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Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:14:46 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/11/2018 22:14

Thanks, Dihansse. I'll check out those recommendations. I'm using Apple Music as well, and had the same problem finding This Is The Ice Age. I've had a listen to the following one, Mystery Walk, which is also interesting but sounds less like the work of a band.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

dihansse — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:40:13 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 02/11/2018 17:40

bobbyb5 wrote:

rkm wrote:

dihansse wrote:

Echo Beach is one of my all time favorite cool songs but I thought Martha & The Muffins were a one hit wonder. I really should check out the albums.

resp 16000 and 5000 km away from you two :wink:

Try the first track, Obedience.

Danseparc by Martha And The Muffins

I think I get it now. It looks like they changed their name to M+ M after one of the Martha's quit. By the time of this album they were down to only one Martha. According to the album cover. Ha Ha.

I tried out both the song and the full album and I like it: and the rhythm and the bass and the sax on the title track.
Btw if you like this also try the Belgian band Allez Allez of which especially the song Allez Allez is fantastic. You can find a Best of both on Spotify and Apple Music.

And I also listened to the debut album which features Echo Beach and it's also great but of course more standard new wave than Danseparc. The same beautiful sax sound can be found on Terminal Twilight which next to Echo Beach and Paint By Number Heart is the standout.
Unfortunately I can't find This Is The Ice Age on Apple Music so I'll have to find another way to listen to that one.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

RoundTheBend — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:07:52 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 02/11/2018 04:07

oh wow - that was quite insightful. Thanks!

That Apollo record makes WWWAAAYYY more since now. I always thought it a bid odd to have some of that twang, but the whole Texas connection makes way more since now.

Also the timeline is interesting. Seems a little off, no?

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:22:20 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/10/2018 23:22

It's curious to me that prior to that first session where Lanois met Eno, that Lanois didn't know who Eno was. The timeline isn't completely clear, but it was prior to meeting with U2 in 1983. Apollo came out in 1983, and the Harold Budd record in 1984, although the Harold Budd record was worked on first.

I commented earlier The the Martha and the Muffins record, Danseparc, has been compared to Remain in Light. It also came out in 1983. I wonder if it was made prior to meeting Eno? I guess Lanois may have been influenced by Remain in Light without making any connection to who the producer was.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:14:03 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/10/2018 23:14

Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks by Brian Eno

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:13:21 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/10/2018 23:13

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 17:52:10 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/10/2018 22:52

This is the album they were making.

The Pearl by Harold Budd & Brian Eno With Daniel Lanois

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 17:44:20 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/10/2018 22:44

sethmadsen wrote:

How did Eno and Lanois become a team? Seems he helped/produced an Eno album? Sorry if I'm getting ahead of the journal, just saw that on the original list. Seems interesting given the geography and what was under his belt before hand.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

RoundTheBend — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:46:53 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 02/10/2018 20:46

How did Eno and Lanois become a team? Seems he helped/produced an Eno album? Sorry if I'm getting ahead of the journal, just saw that on the original list. Seems interesting given the geography and what was under his belt before hand.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

bobbyb5 — Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:00:48 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 02/10/2018 01:00

rkm wrote:

dihansse wrote:

Echo Beach is one of my all time favorite cool songs but I thought Martha & The Muffins were a one hit wonder. I really should check out the albums.

resp 16000 and 5000 km away from you two :wink:

Try the first track, Obedience.

Danseparc by Martha And The Muffins

I think I get it now. It looks like they changed their name to M+ M after one of the Martha's quit. By the time of this album they were down to only one Martha. According to the album cover. Ha Ha.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:59:13 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/10/2018 00:59

bobbyb5 wrote:

dihansse wrote:

Echo Beach is one of my all time favorite cool songs but I thought Martha & The Muffins were a one hit wonder. I really should check out the albums.

resp 16000 and 5000 km away from you two :wink:

Me too. I still listen to Echo Beach once in a while.. I even went there once. It was cool.
Echo Beach was their only International hit but they had some more local and Canadian hits.

