No Pier Pressure (Deluxe) Brian Wilson

• 1 This Beautiful Day 01:24
• 2 Runaway Dancer 03:59
• 3 Whatever Happened 02:52
• 4 On The Island 02:15
• 5 Half Moon Bay 03:22
• 6 Our Special Love 03:44
• 7 The Right Time 02:54
• 8 Guess You Had To Be There 03:24
• 9 Don't Worry 02:43
• 10 Somewhere Quiet 03:02
• 11 I'm Feeling Sad 02:18
• 12 Tell Me Why 03:40
• 13 Sail Away 03:43
• 14 One Kind Of Love 03:34
• 15 Saturday Night 03:31
• 16 The Last Song 04:37
• Total Runtime 51:02

Info for No Pier Pressure (Deluxe)

He is one of popular music’s most deeply revered figures, a legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer of some of the most cherished music in pop music history. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to call Brian Wilson one of the most gifted and influential composers of the past 50 years.

For the No Pier Pressure sessions, Brian Wilson reunited with longtime collaborator Joe Thomas, with whom he co-produced The Beach Boys’ No. 3 Billboard album That’s Why God Made The Radio for the iconic band’s 50th anniversary reunion in 2012. It also features collaborations with Beach Boys bandmates, Kacey Musgraves, fun.’s Nate Ruess and She & Him’s Zooey Deschanel.

'The old-school pinnacle is the album's elegiac closer, 'The Last Song'....Wilson's voice, alone and shipwrecked, rises above a bed of piano and strings, ghostly harmony vocals flickering around him...' (Rolling Stone)

'Wilson sells it pretty well, aided by his legendary knack for effervescent melodies and the presence of dynamic young guests...' (Entertainment Weekly)

'[T]here are moments of harmonious glory: the intro to 'Our Special Love,' as well as the many tracks that feature former Beach Boys David Marks and Al Jardine.' (Paste Magazine)

Brian Wilson, vocals, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards, background vocals
Sebu Simonian, vocals, keyboards
Peter Hollens, vocals, background vocals
Jimmy Riley, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
Dean Parks, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Tom Bukovac, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Probyn Gregory, electric guitar, French horn
David Marks, electric guitar
Mark Goldenberg, electric guitar
Nick Walusko, electric guitar
Richie Davis, electric guitar
John Wittenberg, violin
Marisa Kuney, violin
Amy Wickman, violin
Songa Lee, violin
Sharon Jackson, violin
Mark Robertson, violin
Julie Rogers, violin
Chihsuan Yang, violin
Clayton Haslop, violin
Charlie Bisharat, violin
Caroline Buckman, viola
JoAnn Tominaga, viola
Scott Hosfeld, viola
Briana Bandy, viola
Darrin McCann, viola
Alisha Bauer, cello
Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, cello
Jill Kaeding, cello
Giovanna Clayton, cello
Cameron Stone, cello
Paul Von Mertens, flute, saxophone
Gary Griffin, accordion
Joey Grzyb, accordion
Amy Barwan, oboe, English horn
Tim Bales, trumpet
Larry Hall, trumpet
Rob Parton, trumpet
Wayne Bergeron, trumpet
Carey Deadman, trumpet
John Mason, French horn
Charlie Morallis, trombone
David Stahlberg, trombone
Tom Garling, trombone
Joe Thomas, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards
Scott Bennett, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, vibraphone, percussion, background vocals
Darian Sahanaja, piano, Hammond b-3 organ, vibraphone
Jeff Lantz, keyboards
Jim Keltner, drums
Kenny Aronoff, drums
Eddie Bayers, drums
Chad Cromwell, drums
Vinnie Colaiuta, drums
Nelson Bragg, percussion
Thom Griffin, background vocals
Matt Jardine, background vocals
Jeff Foskett, background vocals

Produced by Brian Wilson, Joe Thomas

FYI: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, 24-bit. The provided 96 kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!

Brian Wilson
is arguably the greatest American composer of popular music in the rock era. Born and raised in Hawthorne, CA, Wilson formed the Beach Boys -- with his two younger brothers, cousin Mike Love, and school friend Alan Jardine -- and they became the most successful American rock band in history by performing his songs, which initially combined the rock urgency of Chuck Berry with the harmonies of the Four Freshmen. Wilson's musical imagination expanded during the '60s to the point of such remarkable works as 'Good Vibrations,' a chart-topping Beach Boys single of 1966. Wilson retreated from his dominance of the Beach Boys after 1967, as their popularity declined. He made sporadic contributions to their records, returning only briefly as a songwriter and producer in the mid-'70s.

Wilson issued a debut solo album in 1988, with a promising lead single 'Love and Mercy,' but a pop crossover proved elusive; ironically, the Beach Boys had concurrently recorded their own comeback around the same time, and took 'Kokomo' to the top of the charts. Wilson's second album, Sweet Insanity, was rejected 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 also appeared as a soundtrack album. Following in 1998 was Imagination, which included several throwbacks to lush Beach Boys productions, but failed to entice a wide commercial audience.

Although Wilson was never a standout as a live performer, he began touring, and promptly released a pair of live titles: Live at the Roxy Theatre (2000) and Pet Sounds Live (2002). Unfortunately, his cobbled studio follow-up, 2004's Gettin' in Over My Head, exhibited the same foibles as Imagination. Also, it was overshadowed by Wilson's preparation of the legendary Beach Boys record SMiLE for its live debut and a new studio recording. 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 rapturous reviews, and Wilson then launched a full world tour of SMiLE. The seasonal effort What I Really Want for Christmas followed in October 2005.

Then, Wilson began preparing another thematic work to follow on from SMiLE after he was commissioned by London's Southbank Centre. By late 2007, he had written and premiered That Lucky Old Sun -- based on the American vocal standard and including the participation of his SMiLE band as well as Van Dyke Parks -- at the Royal Festival Hall. Recordings quickly followed, and in September 2007, the album was released worldwide.

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