#daniel lanois

[rolloroberson]

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

#sledgehammer #great videos #peter gabriel #daniel lanois #Youtube

[mostlythemarsh]

The Daniel Lanois Trio at the Capital Theatre in Moncton, New Brunswick. What a show.

#Moncton #New Brunswick #capitol theatre #daniel lanois

[voskhozhdeniye]

#Music #Venetian Snares #Daniel Lanois #19 year-old me the Daniel Lanois fan #and 34 year-old me the Venetian Snares fan are having a conversation right now.

[nedison]

Ain't no use jivin'

Ain't no use jokin'

Everything is broken...

#bob dylan #oh mercy #daniel lanois #1989 #vinyl #nedison collection #everything is broken

[radiophd]

daniel lanois -- still water

#1980s #rock #pop #HamOnt #daniel lanois

[ryanshaneowen]

new DANCE album out now on all platforms

#music #new music #dance #disco #italodisco #classic rock #old music #cover song #album cover #album art #deephouse #cyndi lauper #leon russell #the carpenters #roy orbison #blue bayou #masquerade #leonard cohen #daniel lanois #nana mouskouri #athens #midnight blue #gloria #dream pop #dream #angel of the morning #con te partiro #bird on a wire #synthpop #Spotify

[beanifred]

Tagged by @camagueyys (Ty!ty!) to share 9 songs I’ve been listening to on repeat lately!

I couldn’t get my layout as pretty as y’all, but these are a joy to me lately!

Tagging @the0verboss @seadem-on @hiddenanteater @bashircore @feminerdist @renek-bane @sinisterexaggerator @fat-tasty-krogan and anyone else who wants to play along! I’m tired so forgive me if we mutual talk a lot and I missed you!

#music #David Byrne #daniel lanois #Neil diamond #alt j #Olive klug #william s burroughs #florence + the machine #the who #waylon jennings

[jt1674]

#brian eno #apollo #daniel lanois #roger eno #always returning

[ramblinguitar]

Heard them playing in the bookstore and now I’m on a kick and decided to share. At one point, U2 was a band that I could recite all their lyrics to by heart. They’re nostalgic in the sense that they were introduced by a parent, and one of the bands responsible for me loving music.

In their beginning, U2 was very much a punk rock band. You can hear their early influences of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and more in their debut album, Boy.

Definitely recommend Boy to anyone who enjoys early 80’s music in general. The trend continued with their second album, October, which was less popular than Boy, but still holds some gems like Stranger In A Strange Land, and October.

Enter their third album onto the scene in 1983, and arguably one of their most well known and acclaimed albums, War; which at the time knocked Michael Jackson’s Thriller off the UK’s top charts.

War is also a further example of their post punk roots. Songs dealing with the album’s namesake, particularly the album’s opening track, Sunday Bloody Sunday. The track sheds light on The Troubles in Northern Ireland; focusing specifically on the incident in Derry in 1972 when British troops shot, and killed, unarmed civil rights protestors.

Enter a change from producer Lillywhite, to Brian Eno (and Daniel Lanois) with the band’s fourth studio album, The Unforgettable Fire, of which is a reference to an art exhibit about the atomic bombing of Heroshima.

Eno and Lanois’ involvement with the band, in my opinion, produced some of their best work; spanning from The Unforgettable Fire to Achtung, Baby!

I’ve run out of room to share songs, but if anybody is interested in the rest of their albums or more songs, I can do another post.

#u2 #brian eno #daniel lanois #bono #the edge #adam clayton #larry mullen jr #post punk #80s #Spotify

[saresmusings]

“I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl...”

— Daniel Lanois

#saresmusings #for you page #quotes #daniel lanois #Canadian #quebec #producer

[mostlythemarsh]

Friday Records

#Friday #Records #daniel lanois

[protoslacker]

The Daniel Lanois Interview: Peter Gabriel, U2, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson...

Rick Beato

Three hours with Daniel Lanois is truly fascinating. I don't know much about music, so I'm sure so much is lost on me. But Lanois has so much to say about time and place, being and soul which are relevant for living in general.

"You don't want to be a bull in a china shop and telling people what to do. You want to be working with people you feel aligned with and then the decisions get made on their own. . . Somebody might study debqate for five year in Universtiy. That's fine, but I've studied how to get along with people and how to get things done in those five years. What would we call that? Is there a department that teaches cooperation, productivity, agreement, working together in such a way that you get to a better place collectively? These are the big lessons for me. And I've learned from some of the best, including Brian Eno."

#music #daniel lanois #Youtube

[flowerboycaleb]

wanted to post more over here and had the idea to do lil reviews for albums from years past. i'm gonna try to post a review for this series, as the name suggests, every thursday!! this week we're looking at a long overdue return to form for one of the greatest songwriters of all time: Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan!!! also feel free to follow me on rate your music and twitter <3

Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan

◇ release year: 1989 ◇ genres: singer-songwriter, pop rock, folk rock

The 80s were not kind to Bob Dylan at all, neither were the late 70s for that matter. There was a massive dip in quality after the relative comeback albums that were 1975’s Blood on the Tracks and 1976’s Desire. Following divorce proceedings with his wife in 1977, Dylan shifted his sound away from folk and into a more pop-rock direction for Street-Legal, one of his most uneventful records. Leading into the 80s, he had a born-again Christian phase and released a trilogy of terrible faith-based albums. His 1983 album Infidels was his return back to secular music, but it’s also not very great in the grand scheme of his catalog besides the opener “Jokerman.” Empire Burlesque, Knocked Out Loaded, and Down in the Groove were also some of his worst records and borderline embarrassing for an artist of his caliber. There are very few bright spots in that run aside from “Brownsville Girl” off of Knocked Out Loaded, but to get to that you gotta sit through his version of Kris Kristofferson’s “They Killed Him” which is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. Things were looking pretty bad for the once-iconic artist. His music was either terrible, boring, a parody of his best work, or all three in one. The deck was stacked against him, but in 1988 something special would happen. Bono would introduce Dylan to producer Daniel Lanois known for his work with Brian Eno, U2, and longtime Dylan collaborator Robbie Robertson. Dylan seemed determined to finally make a good album again and Lanois’ production work was exactly what he needed to refresh his sound.