Fun fact: did you know there were TWO Marthas in Martha and the muffins?? I think that's awesome

By the next album they were reduced to Martha Johnson and Mark Gane, apparently (and the name change to M+M, which makes sense). Lanois still produced it, and much of it was worked on in New York, and features contributions by other musicians like the Brecker Brothers on horns etc.

Mystery Walk by M + M

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:34:33 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/10/2018 00:34

dihansse wrote:

Echo Beach is one of my all time favorite cool songs but I thought Martha & The Muffins were a one hit wonder. I really should check out the albums.

resp 16000 and 5000 km away from you two :wink:

Try the first track, Obedience.

Danseparc by Martha And The Muffins

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

bobbyb5 — Fri, 9 Feb 2018 18:45:34 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 02/09/2018 23:45

dihansse wrote:

Echo Beach is one of my all time favorite cool songs but I thought Martha & The Muffins were a one hit wonder. I really should check out the albums.

resp 16000 and 5000 km away from you two :wink:

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

dihansse — Fri, 9 Feb 2018 15:08:15 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 02/09/2018 20:08

Echo Beach is one of my all time favorite cool songs but I thought Martha & The Muffins were a one hit wonder. I really should check out the albums.

resp 16000 and 5000 km away from you two 😉

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Thu, 8 Feb 2018 14:55:45 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/08/2018 19:55

bobbyb5 wrote:

I just realized that you did reviews of Martha and the muffins and Nash the Slash. I didn't notice that before. Duh. There was a third Martha and the muffins album that I had that I think was called M + M or something like that. I never had Nash The Slash. When I was like in high school I used to listen to all these Toronto bands that I heard on the Toronto radio station. Like those two. And the band called The Spoons, and one called the Kings. And the best one of all Rough Trade. With Carole Pope. They had a lot of new wave bands in Canada that were different than the ones they had here.
I wonder why he calls his bio Soul Mining. I wonder if he had something to do with the album named Soul Mining by The The. That was such a great 80s album. Maybe he did, I don't know.

Cool story. I had a flashback to being a teenager, when I would hang out in the garage listening to a community radio station (it was the only place it would tune in). The station played Metal, which was entirely foreign to my experience at that point.

I don't think Lanois had anything to do with The The. Soul Mining is a metaphor for the creative process that he refers to in the bio.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Thu, 8 Feb 2018 14:47:49 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/08/2018 19:47

bobbyb5 wrote:

15,000 km???? Are you that guy from Australia? The one who likes Crowded House?
One time I wanted to go to Australia because my oldest friend married an Australian guy, and after they got married they moved to a place called Adelaide. And I wanted to go visit, and I thought it would cost about 400 or $500 to fly there. But it was like 2000 or $3,000!!!! I was like " WHAT??". Needless to say I couldn't afford to go there. I couldn't believe how much it cost. Heh heh

Yeah, I'm that guy. We talked about Crowded House and Split Enz before. I'm near Sydney on the east coast, and Adelaide is in the middle on the south coast, 1,300kms away. My wife is from Perth, on the west coast, 3,000kms away. We fly there every couple of years. It would be closer and cheaper to fly to New Zealand.

I've been to the U.S. once. It was one leg on a 'round the world ticket I bought. I landed in Dallas and did a road trip with an old friend to L.A., taking in the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas, and flew home. It was far too quick, and I didn't really see anything.

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

bobbyb5 — Thu, 8 Feb 2018 07:25:21 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 02/08/2018 12:25

rkm wrote:

I'm 15,588kms away

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

bobbyb5 — Thu, 8 Feb 2018 07:13:59 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 02/08/2018 12:13

rkm wrote:

I'm 15,588kms away

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

rkm — Thu, 8 Feb 2018 05:37:18 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/08/2018 10:37

bobbyb5 wrote:

Oh, I live right over the border in New York State. I'm about 60 miles from there. It's like my backyard. Heh heh.

I'm 15,588kms away

Re: RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

bobbyb5 — Wed, 7 Feb 2018 23:47:09 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 02/08/2018 04:47

rkm wrote:

That's close! I've never been anywhere near the vicinity.

Oh, I live right over the border in New York State. I'm about 60 miles from there. It's like my backyard. Heh heh.