Editing The Beach Boys (section)

====Lawsuits, ''Summer in Paradise'', and ''Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1''====
{{See also|Andy Paley sessions}}
Carlin summarized: "Once surfin' pin-ups, they remade themselves as [[avant-garde pop]] artists, then psychedelic oracles. After that they were down-home hippies, then retro-hip icons. Eventually they devolved into none of the above: a kind of perpetual-motion nostalgia machine."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Carlin|first1=Peter Ames|author-link=Peter Ames Carlin|title=MUSIC; A Rock Utopian Still Chasing An American Dream|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/arts/music-a-rock-utopian-still-chasing-an-american-dream.html|date=March 25, 2001|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=May 13, 2018|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612204232/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/arts/music-a-rock-utopian-still-chasing-an-american-dream.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Music journalist Erik Davis wrote in 1990: "the Beach Boys are either dead, deranged, or dinosaurs; their records are Eurocentric, square, unsampled; they've made too much money to merit hip revisionism".<ref name="Davis1990"/> In 1992, critic Jim Miller wrote: "They have become a figment of their own past, prisoners of their unflagging popularity—incongruous emblems of a sunny myth of eternal youth belied by much of their own best music.&nbsp;... The group is still largely identified with its hits from the early Sixties."{{sfn|Miller|1992|pp=192, 195}}

Love filed a defamation lawsuit against Brian due to how he was presented in Brian's 1992 memoir ''[[Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story]]''. Its publisher [[HarperCollins]] settled the suit for $1.5 million. He said that the suit allowed his lawyer "to gain access to the transcripts of Brian's interviews with his [book] collaborator, Todd Gold. Those interviews affirmed—according to Brian—that I had been the inspiration of the group and that I had written many of the songs that [would soon be] in dispute."{{sfn|Love|2016|pp=353–354}} Other defamation lawsuits were filed by Carl, Brother Records, and the Wilsons' mother Audree.{{sfn|Love|2016|p=353}} With Love and Brian unable to determine exactly what Love was properly owed in royalties and songwriting credits, [[Love v. Wilson|Love sued Brian in 1992]], awarding him $5 million and a share of future royalties from Wilson.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 13, 1994|title=Beach Boys' Mike Love Wins His Case, Stands to Collect Millions|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-13-fi-8511-story.html|access-date=March 10, 2021|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=February 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215121946/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-13/business/fi-8511_1_beach-boys-lead-singer|url-status=live}}</ref> Thirty-five of the group's songs were then amended to credit Love.<ref name="Times1994">{{cite news |title=Beach Boys' Mike Love Wins His Case, Stands to Collect Millions |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-13-fi-8511-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=December 13, 1994 |access-date=October 1, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215121946/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-13/business/fi-8511_1_beach-boys-lead-singer |url-status=live }}</ref> He later called it "almost certainly the largest case of fraud in music history".{{sfn|Love|2016|p=373}}

After dissolving his relationship with Landy, Brian phoned [[Sire Records]] staff producer [[Andy Paley]] to collaborate on new material tentatively for the Beach Boys.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|pp=273, 281}} After losing the songwriting credits lawsuit with Love, Brian told ''[[Mojo (magazine)|MOJO]]'' in February 1995: "Mike and I are just cool. There's a lot of shit Andy and I got written for him. I just had to get through that goddamn trial!"<ref name="MOJO1995">{{cite magazine|last1=Holdship |first1=Bill |title=Lost in Music |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |date=August 1995 |url=http://www.petsounds.com/mojo1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980630153958/http://www.petsounds.com/mojo1.pdf |archive-date=June 30, 1998 }}</ref> In April, it was unclear whether the project would turn into a Wilson solo album, a Beach Boys album, or a combination of the two.<ref name=Verna1995>{{cite magazine|last1=Verna|first1=Paul|title=From Brian Wilson to Jerry Lee Lewis, Andy Paley's Career Defies Description|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA88|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=April 22, 1995|volume=107|issue=16|pages=88–89|issn=0006-2510|access-date=May 13, 2018|archive-date=May 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513062940/https://books.google.com/books?id=5QsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA88|url-status=live}}</ref> The project ultimately disintegrated.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=284}} Instead, Brian and his bandmates recorded ''[[Stars and Stripes Vol. 1]]'', an album of [[country music]] stars covering Beach Boys songs, with co-production helmed by [[River North Records]] owner [[Joe Thomas (producer)|Joe Thomas]].{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=291}} Afterward, the group discussed finishing the album ''Smile'', but Carl rejected the idea, fearing that it would cause Brian another nervous breakdown.{{sfn|Love|2016|p=384}}

The 1990s saw the release of the critically acclaimed multi-CD box sets ''[[Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys]]'' (1993) and ''[[The Pet Sounds Sessions]]'' (1997), both featuring unreleased archive recordings, as well as two single-CD archival sets, ''[[Ultimate Christmas]]'' and ''[[Endless Harmony Soundtrack]]'' (both 1998), with the latter a companion to the official career-spanning documentary ''[[Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys Story]]'', which first aired on [[VH1]] and was later issued on VHS and DVD.