a nice and dreamy song to kick off summer   1

ninjalovechild 29 May 2015

Countdown to End of TIMJ #16: Yesterday I posted a Flaming Lips tune from the days when Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue was in both bands; as I've never posted a Rev tune here I should do so now, especially as they're my preferred group between the two. The upstate New York group began their career with two zonked art-noise records with second vocalist David Baker before his departure and the transitional 1995 album See You on the Other Side, then the eventual development into a more stately concern beginning with 1998's Deserter's Songs. I'll always have a special love for those two early albums, Yerself Is Steam and Boces. Sony has a virtual lockdown on material from this era when it comes to this site, so choices are limited; this is a song appended to US CD versions of Yerself Is Steam. It's a rare example of a bonus track becoming one of a band's most well known songs.   2

noyoucmon 26 Aug 2015

it's my 1 year TIMJ anniversary (kinda bittersweet, considering the site's imminent closure). anyways, this is the first song I ever jammed on here so rejamming it seems appropriate for the occasion.

condorave 11 Sep 2015

An old fav - early Mercury Rev   4

BrianWalton 17 Feb 2013