Ian Brown

This article describes the rock musician. For other individuals, see Ian Brown (disambiguation) .

Brown in 2010

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Unfinished Monkey Business   UK 4th  gold 02/14/1998 (26 weeks) Golden greats   UK 14th  gold 11/20/1999 (8 weeks) Music of the Spheres   UK 3  gold 10/13/2001 (7 weeks) Remixes of the Spheres   UK 87 11/16/2002 (1 week) Solarized   UK 7th  gold 09/25/2004 (6 weeks) The Greatest   UK 5  platinum 10/01/2005 (19 weeks) The World Is Yours   UK 4th  silver 10/06/2007 (6 weeks) My way   UK 8th  silver 10/10/2009 (5 weeks) Ripples   UK 4th 02/14/2019 (2 weeks)

Singles

My star   UK 5 01/24/1998 (6 weeks) Corpses   UK 14th 04/04/1998 (4 weeks) Can't See Me   UK 21st 06/20/1998 (4 weeks) Be There (with Unkle)   UK 8th 02/20/1999 (6 weeks) Love like a fountain   UK 23 11/06/1999 (3 weeks) Dolphins Were Monkeys   UK 5 02/19/2000 (5 weeks) Golden gauze   UK 29 06/17/2000 (2 weeks) FEAR   UK 13  silver 09/29/2001 (6 weeks) Whispers   UK 33 02/23/2002 (2 weeks) Keep What Ya Got   UK 18th 10/02/2004 (3 weeks) Reign (with Unkle )   UK 40 11/27/2004 (2 weeks) Time is my everything   UK 15th 01/29/2005 (4 weeks) All ablaze   UK 20th 09/17/2005 (3 weeks) Illegal Attacks (feat. Sinéad O'Connor )   UK 16 09/29/2007 (3 weeks) Sister Rose   UK 87 12/15/2007 (1 week) Stellify   UK 31 08/22/2009 (5 weeks)

Ian Brown (born February 20, 1963 in Warrington , Cheshire ) is a British rock musician.

Life

From 1984 to 1996 Brown was the singer of the band Stone Roses , which together with the Happy Mondays , the Charlatans and Inspiral Carpets were the most important and most successful band of the " Madchester Movement". He had personal differences with his lead guitarist John Squire. After the Stone Roses disbanded, Brown began a successful solo career. He made it into the top 10 of the UK album charts with two singles ( My Star , 1998, and Dolphins Were Monkeys , 2000) and all of his albums - with the exception of Golden Greats (1999) .

At the NME Awards 2006 he received the Godlike Genius Award . Brown also had a hidden appearance in the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban .

When he feels like lively life, he stays in his London apartment, and a house on the outskirts of Manchester serves as a quiet alternative quarter for him and his family.

style

MusikWoche wrote about the first album that it offered “pleasantly unpretentious mid-tempo songs”, “with soft melodies, supple grooves and bitingly ironic lyrics”. In some songs the guitars would take a back seat to "electrical gadgets".

Laut.de noted that the second album was a changed tone, that "[m] ore guitars and also more dancefloor - Beats ".

Album number three, Music of the Spheres , is "Trip Pop", sometimes more ambient , sometimes even techno , sometimes bombast, is - in summary - the description in Eclipsed .

The subsequent Solarized is "spherical" and "groovy" is Kathrin Fink in her record criticism Laut.de on. In the “foggy dreamscape”, which sounds monotonous at times, “[d] gloomy guitar sounds, trumpet fanfares and synth noise” can also be heard.

A 30-piece orchestra is used on The World is Yours . In the Laut.de biography it says: “In addition to casually catchy, funky grooving mid-tempo arrangements, the man with the concise organ takes up topics that move the world, such as global poverty or the Iraq war .” Laut.de -Employee Eberhard Dobler goes into more detail in his album review. There would be relaxed mid-tempo numbers that tend to be monotonous again. There would be a “ hip hop- heavy beat foundation, lots of strings and brass, electronic additions, plus one or the other guitar lick ”.

Michael Schuh said in his Laut.de review of My Way (2009) that Brown convinced “with pompous indie / electro / dub songs”. Jürgen Ziemer considered the term "British street pop", which refers to the sing-along character (especially after visiting a pub on the way home), appropriate in Rolling Stone . Stephan Rehm considered the album in the Musikexpress , which he classified as “groove pop”, to be an overestimation of himself .

In relation to Brown's oeuvre, Allmusic uses the terms electronic, alternative pop, indie rock and Britpop.

Discography

With the Stone Roses

• 1989: The Stone Roses
• 1994: Second Coming

Solo career

• 1998: Unfinished Monkey Business
• 1999: Golden Greats
• 2001: Music of the Spheres
• 2002: Remixes of the Spheres
• 2004: Solarized
• 2005: The Greatest ( best of album)
• 2007: The World Is Yours
• 2009: My Way
• 2019: Ripples

Features

• 1998: Be There EP ( UNKLE feat. Ian Brown)
• 2003: Reign EP (UNKLE feat. Ian Brown)

Trivia

• The song Be There was supposed to appear on the UNKLE album Psyence Fiction . Since Brown could not be present during the recordings due to his incarceration after a riot on an airplane, the track was put on the album under the name Unreal without Brown's vocals.
• The song Just Like You was used as the theme song of the German talk show Stuckrad-Barre from 2010 to 2012 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} UK chart statistics
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
3. ↑ ^{a b} Steffen Rüth: The streets are full of failed solo existences from once successful bands . In: Musikexpress . No. 648 , January 2010, p. 20 .
4. ^ ^{A b} John Bush: Ian Brown. Biography by John Bush. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved August 22, 2015 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Ian Brown. Portrait. Laut.de biography. In: laut.de. Retrieved August 22, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Ian Brown. Unfinished Monkey Business . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 6/1998 , February 2, 1998, news, p. 19 .
7. ↑ C [arsten] A [gthe]: Ian Brown "Music of the Spheres" (Polydor) . In: Eclipsed . Rock magazine. No. 40 , March 2002, PLatten Reviews, p. 44 .
8. ↑ Kathrin Fink: Ian Brown. Solarized. Laut.de criticism. A journey into groove nirvana. Review by Kathrin Fink. In: laut.de. Retrieved August 22, 2015 . 
9. ^ Eberhard Dobler: Ian Brown. The World is Yours. Laut.de criticism. Full melancholy and casual pathos from a single source. Review by Eberhard Dobler. In: laut.de. Retrieved August 22, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Michael Schuh: Ian Brown. My way. Laut.de criticism. Indie electro bling bling - all that's missing is the gold chain. Review by Michael Schuh. In: laut.de. Retrieved August 22, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Jürgen Ziemer: Challenge. Ian Brown is only too happy to play the proletarian English populists on his new album . In: Rolling Stone . No. 182 , December 2009, Rock & Roll. Music, p. 23 .
12. ^ Stephan Rehm: Ian Brown. My way . In: Musikexpress . No. 646 , November 2009, plates, p. 84 .
13. ↑ plattentests.de review; Lines 6 f.
14. ↑ Midi Mechanics blog entry, 3rd paragraph ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

Commons : Ian Brown  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• official website (English)
• Discography