The Dream Academy were a British band consisting of singer/guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist (chiefly oboe, cor anglais player) Kate St John, and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel.
Remembrance Days is the second album by the British band The Dream Academy. Not as successful as the band's 1985 self-titled debut, the album peaked at number 181 in the United States.
Attempting to follow up the enormous success of their debut proved to be a difficult task for the British trio Dream Academy. Hugh Padgham (Genesis, the Police) came on board to produce the band with frontman Nick Laird-Clowes, resulting in a more glossy sheen to much of the material.
"Indian Summer" kicks things off, and while echoing the wistfulness and even incorporating a chant-like chorus similar to their massive hit "Life in a Northern Town," it fails to impress in a similar manner. "Here" is a lovely, understated ballad that concludes with a flourish and Kate St. John playing oboe, and "Ballad in 4/4" is a Beatlesque tale of infidelity featuring Laird-Clowes adding harmonica.
Remembrance Days, however, failed to make a splash commercially and received more exposure through the use of "Power to Believe" during a key scene of the hit movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles than through airplay. Not a bad record, just a pale imitation of the first.
The lyrics and music for "The Lesson of Love" was written in just two four-hour sessions at Patrick Leonard's home.
Nick was inspired to write "In Exile" after reading an article in The Village Voice on Rodrigo Rojas.
"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" was not to be included in the album at first, until Lindsey Buckingham got involved with it at the last minute. Because of this, the vocals were done in his bedroom as he played the snare drum in his bathroom
The instrumental version of "Power To Believe" appeared in the 1987 film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, however the film's official soundtrack album contained the full vocal version. The instrumental version was finally included on the band's 2014 Greatest Hits compilation The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective.
Side A
A1. Indian Summer - 4:56
A2. The Lesson Of Love - 4:28
A3. Humdrum - 4:27
A4. Power To Believe - 5:15
A5. Hampstead Girl - 3:40
A6. Here - 4:21
Side B
B1. In The Hands Of Love - 4:49
B2. Ballad In 4/4 - 3:58
B3. Doubleminded - 3:53
B4. Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometime - 3:42
B5. In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas) - 6:43
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
- Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
- Published By – Heath Music
- Published By – Intersong Music Ltd.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.
- Copyright © – WEA International Inc.
- Manufactured By – Record Service GmbH
- Pressed By – Record Service Alsdorf
- Mastered At – The Mastering Lab
Credits
- Mastered By – Doug Sax
- Producer – Hugh Padgham (tracks: A1 to B3, B5), Lindsey Buckingham (tracks: A1, B4), Richard Dashut (tracks: B4)
- Producer, Written-By – Nick Laird-Clowes, Patrick Leonard (tracks: A2)
- Written-By – Gilbert Gabriel (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B5), James Warren (tracks: B4)
Notes
Release: 1987
Format: LP
Genre: Synth-pop
Label: Reprise Records
Catalog# 925 625-1
Vinyl: Goed
Cover: Goed / kleine inkeeping linksonder
Prijs: €7,99
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