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band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:28 am
by Champion Rabbit
Their first record was NOT CRAP. zero
Everything since was boring, predictable CRAP.
CRAP.
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band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:05 pm
by hip priest_Archive
I'm not voting because up to and including "See you on the other side" I loved 'em.
Can we not change the poll to
Either/or Mercury Rev<1995 Vs Mercury Rev>1995?
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:06 pm
by Nico Adie_Archive
Crap.
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:18 pm
by mackro_Archive
Yerself Is Steam: thumbs up
BOCES: thumbs WAY up! ("Something For Joey" is one of my favorite songs)
See You On The Other Side: thumbs kinda up
Deserter's Songs: thumbs kinda up
All Is Dream: flat hand
The Migration something or other: OH MY GOD GET THAT FACE OUT OF THAT MOTH ABDOMEN YOU GODDAMN HIPPIES!
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:20 pm
by mackro_Archive
The band were at their best when they made everyone confused. It was clear this was the David Baker factor. Once he left, the confusion left... and slowly but surely the appeal.
Baker produced one of my other favorite albums along these lines.. the one and only album by Comet.. from Denton, TX.
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 12:20 am
by 242sumner
One of the few truly talented american bands that i have heard in a long time.They deserve much more recognition and success than they have. Live the band is amazing.
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 10:46 am
by burun_Archive
I find myself coming back to them over and over again.
I really love Deserter's Songs, where they channel The Band better than any of the individual surviving Band members.
I would like to play guitar like Grasshopper some day, but I have heard a lot of things about his crappy attitude that give me pause, as if wielding that sort of sonic aptitude would make me an asshole. If that's the case, I don't want it.
Caveat: the one time I met them, back in the David Baker days, they were all sorts of nice, but obviously the kind of people who just couldn't get along with one another for long periods of time.
Not Crap, with a waffle factor for some of the questionable throwaway records they made.
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:56 am
by coceng_Archive
DESERTER SONGS is fucking awesome !!!!!!!
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:42 pm
by Poffdl_Archive
Both of the David Baker albums have some of my favorite music. The first one has bigger high points, and the second one is a little more consistent, although there's some boring crap on each of them.
I need to listen to SYOTOS again, but I recall a lot of it being flat out bad and distasteful.
Deserter's Songs had some pretty moments, but some of it could soundtrack some Disney movies.
NOT CRAP for the first two records alone.
band: Mercury Rev
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:23 am
by eephour_Archive
They do a pretty nice cover of Motion Pictures, not crap.