Sweet Insanity
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The cover of Sweet Insanity's promotional cassette acetates which include a provisional track listing
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| Studio album (bootleg) by Brian Wilson | ||||
| Released | 1991 (unofficial cassette acetate) | |||
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| Label | Sire/Reprise/Warner Bros. (rejected) | |||
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Sweet Insanity is an unauthorized Brian Wilson studio album that was originally planned for release in 1991. Wilson has said that the master tapes were stolen, preventing an official release, although the songs are available on numerous bootlegs. Five of the songs were rerecorded over a decade later and released on Wilson’s 2004 album, Gettin' In Over My Head, although some critics believed the remakes weren't as good as the originals. Sweet Insanity is one of the more sought-after bootleg albums.
In 2015, Wilson spoke about Sweet Insanity, saying "Sweet Insanity was never really released. You’ve got bootlegs, but it was never released. And I thought some of the stuff was pretty good. It wasn’t the best album I ever wrote. We just didn’t think it was good enough. They were just like demos. We recorded about 10-12 songs, and we decided not to put it because we thought that maybe people wouldn’t like it, so we junked it."
Initially entitled Brian, the album was intended to be a follow up to his 1988 solo debut, Brian Wilson. During this stage in Wilson’s life, he was under the care of psychologist Dr. Eugene Landy, who was known for his unconventional 24-hour therapy. Landy was micro-managing Wilson's life, including his creative career, and became Wilson's primary collaborator. The pair had collaborated on Wilson's first solo album as well.Andy Paley remembers that the album's recording was "an unpleasant experience".
Sweet Insanity only exists on physical media as a promotional cassette acetate manufactured for Brains & Genius, Wilson's and Landy's production company. (The actual cassette was presumably manufactured by Warner Bros. Records; The cassette tape uses Warners' clear shell and typeface) and carries a 1991 copyright date. The cassette includes two bonus tracks: (CD Bonus/"Country Feelin'" and Single, B-Side/"Hotter"). It's unclear whether this particular cassette contains the first or second iteration of the album.
"Someone to Love" derived a melody from Dennis Wilson's "San Miguel". "Water Builds Up" features the same verse melody as "Let's Go to Heaven in My Car". "Hotter" was recorded between 1987–1988, and produced by Brian Wilson and Russ Titelman. "Love Ya" was originally recorded as "Sweetie" in the early 1980s, then re-recorded between 1987–1988, produced by Brian and Titelman.
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