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