water" - -:59
    • 4th Vocal Overdub
  26. "Water" - 1:04
    • Stereo Mix
  27. "Vega-Tables Radio Spot Rehearsals" - 22:43
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Reviews

All Music Guide review by Lindsay Planer

Although this three-CD box set is entirely unauthorized, it holds the distinction of being the first arguably authoritative release to exclusively feature music that Brian Wilson and company were preparing for the album Smile, the Beach Boys' follow-up to Pet Sounds. Although the project was never completed, many of Wilson's brilliant fragments have been incorporated into other Beach Boys works -- mostly pre-1973 -- over the roughly 33 and one-third years separating the unfulfilled album and this wholly fulfilling multimedia project. Even at three full-length CDs, Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 17 is woefully incomplete when attempting to corral all known recordings connected with Smile. However, what is presented here -- as has been the hallmark of this series -- is the flawless sound quality. The amazing aural presence that is re-created on this bootleg set rivals if not undeniably beats the same material as issued throughout the various box sets and compilations -- such as Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys and Hawthorne, CA. In the context of this box Wilson's passions can best be understood. Not just musical passion, but the life-force passion that drove him to this creative zenith. The intricate harmonic balance between the Wilson-arranged vocals and instrumentation borders on magic. If layer upon layer of sound fitting with jigsaw puzzle precision was Brian Wilson's goal, then the extended sessions for "Heroes and Villains," "Wind Chimes," "Vega-Tables," and especially "Wonderful" argue the fact that indeed much of Smile was already complete, albeit not compiled. Alas, here seems to lay the proverbial rub. Shorter musical "links" and even some of the spoken-word recordings have also been gathered on this box. Oft referred to but rarely heard tracks such as the "Bicycle Rider" theme, "Do You Like Worms," "Look," "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" (aka "Fire"), and the "I Wanna Be Around"/ "Friday Night" medley are all amply represented. The set is capped off with the 22-minute "Vega-Tables Radio Spot Rehearsals" featuring Brian Wilson and percussionist extraordinaire Hal Blaine. The two are involved in trying to re-create an organic-sounding "man-on-the-street" type of scenario revolving around Wilson's quest for veggies. Heavily edited portions were included on the "Vegetables Promo" mock-up on the previously mentioned Hawthorne, CA. compilation of revisionist history. The packaging of this very special and equally limited box set is also worthy of mention. Original pressings include a mammoth 110-page booklet as well as an individually numbered (to 1,000) certificate. This volume has raised the bar immeasurably in regards to the quality and completeness of all Smile-related volumes -- bootleg or legit. It might take another 33-and-one-third-year revolution to find out.

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