![]() It’s like Crowded House – they are pop songs but not for kids. It’s a timeless sort of good songwriting, with good lyrics, well performed and sounding great. It’s not retro, or as straightjacketed as power pop. It’s adult contemporary pop – a sound and a style Brion kind of owns. I eventually paid through the nose for a CD copy, having decided the CDR I had wasn’t enough. The label ( Lava, owned by Atlantic Records) decided not to pick up the album, and Brion self released it on his website. Story goes that this was to be a major label debut. Which makes sense as it’s so fucking obscure (but also so great). Knowing this record was like a special club. ![]() It was Brad Shepherd from the Hoodoo Gurus who told me the last track was a Cheap Trick song. I’ve had long conversations about this album with the CEO of a major record company. People were into his old band, the Grays. ![]() People had gone to LA to see him perform (he performed every Saturday at the Largo for years, with lines around the block). When I started raving about this record, all my pop friends were already there, it seems. As this is the the only album he’s ever done, I’m guessing producer won. ![]() I guess at this time, Brion was trying to balance being a producer or a singer songwriter. He was behind the dials for so many artists I love – Badly Drawn Boy, Aimee Mann, Beck, Elliott Smith and later Rhett Miller, Finn Brothers and more (like Kanye West!!). But Jon Brion is a key piece of the puzzle. Tim was a bigger fan than me, being a Fiona Apple fan. Tim Byron turned me onto this record. I’m not sure where the conversation started. ![]() To end another wonderful decade of great music, I’m going to write about ten albums from each of the last ten years, that are either great, or hold some sort of personal significance. ![]()
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