| Product Summary | | Label: Capitol Records | | UPC: 05099923414228 | | Release Date: 9/2/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208688396 | | Item#: M4CNML | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 32889 | Format:  CD |
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Song Listing
| Disc 1 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. That Lucky Old Sun | ------ | | 2. Morning Beat | ------ | | 3. Room With A View [Narrative] | ------ | | 4. Good Kind of Love | ------ | | 5. Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl | ------ | | 6. Venice Beach [Narrative] | ------ | | 7. Live Let Live/That Old Lucky Sun [Reprise] | ------ | | 8. Mexican Girl | ------ | | 9. Cinco De Mayo [Narrative] | ------ | | 10. California Role/That Old Lucky Sun [Reprise] | ------ | | 11. Between Pictures [Narrative] | ------ | | 12. Oxygen To The Brain | ------ | | 13. Can't Wait Too Long | ------ | | 14. Midnight's Another Day | ------ | | 15. That Old Lucky Sun [Reprise] | ------ | | 16. Going Home | ------ | | 17. Southern California | ------ | | 18. Roll ~ Around Heaven [Reprise] | ------ | | Disc 2 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Making Of The Album | ------ | | 2. Good Kind Of Love ~ (live) | ------ | | 3. Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl ~ (live) | ------ |
| | This conceptual album is one in a thread of projects from Brian Wilson that connects from Pet Sounds, to Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE and now to That Lucky Old Sun. The album is an intimate and personal work from a living musical legend. The Limited Edition of That Lucky Old Sun includes the same outstanding CD and a DVD with a "making of the album" featurette and two videos from Brian's Capitol Records Studio A live performance (Good Kind of Love and Forever My Surfer Girl).
"...a sophisticated new piece of songcraft." Billboard
"...Brian's strongest new work in years." Rolling Stone
"No one expects a masterpiece from a 65-year-old Brian Wilson, and yet...he may have delivered one." The Times (UK)
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Brian Wilson (vocals, keyboards); Jeffrey Foskett (guitar, ukulele, background vocals); Probyn Gregory (guitars, trumpet, French horn, background vocals); Nick Walusko (guitars, background vocals); Scott Bennett (Spanish guitar, keyboards, vibraphone, bass instrument, background vocals); Paul Von Mertens (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Darian Sahanaja (keyboards, bells, background vocals); Bob Lizik (bass instrument); Todd Sucherman (drums); Nelson Bragg (percussion, background vocals); Taylor Mills (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Scott Bennett; Michael Corcoran; Brian Wilson . | | Arrangers: Paul Von Mertens; Darian Sahanaja; Scott Bennett; Brian Wilson . | | Seldom has an album had as much to live up to as THAT LUCKY OLD SUN. When Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks wrote the iconic song suite SMILE some four decades earlier, they created the definitive art-pop statement, inspiring countless imitators for years to come. It's a gutsy move for Wilson to create a new album-length suite in 2008 in collaboration with Parks and bandmate Scott Bennett, a work that will unavoidably be compared to the unmatchable SMILE. | | LUCKY OLD SUN isn't SMILE's sequel; rather, it's an extended meditation on the pop myth Wilson and the other Beach Boys created in the '60s--L.A. as eternal summer-land, a surf-sand-and-hot-rod-heaven. Naturally, the music references the Beach Boys' classics, teeming with rich, close vocal harmonies, lilting, piano-driven song structures, and sunny, sophisticated melodic lines that will send a chill up the spine of anyone who's ever absorbed the sunshine-pop majesty of PET SOUNDS. Sure, Wilson's voice is a bit worn with age, but there's no attempt to duplicate the epic sweep of SMILE. THAT LUCKY OLD SUN succeeds on its own terms. |
Producer: Scott Bennett; Brian Wilson |
Engineer: Aaron Walk; Paul Smith; Kevin Mills; Mark Linett |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/02/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : 509992 34142 | | Label : Capitol/EMI Records | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 50999234142288 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.70)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e sings with a reborn will, even when the truth hurts....It has a natural, hopeful flow that leaves you warm all over."Rolling Stone (p.92)
- Ranked #27 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "This modest treasure has the same warm glow of the Beach Boys' WILD HONEY." Spin (p.116)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Sweetly and unmistakably, THAT LUCKY OLD SUN limns the sunset of Wilson's career, while still showing how California is at its most beautiful through his eyes." Paste (magazine)
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- "[A]lternately gorgeous and gut-wrenching....If you are about this tortured genius and his music, THAT LUCKY OLD SUN is an essential yet gripping narrative." |
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| | Bio | | | Brian Wilson He is one of popular music's most deeply revered figures, the main creative force behind some of the most cherished recordings in rock history. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to call Brian Wilson one of the most influential composers of the last century. Brian Wilson's remarkable journey began in a modest Hawthorne, California home that was filled with music. His mom and dad both played piano, and as a young "boy soprano," Brian's vocal gift was immediately evident. He had also started singing harmonies...literally "in their room"...with his two younger brothers (Dennis and Carl). As a teen in the 1950s, he became obsessed with the harmonic blend of groups like the Four Freshmen, and then, in the early 1960s, inspired to combine multi-part vocal harmony with the rock rhythms of Chuck Berry, Brian found his place in the musical sun. He was barely out of his teens when he began to create some of the most beloved records ever...nine consecutive "gold" albums that featured such classics as "Surfer Girl," "In My Room," "I Get Around," "Don't Worry Baby," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Help Me Rhonda" and "California Girls"...just to name a handful of the more than two dozen Top 40 hits Brian co-wrote, arranged, produced and performed on with his family band, the Beach Boys. By 1966, though, glorious harmonies, ingenious hooks and four years of virtually uninterrupted creative growth and commercial success was no longer enough to satisfy Wilson, and as his artistic horizons expanded dramatically, he produced three records in that landmark year that forever changed the course of popular music. The first was Pet Sounds; the emotional autobiography of its 23-year old "auteur," it is considered by many to be one of the greatest albums ever made. In the process of bringing it to life, its composer, arranger and producer (that is, Mr. Wilson) rewrote all the rules of what a record could be; as one observer noted, its release was "Independence Day" for rock 'n' roll. Primarily working with a new collaborator (lyricist and songwriter Tony Asher), the album featured a dozen originals (including two astounding instrumentals); Pet Sounds was a musical canvas as boundless as Brian's heart. (Ironically, when you hear the lost innocence in the wail of "Caroline No," you realize that Pet Sounds not only heals our broken heart but Brian's too.)
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