Sweet, Insane, Smart Girls
By DJ M on May 31st, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
LA WEEKLY "But you know what's really weird? Out of the blue last week, I found this bizarre Brian Wilson cassette tape at Out of the Closet, called 'BRAINS & GENIUS' (which is presumably a pun on its creators’ names). It’s got a sort of homemade-looking J-card thingy (Do you remember J-cards? The piece of paper lining a cassette?) that reads: 'BRAINS & GENIUS presents SMART GIRLS Produced By: Brian Wilson & Eugene Landy.' It gets weirder: The song, 'Smart Girls,' is a rap song. And it samples all these classic Beach Boys songs, and it says it’s co-engineered by Jeff Lord Alge. (How many Lord Alges are there, for the love of Pete? That makes at least three Lord Alges I’ve heard of who do recording/engineering/mixing/mastering.) Jeff, Chris, Tom . . . one more and they could start an incredibly well-mixed boy band. 'Smart Girls' is probably the strangest bit of musical detritus I’ve found lately."
Apparently, this writer doesn't know that "Smart Girls" was part of Brian Wilson's unreleased Sweet Insanity project. For more information on this, and many other, unreleased Beach Boys/Brian Wilson projects, check out ANDREW G. DOE'S EXCELLENT WEB SITE.