Have you heard Brian Wilson’s new album That Lucky Old Sun? Sure okay, you’ve gotten your mitts on some compressed MP3s from the album but I’m asking whether you’ve actually HEARD That Lucky Old Sun; you know, as in cued up the limited-edition 180 gram vinyl and taken a mental holiday to California? No? Well, do you want to?
EAR FARM is very pleased to offer a prize pack that includes the aforementioned limited-edition vinyl copy of Sun as well as the 7″ single of “Midnight’s Another Day” to one lucky reader. The rules are simple: we will pose our usual arbitrary question, the most entertaining answer to which will be declared the winner. Ready?
Now, That Lucky Old Sun is Wilson’s ode to the Southern California of his past (the 1950s and 60s). Keep this in mind when looking at the album’s tracklisting:
“That Lucky Old Sun”
“Morning Beat”
“Room With a View” (narrative)
“Good Kind of Love”
“Forever She’ll Be My Surfer Girl”
“Venice Beach” (narrative)
“Live Let Live / That Lucky Old Sun (reprise)”
“Mexican Girl”
“Cinco de Mayo” (narrative)
“California Role / That Lucky Old Sun (reprise)”
“Between Pictures” (narrative)
“Oxygen to the Brain”
“Can’t Wait Too Long”
“Midnight’s Another Day”
“That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)”
“Going Home”
“Southern California”
What we want you to do is come up with THREE song titles that could fit snugly within the above tracklisting and somehow reflect Wilson’s theme of classic 50s and 60s Southern California (which I think means that something like “Fish Taco Pirouettes” would be too contemporary). Got it?
So go forth, find your inspiration, have fun with this and submit your three fake song titles to mail@earfarm.com by the end of this Friday, September 26th, and we’ll let you know if you’ve won next Monday.
And to help you find your way, check out the latest Black Cab Session with the man of the hour himself:



09.30.08 2:45 pm
This album is awesome. Seriously, it’s good to have Wilson back in the fold of good musicians.
Stumbled across this on my morning music scouring today:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/sjk/
This is unreleased Brian Wilson production of this dude named Stephen Kalinich. I guess he somehow befriended The Beach Boys in the late-60s and him and Brian Wilson actually produced an album of … wait for it … spoken word. It’s pretty bizarre, like anti-establishment style stuff, but it’s got a certain, er, charm. It’s unreleased B. Wilson production though and I thought people might be interested in it.
Just letting you know.