Yeah, I kind of feel like we've suddenly begun talking about some other band called Mercury Rev. Maybe there were two.
― dlp9001, Monday, 21 January 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Pity me schtick" is not something I've ever associated with (any incarnation of) Mercury Rev.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 January 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry folks I will stay off this thread. I just immensely dislike them and shouldn't even be on here. For what it is worth I bought Yersrelf Is Steam when I was a teenager and hoyed the fucking cassette in the bin after 2 days.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 21 January 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
O_o
― john. a resident of chicago., Monday, 21 January 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
"it's not time for the real live sign, it's not time for these fears of mine" *wall of feedback*
― Cunga, Monday, 21 January 2013 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
"The Dark is Rising" is some old sad sack down by the river stuff tho. There's that Neil Young influence that's kind of mopey.
― Cunga, Monday, 21 January 2013 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
I can definitely hear the Neil influence, but I always interpreted the tone of that song as winking/wistful, rather than wallowing.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 January 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
Single link argument for BOCES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2VvMgwIF4
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, 21 January 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
"Something For Joey" live from the Phoenix Festival (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDKrWsSBSg
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, 21 January 2013 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
David Baker also produced the one and only Comet album "Chandelier Musings" (1996). Here's the closing track from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0dRvYZjAMk
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, 21 January 2013 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
Mercury Rev >>>>> Olivia Tremor Control
― horizontal hold, Monday, 21 January 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
I once thought that the name of a good box set of early Rev would be: "Emotion Recollected in Insanity"
― Cunga, Monday, 21 January 2013 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
New Mercury Rev...
https://soundcloud.com/bella-union/01-the-queen-of-swans/s-PeV2u
MERCURY REV ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM - THE LIGHT IN YOU - OUT SEPTEMBER 18 VIA BELLA UNION
http://files.ctctcdn.com/2950a13a001/bb6408aa-b17d-4d65-9cdc-253d574ee4f2.png
The Light In You tracklisting: The Queen Of SwansAmelieYou've Gone With So Little For So LongCentral Park EastEmotional FreefallComing Up For AirAutumn's In The AirAre You Ready?SunflowerMoth Light Rainy Day Record
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 19 June 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
was there not a major shake up in the line-up leaving only Grasshopper and JOnathon wassisface as there from Yerself days and everybody else leaving. So the band on See You On The Other Side is still basically the old band, een with Baker having departed and whatever after that as a newer band?
I love the early line up anyway, wish I hadn't lost all the live stuff I'd managed to get hold of by them when a harddrive crashed. Seems way too familiar a story from a couple of years back, lost a load of stuff by several bands that I'd been dying to get before getting it then it vanished overnight.
Do still have the Roskilde 92 thankfully.
― Stevolende, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
lol self-parody tracklist
this band needs to stop
― imago, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
I love everything they did from Yerself Is Steam to All Is Dream but this new song is not great. Sounds like something from The Secret Migration. They should have changed things up a bit more. I was hoping this album would be their Embryonic.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 19 June 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I really, really wanted this to be good but that song has shot down my expectations.
― cwkiii, Friday, 19 June 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
I love both Yerself Is Steam and Deserters Songs but really dislike everything else they did, kinda feel like those are the only two you need. See You On The Other Side is way tweer than DS. Remember All is Dream being just unlistenably melodramatic and soft focus and never bothered with anything else.
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 June 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
there's quite a major one missing from that summary
― imago, Friday, 19 June 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
Boces wasn't really considered major at all the last time I bothered paying much attention to Mercury Rev (about 14 years ago). I remember loving Bronx Cheer and being faintly underwhelmed by the rest and have never really bothered to go back.
The first one is the only one I ever get the urge to play these days, but even then I still really love it.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 20 June 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
Boces>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everything else
― cwkiii, Saturday, 20 June 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
It's really weird to see a band grow and change so much from album to album only to end up at fucking All Is Dream and be like "OK, cool, let's just do this forever."
