Dream Days at the Hotel Existence
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Publication |
June 2, 2007 ( Australia ), November 19, 2007 ( UK ), November 11, 2008 ( USA ) |
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| Label (s) | Universal Music / Dew Process | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
44:10 |
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Rob Schnapf / Doug Boehm |
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Studio (s) |
Sunset Studios |
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Dream Days at the Hotel Existence is the sixth studio album by the Australian rock band Powderfinger , which was produced by Rob Schnapf. The album's labels are Universal Music and Dew Process . The album was recorded at Sunset Studios in Los Angeles / California . The album was released in Australia on June 2, 2007 and in the UK on November 19, 2007. In the USA , however, the album was only sold on November 11, 2008. A limited edition containing an additional DVD was also sold in Australia . In the USA, Newbury Comics sold CDs with originally signed booklets. The first single Lost and Running was released on May 12th and reached 5th place on the ARIA Singles Charts. The four other singles I Don't Remember , Nobody Sees , Wishing On The Same Moon and Who Really Cares could not match the success of the first single.
background
Bernard Fanning, the singer from Powderfinger, announced in several interviews that the band was working on a new album. The guitarist added that it will be an exciting new release for the band. Bernard Fanning , announced on March 2, 2007 on the Australian radio station Triple J that the tracklist for the album was complete after during the first month of recording. He also said he will have Benmont Tench support on some tracks and that the album will be ready in June. The title of the album comes from the book Brooklyn Folies by Paul Auster that Fanning read during the recording.
production
In 2007 the album was produced at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles / California by Rob Schnapf, who is known for his work with Beck and The Vines . Most of the album was made in the USA. Several songs were compiled by the band, several songs were written by two or three members. The previous albums of the band were produced by Nick DiDa in Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne .
Album and single releases
The album was released on June 2, 2007 in Australia and in the UK on November 19 of the same year. The limited edition includes a DVD with music videos by the band and is called Powderfinger's First XI. The music video of the first single Lost and Running was also represented under the name The Twelfth Man . A Collector's Edition containing the CD and DVD was released on April 18, 2008. Some songs on the album could be downloaded free of charge and legally from PerthNow, a newspaper group from Perth . The Lost and Running video was produced by Damon Escott and Stephen Lance, both with Head Pictures, and was first shown across Australia on April 21, 2007. Lost and Running was first broadcast on the radio on April 16, 2007, although it was previously released on MySpace. The single reached the 5th place on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart.
The second single from the album is called I Don't Remember and was sold on August 4, 2007. The music clip was shot by Fifty Fifty Films, who have also produced other music videos for their songs ( Passenger and Like a Dog ). Most of the video was shot at Samford State School in Brisbane .
The third single should be created for the sixth track of the album Nobody Sees and was released together with the music clip on December 1, 2007 as a download single. The fourth single Who Really Cares (featuring Sound of Insanity) was released in March 2008. The fifth and final single called Wishing On The Same Moon was released in May 2008.
Chart placements and sales
The album first appeared on June 11, 2007 in the ARIA Album Charts (Australian Charts), where the album immediately reached 1st place and stayed there for 33 weeks. It has 3 times platinum status. In the New Zealand charts , the album reached 22nd place. The album reached platinum in the first week of sales, a little later the album was upgraded to double platinum. The album became one of the top-selling albums in Australia in 2007 with 40,847 sales. The album also broke the record for the most downloaded albums in Australia with over 3,000 copies. The album later went triple platinum.
| Charts (2007) | Peak position |
Remarks) |
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| Australian ARIA Albums Chart | 1 | 3 × Platinum |
| New Zealand Albums Chart | 22nd | - |
Cover
The cover was designed by Aaron Hayward and David Homer. In 2007 it won the ARIA Award for best album cover. In the background you can see a road that leads into the horizon of the Australian hinterland , while in the middle you can see a window where a hotel room from the 1930s is shown and a headless man sits at the end of a bed and watches TV. The lettering of the band name has been cleverly worked out compared to the previous albums. The contrast to the hotel room from the 1930s and the lettering make the album look futuristic.
occupation
- Bernard Fanning - guitar and vocals
- John Collins - bass guitar
- Ian Haug - guitar
- Darren Middleton - guitar
- Jon Coghill - drums
- Benmont Tench - keyboard / piano (guest musician)
- Rob Schnapf - producer
- Doug Boehm - producer
Track list
CD “Dream Days at the Hotel Existence”
The songs were written by the band. The limited edition includes a bonus DVD. The song Drifting Further Away is featured in the soundtrack for the 5th season of the American television series Grey's Anatomy and was played in the 13th episode Between Heaven and Hell ( Stairway to Heaven ). The songs were written by the band. For the recordings, pianist Benmont Tench joined the band as a guest musician.
