Imagination [Giant, 1998]
Brian Wilson's genius has never been as indelible as worshippers believe. Cambered by Van Dyke Parks or stripped by Don Was, he was magical, generating visions of eternal sunshine or crackpot solipsism or both. Yoked to adult contemporary tyro Joe Thomas, however, he's just one more pro who's glad he's no longer crazy and knows even less about the world than when he was. C
Brian Wilson's genius has never been as indelible as worshippers believe. Cambered by Van Dyke Parks or stripped by Don Was, he was magical, generating visions of eternal sunshine or crackpot solipsism or both. Yoked to adult contemporary tyro Joe Thomas, however, he's just one more pro who's glad he's no longer crazy and knows even less about the world than when he was. C