RKM Listening Diary: "Produced by Daniel Lanois"

[rkm]

PRODUCED BY DANIEL LANOIS
https://www.besteveralbums.com/addchart.php?c=43715

1 Cyborgs Revisited - Simply Saucer 1989 (recorded '74 and '75)
2 This Is The Ice Age - Martha And The Muffins 1981
3 And You Thought You Were Normal - Nash The Slash 1982
4 Danseparc Martha And The Muffins - 1983
5 Parachute Club The Parachute Club - 1983
6 Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks - Brian Eno 1983
7 Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism - Jon Hassell 1983
8 Music For Films Volume 2 - Brian Eno 1983
9 Mystery Walk - M + M 1984
10 Secrets And Sins - Luba 1984
11 The Pearl - Harold Budd & Brian Eno With Daniel Lanois 1984
12 The Unforgettable Fire - U2 1984
13 Wide Awake In America - U2 1985
14 Birdy - Peter Gabriel 1985
15 Hybrid - Michael Brook, Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois 1985
16 Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno 1985
17 Voices - Roger Eno 1985
18 So - Peter Gabriel 1986
19 Power Spot - Jon Hassell 1986
20 The Joshua Tree - U2 1987
21 Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson 1987
22 Music For Films III - Various Artists 1988
23 Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan 1989
24 Acadie - Daniel Lanois 1989
25 Yellow Moon - The Neville Brothers 1989
26 Flash Of The Spirit - Jon Hassell/ Farafina 1989
27 Surprise - Syd Straw 1989
28 Home - Hothouse Flowers 1990
29 Achtung Baby - U2 1991
30 Us - Peter Gabriel 1992
31 For The Beauty Of Wynona - Daniel Lanois 1993
32 Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris 1995
33 Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith 1995
34 Sling Blade - Various Artists 1996
35 Fever In, Fever Out - Luscious Jackson 1996
36 Night To Night - Geoffrey Oryema 1996
37 Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan 1997
38 Teatro - Willie Nelson 1998
39 Brian Blade Fellowship - Brian Blade Fellowship 1998
40 12 Bar Blues - Scott Weiland 1998
41 Vagabond Ways - Marianne Faithfull 1999
42 The Million Dollar Hotel (Music From The Motion Picture) - Various Artists 2000
43 All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2 2000
44 Shine - Daniel Lanois 2003
45 The Edge Of The World - Billy Bob Thornton 2003
46 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2 2004
47 Rockets - Daniel Lanois 2005
48 Belladonna - Daniel Lanois 2005
49 Dusk And Summer - Dashboard Confessional 2006
50 Snake Road - Bob Lanois 2006
51 Here Is What Is - Daniel Lanois 2008
52 No Line On The Horizon - U2 2009
53 Mama Rosa - Brian Blade 2009
54 Mercy - Rocco DeLuca And The Burden 2009
55 Black Dub - Black Dub 2010
56 Le Noise - Neil Young 2010
57 Flamingo - Brandon Flowers 2010
58 Battle Born - The Killers 2012
59 Flesh And Machine - Daniel Lanois 2014
60 Goodbye To Language - Daniel Lanois 2016

[rkm]

This album is not my cup of tea at all.

There's nothing explicitly about this album in Lanois' bio, Soul Mining. There is a chapter called, The North, where he talks about the years prior to meeting Eno, with many and varied stories about the skills he picked up while he was filling in time, waiting for good opportunities to come. He and his brother, Bob, had a studio setup, and Lanois was spending a lot of time as a multi-instrumentalist touring musician, earning $150 a week. He played steel guitar, guitar, flute, banjo, and a moog. He'd send money back to Bob. Their studio was full of instruments and sounds ready to go. He wanted to put his mark on recordings, by having his sounds ready to go.



Cyborgs Revisited by Simply Saucer

AllMusic Review by Tim Sendra [-]
Simply Saucer's Cyborgs Revisited is a truly amazing album. In 1974-1975 not many bands had their energy, attitude, and sonic imagination. The tough garage and psychedelic-influenced songs are sprinkled with manic synthesizer freak-outs and theremin breaks. Songs like "Electro Rock" and the manic, two-part "Here Come the Cyborgs" sound simultaneously ten years behind and ahead of their time with their mix of frat-house stomp and art-house clatter. Elsewhere, the ghost of the Velvet Underground is conjured up through Edgar Breau's deadpan vocals and the almost-funky rhythms of tracks like "Dance the Mutation," and the influence of the Stooges is apparent on the Raw Power-lite balladry of "Bullet Proof Nothing" and the frequent punk snarl. You also get visions of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd on the long, trippy "Illegal Bodies," and 13th Floor Elevators on the woozy "Mole Machine." Don't for a minute think that the band were mere copyists, they took these influences and whipped them into a concoction that sounds like no other band of the time. You can hear traces of their sound in bands like Sonic Youth and Das Damen. This is truly an earth-shatteringly important record.

[rkm]

Electronic meh


And You Thought You Were Normal by Nash The Slash

[rkm]

This is really something. Kind of like a Canadian "Remain in Light".

Sounds nothing like "Echo Beach". Lanois' sister, Jocelyn is the bass player (yay for female bass players, like Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads!).

Very new wave, but with lots of Lanois ear candy.

Can't find any mention of the album in the bio.

There's a good write up here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/czvr/

"Danseparc's angular funk and tribal modernism revolved around a loose concept of the park in modern urban life. ie: The way in which it attempted to recreate a Waldonian wilderness within the heart of the city and all the contradictions that this raised."


Danseparc by Martha And The Muffins

[bobbyb5]

I'm going to guess that he's from Toronto, because I see that he produced the early Martha and the Muffins albums. They were a local Toronto band,. Although they had a hit in the U.S. one time. Echo Beach. I love that song. And also Parachute Club I think were a Toronto band. Maybe Nash the Slash too.

[rkm]

[bobbyb5]

[rkm]

[rkm]

I'm really enjoying this one. I've listened 3 or 4 times. It's an ambient sort of record made in '85, and Michael Brook is a guitarist. On that level, it's easy to connect with it as I'm a guitar player myself. Michael Brook invented an "infinite guitar" that allowed him to hold a note forever. He also made one for Daniel Lanois, and one for Edge.

I think what's interesting about some of these ambient records that Lanois did with Eno, Hassell, Budd, Brook, is how some of the sounds turn up on later records. They were a laboratory of sorts. Brook's infinite guitar sound was used by Edge on "With or Without You", for instance.

Aside from those connections, the music remains interesting, and is completely free of guitar-wankery.


Hybrid by Michael Brook, Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois

[bobbyb5]