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| Artist: Brian Wilson
Label: Capitol Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 1120
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.3
EAN: 5099923414723
ASIN: B001BN732I
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | That Lucky Old Sun | | • | Morning Beat | | • | Room With A View (narrative) | | • | Good Kind Of Love | | • | Forever My Surfer Girl | | • | Venice Beach (narrative) | | • | Live Let Live | | • | Mexican Girl | | • | Cinco de Mayo (narrative) | | • | California Role | | • | Between Pictures (narrative) | | • | Oxygen To The Brain | | • | Been Too Long | | • | Midnight s Another Day | | • | Lucky Old Sun Reprise | | • | Goin' Home | | • | Southern California |
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Product Description
Brand new album from legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer Brian Wilson, produced by Brian and created in the Capitol Records Studios where he first recorded in 1962.
Album Description
That Lucky Old Sun is an autobiographical, intimate, personal & emotional work from a living legend who is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest composers & musicians. Produced by Brian Wilson & recorded in the Capitol Records studios where he first recorded in 1962.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 The Genius of Brian Wilson September 3, 2008
Frank C. Branchini (Edgewater, MD USA)
38 out of 41 found this review helpful
That Lucky Old Sun is a work of pure genius. This isn't Wilson's best solo work, the honor still goes to Smile, but it is close.
Conceptually (not sonically) it calls to mind Days of Future Passed and John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. The concept and the mixture of spoken words and music call to mind The Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed.
On Lucky Old Sun, Brian Wilson speaks directly to the listener and shares what is going on in his life just as John Lennon did on songs like Mother. There is a tremendous honesty here. The message is that Brian is back, mentally as well as physically. When he first started touring again he didn't looked very rigid and it was clear he wasn't entirely comfortable. The video in the deluxe package shows Brian smiling, animated, and looking fully engaged. It is miraculous and joyful.
This is a very emotionally powerful work. I was touched by his memories of his brothers:
I had this dream
Singing with my brothers
In harmony, supporting each other
Tail winds, wheels spin, down the pacific coast
Surfin' on the A. M., heard those voice again
and by his description of his own struggles:
At 25 I turned out the light
Cause I couldn't handle the glare in my tired eyes
This is a beautiful release. Very highly recommended. It is worth purchasing the Best Buy version with three bonus tracks including a duet with Carole King on I'm Into Something Good. King co-wrote the Herman's Hermits hit with Gerry Goffin.
The deluxe version contains a DVD with a 19 minute making of feature (I think this is identical to the special broadcast on VH-1 Classic) and two live performances in the studio. The making of film and the live performances are interesting but probably essential for casual fans.
Pure heaven, pure Brian Wilson in great form. a worthy successor to Smile and Pet Sounds August 21, 2008
J. Niss (the pioneer valley, western mass, USA, Earth)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is just fantastic - Brian Wilson is in better form vocally than in many many years (to my ear anyway) - perhaps its that his pronunciation just sounds totally relaxed and unforced. That alone makes this an enormous pleasure to listen to again and again. Now I admit, I'm "programmed" to respond to the sound of that voice with a big smile and feelings of great joy - but it is soooo easy to do so with material as strong as this.
The band is impeccable as always and Brian's music is (not so simply) brilliant (ok , sorry, I'm stating the obvious). The narratives (written by Wilson and Van Dyke Parks) connecting the songs are just perfect and could only have come from the two of them.
To top it off the mastering, engineering and pressing of this first vinyl edition are excellent.
Lucky old me: I'm really in heaven listening to this!
A Return to Form for Brian Wilson September 3, 2008
Lawrence Franz (Summit, NJ United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
"That Lucky Old Sun" is a wonderful return to form for Brian Wilson. Aside from "Brian Wilson Presents Smile", it is the finest achievement of his solo career so far. The songs, the lyrics, the production, his voice, the vocal and instrumental performances from his band, the overall feel of the album are all first-rate. For some reason, reviews in the media have been mixed, with some reviewers loving this record and others being disappointed. If you've ever enjoyed the music of the Beach Boys or any of Brian's solo work, you will enjoy this record. Just give it a few listens -- a first impression may not reveal everything that's going on here. Repeated listening will be well-rewarded. Even the spoken interludes are enjoyable and enhance the experience. This is truly a Brian Wilson record and for that I am extremely grateful.
Another masterpiece by Brian September 4, 2008
MacAndrew
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
So, today I finally got my grubby hands on it.
After all the talk about it, I was expecting the mastering to be horrible, instead it's just as bad as in all the other Cds in creation (yes, including classical music, and believe me as I have quite a lot of them). That means that if you are accustomed to that kind of sound as you probably are by now, it won't trouble you.
In any case, actually opening a package, putting a physical disc into a slot and pressing PLAY feels so much better than listening to streams!
As for TLOS itself... I already knew the piece from said streams, but my first Cd listen has been actually better than I had expected. I don't know (nor care) how it compares to Pet Sounds and SMiLE... but the simple fact that it's COMPARABLE to them is an absolute miracle.
TLOS has "genius" stamped everywhere.
Wonderful new work from a musical legend September 17, 2008
Scott Hedegard (Fayetteville, AR USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The fact that Brian Wilson is creating new music after his well-documented past, and that the work is almost as good as "Smile" is worthy of monster musical headlines.
"That Lucky Old Sun" has surprised me. Admittedly, I'm a biased fan of Brian's, so that this work has proven to be so good is truly astonishing. This 66-year old genius, who had avoided the spotlight for the better part of three decades, crippled by drugs, mental illness and insecurities about his talent, has performed the greatest comeback probably in musical history. After performing the legendary "Smile" live in London in 2004, Wilson discovered he and his work were loved, on the same level and dedication as we love the Beatles or Elvis. He was sufficiently revived to record "Smile" with his great band the "Wondermints", release a good solo album "Gettin' In Over My Head", and touring almost incessantly, something Wilson fans could never have expected.
"That Lucky Old Sun" adds another notch in his belt, and the world is a better place for it. The CD is a conceptual piece, much like "Smile" and all the material is new, unlike previous solo efforts that had some new music but older unreleased work as well, not that it made them any worse. What we get is cohesion, making it nearly impossible to break the new work down in separate pieces. There are standouts - "Forever My Surfer Girl", and my favorite, the bouncy yet autobiographically revealing "Oxygen To The Brain", and no cut comes across as filler.
Wilson is a superb producer - one of the best to ever make any album any time, and his work here is without peer. In a world getting seemingly darker all the time, "That Lucky Old Sun", a paeon to Brian's beloved Los Angeles and look at his own life, is a sorely needed ray of sunshine that belongs in every home.
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