Brian Rules, but enough

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BRIAN WILSON. Pet Sounds is one of the most fantastic things ever recorded and if you can't listen to it and hear the amazingly complete things that he accomplished than I pity you. Sure the songs have an innocence and are written from a point of view that is not as continental as Rubber Soul or Revolver, but the shapes and types of sounds that he was creating. The bending of monophonic sound into the full range that he created was only accomplished on a limited basis in recorded music. In fact, outside his Beach Boys efforts, The Beatles and Phil Spector, I can think of no one who could touch him at the time.

That being said, his abandonment of "SMILE" makes any return to that specific process almost worthless except to hardcore Wilson fans. The advancements in recording that occurred through the development of stereo, quadraphonic and surround sound would be very hard for an analog master such as Wilson to contend with. I would be very interested to hear the songs and to hear what he was thinking in his mind from that time but he is 62 now (24 when he gave up the project the first time) and I can’t believe that the music of the last 40 years will not change the nature of the music.

I just can’t see what he’s doing other than completing an addendum to the History of Sgt. Peppers and/or overdosing on nostalgia.