― cwkiii, Saturday, 20 June 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link
I think All Is Dream is a great album but it would have been nice if they'd developed from that sound. The Secret Migration was such a boring retread of that album. Judging by this new single the new album could well be the same. Maybe the album is more varied. I can't believe after seven years away they thought this was good enough.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 20 June 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/58sbCIxg0nsjJ1MfbCWWX9
― PaulTMA, Monday, 3 August 2015 11:57 (eight years ago) link
Was just listening to this. It isn't horrible. At all. I'm not sure what to think.
― dlp9001, Monday, 3 August 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
The big crashing Coldplay drum pattern was not exactly what I was hoping for. Surely The Secret Migration is not anyone's favourite Rev album? I liked Snowflake Midnight just fine. Probably alone there.
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 6 August 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
Tears of Silver pic.twitter.com/qXZqP8sgXA— grasshopper (@mercuryrevvd) July 15, 2017
― Dancing on the Pylons, Saturday, 15 July 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
Was surprised to see they were playing a small club in my town last week, and despite hating just about everything since All is Dream I got a ticket out of curiosity & nostalgia. And I gotta say they pulled it off, it was pretty good!
I wasnt sure what to expect having never seen them live, I wasnt even sure if it would be just Jonathan & Grasshopper blooping around w/keyboards or what, but it was a 5-piece rock band, heavy on guitars with a few Yerself Is Steam songs and even a tune from Jonathans tenure in the Flaming Lips. Idk how it would have played at a fest or something, probably wouldnt have worked on a big stage, but in a small club to 100 people I was very pleasantly surprised.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah when I saw them a few years ago for the first time at last, for a Deserter's Songs tour, it was very enjoyable. They've found a niche and it works well for them.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
I loved teh David Baker years and glad to see taht at least Spotify has a couple of live sets from that era around.Not seen them in like 29 years apat from on TV. There was a good 3 song set on something in 99 I think on the bBC part of a larger celebration.Haven't listened to their later stuff much but those first 3 or 4 plus whatever live sets from the time and the mopping up compilations that came out at teh time are all great.
I heard the live set that came with caribou's Swim cd when i bought it in Rough Trade when it was current and it reminded me really heavily of that early era MR. The Caribou Vibration Ensemble, not sure if there is any more of that stuff anywhere that sounds that similar to that set with Marshall Allen cos I think they went through a number of different lineups live but do hear similarities with taht specific set.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMZ9E6ZK81g
― MaresNest, Sunday, 30 October 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
i know i asked this on another thread
but does anyone know where the cover art from BOCES or Something For Joey single comes from? i know the yerself is steam artwork is an edited photo of patricia highsmith and SYOTOS is a still taken from a 70s 7-up commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjyyScBdsc
― syringemouth, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
also some cool rev knowledge to behold
the car wash hair cover art has lettering thats falling down. that was actually an accident. someone bumped the table they were using to glue the letters on and they just dried that way. jonathan told mooneyham he liked it so they stuck with it.
― syringemouth, Friday, 25 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Their pre Deserter’s Songs artwork was incredible.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 25 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
i also vaguely remember reading that the 30 or 40 minute track on the car wash hair ep is a mashup of random movie dialogue with actual recordings of one of the band members during a psychiatric visit
take it with a grain of salt since i have no way of verifying this
― syringemouth, Friday, 25 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
that would fit with its title ('lego my ego')
― imago, Friday, 25 November 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
anyway they should have changed the name after baker left
― imago, Friday, 25 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
Not posting it, but if you search Youtube for (ahem) 'Lionel Richie's Dick' you can see the video from which that psychiatric hospital section is taken... pretty harrowing stuff of course
― PaulTMA, Friday, 25 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
Supposedly from an HBO documentary on schizophrenia that the band had a tape of
― PaulTMA, Friday, 25 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link