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.
EXPLORE
Adam Selzer
Slow Decay
Hallelujah The Hills
Against Electricity
José Medeles
Art of Slowness: The Halfling Session
Old Unconscious
Sunfort
Motrik
"33"
Christian Kiefer
What You Have Come For Is Death
Boxhead Ensemble
The Unseen Hand: Music For Documentary Film
Hook & Anchor
Hook & Anchor
The Valiant Arms
Swallow The Sea: The Songs of The Crabs
Carcrashlander
A Plan To Tell The Future
Alialujah Choir
The Alialujah Choir
Slow Moses
Charity Binge
Scirocco
Walk To The Moon
Perhapst
Perhapst
The Born Losers
The Born Losers
The Maroons
You're Gonna Ruin Everything
Norfolk & Western
Centralia
Dave Depper
Utrecht Suite
Matthew Hattie Hein
In Search of Lost Hein
No. 2
What Does Good Luck Bring?
Nick Jaina
A Bird In The Opera House
Boxhead Ensemble
Electric Guitar
Kpants
Smile And Nod Accordingly
Eyelids
Slow It Goes
Arch Cape
Arch Cape
Hallelujah The Hills
No One Knows What Happens Next
Annalisa Tornfelt & Gideon Freudmann
Unraveling
Martha Scanlan
The Shape of Things Gone Missing, The Shape of Things To Come
The Hackles
The Twilight's Calling It Quits
Eyelids
Maybe More
Martha Scanlan
The River and The Light
Team Dresch
Team Dresch Bundles
Old Unconscious
Lyle
Eyelids
Jay Gonzalez Sings Eyelids Sings Jay Gonzalez Sings Eyelids
Defective AI
A Book Of Coherent Warnings
Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O'Neil
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
No. 2
You Might Be Right
Team Dresch
Choices, Chances, Changes: Singles & Comptracks 1994-2000
Dave Depper
Europa
Longstocking
Once Upon A Time Called Now
Infinite X's
Infinite X's
Chainsaw Records
Chainsaw Records Bundle
Red Red Meat
Red Red Meat T
José Medeles
Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems
No. 2
First Love
Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Last Stars First Light
Fruit Bats
Tripper (Deluxe Reissue)
No. 2
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