The Secret Value of Daydreaming

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The Secret Value of Daydreaming
Studio album by Julian Lennon

Publication
(s)

1986

Label (s)

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

10

running time

42:11

occupation

production

Phil Ramone

chronology
Valotte
(1984) 		The Secret Value of Daydreaming Mr. Jordan
(1989)

The Secret Value of Daydreaming is the second album by the singer Julian Lennon . It was released in March 1986 by Atlantic Records in the USA and Canada and by Charisma / Virgin Records worldwide.

Emergence

After Julian Lennon had released his debut album Valotte in 1984 , which contained an international hit with Too Late For Goodbyes , he first went on tour. Upon his return, the record company urged him to record another album:

“I had just finished my first tour and the record company said, okay, you had a hit, go to the studio, we already booked . And I replied, you have to give me some time to be creative, please , but all I got to hear was don't be silly! . So I obeyed and in my opinion it was a waste of time and money. "

- Julian Lennon 1989

In retrospect, Lennon found that he was “forced to make the second record. I wasn't happy with the record at all. "

The black and white cover of the album shows Lennon's face in front and side views. Smoke can be seen around him. The photo is from Timothy White . On the inner sleeve of the record, Lennon thanks Phil Collins, among others, for a crash course in handwriting - the handwritten title and name of Lennon's album resembles the handwritten labels on many of Collins' solo albums - as well as his mother, Cynthia Lennon . The thank you list ends with the words "And to my Father ...".

title

  1. Stick Around - 3:39
  2. You Get What You Want - 4:04
  3. Let Me Tell You - 4:16
  4. I've Seen Your Face - 3:27
  5. Coward Till the End? - 6:11
  6. This Is My Day - 3:51
  7. You Don't Have to Tell Me - 4:55
  8. Everyday - 3:51
  9. Always Think Twice - 3:56
  10. Want Your Body - 3:25

All tracks were written by Julian Lennon, who also plays bass, guitar, piano and keyboard on the album. Exceptions are Coward Till the End? , written by Julian Lennon and Justin Clayton, and Everyday , written by Julian Lennon, Justin Clayton and Carlton Morales.

On the single You Get What You Want is Billy Joel to hear on the piano. Joel's longtime guitarist David Brown also contributed to the record.

Chart successes

The Secret Value of Daydreaming reached number 32 on the US Billboard charts and was awarded the gold record on May 22, 1986 for over 500,000 copies sold .

The album's first single was Stick Around , which made it to number 32 on the US Billboard charts and numbered 86 in the UK. Jami Gertz , Michael J. Fox and Joe Piscopo appeared in the accompanying music video . The other single releases This Is My Day and Want Your Body did not reach the chart.

criticism

The youth magazine Bravo presented The Secret Value of Daydreaming as "LP-Der Woche" and found that Lennon had managed to "shake off the mighty shadow of his [father]" with his second LP. Lennon's compositions are "really strong, sensitive ... and tricky ...". Musikexpress saw Lennon's second album as "more of a conscious departure than a further development of the [acoustic, John Lennon-like] direction".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from allmusic.com found that just a handful of tracks including Stick Around are actually more than smooth, perfectly produced material. Rolling Stone criticized the abstract, often meaningless song lyrics, which mostly deal with relationship issues.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sylvie Simmons: Interview Julian Lennon . In: Musikexpress, May 1989, p. 36.
  2. ↑ Charts
  3. ↑ See heyjules.com
  4. ↑ Charts
  5. ↑ a b LP of the week: Julian Lennon - The Secret Value of Daydreaming . In: Bravo , April 30, 1986.
  6. ↑ See allmusic.com
  7. ↑ In fact, the slightness and abstraction of many of Value's lyrics are the LP's most frustrating problem. See rollingstone.com