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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Very ordinary subjects on this album, such as games you can play with someone else, a nursery rhyme about stealing shortnin bread, and a song about lines.

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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Very ordinary subjects on this album, such as games you can play with someone else, a nursery rhyme about stealing shortnin shortening bread, and a song about lines.
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* TheNotRemix: "It's Over Now" was inadvertently slowed down due to a mastering error on the ''Good Vibrations'' box set in 1993, noticeably deepening the voices of Carl Wilson (making him sound drunk and sleepy) and Marilyn Rovell. The 2013 ''Made in California'' box set presented an "alternate mix" that was simply the song at its proper speed.

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* TheNotRemix: "It's Over Now" was inadvertently slowed down (by around 3%) due to a mastering error on the ''Good Vibrations'' box set in 1993, noticeably deepening the voices of Carl Wilson (making him sound drunk and sleepy) and Marilyn Rovell. The 2013 ''Made in California'' box set presented an "alternate mix" that was simply the song at its proper speed.
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* ShoutOut:
** "It's Over Now"
--->I'll put a Music/FrankSinatra album on\\
And cry my blues away
** "Games Two Can Play" mentions SingerSongwriter Joe South and his 1969 hit "Games People Play" (obviously demonstrating that its own title is a riff on South's song).
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* TheNotRemix: "It's Over Now" was inadvertently slowed down due to a mastering error on the ''Good Vibrations'' box set in 1993, noticeably deepening the voices of Carl Wilson (making him sound drunk and sleepy) and Marilyn Rovell. The 2013 ''Made in California'' box set presented an "alternate mix" that was simply the song at its proper speed.

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--> ''It's over now''

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--> ''It's ''[[TitleDrop It's over now''now]]''


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* DoubleEntendre: The eponymous lines from the song "Lines" has been interpreted directly lines on a street or the lines of a clock, and indirectly to cocaine (since the song was written during a hectic period of drug consumption for Brian).
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The album's cancellation was mostly due to the band's disinterest (with Music/MikeLove straight-up asking his cousin Brian: "What the fuck are you doing?") and its rejection by Reprise Records. Following its shelving, Brian lost his leading position in the band for Mike and Music/AlJardine to get more creative control. They tried to record a christmas album which was also cancelled (in favor of ''M.I.U. Album'') and six of the tracks on this album remain unreleased.

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The album's cancellation was mostly due to the band's disinterest (with Music/MikeLove straight-up asking his cousin Brian: "What the fuck are you doing?") and its rejection by Reprise Records. Following its shelving, Brian lost his leading position in the band for Mike and Music/AlJardine to get more creative control. They tried to record a [[Music/MerryChristmasFromTheBeachBoys christmas album album]] which was also cancelled (in favor of ''M.I.U. Album'') and six of the tracks on this album remain unreleased.
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* {{Chickification}}: ''Hey, Little Tomboy'''s narrator wishes to see a tomboy put away her skateboards and baseball mitts in order to become a conventional girl.

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* {{Chickification}}: ''Hey, "Hey, Little Tomboy'''s Tomboy"'s narrator wishes to see a tomboy put away her skateboards and baseball mitts in order to become a conventional girl.



* LyricalColdOpen: ''Life Is For The Living", "Lines" and "It's Trying To Say".
* LyricalDissonance: ''Hey Little Tomboy'' undeniably has a catchy chorus. [[LoliconAndShotacon The lyrics of the song, however...]]

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* LyricalColdOpen: ''Life "Life Is For The Living", "Lines" and "It's Trying To Say".
* LyricalDissonance: ''Hey "Hey Little Tomboy'' Tomboy" undeniably has a catchy chorus. [[LoliconAndShotacon The lyrics of the song, however...]]



* {{Tomboy}}: ''Hey Little Tomboy'' altough the song's theme is about [[{{Chickification}} turning a tomboy into a girl]].

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* {{Tomboy}}: ''Hey "Hey Little Tomboy'' Tomboy" altough the song's theme is about [[{{Chickification}} turning a tomboy into a girl]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Unofficial bootleg cover art (featuring Brian during {{Music/SMiLE}}'s recording).]]

''Adult/Child'' is a cancelled album by American band Music/TheBeachBoys. Projected between ''Music/TheBeachBoysLoveYou'' and ''Music/MIUAlbum'', it would have been the third album of the "Brian's Back" trilogy (the first album being ''Music/FifteenBigOnes''.

Just like the two albums preceding it, Music/BrianWilson was the sole producer and wrote a majority of the tracks. deeply inspired by easy-listening pop music from the forties/fifties, most precisely Music/FrankSinatra (he even hoped that the legendary singer would cover his work, but to no avail), Brian envisioned another change in sound for the band. Some songs on this album are also taken from ''Music/{{Sunflower}}'' outtakes ("H.E.L.P. Is On The Way" and "Games Two Can Play") while "Shortnin' Bread" was recorded during the Caribou sessions which took place in 1974. The title of the album is based on a notion psychiatrist Eugene Landy told to Brian about adults having an inner child.

