Brian Wilson

   
Artist: Brian Wilson

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 SMiLE

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17


   
 Brian Wilson Live at the Roxy Theatre (CD 2)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 16


   
 Brian Wilson Live at the Roxy Theatre (CD 1)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 15


   
 Imagination

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sweet Insanity - Sessions

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 19


   
 Brian Wilson (Deluxe Edition)

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 23


   
 Adult Child (Unreleased Album)

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 12


   
 What I Really Want For Christmas

   Year:    
Tracks: 15

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Brian Wilson is arguably the greatest American composer of democratic music in the stone geological era. Born and brocaded in Hawthorne, CA, Wilson formed the Beach Boys, with his deuce younger brothers, first cousin Mike Love, and school ally Alan Jardine, and they became the most successful American rock band in history by playing his songs, which ab initio combined the john Rock importunity of Chuck Berry with the harmonies of the Four Freshmen. Wilson's musical resource expanded during the '60s to the point of such remarkable industrial plant as "Beneficial Vibrations," a chart-topping Beach Boys single of 1966. Wilson retreated from his dominance of the Beach Boys afterward 1967, as their popularity declined. He made sporadic contributions to their records, reversive exclusively briefly as a songster and producer in the mid-'70s.


Wilson issued a debut solo record album in 1988, with a promising lede single "Erotic love and Mercy," but a pop crossover proven elusive; ironically, the Beach Boys had at the same time recorded their possess retort around the same time, and took "Kokomo" to the top of the charts. Wilson's second album, Sweet Insanity, was jilted by Sire, but in 1995, he reunited with his mid-'60s collaborator Van Dyke Parks for Orange Crate Art. That same year, Wilson was the subject of a documentary feature, I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, which as well appeared a soundtrack album. Following in 1998 was Mental imagery, which included several throwbacks to lush Beach Boys productions, but failed to entice a wide of the mark commercial audience. Although Wilson was ne'er a standout as a live performing artist, he began touring and released a pair off of live titles: Live at the Roxy Theatre (2000) and Pet Sounds Live (2002). His cobbled studio follow-up, 2004's Gettin' in Over My Head, alas exhibited the like foibles as Imagination. Also, it was overshadowed by Wilson's readying of the legendary Beach Boys record SMiLE for its live debut and a unexampled studio transcription. He debuted the new SMiLE at the Royal Festival Hall in London on February 20, 2004, and recorded it in the studio that April. Both the live and studio versions earned enraptured reviews, and Wilson then launched a broad world circuit of SMiLE. The seasonal feat What I Really Want for Christmas followed in October 2005.