I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

Infobox Album | Name = I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Type = Album
Artist = Brian Wilson


Released = 15 August 1995
Recorded = Fall 1994
(except "Still I Dream of It":
circa 1976)
Genre = Rock
Length = 29:27
Label = MCA Records
Producer = Don Was and Brian Wilson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:en2uak5khm3l link]
*Review-Christgau|neither|artist=193
Last album = "Brian Wilson"
(1988)
This album = "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"
(1995)
Next album = "Orange Crate Art"
(with Van Dyke Parks)
(1995) |

"I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" is the second released album by former Beach Boys member 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.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Brian Wilson; except where indicated

#"Meant for You" (Wilson, Mike Love) – 0:50
#"This Whole World" – 1:55
#"Caroline, No" (Wilson, Tony Asher) – 2:39
#"Let the Wind Blow" (Wilson, Mike Love) – 2:44
#"Love And Mercy" – 3:13
#"Do It Again" (Wilson, Mike Love) – 2:44
#* "Features daughters Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson on backing vocals"
#"The Warmth of the Sun" (Wilson, Mike Love) – 3:48
#"Wonderful" (Wilson, Van Dyke Parks) – 2:14
#"Still I Dream of It" – 3:35
#* "1976 demo and intended for the unreleased Adult/Child album"
#"Melt Away" – 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" – 2:47

"I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" (MCA MCASD 11270) never charted in the US. It reached #59 in the UK.

ources

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:en2uak5khm3l AllMusicGuide.com]