Tag Archives: Lou Giordano

Sunny Day Real Estate: The Rising Tide

On June 20, 2000, “Time Bomb” label released “The Rising Tide”, the fourth Sunny Day Real Estate album. It was recorded in 1999, at “Dreamland” in West Hurley, New York, and was produced by Loui Gordano.

Personnel:

  • Jeremy Enigk – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keys, floor & knee, vocoder, Mellotron, drums, art direction
  • Dan Hoerner – guitars, lap steel guitar, electric sitar, bass, art direction
  • William Goldsmith – vocals, drums, percussion, art direction
  • Larry Packer – violin, string arrangements
  • Stan Kurtis – violin
  • Rachel Handman – violin 
  • Michelle Stewart – violin
  • Ryan Hall – viola 
  • Emily Schaad – viola 
  • Rob Turner – string arrangements, cello 
  • Lisa Bressler – cello
  • Derek Bermel – string arrangements
  • Lou Giordano – programming, engineer, mixing
  • Sue Kapa – engineer assistant
  • Zach Blackstone – mixing assistant
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Jolie Clemens – art direction
  • Matthew Kern – angel photography
  • F. Scott Schafer – band photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Dan Hoerner and Jeremy Enigk, all music by William Goldsmith, Dan Hoerner and Jeremy Enigk.

  1. Killed by an Angel
  2. Obe
  3. Rain Song
  4. Disappear
  5. Snibe
  6. The Ocean
  7. Fool in the Photograph
  8. Tearing in My Heart
  9. Television
  10. Faces in Disguise
  11. The Rising Tide

Taking Back Sunday: Where You Want To Be

On July 27, 2004, “Victory” label released “Where You Want to Be”, the second Taking Back Sunday studio album. It was recorded March – April 2004, at “Mission Sound” in Brooklyn, New York, “Water Music” in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was produced by Lou Giordano.

Personnel:

  • Adam Lazzara – lead vocals
  • Fred Mascherino – vocals, lead guitar
  • Eddie Reyes – rhythm guitar
  • Matt Rubano – bass guitar
  • Mark O’Connell – drums, percussion
  • Roy Zu-Arets – piano, string arrangement, conductor
  • Girl Next Door String Quartet – strings
  • Neil Rubenstein – vocals
  • Nick Torres – vocals
  • Mike Sapone – programming
  • Todd Parker – engineer, mixing
  • Lou Giordano – mixing
  • Ted Young – mixing
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Oliver Strauss – assistance
  • Barbra Vlahides – assistance
  • Stuart Karmatz – technician
  • Brad Filip – layout, artwork

Track listing:

  1. Set Phasers to Stun
  2. Bonus Mosh Pt. II
  3. A Decade Under the Influence
  4. This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)
  5. The Union
  6. New American Classic
  7. I Am Fred Astaire
  8. One-Eighty by Summer
  9. Number Five with a Bullet
  10. Little Devotional
  11. ..Slowdance on the Inside

Sugar: Cooper Blue

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On September 4, 1992, “Rykodisc” label released “Copper Blue”, the debut Sugar studio album. It was recorded 1990 – 1992, and was produced by Bob Mould and Lou Giordano. It was voted 1992 “Album of the Year” by the “NME”.

Personnel:

  • Bob Mould – vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion
  • David Barbe – bass
  • Malcolm Travis – drums, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob Mould.

  1. The Act We Act
  2. A Good Idea
  3. Changes
  4. Helpless
  5. Hoover Dam
  6. The Slim
  7. If I Can’t Change Your Mind
  8. Fortune Teller
  9. Slick
  10. Man on the Moon