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Meaningless

by Jon Brion

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    * * * Especially for Bandcamp Friday we've pressed up 100 copies of the Maroon vinyl. * * * Printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and photos.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Meaningless via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    We've got a few copies of the BABY BLUE vinyl available via Bandcamp for the 1st time!

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    **SHIPPING JAN 15, 2023** Standard black vinyl edition. Printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and photos.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Meaningless via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    By popular demand, now available on the highly portable compact disc format! Comes in a cardboard wallet with lyrics and photos. Same lovingly remastered audio found on the digital and vinyl formats.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Meaningless via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Meaningless 03:23
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Ruin My Day 03:49
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Trouble 03:29
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Her Ghost 04:12
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Voices 07:32

about

One of the most distinctive recordings of the early 2000s, Jon Brion’s one and only solo album "Meaningless" is a master course in power pop-inspired art rock songwriting and production. The record offers a vivid backdrop for Brion’s wry observations on love, reality, and the elusive quality of meaning—all that plus a mind-bending Cheap Trick cover. Largely self-recorded in the late ‘90s (minus some sessions with Ethan Johns), "Meaningless" spent years on the shelf of a major label uncertain what to make of its textured glory, before Brion negotiated an extremely limited release in 2001. More than two decades later, its emotional core remains undiminished by year’s spent in the major label wringer, both before and after its creation. Like his work with artists including Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, and Elliott Smith, Brion’s songs offer depth and resonance, and like his soundtrack work on films like "Lady Bird," "Step Brothers," "Punch Drunk Love," "I Heart Huckabees," and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," its scope is widescreen. Remastered and artist approved, "Meaningless" can finally be heard the way Brion intended.

credits

released October 21, 2022

Produced and played by Jon Brion except "Trouble"

"Trouble"
Produced by Ethan Johns
Mixed by Jon Brion and Greg Collins
Engineered by Ethan Johns
Additional engineering: Greg Collins
Drums: Jim Keltner
Piano: Benmont Tench
Pedal Steel: Greg Liesz
Backing Vocals: Mary Lynn Rajskub
Other instruments: Jon Brion

Engineered by Jon Brion and anyone who was around including: Rich Costey, Greg Collins, Curt Anderson, John Tyrell, Tom Biller, Mike Dereen, Jack Joseph Puig.
Mastered by Eddy Schreyer at Oasis Mastering, Studio City, CA
Remastered by Greg Koller
Lacquers cut by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering
Reissue layout by Rob Jones & Bobb Bruno
Special thanks: Mark Flanagan and Mary Lynn Rajskub, Rich Costey, Ethan Johns, Jack Joseph Puig, David Boch. Hi Mom.

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