DETAILS
TRACKS
Side A
- Gotta Start Somewhere
- I Believe She's Lying
- Meaningless
- Ruin My Day
- Walking Through Walls
Side B
- Trouble
- Hook, Line And Sinker
- Dead To The World
- Her Ghost
- Same Mistakes
- Voices (Cheap Trick)
RELEASE DATE
10/21/2022
• FIRST RELEASE OF 2001 DEBUT ALBUM, INCLUDES SONGWRITING COLLABORATIONS WITH AIMEE MANN & GRANT LEE PHILLIPS
• LIMITED EDITION ON LIGHT BLUE VINYL
One of the most distinctive recordings of the early 2000s, Jon Brion’s one and only solo album Meaningless is a master course in power pop-inspired art rock songwriting and production. The record offers a vivid backdrop for Brion’s wry observations on love, reality, and the elusive quality of meaning—all that plus a mind-bending Cheap Trick cover. Largely self-recorded in the late ‘90s (minus some sessions with Ethan Johns), Meaningless spent years on the shelf of a major label uncertain what to make of its textured glory, before Brion negotiated an extremely limited release in 2001. More than two decades later, its emotional core remains undiminished by year’s spent in the major label wringer, both before and after its creation. Like his work with artists including Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, and Elliott Smith, Brion’s songs offer depth and resonance, and like his soundtrack work on films like Lady Bird, Step Brothers, Punch Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, its scope is widescreen. Remastered and artist approved, Meaningless can finally be heard the way Brion intended.
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Old Unconscious
The Circular Ruins
Fruit Bats
Tripper (Deluxe Reissue)
Eyelids
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Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Last Stars First Light
Califone
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Jenny Conlee
Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano
The Hackles
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No. 2
First Love
José Medeles
Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems
Eyelids
Everything That I See You See Better
The Delines
The Sea Drift
Corrina Repp
Island
M. Ward
End of Amnesia
Motrik
MØØN: The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK
Infinite X's
Infinite X's
Longstocking
Once Upon A Time Called Now
Dave Depper
Europa
Motrik
Artificial Head
Slanted Floors
Pink Heaven
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John Cameron Mitchell & Eyelids
Turning Time Around EP
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Team Dresch
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Safety Copy
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Dead Reckoning
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Lost Somewhere Between The Earth and My Home
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Hallelujah The Hills
Movement Scorekeepers EP
Kind of Like Spitting
You Secretly Want Me Dead - RSD 2016
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Mirror Bride
Slow Moses
Charity Binge
Red Red Meat
Red Red Meat
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Jimmywine Majestic
Red Red Meat
Bunny Gets Paid
Hook & Anchor
Hook & Anchor
Eyelids
854
Red Red Meat
There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight
Fruit Bats
Mouthfuls
Pellet Gun
Great Divide
Portland Cello Project
Homage
Laura Gibson
La Grande
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La Grande (single)
Dr. Frank
Andromeda Klein
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