The nursery rhyme cover "Shortnin' Bread" has a long history of being recorded and rerecorded through various versions (ranging from "Ding Dang" apppearing on ''Love You'' and "Clangin'" which remains a bootleg rarity) before finally being recorded for the ''Music/LALightAlbum''. Some bits of the song's arrangement can also be found in various Beach Boys related songs, especially in Brian Wilson's solo discography.

The album's cancellation was mostly due to the band's disinterest (with Music/MikeLove straight-up asking his cousin Brian: "What the fuck are you doing?") and its rejection by Reprise Records. Following its shelving, Brian lost his leading position in the band for Mike and Music/AlJardine to get more creative control. They tried to record a christmas album which was also cancelled (in favor of ''M.I.U. Album'') and six of the tracks on this album remain unreleased.

!!Tracklist
[[AC:Side one]]
# "Life Is For The Living" (1:52)
# "Hey Little Tomboy" (2:20)
# "Deep Purple" (2:24)
# "H.E.L.P. Is On The Way" (2:30)
# "It's Over Now" (2:50)
# "Everybody Wants To Live" (3:10)

[[AC:Side two]]
# "Shortnin' Bread" (3:10)
# "Lines" (1:44)
# "On Broadway" (3:11)
# "Games Two Can Play" (2:10)
# "It's Trying To Say (Baseball's On)" (2:10)
# "Still I Dream Of It" (3:26)

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!!Principal Members:

* Music/AlJardine
* Music/MikeLove
* Music/BrianWilson
* Music/CarlWilson
* Music/DennisWilson

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!!''Mama's little baby loves tropin', tropin'...'' :

* BaseballEpisode: "It's Trying To Say".
* BreakUpSong: "It's Over Now".
--> ''The flame of love we had has finally died''
--> ''Can't take this emptiness it left inside''
--> ''It's over now''
* CallBack: "H.E.L.P. Is On The Way" was previously referenced on ''Music/SurfsUp'''s "Take A Load Off Your Feet" (H.E.L.P. being the name of a restaurant).
* {{Chickification}}: ''Hey, Little Tomboy'''s narrator wishes to see a tomboy put away her skateboards and baseball mitts in order to become a conventional girl.
* CoverVersion: "Deep Purple" (by Peter [=DeRose=]) and "On Broadway" (by The Drifters).
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The chorus of "Shortnin' Bread".
--> ''Mama's little baby loves''
--> ''Shortnin', shortnin' ''
--> ''Mam's little baby loves''
--> ''Shortnin' Bread''
* DespairEventHorizon: "It's Over Now".
--> ''Heaven''
--> ''Heaven is far away''
--> ''Angels no longer play''
* FormerlyFit: The premise of "H.E.L.P. Is On The Way".
* GreenAesop: "Everybody Wants To Live"
--> ''Now some people talk about ecology''
--> ''Why don't somebody do something about it right now''
--> ''We're all choking on the air that we breathe now''
--> ''How could we all just let it slide by?''
* InTheStyleOf: Broadway ("Life Is For The Living", "On Broadway" and "It's Trying To Say").
* LoopedLyrics: "It's Trying To Say" has the lyric "Baseball's on" repeated five times.
* LyricalColdOpen: ''Life Is For The Living", "Lines" and "It's Trying To Say".
* LyricalDissonance: ''Hey Little Tomboy'' undeniably has a catchy chorus. [[LoliconAndShotacon The lyrics of the song, however...]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Very ordinary subjects on this album, such as games you can play with someone else, a nursery rhyme about stealing shortnin bread, and a song about lines.
* NewSoundAlbum: Considering how ''Music/TheBeachBoysLoveYou'' was already a big change in sound, ''Adult/Child'' would have been a Broadway/Big Band album easily standing out in the band's discography.
* OneWordTitle: "Lines".
* SelfDeprecation: "Games Two Can Play".
--> ''The juke box daddies been blowin' my mind''
--> ''I ain't goin' nowhere I got lots of time''
--> ''I'm fat as a cow oh how'd I ever get this way''
** "H.E.L.P. Is On The Way".
--> ''A big pot and tripley chin''
--> ''Oh what condition my condition was in''
--> ''Laughing at myself at what a crying shame''
--> ''What ever happened to my Greek godly frame''
* SpecialGuest: Marilyn Rovell (Brian Wilson's then-wife) sings a verse on "It's Over Now".
* {{Tomboy}}: ''Hey Little Tomboy'' altough the song's theme is about [[{{Chickification}} turning a tomboy into a girl]].
* VocalDissonance: Brian's voice is unreliable due to the fact that the album contains tracks recorded in 1969 compared to tracks recorded in 1977 and featuring a huskier Brian with a coarse voice affected by drugs, alcohol and smoking.
* AWeightyAesop: "H.E.L.P. Is On The Way".
--> ''Hamburgers and hot dogs throw 'em all out''
--> ''You'll feel so good you'll jump up and shout''
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