Much of this stuff comes from the aborted mid-'90s sessions with producer-songwriter Andy Paley, and little was worth the wait, even "Desert Drive," which already sounds 40 years old--not bad if you don't own Endless Summer. Odder still, but compelling nonetheless, is the Van Dyke Parks co-write that ends the record, "The Waltz," in which Wilson recalls being "back at that high school cotillion" pining after the girl wearing the angora sweater. It's old-man pop topped with time-machine harmonies; Smile, though you're heart is breaking. The kids will forever wonder why their folks ever made such a fuss. Someday yet, he may remind them.