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Brian Wilson Presents Smile
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<p><i>Brian Wilson Presents Smile</i> (also referred to as <i>Smile</i> or the abbreviation <i>BWPS</i>) is the fifth studio album by American musician <a href="/facts/Brian_Wilson/lHqBFEUI">Brian Wilson</a>, released on September 28, 2004 on <a href="/facts/Nonesuch_Records/UEychVAY">Nonesuch</a>. It features all-new recordings of music that he had originally created for <i><a href="/facts/Smile_(The_Beach_Boys_album)/qjGhg9Xk">Smile</a></i>, an unfinished album by <a href="/facts/The_Beach_Boys/6CdaMJwW">the Beach Boys</a> that he abandoned in 1967. Revisiting <i>Smile</i> was an intense emotional undertaking for Wilson, as he had been deeply traumatized by the circumstances that had originally surrounded the project. </p><p>Wilson initially agreed to revisit <i>Smile</i> in the form of a live concert performance as a follow-up to his 2000–2002 tour for the Beach Boys' album <i><a href="/facts/Pet_Sounds/74MESBtf">Pet Sounds</a></i>. From October to November 2003, he worked with keyboardist <a href="/facts/Darian_Sahanaja/NAg6lslb">Darian Sahanaja</a> and original lyricist <a href="/facts/Van_Dyke_Parks/7EmVLuSa">Van Dyke Parks</a> in assembling a three-movement structure for <i>BWPS</i> while embellishing the material with newly written lyrics and melodies. Wilson and his band premiered it at the <a href="/facts/Royal_Festival_Hall/tuUux2TE">Royal Festival Hall</a> in London on February 20, 2004. Motivated by the positive reception, he then adapted the performance as a studio-recorded solo album. None of the other Beach Boys were involved with <i>BWPS</i>, nor with the documentary that covered its making, <i><a href="/facts/Beautiful_Dreamer%3a_Brian_Wilson_and_the_Story_of_Smile/YNnQabNn">Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile</a></i>. </p><p><i>BWPS</i> was universally acclaimed by critics and peaked at number 13 in the US and number 7 in the UK. It earned Wilson his first <a href="/facts/Grammy_Award/2bxYJjPV">Grammy Award</a>, winning in the category of <a href="/facts/Best_Rock_Instrumental_Performance/Qk7rhoNS">Best Rock Instrumental Performance</a> for "<a href="/facts/Mrs._O%2527Leary%2527s_Cow_(instrumental)/Rjp5oejj">Mrs. O'Leary's Cow</a>". The album also garnered a nomination for best engineering for Mark Linett who recorded and mixed the project. In 2011, the album's sequencing served as a blueprint for <i><a href="/facts/The_Smile_Sessions/ohpmyCz6">The Smile Sessions</a></i>, a compilation dedicated to the original Beach Boys recordings. In 2020, <i>BWPS</i> was ranked number 399 on <i><a href="/facts/Rolling_Stone/HhCFoJ9F">Rolling Stone</a></i>'s list of "<a href="/facts/Rolling_Stone%2527s_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time/40CPshrf">The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time</a>". </p>