- 1. "Head Up in the Clouds" - 3:47
- 2. "I Don't Remember" - 3:41
- 3. "Lost and Running" - 3:42
- 4. "Wishing on the Same Moon" - 4:32
- 5. "Who Really Cares (Featuring the Sound of Insanity)" - 5:10
- 6. "Nobody Sees" - 4:14
- 7. "Surviving" - 3:45
- 8. "Long Way to Go" - 3:46
- 9. "Black Tears" - 2:30
- 10. "Ballad of a Dead Man" - 5:29
- 11. "Drifting Further Away" - 3:40
- 12. "Down by the Dam" - 4:29
Bonus DVD (Limited Edition)
The limited edition (includes a CD and DVD) was released under the name Powderfinger's First XI . The DVD contains eleven music videos that were created during the band's career, as well as a video for the song Lost and Running , which can be found on the DVD under the title The Twelfth Man - Lost and Running .
- 1. "Tail" - 4:24
- 2. "Living Type" - 3:25
- 3. "Pick You Up" - 3:30
- 4. "Passenger" - 4:39
- 5. "Good Day Ray" - 1:50
- 6. "Don't Wanna Be Left Out" - 2:18
- 7. "My Kind of Scene" - 4:31
- 8. "Like a Dog" - 4:41
- 9. "On My Mind" - 3:40
- 10. "Sunsets" (Acoustic version) - 3:57
- 11. "Bless My Soul" - 4:06
- The Twelfth man "Lost and Running" - 3:52
Reviews
Sydney Morning Herald referred to Dream Days at the Hotel Existence as the band's first jaded album that promises excitement but doesn't keep its promise. The songs are uneventful and do not speak to the listener. PerthNow's Jay Hanna disagreed with the opinion of the Sydney Morning Herald, describing the album as causing waves to vibrate. Herald SunHit wrote that the album does not involve any style change in the music and is comparable to the album Oddyssey Number Five . Allmusic wrote that the album incorporates the classic features of the band Powderfinger. The critic praised the song I Don't Remember as a good start, but was very critical of the songs Lost and Running and Ballad of a Dead Man , which he described as boring, tired and sluggish.
"Black Tears" controversy
On May 2, 2007, the ninth song from the album Black Tears sparked some controversy over the Palm Islands death disagreement while negotiations on the case were taking place there. The lawyers of the accused Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley filed a complaint to the Queensland Attorney-General regarding the text one. Hurley's legal team wanted to change the lyrics in this song from “an island watch-house bed, a black man's lying dead” to “death of a Palm Island man, Mulrunji Doomadgee”. Singer Fanning announced in an interview that he did not want to cause a difference of opinion with this text. The album was released on the planned release date, but with an alternative version of the song Black Tears . Fanning wasn't angry about having to change his lyrics on this song, but he lamented the cowardice of other Australian musicians to challenge the status quo .
The Across the Great Divide Tour
The first tickets for the national concert tour were first sold on May 10, 2007 on the band's homepage. Ticket sales to the public started a day later. The band toured in New South Wales and north Victoria , among others . Australian pianist Lachlan Doley played the keyboard parts throughout the tour. Along with Doley, the band received positive reviews from the press and the public for their tour. The band played the single Lost and Running together with Doley at the variety festival Rove that took place on June 17, 2007. On August 4th, 2007 the band played at Splendor in the Grass , on August 18th they performed at Triple J's AWOL Concert in Karratha / Western Australia . On June 12, 2007 the band toured with the Australian rock group Silverchair . This tour was held not only in the capital cities of Australia and New Zealand, but also in 14 major cities within Australia.
Web links
- Dream Days at the Hotel Existence on Hitparade.ch
- Review Dream Days at the Hotel Existence at Rolling Stone
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Album ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Powderfingers' lightning bolt
- ↑ Triple J.
- ↑ Background Album Title ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2007 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reviews Triple J
- ↑ production
- ↑ Publication date Australia ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Publication in UK ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Twelfth Man
- ↑ Collectors Edition
- ↑ VÖ Collecters Edition ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Free Powderfinger Downloads
- ↑ Aria Top 50 Singles Charts ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Go Back To School
- ↑ Newsletter November 16, 2007 ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (dead link)
- ↑ New Single On The Radio ( Memento from February 28, 2008 on WebCite )
- ↑ Australian Charts Powderfinger
- ↑ double platinum
- ↑ 40000 Powderfinger Fans Can't Be Wrong ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ New Record ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Triple platinum for Powderfinger album
- ^ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2007 Albums . Australian Record Industry Association . Retrieved July 1, 2008.
- ↑ Dream Days at the Hotel Existence - New Zealand Albums Chart . Charts.org.nz. Retrieved November 11, 2007.
- ↑ Cover wins ARIA Award
- ↑ All songs of the 5th season of Grey's Anatomy ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Benmont Tench Guest Musician ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2007 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Benmont Tench Guest Musician ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2007 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Review by Sydney Morning Herald
- ↑ criticism PerthNow
- ↑ Critique of Herald SunHIT ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Review on AllMusic
- ↑ Palm Islands death
- ↑ story
- ↑ Powderfinger divides parties ( memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Pre- sales dates for a concert ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tour dates ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tour dates on Bordermail ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Splendor in the Grass ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Triple J goes Awol ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Silverchair tours with powder fingers
