Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology is a compilation album devoted to the solo career of American musician Brian Wilson, released on September 22, 2017. It covers three decades of music with selections from nine of Wilson's solo albums, released between 1988 and 2015. The album includes two previously unreleased tracks: "Run James Run", an outtake from No Pier Pressure completed for the compilation, and "Some Sweet Day", a song Wilson wrote and recorded with Andy Paley in the early 1990s.[1]
| Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology |
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| Released | September 22, 2017 (2017-09-22) |
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| Recorded | 1987–2017 |
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| Label | Rhino |
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The packaging features a selection of photos from throughout Wilson's solo career, including a candid shot taken in the studio during the recording of "Run James Run".
| Title | Writer(s) | Original album |
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| 1. | "Love and Mercy" | Brian Wilson | Brian Wilson, 1988 | 2:56 |
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| 2. | "Surf's Up" | Wilson, Van Dyke Parks | Brian Wilson Presents Smile, 2004 | 4:06 |
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| 3. | "Heroes and Villains" | Wilson, Parks | Brian Wilson Presents Smile | 4:53 |
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| 4. | "Melt Away" | Brian Wilson | Brian Wilson | 2:59 |
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| 5. | "Let it Shine" | Wilson, Jeff Lynne | Brian Wilson | 3:58 |
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| 6. | "Some Sweet Day" | Wilson, Andy Paley | Andy Paley sessions, previously unreleased | 2:39 |
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| 7. | "Rio Grande" | Wilson, Paley | Brian Wilson | 8:12 |
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| 8. | "Cry" | Wilson | Imagination, 1998 | 4:59 |
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| 9. | "Lay Down Burden" | Wilson, Joe Thomas | Imagination | 3:44 |
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| 10. | "The First Time" | Wilson | Live at the Roxy Theatre, 2000 | 3:32 |
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| 11. | "This Isn't Love" | Wilson, Tony Asher | Live at the Roxy Theatre | 3:55 |
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| 12. | "Soul Searchin'" | Wilson, Paley | Gettin' In Over My Head, 2004 | 4:08 |
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| 13. | "Gettin' In Over My Head" | Wilson, Paley | Gettin' In Over My Head | 4:27 |
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| 14. | "The Like In I Love You" | George Gershwin, Wilson, Scott Bennett | Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, 2010 | 3:19 |
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| 15. | "Midnight's Another Day" | Wilson, Bennett | That Lucky Old Sun, 2008 | 4:12 |
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| 16. | "Colors of the Wind" | Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz | In the Key of Disney, 2011 | 3:59 |
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| 17. | "One Kind of Love" | Wilson, Bennett | Music from Love & Mercy, 2014 (also No Pier Pressure, 2015) | 3:34 |
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| 18. | "Run James Run" | Wilson, Thomas | No Pier Pressure sessions, previously unreleased | 3:27 |
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