I think I've got just about all the actual CD singles covering the first three albums aside from "The Hum is Coming From Her"/"So There" now. I don't have the actual "If You Want Me to Stay" single but I did end up with the Rough Trade Japan comp for the singles club with that on it so at least there's the B-side too.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
BOCES funded a lot of weird shit. They paid for my first comic - training on the printing press, clearly!
This album is such a time & place for me - ironically after I moved down to NYC (this year, make NYC a state!) It's so the sound of working the night shift at the record shop.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
hah, i love this record. i saw them play portsmouth on the tour and it remains the most comprehensively fucked musical episode i have ever witnessed ,it must have been in the final months of baker's tenure, no one could have endured that unbridled madness for long. i think at least three people were crying onstage.
― cw, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
The fact that the Rev released songs entitled "There's Spider Eggs In Bubbla Yhum" and "Pop Rocks + Soda = Kaboom" makes me so happy.
YES!
Great cover art of course
I had this & remember really digging the cover art as well - it was like a close-up photo of a bunch of balloons or lollypops iirc
― Apartment of Evil (Pillbox), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
it was boobs iirc
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
That was the album, "Bronx Cheer"'s cover is upthread a short distance.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
odd how their flawless visual aesthetic went wrong the moment they turned aor
― cw, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
^ otm (but i think you mean mor)
havent listened to this stuff in aaaaaages but this was the only m-rev period i was into, i was also into marijuana at the time― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, May 21, 2012 8:00 AMMan, this revive got me to go listen to "Frittering" again, what a cool song. Never bothered with anything that didn't have D. Baker in the band, just seemed like a different beast.― grandavis, Monday, May 21, 2012 8:40 AM
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, May 21, 2012 8:00 AM
Man, this revive got me to go listen to "Frittering" again, what a cool song. Never bothered with anything that didn't have D. Baker in the band, just seemed like a different beast.
― grandavis, Monday, May 21, 2012 8:40 AM
saw them on tour for yrself is steam in 91 and chatted with david afterwards. seemed like a pretty cool guy.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
bthere was only supposed to be that one part
This is such an important record to me. I see all its faults and yet it is still pretty close to a perfect cultural artifact in a personal sense. Even just looking at the cover is guaranteed to make me instantly 15% more happy and it's not because of the boobs.
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
like
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
though i literally havent listened to this in at least 15 years
Listen to it!
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 17:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
Boces and See You On The Other Side especially are my go-to albums of Mercury Rev's best output
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 23:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
all true, but yrself is steam is better
― nostormo, Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Bronx Cheer" = rulelater Mercury Rev = crap.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
these days I actually think See You On the Other Side is the best
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
I like career midpoints, I've realized
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:39 (8 months ago) Permalink