Mercury Rev - Some Albums...
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DESERTERS SONGS (1998)
1. Holes
2. Tonite It Shows
3. Endlessly
4. I Collect Coins
5. Opus 40
6. Hudson Line
7. The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
8. Goddess on a Hiway
9. The Funny Bird
10. Pick Up If You're There
11. Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp
12. Untitled (Hidden Track)
"Deserter's Songs" features such ethereal, swirling, joyful pieces of melancholy as "Holes," "Goddess on a Hiway," and "Tonite It Shows," to say nothing of the rest of the disc. Even a small instrumental track like "I Collect Coins" possesses a sense of nostalgia and introspection. "Coins" provides a moment to reflect once you've been caught up in the lyrically evocative and lullabye-esque "Endlessly" and allows you to prepare for the magical "Opus 40". On the whole, it's the kind of disc where you turn it on and float away, emerging from your daze only when the disc stops. Unless, that is, you put it on repeat, in which case, you will simply pine away over time as you forget to eat and drink. "Deserter's Songs" does not lose it's power over time. This is why people make music.
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ALL IS DREAM (2001)
1. The Dark Is Rising
2. Tides Of The Moon
3. Chains
4. Lincoln's Eyes
5. Nite and Fog
6. Little Rhymes
7. A Drop In Time
8. You're My Queen
9. Spiders and Flies
10. Hercules
Moody, majestic, and unpredictable, All Is Dream plays like Deserter's Songs' evil twin, polarizing that album's gently trippy, symphonic pop into paranoid and exuberant extremes that range from the eerie lullaby "Lincoln's Eyes" to the giddy show-tune-in-search-of-a-musical "A Drop in Time." Starting with the symphonic grandeur of "The Dark Is Rising," the album's ambitious, self-indulgent vibe recalls '60s and '70s psych and prog rock concept albums as well as the band's own expansive body of work. The first half of All Is Dream journeys through the band's dark side with songs like the brooding "Tides of the Moon," which pits Jonathan Donahue's spooked, singsong vocals against appropriately unearthly theremins, glockenspiels, and organs, while the second half's "Nite and Fog" and "Little Rhymes" sound twice as sunny compared to the preceding weirdness. The contrast between the album's halves is so sharp that it seems designed for vinyl; flipping this record over would be immensely satisfying. Though nothing on All Is Dream is as immediate as Deserter's Songs' "Goddess on a Hiway" or "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp," this album may be stronger as a whole, moving gracefully from singer/songwriter ballads like the beautiful "Spiders and Flies" to guitar-driven epics like "You're My Queen" and "Hercules." An unfashionably self-indulgent and earnest album, All Is Dream certainly isn't for everyone, and may not even be for some Mercury Rev fans, but in its own personal, insular way, it's another triumph for the band.
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THE SECRET MIGRATION (2005)
1. Secret For A Song
2. Across Yer Ocean
3. Diamonds
4. Black Forest (Lorelei)
5. Vermillion
6. In The Wilderness
7. In A Funny Way
8. My Love
9. Moving On
10. The Climbing Rose
11. Arise
12. First-Time Mother's Joy (Flying)
13. Down Poured The Heavens
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DESERTERS SONGS (1998)
1. Holes
2. Tonite It Shows
3. Endlessly
4. I Collect Coins
5. Opus 40
6. Hudson Line
7. The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
8. Goddess on a Hiway
9. The Funny Bird
10. Pick Up If You're There
11. Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp
12. Untitled (Hidden Track)
"Deserter's Songs" features such ethereal, swirling, joyful pieces of melancholy as "Holes," "Goddess on a Hiway," and "Tonite It Shows," to say nothing of the rest of the disc. Even a small instrumental track like "I Collect Coins" possesses a sense of nostalgia and introspection. "Coins" provides a moment to reflect once you've been caught up in the lyrically evocative and lullabye-esque "Endlessly" and allows you to prepare for the magical "Opus 40". On the whole, it's the kind of disc where you turn it on and float away, emerging from your daze only when the disc stops. Unless, that is, you put it on repeat, in which case, you will simply pine away over time as you forget to eat and drink. "Deserter's Songs" does not lose it's power over time. This is why people make music.
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ALL IS DREAM (2001)
1. The Dark Is Rising
2. Tides Of The Moon
3. Chains
4. Lincoln's Eyes
5. Nite and Fog
6. Little Rhymes
7. A Drop In Time
8. You're My Queen
9. Spiders and Flies
10. Hercules
Moody, majestic, and unpredictable, All Is Dream plays like Deserter's Songs' evil twin, polarizing that album's gently trippy, symphonic pop into paranoid and exuberant extremes that range from the eerie lullaby "Lincoln's Eyes" to the giddy show-tune-in-search-of-a-musical "A Drop in Time." Starting with the symphonic grandeur of "The Dark Is Rising," the album's ambitious, self-indulgent vibe recalls '60s and '70s psych and prog rock concept albums as well as the band's own expansive body of work. The first half of All Is Dream journeys through the band's dark side with songs like the brooding "Tides of the Moon," which pits Jonathan Donahue's spooked, singsong vocals against appropriately unearthly theremins, glockenspiels, and organs, while the second half's "Nite and Fog" and "Little Rhymes" sound twice as sunny compared to the preceding weirdness. The contrast between the album's halves is so sharp that it seems designed for vinyl; flipping this record over would be immensely satisfying. Though nothing on All Is Dream is as immediate as Deserter's Songs' "Goddess on a Hiway" or "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp," this album may be stronger as a whole, moving gracefully from singer/songwriter ballads like the beautiful "Spiders and Flies" to guitar-driven epics like "You're My Queen" and "Hercules." An unfashionably self-indulgent and earnest album, All Is Dream certainly isn't for everyone, and may not even be for some Mercury Rev fans, but in its own personal, insular way, it's another triumph for the band.
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THE SECRET MIGRATION (2005)
1. Secret For A Song
2. Across Yer Ocean
3. Diamonds
4. Black Forest (Lorelei)
5. Vermillion
6. In The Wilderness
7. In A Funny Way
8. My Love
9. Moving On
10. The Climbing Rose
11. Arise
12. First-Time Mother's Joy (Flying)
13. Down Poured The Heavens
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