Rhino / Wea
2004
Gettin' In Over My Head
About This Album
Brian Wilson's spotted solo career hasn't seen many highlights. True, Beach Boys fanatics continue to follow his top-this solo tours, which began with the astonishment of merely seeing Wilson perform on-stage and crested with his live run-throughs of the Beach Boys classic Pet Sounds and the legendary Smile (which he'd disavowed on several earlier occasions). As Brian Wilson concertgoers know, although Wilson remains a bundle of nerves while performing, he has found a group of players who are sympathetic to the Brian Wilson legend and also capable of faithfully re-creating the sound of Beach Boys classics. (Credit also goes to the album's recorder and mixer, Mark Linett, who has fine-tuned every single original Beach Boys track as part of Capitol's ongoing reissue campaigns, dating back to the late '80s.) Wilson has still not found a lyrical collaborator who can stand up to him when he writes inane, sophomoric lyrics; whether it's a solo composition or one written with a talented collaborator like Andy Paley, Wilson's songs are trite and rarely delivered with any confidence or evidence of a performing personality. There are two clear highlights on this record.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,4 and 10)

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