SMiLE has gone gold in the UK

[AverageJoe]

Great CD, folks. Brian Wilson is the MAN!

[LoZoccolo]

1. I read this interview with Brian Wilson...

...and he was saying like, a lot of times the voices in his head threaten him and stuff, but he also goes through these euphoric periods where the voices are telling him they love him and need him and all that. That actually sounds cool!

[LoZoccolo]

4. Link.

KING: Do they ever issue commands, these voices?

B. WILSON: What?

KING: Do they ever tell you to do things?

B. WILSON: No.

KING: Just, "I'm going to kill you," or...

B. WILSON: Yeah, right.

KING: That's all they -- it ever says?

B. WILSON: Yeah.

KING: Is that some sort of self-wish?

M. WILSON: No. No. I don't think so. But -- they tell him other things as well, like...

KING: Like?

B. WILSON: They'll say, like...

M. WILSON: You're no good, or...

B. WILSON: Or something like that, yeah.

M. WILSON: And then there are days that they might be good to him.

B. WILSON: That happens every few days, they'll have...

KING: Good to you by praising you, you mean?

B. WILSON: Right. They'll say, "We love you, we love you, we can't do without you," stuff like that, yeah.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/20/lkl.00.html

[Kire]

6. yeah, real cool

now I want voices in my head

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Yeah I'm loving it regularly

[villager]

3. been listening to it in my car...

...as opposed to "in my room!"

Think I'll spin it again tomorrow!

[elperromagico]

5. How's it doing Stateside?

I mean, is it competing with the latest sonic masterpieces by Clay Aiken or, say, Britney Spears?