The Singles:
Reckless with love. (7.9.03 mix, bonus track, "Everything that ever was." 15th Anniversary Edition, 2005/2020.)
Tim Brickley and the Bleeding Hearts
Lon Ohnder: "Early mix of the lauded 'Everything' opener. You can really hear Ben Wah Salami on this mix, some of his 'you-know-they're-coming high-spirited adlibs' that get lost in the final mix. And you can really hear a well-lubricated danny-flanigan and the Rain Chorus doing their group bv's..."
Tangled and tempted. (Original demo, from the Polygram Films release "Going All The Way", 1997.)
Tim Brickley
Love theme from the 1997 film adaption of Dan Wakefield's influential 1969 coming-of-age novel set in 1950's Indianapolis (whew.). This is the original approach, not used (sadly) in the film. TB: "It was written as a Chet Baker-type ballad. Then they decided they wanted an uptempo treatment." Written by Tim Brickley and the film's Music Supervisor
Love theme from the 1997 film adaption of Dan Wakefield's influential 1969 coming-of-age novel set in 1950's Indianapolis (whew.). This is the original approach, not used (sadly) in the film. TB: "It was written as a Chet Baker-type ballad. Then they decided they wanted an uptempo treatment." Written by Tim Brickley and the film's Music Supervisor (and current Sirius XM "Deep Tracks" host) Greg Roberson. Produced and engineered by Tim Brickley.
William and the President. (2013.)
Tim Brickley
TB: “2103 home demo of late 1980’s song dedicated to the beloved memory of a long-gone friend, and the not-so-beloved memory of a not-quite-gone-so-long former actor.”
What's So Funny ('Bout Peace, Love and Understanding) (Live, 1980.)
The Secrets
The Secrets give Nick Lowe (via Elvis Costello) the Ol' College Try. Produced and engineered by Tim Brickley, direct to 1/4" tape, at the Indiana University Student Union, Bloomington, IN USA, 12.5.1980.
The Secrets Greatest Hits! (1980.)
The Secrets
Recorded at the Indiana University Telecom Center, fall 1980, as soundtrack for faux-late-night TV commercial. Includes snippets of (in order): 1. Too young to know. 2. The only lonely. 3. I want to give to charity. 4. Elegant fever. 5. Living next door. 6. None here for you. 7. I used to know. TB and DR: vox, + TB on drums, bass, piano, guitar.
Elegant fever. (Live, 1983.)
Today's Icons
From recently discovered video of a Today’s Icons rehearsal from December 1983, in the then-newly acquired basement at Hit City. Initially a Secrets rocker (with chords nicked from the intro to Bowie’s “Watch That Man”), here given a reggae-like feel born out of the heavy Jah/Ska Love of keyboardist Pete Gable and drummer Gary Fryar.
The rooming house. (Live, ArtsGarden, Indpls. IN, 2017.)
Tim Brickley
"I stand alone before the rooming house, the place we lived when we were in love." TB solo piano/vox, recorded by always-inspiring ArtsGarden engineer Jeff Mountjoy. Written by Tim Brickley and David Rheins.
She said she. (1986.)
Tim Brickley
“I watch her glide through the tables of patrons, light and graceful, sharp and hard.” You-are-there ballad of exhilarating/devastating post-pubescent passion. Jon Ohnder: “Written in 1983/4 because the Icons gave it a few tries live. This track is TB on all instruments and voices, ala “McCartney” or classic Rundgren, with beginnings of the
“I watch her glide through the tables of patrons, light and graceful, sharp and hard.” You-are-there ballad of exhilarating/devastating post-pubescent passion. Jon Ohnder: “Written in 1983/4 because the Icons gave it a few tries live. This track is TB on all instruments and voices, ala “McCartney” or classic Rundgren, with beginnings of the double-tracked, finger-picked acoustic guitar approach...”
If A Band Fell... (The Brickley/Rheins Archive)
