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4	''That Lucky Old Sun'' is an album by American artist Music/BrianWilson. Released in 2008 and fully produced by Brian, it also features lyrics penned by Wilson's long time collaborator Music/VanDykeParks.
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6	It is a concept album centered on Southern California, the area where Brian grew up as a [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boy]]. "That Lucky Old Sun" is originally a song of the late fourties and serves as a leitmotif of the album while other songs like "Midnight's Another Day" and "Going Home" talk about Brian's life. Two old outtakes were used for the album: "Going Home" (originally recorded during ''Music/ThePaleySessions'') and Can't Wait Too Long (originally recorded for The Beach Boys' ''Music/WildHoney'').
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8	!!Tracklist:
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10	# "That Lucky Old Sun"
11	# "Morning Beat"
12	# "Room With A View"
13	# "Good Kind Of Love"
14	# "Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl"
15	# "Venice Beach"
16	# "Live Let Live / That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)"
17	# "Mexican Girl"
18	# "Cinco De Mayo"
19	# "California Role / That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)"
20	# "Between Pictures"
21	# "Oxygen To The Brain"
22	# "Can't Wait Too Long"
23	# "Midnight's Another Day"
24	# "That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)"
25	# "Going Home"
26	# "Southern California"
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28	!!Those lucky old tropes:
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30	* AlbumTitleDrop: Many times throughout the album.
31	* BoxedSet: Released the following year and containing music sheets, lithographies by Peter Blake (the art director of ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand's cover who also collaborated with Brian on ''Music/GettinInOverMyHead'') and a VIP Pass for Brian's concerts dedicated to that album.
32	* CallBack: "Southern California" ends the album with the lyrics "Maumamayama glory, Hallelujah" which can also be heard on the second track "Morning Beat".
33	* CerebusCallBack: The soft voices that Brian hears in "Morning Beat" become beautiful on "Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl" but become hard towards him on "Midnight's Another Day".
34	* CoverVersion: "That Lucky Old Sun" is originally a hit song from 1949.
35	* DoubleMeaning: "Room With A View" has the lyrics: "Meet the crack of dawn / A freeway starts to roll". While it can mean that life has its own flow, it also references the many freeways in Los Angeles.
36	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Between each track.
37	* GratuitousSpanish: On "Mexican Girl" and "Cinco De Mayo".
38	* JadedWashout: "Venice Beach"
39	--> ''There's an old smudge of a beatnik by the bay''
40	--> ''Looking like a dog who's had his day''
41	--> ''Like a dream he drifts away''
42	* {{Leitmotif}}: The cover of the 1949 song "That Lucky Old Sun" reappears throughout the album, lyrically or instrumentally.
43	* LimitedLyricsSong: "Can't Wait Too Long":
44	--> ''Been Way Too Long''
45	--> ''Been Way Too Long''
46	** The reprise of "That Lucky Old Sun" near the end of the album:
47	--> ''Ooh, lucky old sun''
48	--> ''Ahh, lucky old sun''
49	--> ''That lucky old sun''
50	--> ''That lucky old sun''
51	--> ''He rolls around heaven all day''
52	* LyricalColdOpen: "That Lucky Old Sun"
53	* LocationSong: "Venice Beach" and "Southern California" (the former being located in the latter).
54	* TheMaker: "Live Let Live"
55	--> ''I got a notion we come from the ocean and''
56	--> ''God Almighty passed his hands on the water''
57	* MythologyGag: "Forever She'll Be My Music/SurferGirl" is about the year where Brian came up with classic Beach Boys ballad.
58	** "Going Home" features the "Shortenin' Bread riff", named in reference to the nursery rhyme which was also an obsession of Brian from the seventies to today.
59	* PepTalkSong: "California Role"
60	--> ''If there’s a roll in your heart, and a rock in your soul''
61	--> ''If you miss your shot''
62	--> ''It doesn’t mean you won’t reach your goal''
63	* ShoutOut: To Creator/WilliamShakespeare on "Between Pictures"
64	--> ''I mean, are we all not actors?''
65	--> ''And the whole wide world our stage?''
66	** Brian also references his [[Music/DennisWilson two]] [[Music/CarlWilson brothers]] on "Southern California".
67	--> ''I had this dream''
68	--> ''Singing with my brothers''
69	--> ''In harmony, supporting each other''
70	* SpecialGuest: Music/VanDykeParks co-wrote the narrative tracks of the album.
71	* SpicyLatina: "Mexican Girl"
72	--> ''Hey, [[GratuitousSpanish bonita muchacha]]''
73	--> ''Don't you know that I want ya?''
74	--> ''Hey, [[GratuitousSpanish bonita muchacha]]''
75	--> ''I need to know that I got ya''
76	* SpokenWordInMusic: Four tracks serve as interlude narratives and showcase Brian speaking in poetry (co-written by Van Dyke Parks).
77	* StopAndGo: "Morning Beat"
78	* SymbolicBaptism: "That Lucky Old Sun"
79	--> ''Show me that river''
80	--> ''Take me across''
81	--> ''Wash all my troubles away''
82	* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: "Going Home"
83	--> ''I'm going home, I'm going home''
84	--> ''Back to the place where I belong''

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