BRENDAN O'BRIEN (MUSIC PRODUCER)

:''This article is about the music producer. For articles about other people with the same name, see Brendan O'Brien (disambiguation).''
'Brendan O'Brien' is a record producer, engineer and mixer who has worked with many artists, including Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Our Lady Peace, Aerosmith, The Wallflowers, Matthew Sweet, Limp Bizkit, Velvet Revolver, Lifehouse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, KoЯn, Follow For Now, Trey Anastasio, Rage Against the Machine, The Black Crowes, Aimee Mann, Bruce Springsteen, Audioslave, Papa Roach, Train, The Offspring, Phish, Incubus, King's X, Johnny Law, Uncle Green (later known as 3 lb. thrill), and Soundgarden. He is generally thought of as one of the more important music producers of the 1990s. O'Brien also produced the demo for the Indigo Girls at the theater in Avondale, GA.
He was a member of the band Samurai Catfish in the late 70's and The Georgia Satellites for a short time in the 1980s, and went on to head the Epic Records imprint 57 Records, as well as a premier Atlanta recording studio, Southern Tracks. He also played Hammond organ for Bob Dylan's appearance on MTV Unplugged.

Contents

Albums produced

Albums mixed

Albums engineered

DVDs mixed

External links

Albums produced

★ ''Doug'' - The Coolies (1988)

★ ''You'' - Uncle Green (1990)

★ ''The Big House of Time'' - Anne Richmond Boston (1990)

★ ''Undertown'' - Right as Rain (1990)

★ ''What an Experiment His Head Was'' - Uncle Green (1991)

★ ''Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired'' - Dan Baird (1991)

★ ''Stop! Look & Listen'' - Right as Rain (1991)

★ ''Follow for Now'' - Follow for Now (1991)

★ ''Johnny Law'' - Johnny Law (1991)

★ ''Core'' - Stone Temple Pilots (1992)

★ ''Book of Bad Thoughts'' - Uncle Green (1992)

★ ''Jackyl'' - Jackyl (1992)

★ ''Let It Rock: The Best of the Georgia Satellites'' - The Georgia Satellites (1993)

★ ''Vs.'' - Pearl Jam (1993)

★ ''Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert'' - Raging Slab (1993)

★ ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3'' - Bob Dylan (1993)

★ ''Dogman'' - King's X (1994)

★ ''Necktie Second'' - Pete Droge (1994)

★ ''Purple'' - Stone Temple Pilots (1994)

★ ''Vulture'' - 3 lb. thrill (1994)

★ ''Vitalogy'' - Pearl Jam (1994)

★ ''100% Fun'' - Matthew Sweet (1995)

★ ''Vulture'' - 3 lb. Thrill (1995)

★ ''Deadly Nightshade'' - The Deadly Nightshades (1995)

★ ''Mirror Ball'' - Neil Young with Pearl Jam (1995)

★ ''Point'' - Ernie Dale (1995)

★ ''Unshaven: Live at Smith's Olde Bar'' - Billy Joe Shaver (1995)

★ ''Buffalo Nickel'' - Dan Baird (1996)

★ ''Eventually'' - Paul Westerberg (1996)

★ ''Evil Empire'' - Rage Against the Machine (1996)

★ ''Find a Door'' - Pete Droge and the Sinners (1996)

★ ''No Code'' - Pearl Jam (1996)

★ ''Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop'' - Stone Temple Pilots (1996)

★ ''Blue Sky on Mars'' - Matthew Sweet (1997)

★ ''Resigned'' - Michael Penn (1997)

★ ''Spacey & Shakin' - Pete Droge (1997)

★ ''Yield'' - Pearl Jam (1998)

★ ''Dangerman'' - Dangerman (1998)

★ ''Significant Other'' - Limp Bizkit (1999)

★ ''No. 4'' - Stone Temple Pilots (1999)

★ ''Issues'' - KoЯn (1999)

★ ''The Battle of Los Angeles'' - Rage Against the Machine (1999)

★ ''Renegades'' - Rage Against the Machine (2000)

★ ''Bachelor No. 2'' - Aimee Mann (2000)

★ ''Conspiracy Of One'' - The Offspring (2000)

★ ''Shangri-La Dee Da'' - Stone Temple Pilots (2001)

★ ''Drops of Jupiter'' - Train (2001)

