During the 1990s, the duo planned to record an album that would have comprised original material written and produced by themselves with participation from other members of the Beach Boys.

In the meantime, he completed two albums for 1995: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times with Don Was and Orange Crate Art with Van Dyke Parks.

People look at me I think as somebody who used to write songs for the Beach Boys, and is sort of inactive In February 1992, on the day after California courts issued a restraining order on therapist Eugene Landy from contacting Wilson, Wilson phoned Paley to work on an assortment of recordings destined for a potential album which could have featured some involvement with the Beach Boys.

[6] Paley remembered that Wilson would speak of each song's vocal arrangement in terms of which parts the Beach Boys would sing.

[7] Wilson called it "some of the best material I've done in a real long time",[8] adding that he is "baffled" why Smile (whose recordings were still largely unreleased) continued to attract attention, saying: "Things are so different now.

[11] The band's co-founder Roger Manning told Rocky Mountain News in 1993: "Brian's an amazing guy and still has a lot of musical ideas.

[7]"Gettin' In over My Head" was written for the film Grace of My Heart (1995), a fictionalized account of the 1960s Brill Building era that included a character based on Wilson.

[1] Other titles included "Slightly American Music", "I'm Broke", "It's Not Easy Bein' Me", "Marketplace", "Proud Mary" (a cover of the John Fogerty song), "Desert Drive", "Frankie Avalon", "Dancin' the Night Away",[15] "Off My Chest", "This Song's Gonna Sleep with You Tonight", "Saturday Morning in the City", "This Could Be the Night" (a cover of the Harry Nilsson song), "I'm Goin' Home", "I'm Psyched", "Mary Ann", "Stay Right Here in Heaven", "Must Be a Miracle", "In My Moondreams", "Where Has Love Been", "Rodney on the ROQ", and "Pleasure Island".

"[10] Two weeks after the trial, Love invited Wilson to his home in Lake Tahoe for a "serious" songwriting session, in which they wrote one song tentatively slated for the television show Baywatch Nights.

[9] That month, friction between Brian and the Beach Boys was reported in Mojo, with Paley alleging that Love had attempted to rewrite some of the material.

"[21] However, as reported by the magazine Request, "When he [Brian] played some of the new tracks for the Beach Boys ... the members were politely supportive, but ultimately declined his invitation.

[21][nb 1] Music businessman and former wrestler Joe Thomas, owner of River North Records, was enlisted to co-produce the Beach Boys' album Stars and Stripes Vol.

"[21][nb 2] Don Was reflected that he felt responsible for "stopping the momentum" after suggesting that Brian's songs were not up to his standards: "He said, 'Yeah I agree with you.'

[21] O'Hagan said that Thomas' involvement (specifically the "middle of the road" style he was influencing Wilson toward) was one reason why the High Llamas collaboration never happened.

[30] Asked why Wilson did not finish the songs on his own, given that there was so much excitement and enthusiasm over the project, Paley responded: "A lot of people didn't want it to happen.

"[21] Request wrote that Brian was being pressured by his "closest associates" to abandon his meticulously crafted arrangements with Paley and record an album more in the style of Kenny G.[3] Some sources attributed the project's demise specifically to Ledbetter's interference.

"[28] Asked why Wilson worked with Thomas and not Paley, an anonymous insider told journalist Paul Lester, "Melinda!

Carlin writes that the motivation was largely so that Wilson could use Thomas' connections and "slick" production sound to break into the adult contemporary market.

[24] In June 1997, music writer Domenic Priore wrote that Sire Records expressed interest in funding the completion of the Paley tapes and putting it out on the label: "A second meeting with [Seymour] Stein took place where Joe Thomas was brought in, and Thomas offered to deliver newly recorded Brian Wilson tapes from his studio (this offer was thankfully rejected).

[33] In June 1998, four months after the death of Carl Wilson, Brian released his fourth solo album, Imagination, containing only one song written with Paley: "Where Has Love Been?".

Though Wilson seems more eager to finish the material he's done with Andy Paley than to return to St. Charles, Melinda says he's obligated to do another record with Thomas.

[20]) In 2015, Brian performed the "I'm Broke" live in concert for the first time, with Seattle Music Insider describing it a "bluesy rarity".

The article mentioned that most of the recordings remain unreleased "due in part to the legal quagmire that resulted when Wilson extricated himself from his tyrannical therapist, Eugene Landy.

"[32] That year, "Some Sweet Day" found release as a bonus track on the compilation Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology.

[36] In July 2021, vintage mixes of five Paley sessions tracks, including "I'm Broke", were released as downloadables on Wilson's official website.

[37] Later that year, in November, the Long Promised Road soundtrack was released with "I'm Goin' Home", "It's Not Easy Being Me", "Must Be a Miracle", "Slightly American Music", and a new mix of "I'm Broke".