Talk:Sweet Insanity/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MarioSoulTruthFan (talk · contribs) 22:44, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Infobox

• Needs alt
• The recording period is not mentioned in the body of the article or backed by any source
• "Cover designed by Louise Evans" → remove from here add to the background

Lead

• Sweet Insanity is an unofficial album by American musician Brian Wilson that was produced in 1990 as the follow-up to his first solo album, Brian Wilson (1988). It was largely written and produced by Wilson alongside his former psychologist, Eugene Landy. → Sweet Insanity is an unreleased album by American musician Brian Wilson that was produced in 1990 as the follow-up to his debut solo album, Brian Wilson (1988). It was written and produced by Wilson alongside his former psychologist, Eugene Landy.
• The album was rejected by Sire Records due to Landy's lyrics and the inclusion of "Smart Girls", a rap song → In 1990 and 1991, two versions of Sweet Insanity were presented to Sire Records. Both mixes were rejected due to the inclusion of "Smart Girls" and Landy's lyrics.
• Select tracks were later rerecorded for Wilson's 2004 album Gettin' In over My Head. → In 2004, select tracks were re-recorded for Wilson's album Gettin' In over My Head.
• The lead is a summary of the article. You need to mention the Critical reception, something like "Critical response to Sweet Insanity was...; many reviewers noticed...", for example.
• Should mention the album has been bootlegged
• When Wilson started to produce the album
• More to come

Background

• Remve the image, adds noting to the article
• but underwhelming sales, and it was largely overshadowed → but underwhelming sales. It was overshadowed
• surrounding Wilson's former psychologist, Eugene Landy, → surrounding Eugene Landy, Wilson's former psychologist,
• In August, Rolling Stone → year?
• Wilson was readying a second album, and that "half" of it had already been written → Wilson had written "half" of a second album.
• In May 1989, → this is impossible because the soundtrack was released a month before.
• She's Out of Control → year of release between brackets
• "The Spirit of the Forest" → remove the wikilink
• producing what became Sweet Insanity → producing Sweet Insanit (it never materialized, henceforth it never became)

Style and production

• for his recent hits with → for his recent work with
• In Wilson's 2016 memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, it explains that → Wilson's 2016 memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, affirms that

Rejection and availability

• Merge the second and third paragraph
• According to Sire executive Howard Klein, → According to a Sire executive, Howard Klein,
• A limited-release cassette single of "Smart Girls" was also produced → A limited-release cassette single of "Smart Girls" was created to promote Wilson's 1991 memoir, Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story.[20] This was done by Wilson and Landy, acting under the guise of their corporate banner Brains & Genius.[21] An insert that was included in the cassette stated that 250 copies were created and sent as gifts during the previous Christmas.[21]
• rerecorded and slightly written versions → re-recorded and slightly written versions
• The album also included rerecordings of "Save the Day" (retitled "Fairy Tale") and "Let's Stick Together" (retitled "The Waltz"), which were not on Sweet Insanity, but dated from the same era. → remove, if they weren't part of this tracklist it's not vital for this article. It will be a nice sentence to have on the aforementioned album.
• rerecording of → re-recording of

Critical reception

• in response → to what? he gave the album a good review, didn't he?
• Bill Holdship, who, in 1991, praised → Bill Holdship. In 1991, Holdship praised
• and functioning", although "it's fair → and functioning". Nevertheless, "it's fair to
• Brett Milano of the Boston Phoenix → this review should be the first of the second paragraph
• AllMusic reviewer → On the other hand, AllMusic reviewer
• Remove the boxscore, but add the score to the review.

Track listing

• "Intro" → Concert Tonite [intro only], per source
• Source only provides the tracklist, not side one or two
• Source only provides the tracklist, not the runtimes of each song

See also

• Adult/Child → so this is related to this article because it's an unreleased work by the Beach Boys? If so, remove it
• The Beach Boys bootleg recordings → The Beach Boys' unreleased and bootleg recordings

Notes

• This could be incorporated in the article in avery simple way.

References

• Reference should have the Citations and sources as sub-sections
• Retitle-te to Citations
• Sourcecheck: 1-3, 4-7, 11, 13, 15 and 26
• Unsure if source 32 is reliable?
• Source 26 is dead and missing an accessdate

Bibliography

• Retitle to Sources

Further reading

• Just from a quick glance, it seems to me that this can be used to further improve the article, instead of further reading.

Overall

• On hold for seven days, let me know once you are done. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 17:30, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

ILIL Are you up for this? If not after a month of doing the review I have to fail the article. Giving a two week notice. Cheers, MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 21:32, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

No response from the nominator, after waiting a whole month and with a warning. I have to fail the nomination. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 09:18, 19 July 2022 (UTC)