Remember That Yerself Is Steam - Mercury Rev Poll

I prefer Boces too; "Meth Of A Rockette's Kick" is the pinnacle of all things Rev IMO (closely followed by the rest of the album, "Girlfren" excepted)

Actually if you took the last 3 tracks of Boces out (and I do really like Hi-Speed Boats but...) and replaced them with the last 3 tracks of Yerself Is Steam you'd have a MOTHERFUCKING album

I remember getting this on tape, with the free tape attached, which had that excellent version of 'If You Want Me To Stay' on it. Both albums I absolutely adored - if anything, and if my memory serves, the live version of Frittering is even better than the album version.

I never bought anything by them again. Odd. Anyway, erm, Frittering/Chasing in Bee... Frittering I think.

"Like Pillbox sez it was one of 'those' records for me."

surprised you like it so much and Animal Collective's - not so.

Feels, for example has lots of Steam on it.(among other things)

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A full overview of the album by all involved -- including Baker!

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2015/08/19/magnet-classics-mercury-revs-yrself-is-steam/#more-182655

I was at their first London show in 1991 - Baker and Donahue pretty much got into a punch-up before they'd played a note (to the bemusement of the audience), Baker then spent the entire set sitting cross-legged on the stage strumming a guitar that wasn't plugged in, and when they came back out for the encore they were high-fiving / all friends again. It wouldn't have worked for most bands, but with them it seemed to fit at the time.

Was listening to this today - first time in years - and I'm ready to make a case that this could be the Amer-Indie (sorry!) Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Interesting Magnet piece above. I haven't listened in a long while to this. I think maybe the better parts of Boces and See You on the Other Side seem like a fuller realisation of what they were trying to get at back then, but who's to really know.

best album ever

yes

It's pretty damn good.

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nah VSR is incredible

Boces is the best album ever, this one is pretty good though. :)

I stumbled across this the other day, was pretty fun to listen to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbr_lFcRLAo

i've actually never heard boces so this is a good inspiration

i remember blissing out to yerself is steam constantly in college

it's too bad this band put out two amazing albums and one pretty good album and then immediately broke up and never put anything else out

i've actually never heard boces so this is a good inspiration

yeah i rate it right with YIS, maybe a bit higher tbh. 'girlfren' is my favorite album closer of theirs

See You On the Other Side always seems a bit lost in remembrance but it's a dear friend's favorite Rev album by far.

Anyway: per a post from a friend yesterday, Yerself has turned thirty years old. All my thoughts upthread still stand, and I cosign Elvis T here:

Was listening to this today - first time in years - and I'm ready to make a case that this could be the Amer-Indie (sorry!) Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, December 15, 2017 12:36 AM (three years ago)