Bob Dylan, 1989

You can hear that right away in the opener “Political World.” Despite it being one of Dylan’s clunkier songs from a lyrical perspective, that instrumentation is just perfect for him. That warm, jaunty sound provided by Dylan and a backing band consisting of various musicians from New Orleans. Many of which Lanois was working with at the time. These musicians match the anxious and chaotic themes of the song perfectly. Dylan sings about it being a hostile, political world and even touches on themes of spirituality in two lines towards the end. In those two lines alone, he provides a more interesting perspective on religion than he ever did on his spiritual albums. In the grand scheme of things, “Political World” doesn’t rank among the best Dylan songs, but it’s such a massive breath of fresh air from what he had been doing at the time. The next track cools things down with the waltzy, schmaltzy cut “Where Teardrops Fall.” Again, this isn’t a classic Dylan masterpiece, but it just sounds so good. Massive shoutout to John Hart’s saxophone on the outro. “Everything is Broken” kind of harkens back lyrically and musically to something Dylan might’ve written in decades past, but it’s given this fresh new coat of paint thanks to Lanois’ production. I love Brian Stoltz’s guitar work here. It’s never in your face, but it’s always present underneath everything. It creates this really cool dynamic with the rhythm section. The next track “Ring Them Bells” is one of the many times here where Dylan slows things down. This is where the album is at its best. The warm production not only brings out the best in the instrumentation but also in Dylan’s voice. This is the first album where he sounds like the weathered, legendary songwriter he was. The arrangement is sparse, with only guitar and keyboards accompanying Dylan’s voice and piano. It’s one of my favorite-sounding Dylan songs. As is the next track, “Man In the Long Black Coat.” What a triumph this song is. It’s simultaneously amazing and infuriating. He still had it in him to write an incredible, compelling song. Like the last track, the sound here is pretty sparse besides some ambiance setting keyboards from Malcolm Burn and Dylan’s guitar. His voice is in a lower register and it makes you just hang on to his every word. It helps that the melody is so memorable also. The song ends on such a mysterious note and it’s the most engaging he had sounded since Desire. 

“Most of the Time” builds upon that more weathered sound except this time with more layers to it instrumentally. This is another one of my favorite Dylan songs. It’s a heartbreak ballad that has such a simple structure and premise, but it’s so impactful. I love the way the electric guitar washes over the track. Every time it enters, it lingers for the perfect amount of time. It’s mixed so perfectly. “What Good Am I?” and “Disease of Conceit” are lulls in the tracklist, but they’re not bad. They just lack that energy of the three tracks prior. The latter is another clunky writing moment from Dylan on the record. His best moments on here lyrically are the songs about love, heartbreak, and other more personal topics. He’s made some iconic songs built around his ruminations on the world, but none of them are found here. Fortunately, the last two tracks are a step up. “What Was It You Wanted” might have the most tasteful implementation of a harmonica on any Bob Dylan record. I love Dylan’s usually harsh harmonica, but it’s hard to deny it can get a bit much. The music here is very subtle and it accompanies what seems to be Dylan’s meditations on his art up to that point. Perhaps the years of critical failures catching up to him as he asks the public “what was it you wanted?” If I was a fan of his during this time, the answer would be songs like this! “Shooting Star” is another ballad and another favorite of mine. Some have interpreted this song as being about Dylan’s disillusionment with spirituality and I think that’s an interesting read, but it could also just be a simple bittersweet ballad about love. Either way, this is a strong closer to the album.

Bob Dylan, 1988

Oh Mercy was an incredible return to form for Dylan and Lanois’ production brought out the best in these songs. It sounded like Dylan was writing with a purpose again, he was inspired. While overall this isn’t his strongest crop of songs from a lyrical standpoint, the execution here takes these songs to the next level. Ideally, this would be the start of a career renaissance for the legendary singer-songwriter, but seeing as how his next album would be the dreadful Under the Red Sky that wasn’t the case. Thankfully, Lanois would collaborate with Dylan again 8 years later for Time Out of Mind, yet another one of his comeback albums.

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#throwback thursday #music #rateyourmusic #music review #bob dylan #daniel lanois #folk music #80s music

[0rph3u5]

Daniel Lanois  The Collection of Marie Claire

#daniel lanois

[asmallexperiment]

I feel like Willie can do anything. Yes, "Red Headed Stranger" and "On The Road Again," but also Bach's "Minuet in G," an album of standards, and a duet with Enrique Iglesias's dad on a Hammond/David joint.

Daniel Lanois produced Teatro and, man, it sounds like it. And yet, for all the different setting we've heard Willie in, he always sounds like Willie. "The Maker" is a Lanois song, beautiful, profound, and with a lot of sonic overhead.

Emmylou Harris sounds great. Willie being as idiosyncratic as he is, it cracks me up to see her laser focused on him to make sure that the harmony vocals are locked in.

#willie nelson #emmylou harris #daniel lanois #the maker #teatro #our daily jam #Youtube

[musicwithoutborders]

Daniel Lanois, The First Time I The Million Dollar Hotel, 2000

#Daniel Lanois #soundtrack #ambient