Brian Wilson - American Music 

brian´s solo albums are magical they usually had a "pet sounds"/ mid 60's vibe ,even if they were done in the 80's or 90's

In an alternate timeline, they get the Boys to sing on this and they spend the early 90s touring with R.E.M.

I love Brian Wilson. He literally saved my life when I was 14 through Pet Sounds. This song wants to sleep with you? Lyrics again. Great song, love the production. Lyrics? It's been his Achilles heal all along.

Last two Brian Wilson Concerts I went to, I got picked up by two very fine ladies. Life is Good!

Nothing better than a good Brian Wilson "what if" albums...

Brian and his company need to release a Paley Sessions box!

Love everything Brian does. I find something to love in all his songs.

Brian can release whatever he wants...it's always great and innovative. He's a true artist.

I truly think these sessions would've blown people's minds back in 1996, preferably in a 12-13 track album like this one. It really sounds like a natural evolution from Pet Sounds, but slightly darker and more surreal. It's Brian letting loose his feelings completely unfiltered for once, with Andy building off of his ideas rather than monopolizing the whole thing. This is probably my favorite of the various tracklistings that exist currently, and it heavily inspired my own. The only things I would really change in the songs themselves is shorten some of them, as songs like Gettin, Chain Reaction, and Proud Mary are epic but go on a bit too long. But with some cutting, I think this would make a solid single LP to rival Pet Sounds. Side 1 1. I'm Broke 2. It's Not Easy Being Me 3. Gettin' In Over My Head 4. This Song Wants To Sleep With You Tonight 5. Chain Reaction Of Love 6. In My Moondreams 7. Proud Mary Side 2 8. Soul Searchin' 9. Slightly American Music 10. You're Still A Mystery 11. Must Be A Miracle 12. Desert Drive 13. I'm Going Home

Chain Reaction is the best fucking Brian Wilson track I've heard in years !

Great album of course

A version of this in FLAC with higher volume would be immaculate. Only on track 2 but I'm loving it so far.

Album grows on you and that's pretty neat

Nicely done. Two things are missing from Brian's officially released solo catalog, Carl's voice and participation, and production from someone like Andy. Imagine Carl's voice on his 1988 LP, especially Melt Away. Joe Thomas's production just made Brian's music square. Here is my version (it does not have Some Sweet Day or Goin Home, and adds Saturday, Sweets, God and Everything I Need). 1. Saturday Morning in the City 2. Gettin' In Over My Head 3. Soul Searchin' 4. You're Still a Mystery 5. This Song Wants to Sleep with You 6. In My Moondreams 7. This Could Be the Night 8. I’m Broke 9. Must Be a Miracle 10. Sweets for My Sweet 11. God Did It 12. It's Not Easy Being Me 13. Chain Reaction of Love 14. Everything I Need

brilliant work! thank you

This is awesome. Thanks for putting it together.

This is amazing. Great work!

Thank you for the compilation, another excellent Brian Wilson deep cut

Thank you very much for sharing.

what a treasure! ❤️❤️👌👌. thanks BW

Thanks for posting! This reminds me of a mix of the Love You and That Lucky Old Sun albums

gotta say this but thank you for compiling the songs, i very much listen to this frequently and is my favorite album to listen to if it even existed. all the songs just match so well thank you

never released! I hope you will some day. Im glad it here then. History of Brian Wilson music requires a librarian. Love it. Thank you for posting.

Entertaining listen. Thanks

This makes me sad. I miss the old (young) Brian Wilson.

This is sooooo good.

Damn I never knew Brian covered This Could Be The Night!

I don't really understand the people saying this isn't soul-felt. It would've been amazing to hear Carl Wilson sing This Song Wants to Sleep With You Tonight.

