The morning lasted all day : a retrospective / The Dream Academy.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: RGM-0245 | Real Gone Music | (container)Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Real Gone Music, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 2 audio discs : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Retrospective
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD
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Main Library | CD | POP/ROCK Dream Academy | Available | 33111008659159 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective begins, as it should, with "Life in a Northern Town," which was as big, bucolic, and bold a stroke of studio-polished chamber pop as one was likely to encounter in 1985, which is saying something. Co-produced by David Gilmour, that song, a folk-tinged, dream pop tribute to Nick Drake, the steamy "Love Parade," and the rapturous "Edge of Forever," the latter of which will always be accompanied by the image of Ferris Bueller locking lips with Sloane before embarking on the feverish last few minutes of his already memorable day off, occupy the first three slots on this two-disc overview, which was compiled by Academy head Nick Laird-Clowes, who also provides extensive liner notes. The Dream Academy, despite releasing two more like-minded yet spotty albums, never matched the success of their 1985 debut, and Morning Lasted All Day (the original title of "Life in a Northern Town" until Paul Simon, from whom Clowes was receiving guitar lessons at the time, convinced him otherwise) aims to rectify the situation by allowing the cream to rise to the top. At 24 tracks, it's a bit much for casual fans, but for the converted, hearing songs like the beguiling "Here" and the grand and tastefully epic "Indian Summer," neither of which have undergone any kind of significant remastering since they first appeared on CD in the late '80s, with such clarity is worth the price of admission, and the bevy of unreleased tracks includes the ambitious Kurt Weill-meets-"West End Girls"-inspired "Last Day of the War," the wistful, road trip-ready "Chosen Few" (one of two songs from the vaults to feature Gilmour on guitar), and the all-new "Sunrising," a languid, rainy morning confection that serves as the perfect closer for a winning collection of songs that were no doubt inspired by, and sometimes made in spite of, overcast skies. ~ James Christopher Monger
Title from disc labels.
The Dream Academy (Nick Laird-Clowes, lead vocals & guitars ; Kate St. John, vocals, oboe, cor anglais, piano accordion & saxophone ; Gilbert Gabriel, vocals & keyboards).
Tracks primarily previously released 1985-1990; with 2 previously unreleased tracks.
Compact disc.
Program notes and full credits on container insert.
Disc 1. Life in a northern town -- The love parade -- The edge of forever -- Please, please, please let me get what I want -- Johnny (New light) -- In places on the run -- Ballad in 4/4 -- Girl in a million -- Power to believe -- This world -- Here -- One dream --
Disc 2. Indian summer -- Lucy September -- Hampstead girl -- The demonstration -- Living in a war -- Love -- Waterloo -- The chosen few -- It'll never happen again -- Power to believe -- The last day of the war -- Sunrising.
The Dream Academy was one of the most artistically ambitious British bands of the '80s. This is the first comprehensive collection of their work and the definitive Dream Academy package. Includes 24 tracks on two compact discs, featuring the hits Life in a Northern Town; The Love Parade; Living in a War; and The Chosen Few.