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| Artist: Brian Wilson
Label: Capitol Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 803
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.3
EAN: 5099923414723
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 69 more reviews...
 The Genius of Brian Wilson September 3, 2008
36 out of 38 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
22 out of 23 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!
Best Work in years........... September 8, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
On the first listen I could tell this was really going to be special. I think this cd is Wilson at his best. As much as I loved Brian Wilson Presents SMILE, I think this will appeal to more fans. Who would have thought at 66 years old Wilson would deliver such a beautiful complex (listen to those chords music lovers) masterpeice. What can anyone say about the band. Awesome, comes to mind. Can't wait to hear what's going to come next. Once again, thank you Brian. You have the heart of an angel.
Ears don't lie September 22, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Not expecting anything especially wonderful after so many years, I put this on and haven't listened to anything else in two weeks. I will not try to compare this CD to any others by Brian or the BBs. There is no sense in it. This music stands on its own and my ears tell me that it is, for the most part, great.
A few points:
1) I do not understand all the criticism of Brian's singing. I think he sounds terrific when soloing and his harmonies are as exquisite as ever.
2) His backup band here is essentially the same one he has had now for a half-dozen years or so. Judging on both instrumental prowess and vocal skills, they are FAR FAR better than the Beach Boys and are arguably the finest band on earth. They can play anything and OMG, can they sing!!!
3) Unlike most others, I enjoyed the narrative links.
4) Midnight's Another Day is nothing less than a miracle. I enjoy most every song on this CD a LOT, but this cut is so far above that it makes you wonder where it came from. It is one of my top two or three Brian songs of all time. There are two times when the music crescendoes to the line, They make me feel all alone. The first crescendo is accomplished with a deft string arrangement. The second one is brought on by what is to me the most brilliant bit of vocal writing in Brian's history. The 30 or so seconds leading up to that musical mountain top is the most ravishing, clever and ecstatic snippet of music of Brian's life. It sounds like Darian, not Brian, is leading the ascent vocally, but the notes all came from Brian and they are STUNNING. It should also be noted that the lyrics to this song are tremendously inspiring. Time to play it yet again.
5) I am hoping so strongly that this CD and the growing success of the wonderful Fleet Foxes, with their amazing harmony singing are signalling a return of pop music to the glories of great vocals.
6) Just buy this and turn to cut 14 and listen to the most dramatic set of piano chord changes you will ever hear at the beginning and then to the rest of Midnight's, a great gift from heaven sent down through Brian, whom we must now love and thank more than ever.
His Best Original Material In Years! September 3, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ok- so this is not better than SMiLE....but if Pet Sounds & SMiLE are his best, and are among the highest rated albums in music history, then how fair is it to compare That Lucky Old Sun to them? SMiLE was (mostly) written in 1967, and simply stitched together and re-recorded in 2004. That being said, That Lucky Old Sun really is his likely his best solo album of orginal material. I am a huge fan of Brian Wilson '88, and this is better both sonically, and lyrically. It has a very upbeat sound to it, but still maintains the style that made him famous. Imagination was a good album, and features great vocals, but lacked substance, and was musically not all that interesting. On this one, Brian's vocals are very strong, and his band sounds fantastic on the BG's as usual. Gettin' In Over My Head had bits that were good- but some of it sounded sloppy and forced. Some of the re-recordings of Sweet Insanity were not as good as the demos from '89. This new album really gets everything right..although I'm not a huge fan of the spoken narratives. I admit I am suprised, that he could follow-up a masterpeice like SMiLE with something this good...but this is Brian Wilson, a man who has never ceased to amaze his fans dating back to 1961..
Highlights for me include 'Morning Beat' and 'Going Home', both which fit in with any of his best work (including the Beach Boys). 'Southern California', 'Midnight's Another Day', 'Good Kind Of Love' are all great tracks as well. I even enjoyed 'Mexican Girl', although it reminds me of something Mike Love would have written like 'Kokomo', 'Kona Coast' or 'California's Calling'
If you are a BW or Beach Boy fan, you need to own this album.....
JC
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