Your most recent post just popped up. It's different in tone than some of previous posts. Please ignore my previous post as you've already addressed it. I think I get your point, now, but maybe we just hear this particular music differently.
"Good Vibrations" came out of the Pet Sound sessions and it's a pretty bizarre piece of music - the expected guitar solo is played on electro-theremin. I've always seen the subsequent direction of Brian Wilson's music as a continuation of that artistic arc. "Vibrations" was a hit, but it was also a move towards a much less commercially reliable way of producing music. If you hear Smile as a symptom of drug abuse and believe that it's celebrated for that reason, than I understand your reaction. I just don't hear the music that way.
"Good Vibrations" came out of the Pet Sound sessions and it's a pretty bizarre piece of music - the expected guitar solo is played on electro-theremin. I've always seen the subsequent direction of Brian Wilson's music as a continuation of that artistic arc. "Vibrations" was a hit, but it was also a move towards a much less commercially reliable way of producing music. If you hear Smile as a symptom of drug abuse and believe that it's celebrated for that reason, than I understand your reaction. I just don't hear the music that way.