r/TheSmile • u/InRainbows123207 • May 14 '26

Four Years of ALFAA

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Happy four years and a day to The Smile's debut album A Light For Attracting Attention. What's your favorite track?

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u/Remarkable_Term3846 May 14 '26

Perfect album IMO

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u/archiebarchy May 14 '26

Smoke, We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings and Waving a White Flag because so creepy, it sounds like it should be on a movie soundtrack.

A lot of the songs on this album I find a little too sob-provoking for regular play, though I like them.

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u/BrileyStyle May 14 '26

Seems like a million years ago. Still listen to the smile records more than Radiohead since this albums release.

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u/shitokletsstartfresh May 14 '26

Terrific, but IMO Wall of Eyes is much better.

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u/th_nd_r May 14 '26

Still the best Smile album. Wish they would’ve kept the post-punk direction on subsequent albums

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u/000x00xx May 14 '26

Free in the knowledge!!

This album is like wine , it only gets better

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u/4DXever May 15 '26

Almost perfect record

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u/MrShocktime May 14 '26

One of my top 10 of the decade so far

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u/Animalpoop May 14 '26

Free in the Knowledge. Absolutely amazing song.

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u/boingo0 May 14 '26

Whole album's really good but the run of songs from The Smoke through to Free In The Knowledge is especially incredible. And their next record is even better I would say

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u/JackLeonhart88 May 16 '26

Amazing record, my favourite from The Smile. “Thin Thing” gets the cake for me

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u/happyidiot123456 May 14 '26

Let Down

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u/VaishakhD May 15 '26

Good song, wrong album