Remembrance Days
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| Studio album by The Dream Academy | ||
| Released | 1987 | |
| Recorded | 1986 - February 1987 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 50:21 | |
| Label | Reprise Records/Blanco Y Negro | |
| Producer(s) | Lindsey Buckingham, Nick Laird-Clowes, Richard Dashut, Patrick Leonard and Hugh Padgham | |
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| The Dream Academy chronology | ||
| The Dream Academy (1985) |
Remembrance Days (1987) |
A Different Kind Of Weather (1991) |
Remembrance Days is The Dream Academy's second album. Sadly, the album failed to live up to the chart and sales expectations of their eponymous debut album, The Dream Academy. However, it is a fan and band favorite (particularly Kate St. John's) and most of the singles were well received with Indian Summer being played on VH1 on the radio but again none of them managed to reach the charts in the UK or the USA. The most notable tracks were an instrumental version of Power To Believe which was used in the film Planes, Trains and Automobiles, a cover of The Korgis Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime and In Exile, dedicated to the memory of Rodrigo Rojas, a young photographer, burned to death during a protest in Chile on July 2, 1986.
The Album only managed #181 in the USA.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Nick Laird-Clowes and Gilbert Gabriel, except where noted:
- Indian Summer – 4:56
- The Lesson Of Love – 4:40 (Nick Laird-Clowes and Patrick Leonard)
- Humdrum – 4:18 (Nick Laird-Clowes)
- Power To Believe – 5:15
- Hampstead Girl – 3:42
- Here – 4:24
- In The Hands Of Love – 4:49
- Ballad In 4/4 – 3:59 (Nick Laird-Clowes)
- Doubleminded – 3:53 (Nick Laird-Clowes)
- Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime – 3:43 (James Warren)
- In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas) – 6:42
[edit] Singles from the Album
- Indian Summer
- The Lesson Of Love
- Power To Believe (appears in the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles)
[edit] Miscellanea
- 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 Gotta Learn Sometime was not going 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, with him playing the Snare Drum in his bathroom.
