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.
This song was first discovered while I was watching one of my favorite movies of all time, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The song starts playing at the end of the movie when Steve Martin's character suddenly realizes that John Candy's character doesn't have a home and is all alone. I remember winning a huge poster from my art class in 8th grade for a contest I entered. I hung it in my ro...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Indian Summer |
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| 2 The Lesson of Love |
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| 3 Humdrum |
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| 4 Power to Believe |
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| 5 Hampstead Girl |
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| 6 Here |
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| 7 In the Hands of Love |
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| 8 Ballad in 4/4 |
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| 9 Doubleminded |
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| 10 Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime |
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| 11 In Exile (For Rodrigo Rojas) |
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