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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Technicolor Ghost Parade
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Federale
Reverb & Seduction
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Mikaela Davis & Circles Around The Sun
After Sunrise
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Old Unconscious
The Circular Ruins
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Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Save It For Later
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No Jigsaw
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Jealous Butcher Records
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Gabadon
On Gabadon
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Boxhead Ensemble
Ancient Music
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Blue Cranes
My Only Secret
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Johanna Samuels
Bystander
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Califone
villagers
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Jenny Conlee
Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano
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The Hackles
What a beautiful thing I have made
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Team Dresch
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Fruit Bats
Tripper (Deluxe Reissue)
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Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Last Stars First Light
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No. 2
First Love
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José Medeles
Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems
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Dave Depper
Moon Safari
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The Delines
The Sea Drift
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Motrik
MØØN: The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK
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Eyelids
Eyelids Dubble Live!
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Red Red Meat
Red Red Meat T
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Chris Funk
Songs For Dog Fitness
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Chainsaw Records
Chainsaw Records T Shirt
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Longstocking
Once Upon A Time Called Now
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Dave Depper
Europa
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Motrik
Artificial Head
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Slanted Floors
Pink Heaven
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Chris Funk
The Painted Porch
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Eyelids
The Accidental Falls
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John Cameron Mitchell & Eyelids
Turning Time Around EP
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Califone
Echo Mine
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The Hackles
A Dobritch Did As A Dobritch Should
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Federale
No Justice
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Defective AI
A Book Of Coherent Warnings
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Old Unconscious
Lyle
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Eamon Fogarty
Blue Values
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Team Dresch
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Team Dresch
Choices, Chances, Changes: Singles & Comptracks 1994-2000
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Team Dresch
Captain My Captain
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Team Dresch
Personal Best
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Hallelujah The Hills
Against Electricity
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José Medeles
Art of Slowness: The Halfling Session
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Old Unconscious
Sunfort
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