Meaningless

by Jon Brion

Meaningless cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 January 2001
  • Label: Straight to Tape
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:36
  • Community rating: 3.4/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The notoriously perfectionist producer and multi-instrumentalist delivers his incredibly lush, heavily anticipated sole solo album. Combining immaculate power-pop sensibilities with dense, Beatle-esque orchestration, 'Meaningless' is a deeply romantic and bittersweet meditation on heartbreak.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, breakup, jangly, piano, chamber

Tracklist

  1. Gotta Start Somewhere (4:14)
  2. I Believe She's Lying (3:27)
  3. Meaningless (3:23)
  4. Ruin My Day (3:50)
  5. Walking Through Walls (5:43)
  6. Trouble (3:29)
  7. Hook, Line, And Sinker (4:26)
  8. Dead To The World (2:23)
  9. Her Ghost (4:09)
  10. Same Mistakes (1:59)
  11. Voices (7:33)

Credits

  • Grant Lee Phillips - written-by
  • Jeffrey Owen McGregor - written-by
  • Rick Nielsen - written-by
  • Mary Lynn Rajskub - backing vocals
  • Jim Keltner - drums
  • Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar
  • Benmont Tench - piano

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