Members light years Posted October 10, 2005 Members Posted October 10, 2005 All is dream was blah and now the secret migration is really bad. i have all thier others. Boces i think is the best feed back/fuzz/noise/pop album there is. what say ye??
Members themeanreds Posted October 10, 2005 Members Posted October 10, 2005 Originally posted by light years All is dream was blah and now the secret migration is really bad. i have all thier others. Boces i think is the best feed back/fuzz/noise/pop album there is. what say ye?? The last couple of records seem neutered of the edge and muscle that flexed beneath the surface of Deserters' Songs and often broke that surface in the earlier work. To my ears it is the difference between a great psych-pop band and a bland indie band with some atmosphere. Check out Hopewell's Birds of Appetite record for some Mercury Revving that, while struggling to drag itself out from under the weight of their influences, is still one of the best far-out pop records of the past few years.
Members Montag Posted October 10, 2005 Members Posted October 10, 2005 sometime in the late 90s. empire state is their best song ever.
Members bad mutha-humpa Posted October 10, 2005 Members Posted October 10, 2005 Most purists will say the started sucking after Baker left the band. I disagree. They started sucking after "See you on the other side"...which was IMO their most uniquely iconic record. They really found their voice with that one. After that I just chalk it up to getting old and getting boring.....and in a way, being boring garnered them more critical acclaim than being good. They followed a less dramatic version of the trajectory the flaming lips took...from inspiration, quickly past a short period of truly finding their voice, and directly into placating boring indie poop.
Members light years Posted October 10, 2005 Author Members Posted October 10, 2005 i have "the curved glass" by hopewell, its wonderfull. i can hoestly say that ive loved every song on every album. but then it got spotty with their last two. "the dark is rising" brings me to tears and "in a funny way" is all spector. i was just used to everything being great. i think "meth of a rockets kick" is a fav offboces. " "cony island cyclone" of yr self is steem. "everlasting arm"from see you. "holes" on deserters. beautiful, {censored}ed up songs
Members BillyGrahamCracker Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 All Is Dream is still my favorite one. The newest one's awful, though.
Members Weatherbox Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Criminy, I saw them opening for the Doves earlier this year... it was so absurd I thought I must have been hallucinating. Cheesed out Faerie-Age adult contemporary performed by a chubby guitar dude wearing sunglasses in a dark rock club with his shirt half unbuttoned and a lead singer with fluffy pirate sleeves throwing the audience the most ridiculously overwrought community-theatre gestures with a powerpoint presentation flickering behind them featuring silly graphics of molecules and dolphins spinning through galaxies with phrases like "do your best!" "you are made of light... everything is!" and "if you stopped dreaming... would you stop existing?" ...phew.
Members BillyGrahamCracker Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by Weatherbox Criminy, I saw them opening for the Doves earlier this year... it was so absurd I thought I must have been hallucinating. Cheesed out Faerie-Age adult contemporary performed by a chubby guitar dude wearing sunglasses in a dark rock club with his shirt half unbuttoned and a lead singer with fluffy pirate sleeves throwing the audience the most ridiculously overwrought community-theatre gestures with a powerpoint presentation flickering behind them featuring silly graphics of molecules and dolphins spinning through galaxies with phrases like "do your best!" "you are made of light... everything is!" and "if you stopped dreaming... would you stop existing?"...phew. So I guess you're not going to be a fan of my new band, then, huh? We were going to try and start up the galactic-dolphincore movement.
Members teardrop Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by Weatherbox Criminy, I saw them opening for the Doves earlier this year... it was so absurd I thought I must have been hallucinating. Cheesed out Faerie-Age adult contemporary performed by a chubby guitar dude wearing sunglasses in a dark rock club with his shirt half unbuttoned and a lead singer with fluffy pirate sleeves throwing the audience the most ridiculously overwrought community-theatre gestures with a powerpoint presentation flickering behind them featuring silly graphics of molecules and dolphins spinning through galaxies with phrases like "do your best!" "you are made of light... everything is!" and "if you stopped dreaming... would you stop existing?"...phew. oh god I hope you're joking...? I agree they started to suck a while ago, but this is kicking into another level of suckiness.
Members Weatherbox Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by BillyGrahamCracker So I guess you're not going to be a fan of my new band, then, huh? We were going to try and start up the galactic-dolphincore movement. Truth be told, I was just bitter I hadn't thought of it first.
Members Weatherbox Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by teardrop oh god I hope you're joking...? I agree they started to suck a while ago, but this is kicking into another level of suckiness. The Washington Post reviewed the show... their review of Rev was something like (and I'm not exaggerating much here) "what the {censored} did I just see?"
Members BillyGrahamCracker Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by Weatherbox Truth be told, I was just bitter I hadn't thought of it first. Before I mentioned dolphincore, I was going to make a remark that my upcoming album was going to be called "Sea Shanties from Pluto," and then I realized that as stupid as that sounds, I sort of liked it. Even "Space Shanties"....you've revealed how truly dorky I am.
Members light years Posted October 11, 2005 Author Members Posted October 11, 2005 yeah, i dont know what happened. johnathan used to just hunch over his jaguar and have fits. now he spreads his wings and tries to fly away.......
Members BillyGrahamCracker Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by light years yeah, i dont know what happened. johnathan used to just hunch over his jaguar and have fits. now he spreads his wings and tries to fly away....... And there's only one dude who was man enough to do that:
Members roygbiv Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 After hearing Coney Island Cyclone from Yerself Is Steam and being blown away, it was all downhill from there. But, granted that song is starting from a pretty high point. I liked See You on the Other Side and even tolerated Deserter's Songs for what it was. I gave up after I heard a couple of tunes from All Is Dream. Blech. Coney Island Cyclone is pure sonic bliss, though.
Members Weatherbox Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by BillyGrahamCracker Before I mentioned dolphincore, I was going to make a remark that my upcoming album was going to be called "Sea Shanties from Pluto," and then I realized that as stupid as that sounds, I sort of liked it. Even "Space Shanties"....you've revealed how truly dorky I am. space shanties. I like that.
Members voerking Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 i only like yerself is steam and boces.
Members sirhcathome Posted October 11, 2005 Members Posted October 11, 2005 I first saw Mercury Rev open for My Bloody Valentine. The ticket typo'ed the name as Mercury Red. I have loved them ever since. After Boces, David Baker (IIRC) left the band and a lot of the tension went too. Grasshopper still is a brilliant guitarist (his Luna work for instance), but I agree as the music has lost the chaos, it has lost its charm to me. It is too "Supertramp".
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