That Lucky Old Sun - Harry Potter 6 Books

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.

Track Listing

1. That Lucky Old Sun
2. Morning Beat
3. Room With A View (narrative)
4. Good Kind Of Love
5. Forever My Surfer Girl
6. Venice Beach (narrative)
7. Live Let Live
8. Mexican Girl
9. Cinco de Mayo (narrative)
10. California Role
11. Between Pictures (narrative)
12. Oxygen To The Brain
13. Been Too Long
14. Midnight s Another Day
15. Lucky Old Sun Reprise
16. Goin' Home
17. Southern California

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1453 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-02
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Very Nice
A solid effort from Brian. This album is an enjoyable listen from start to finish. It includes several excellent tracks (Good Kinda Love, Live Let Live, Southern California), and one all time classic: Midnight's Another Day. This song ranks right up there with Brian's best, like Surf's Up and God Only Knows.

Not his best, but worth listening to
Allow me to start with a little truth: I was going to give this CD three stars. I'd been impressed with Orange Crate Art, a Wilson masterpiece with musical and lyrical subtlties that indicated a new level of creativity. I saw this CD in a store someplace, and was impressed with all the raving on the package: "This is the best thing since sliced bread." So I asked my spouse for it.

Then, shortly before Christmas, I listened to it. It sounded a lot--too much frankly--like old Beach Boys. Mind you, the Beach Boys were a creative force to acknowledge. I'm of the school that harmony is the element of music that makes it beyond art; it's the classic example of two (or more) voices being so much more than just the number of voices--more than "the sum of its parts." It's like an experience of heaven. And the Beach Boys, fathered by Brian (and a takeoff from the Four Freshman, another early vocal phenomenon) made an institution of that fine, fine harmony. But, again, Brian seemed to be going in a creative direction over the last few years, and I found the Beach Boys recollection to be a little tiring. Then I put the CD in player in my car. The music--the harmony, the narrative, the lyrics--surrounded me and pulled me in. Yep, this is four-star material.

As to the lyrics, I almost tired of hearing so much about California. In one tune, he mentions Los Feliz, which I remembered from my favorite episode of The Outer Limits. (!) But some of Brian's lyrics seemed to address the nostagia portion, i.e., to be young again. (Now that I'm looking for those lyrics in the text that came with the CD, I can't find them. But I seemed to hear them while in my car!)

And I suppose what better to write on than that with which your'e familiar, in Bri's case, Southern Cal!

I have mixed feelings on the cardboard case in which the CD came. There's an enclosure which includes the lyrics, but such packaging I'm just not used to yet. The little pictures inside the folder don't seem significant of all that much.

In short, the music is great, the lyrics fun, the harmony bordering on heavenly. There's a little less musical--or lyrical--creativity that I expected after Orange Crate Art, but I'll survive it. If you didn't like the Beach Boys, you're probably not a Brian fan anyway and you probably won't like this. If you liked the Beach Boys and want to hear something of a similar genre, then this is the CD for you. If, however, you were expecting something a little different, a little more creative (for lack of a better expression), then this may be a little of a letdown.

I do hope Brian keeps producing. Who knows, maybe it was Van Dyke Parks who pushed him in the creative direction in the other CD I mentioned. If that's the case, I hope they team up again!

Awful, Awful, Awful And Even Worse!
Please Brian, give it a rest. How can someone who created masterpieces such as Surf's Up, God Only Knows, Love & Mercy and so much more put out an album as bad as That Lucky Old Sun. Not only has Brian's voice failed him, but his entire sense of vocal harmony and production have completely escaped him. This has got to be the absolute worst dribble ever to appear under a Beach Boy or Brian Wilson moniker, (Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue comes pretty close). Brian if you can no longer sing, why don't you concentrate on songwriting and production? These have always been your claim to genius. Anything has got to be better than this trash.