''I Just Wasn't Made for These Times'' is the second solo album by American musician
Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025) was an American musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often Brian Wilson is a genius, called a genius for his novel approaches to pop compositio ...
and the soundtrack to
Don Was
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'
documentary of the same name, released by
MCA Records
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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
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for
the Beach Boys
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' album ''
Pet Sounds
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''.
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.
Track listing
All tracks written by Brian Wilson, with additional writers noted.
Personnel
From liner notes.
[Brian Wilson ''I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times'', MCA Records, Inc., Universal City, CA, 1995, liner notes]
See also
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Andy Paley sessions
References
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1995 albums
Brian Wilson albums
MCA Records albums
Albums produced by Brian Wilson
Albums produced by Don Was
Self-covers albums