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Brian Wilson
"Brian Wilson"
© Sire/Reprise Records
Year of Release: 1988
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track listing
Love And Mercy
Walkin' The Line
Melt Away
Baby Let Your Hair
Grow Long
Little Children
One For The Boys
There' So Many
Night Time
Let It Shine
Meet Me In My
Dreams Tonight
Rio Grande
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Brian Wilson
"Brian Wilson"
Brian Wilson's first solo album gets then nod this week. The self-titled Brian Wilson was released in 1988.
His previous album reviewed on this website was
Imagination.
The lead-off track, "Love And Mercy" has a familar sound as that "Imagination" song, with a truly great
Beach Boys sound. "Walkin' The Line" is another good song, (yet the opening track is quite better). "Melt
Away" is quite better than "Walkin' The Line," and it's background vocals is great, as it is compared to how
the Beach Boys provided their background vocals to the many Beach Boys songs. "Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long"
maybe the least favorite song, as the previous songs up to this one are far, far better.
Definitely, "Little Children" brings back the musical style of the 1960s Beach Boys. "One For The Boys"
has excellent harmonies, as it is all accapella. The harmonies are great, as heard on many popular Beach Boys records of
the past. "One For The Boys" -- The Beach Boys. "There's So Many" is another Beach Boys comparison, with
the background vocals. "Night Time" has a Tropical sound, and also the tropical sound of the Beach Boys'
"Kokomo," which was a #1 hit, shortly after the Brian wilson was released (1988).
"Let It Shine" is another good song, having that Beach Boys atmosphere, and "Kokomo." If the Beach Boys
had always continued throughout the decades sine their existence, "Meet Me In The Dreams Tonight" would be an
"updated" sound for them. And ending the album, is "Rio Grande," as it begins as what The Beach Boys "today at
that time-1988" would sound like, however, the song takes another direction, in sounding like a song from the Old West.
Country & Western Brian Wilson? Not exactly, it's just a different sound altogether, than that normally heard from the
typical Beach Boys sound. This song hits the 8-minute mark, with different sounds throughout; it's could be called his
"concept song."
There is no doubt, that the Brian Wilson solo album has every song touching the nostalgic sound of the past
Beach Boys songs from their popularity (1960s/early 1970s). You can say this would have been the Beach Boys updated,
for the year 1988. Brian Wilson did well on his first solo attempt. It's nostalgic Beach Boys with an updated approach.
"Love And Mercy" and "Melt Away" were the singles from this album, and "Love And Mercy" would be the
better of the two. All in all, it's what the Beach Boys could have sounded if they still remained together.
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