★ ''Tragic Show'' - Brand New Immortals (2001)

★ ''Waste of Skin'' - Spike 1000 (2001)

★ ''The Flying Tigers'' - Flying Tigers (2002)

★ ''Future Shock'' - Sinisstar (2002)

★ ''Jinx'' - Quarashi (2002)

★ ''Great Ocean Road'' - Ether (2002)

★ ''lovehatetragedy'' - Papa Roach (2002)

★ ''The Rising'' - Bruce Springsteen (2002)

★ ''My Private Nation'' - Train (2003)

★ ''Splinter'' - The Offspring (2003)

★ ''The Thorns'' - The Thorns (2003)

★ ''Alive at Red Rocks'' - Incubus (2004)

★ ''A Crow Left of the Murder'' - Incubus (2004)

★ ''Drive'' - Graham Colton Band (2004)

★ ''Welcome to the North'' - The Music (2004)

★ ''Devils and Dust'' - Bruce Springsteen (2005)

★ ''Rebel, Sweetheart'' - The Wallflowers (2005)

★ ''All the Stars and Boulevards'' - Augustana (2005)

★ ''Shine'' - Trey Anastasio (2005)

★ ''For Me, It's You'' - Train (2006)

★ ''Revelations'' - Audioslave (2006)

★ ''Light Grenades'' - Incubus (2006)

★ ''One Man Revolution'' - The Nightwatchman (2007)

★ ''The Sun and the Moon'' - The Bravery (2007)

★ ''Libertad'' - Velvet Revolver (2007)

★ ''Magic'' - Bruce Springsteen (2007)

Albums mixed

★ ''Decade of Aggression: Live'' - Slayer (1991)

★ ''Hollywood Town Hall'' - The Jayhawks (1992)

★ ''Jackyl'' - Jackyl (1992)

★ ''Get a Grip'' - Aerosmith (1993)

★ ''14 Songs'' - Paul Westerberg (1993)

★ ''Shame (Brad album)'' - Brad (1993)

★ ''Superunknown'' - Soundgarden (1994)

★ ''No Code'' - Pearl Jam (1996)

★ ''Interiors'' - Brad (1997)

★ ''Follow the Leader'' - Korn (1998)

★ ''Fallout'' - The Mayfield Four (1998)

★ ''Yield'' - Pearl Jam (1998)

★ ''Significant Other'' - Limp Bizkit (1999)

★ ''Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'' - Limp Bizkit (2000)

★ ''No Name Face'' - Lifehouse (2000)

★ ''Spiritual Machines'' - Our Lady Peace (2000)

★ ''Binaural'' - Pearl Jam (2000)

★ ''Trust No One'' - Dave Navarro (2001)

★ ''Riot Act'' - Pearl Jam (2002)

★ ''Stanley Climbfall'' - Lifehouse (2002)

★ ''Lost Dogs'' - Pearl Jam (2003)

★ ''Results May Vary'' - Limp Bizkit (2003)

★ ''truANT'' - Alien Ant Farm (2003)

★ ''Vulture Street'' - Powderfinger (2003)

★ ''Rearviewmirror'' - Pearl Jam (2004)

★ ''Wire'' - Third Day (2004)

★ ''All the Stars and Boulevards'' - Augustana (2005)

★ ''Out Of Exile'' - Audioslave (2005)

★ ''A Crow Left of the Murder'' - Incubus (2004)

★ ''Light Grenades'' - Incubus (2006)

Albums engineered

★ ''In the Spirit of Things'' - Kansas (1988)

★ ''Theme from Venus'' - Love Tractor (1989)

★ ''Danzig III: Lucifuge'' - Danzig (1990)

★ ''Shake Your Money Maker'' - The Black Crowes (1990)

★ ''Blood Sugar Sex Magik'' - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1991)

★ ''Hollywood Town Hall'' - The Jayhawks (1992)

★ ''The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion'' - The Black Crowes (1992)

★ ''Nobody Said It Was Easy'' - The Four Horsemen (1991)

DVDs mixed

★ ''Single Video Theory'' - Pearl Jam (1998)

★ ''Midnight Moon'' - Train (2001)

★ ''Alive at Red Rocks'' - Incubus (2004)

★ ''Live In Cuba'' - Audioslave (2005)

External links

★ All Music Guide entry

★ [1] Photographs of Brendan O'Brien as a young guitarist.