I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
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| I Just Wasn't Made for These Times | ||
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| Studio album by Brian Wilson | ||
| Released | 15 August 1995 | |
| Recorded | Fall 1994 (except "Still I Dream of It": circa 1976) |
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| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 29:27 | |
| Label | MCA Records | |
| Producer(s) | Don Was and Brian Wilson | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Brian Wilson chronology | ||
| Brian Wilson (1988) |
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (1995) |
Orange Crate Art (with Van Dyke Parks) (1995) |
- This article is about the Brian Wilson album. For the Beach Boys song, see I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (song).
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is the second released album by former Beach Boys mastermind, Brian Wilson. It followed his eponymous debut seven years after its release, a period that saw much upheaval in Wilson's personal life.
After his solo debut, Wilson's controversial psychotherapist, Dr Eugene Landy, also had significant influence on Brian's projected follow-up, Sweet Insanity, which was shelved and never issued in 1990. Finally, after several years of overmedication and manipulation at the hand of Landy, Wilson was released from his care in late 1991, by court order, and was forced to restart a new phase in his life. After Landy's enforced departure, Wilson began a relationship with Melinda Ledbetter, who would help Brian reunite with his family and begin his re-entry into public life.
Feeling ready to become active again, Wilson felt the best thing to do was to remind his fanbase – and himself – how far he had come by revisiting a sampling of songs from his vast catalogue. Teaming up with Don Was, and setting himself in an understated and modest musical environment, he created some refreshingly restrained versions of his songs.
Simultaneously with the recording, a black and white documentary, also directed by Was, captured Brian's public re-awakening, bolstered by interviews with family members and friends.
[edit] Track listing
- "Meant for You" (Brian Wilson/Mike Love) – 0:50
- "This Whole World" (Brian Wilson) – 1:55
- "Caroline, No" (Brian Wilson/Tony Asher) – 2:39
- "Let the Wind Blow" (Brian Wilson/Mike Love) – 2:44
- "Love And Mercy" (Brian Wilson) – 3:13
- "Do It Again" (Brian Wilson/Mike Love) – 2:44
- Features daughters Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson on backing vocals
- "The Warmth of the Sun" (Brian Wilson/Mike Love) – 3:48
- "Wonderful" (Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks) – 2:14
- "Still I Dream of It" (Brian Wilson) – 3:35
- 1976 demo and intended for the unreleased Adult/Child album
- "Melt Away" (Brian Wilson) – 2:58
- Both "Love and Mercy" and "Melt Away" were originally credited as Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy, but those credits have since been revised to show Wilson as the only composer
- "'Til I Die" (Brian Wilson) – 2:47
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (MCA MCASD 11270) never charted in the US. It reached #59 in the UK.
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| Brian Wilson |
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| Studio Albums |
| Brian Wilson | I Just Wasn't Made for These Times | Imagination | Gettin' in Over My Head | Smile |
| Live Albums |
| Live at the Roxy Theatre | Pet Sounds Live |
| Christmas Albums |
| What I Really Want for Christmas |
| With Van Dyke Parks |
| Orange Crate Art |
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| The Beach Boys |
