Brian Wilson - I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

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Music Review: Brian is truly back
Rating: 4 Stars

Songs like "This Whole World", provide musical scenery for the mind, and one can't help but picture speeding down the highway in a Mustang convertable. Wilson's talent for painting a scene continues with the Pet Sounds era "Caroline, No", which features a beautiful flute solo, and proves that Wilson is not a mere fun-in-the-sun songwriter.

Before long we come to one of Wilson's more recent pieces, "Love and Mercy". This song, from Brian's 1987 self-titled album, has been toned down from a digitally driven song, and placed in a more comfortable accoustic tone. A quiet cry for love in the world seems to be Wilson's overwhelming theme on this album, and as such, it furnishes a welcome intimate quality to the listener.

Brian then jumps into "Do It Again" (featuring Brian's daughters Carnie & Wendy) and another Beach Boys classic, "The Warmth of the Sun". The other boys may be missing from the album, but Wilson's voice provides a pleasant familiarity.

"Still I Dream of It", a demo Wilson made in 1976, gives the listener a glimpse of the depression he went through. Including very rough vocals, and a lyrical impression of the haunting images that must have plagued his mind, this song attests to Brian's need to write songs, and deal with those feelings the only way he knows: musically.

The album closes with a wonderful version of "Til I Die" which further demonstrates how healing music can be.

This album is very raw, and captures Brian as listener's have never heard him: candidly. Minus the masterpiece production of Pet Sounds, Was gives the listener a chance to see Wilson as he truly is: a musical genius.

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