I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (album)

I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Studio album and soundtrack album by
Brian Wilson
ReleasedAugust 15, 1995 (1995-08-15)
Recorded
  • 1976 ("Still I Dream of It")
  • 1994-c. August 1995[1]
Studio
  • Ocean Way (Hollywood, CA)
  • The Chomsky Ranch (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Record One (Los Angeles)
  • The Mastering Lab (Hollywood)
Length29:27
LabelMCA
Producer
Brian Wilson chronology
Brian Wilson
(1988) 		I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
(1995) 		Orange Crate Art
(1995)
Singles from I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
  1. "Do It Again" / "'Til I Die"
    Released: 1995
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide(neither)[3]
MusicHound Rock[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

I Just Wasn't Made for These Times is the second solo album by American musician Brian Wilson and the soundtrack to Don Was' documentary of the same name, released by MCA Records on August 15, 1995. It consists almost entirely of rerecordings of Wilson's past songs. The title is taken from the song of the same name which Wilson wrote in 1966 with collaborator Tony Asher for the Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds.

Wilson commented of the rerecordings in a 1995 interview: “At first, I thought ‘This is gonna be contrived, the songs were all old hat. But then I understood the context of it all, so I felt free to talk without worrying about what I was saying. I got a sense of my self — a sense of worth.[6]

  1. ^ Doe, Andrew G.; et al. "Gigs & Sessions 1995". Bellagio10452.com. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
  2. ^ Rabid, Jack. "Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  4. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 1233. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  5. ^ Brackett, Nathan; with Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster. p. 880. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  6. ^ Holdship, Bill (August 1995). "Lost in Music" (PDF). MOJO. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 30, 1998.