Awesome song wow

Lyrics for ''Some Sweet Day '' (I'm not very good at English, so let me know if there's wrong words so that I can edit them plz) Some sweet day you're gonna see that I'm born out for you Some sweet day you'll see the light You're gonna wonder too, yeah You're gonna walk more and more of that Nothing's never really going to fall, yeah Some sweet, some sweet day I'm gonna make you mine Some sweet day you look again and that's gonna change your mind about those plack that you have now for you can leave'em all behind Right now it's out of my hand, but I don't worry cause you got me a plan, yeah Some sweet, some sweet day I'm gonna make you mine You know sure wasted so much time for I stood by and waited for you for it really gonna out of my mind I ain't gonna let it get me down, thus I'm really sure you don't come around, yeah You put me through the landing hurray, so now I wait just as long as I can, now Some sweet, some sweet day I'm gonna make you mine Some Sweet, some sweet day...

This is a masterpiece

Awesome.

Crimbone, you're hired. Get somebody to release this. Keep up the good work.

Sounds like Love You, I would call it Love You Too

Soul Searchin. Period.

Man, I'd love to have these tracks on vinyl

Chain Reaction of Love is the best track Brian has recorded since 1977, truly fantastic. Wish The Beach Boys had got it together and made one last great album. Al and Mike in the vocal mix would be even better

Just a thought. This style of BW album is a type of genre that it is not pop or rock.. This is a man expressing his feelings through music. A similar vibe and artistry can be found in Daniel Johnston or other lo-fi artists.. People who appreciate this BW era, characterize by simple personal music making, do not expect early BB's production... we just expect Brian... a sad man feeling happy on his piano.

There is some great stuff on this album

Really like "must be a miracle" what a great song..

thanks¡¡¡

Please sign my vegetable Mr. Wilson

King wilson

“This song wants to sleep with you” is wonderful!

Wow

Lol this rules so hard.

Why didn’t you use the clean version of Some Sweet Day from the BW anthology? Then it would just need proud Mary as a bonus track and it would be the definitive paley album.

Great stuff from this era, although it’s missing Slightly American Music and Proud Mary which are among the absolute best from those sessions

Where'd you get this version of goin home? It's way cleaner than the other copies I've heard

Reminds me of a cross between Harry Nilsson, John Cale and Nick Cave's heroin years stuff

Do you know of a song "I Sleep Alone" performed in January of 1989 (video posted on RU-vid)--- as far as I know, Brian never recorded if officially, and it really is fascinating to me. I also like the first versions of Sweet Insanity songs

That’s Carl’s voice on soul searchin right?

You got a FLAC download homie? This is some top-teir sequencing

I think Al these songs are great.... Would be a great album...

I'm broke is all for me

Getting in over my head sounds like Righteous Brothers style. I liked Soul Searchin, Although the guy that did Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations pretty much gone , this guy wasn't making crap.

Chain Reaction is a cool song

That first one is sunshine pop all the way

Melinda hates these songs.

Musica. Especial

great album

Has he re-recorded these songs.......?

BITCHIN’!

It's tragic that Brian's loving wife crossed the line into interfering with his creative output. Those Joe Thomas recordings are a travesty. We can only wonder what might have been if Melinda had butted out of Brian's artistic process. This so much better than that adult contemporary shit they manipulated him into releasing.

🌱🙄🌼💙

I've been listening on and off (mostly off) to this set of songs since the 1st bootleg of them came out on CD. Most of these songs are unmemorable, and some are recycled bits from previous boots or released songs. There is nothing here that excites or inspires me. It also sounds like Brian for the most part was not excited or inspired while writing and recording them. They are a great sampling of his 1980's process, but, for me, that's all they are. Brian's recent release of the song Right Where I Belong is light years ahead and far superior to all of the songs in this collection.

It's nice people love Brian so much but very little good came out of the Paley sessions. They are only legendary because nothing came of them. And I am a diehard Wilson fan who has been listening to the Beach Boys, and his solo stuff, religiously for 30 years. I've never been one to worship anyone though. I love him because he produced legitimately incredible work. I don't see any reason to delude myself into thinking his lesser work is also great.

This is just not soul-felt music. It sounds like it was just something for Brian to do. I’m sorry.

Sorry-------------this sounds too much like " Love You " , 20 years later. Too much of BW's personal drama . ----------By ' Imagination", he was very different , & his voice had improved. ------------sorry---------------not for me , as a lifetime BB's fan.

Brian Wilson is fantastic but it is in Mike Love we really trust.