Re: Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (1998)

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:33 pm

Is that a swanee whistle or a recorder?

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:33 pm

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:35 pm

Conspicuous production-enforced dissolution to end with.

They may have earnt it that time.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:38 pm

Sort-of Emu-Systems synth thing going on now.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:39 pm

Big bass drum.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:39 pm

This just sounds like Beck.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:43 pm

Hidden track.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:43 pm

Stockhausen pastiche-a-rama.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:44 pm

Nightjar wrote:Stockhausen pastiche-a-rama.

Or is it...

scared

Harry Partch? scared

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:50 pm

I can kind of understand why they got compared to The Rs now.

Not cos of the music, but because there was a very conspicuous attempt throughout to affect a kind of vivaciously ramshackle, "WEIRD" sound with what seemed to be the same kind of instruments and noises and filters and other stuff.

The difference is that The Residents were, for at least 5 years, literally just scrabbling about for instruments and whatever things that might make strange noises amongst rubbish tips in San Francisco with no money and making it up as they went along.

MR on the other hand use all of these sounds and elements in an arch manner and with the benefits of vapid studio trickery and combine it with songs that fell short at almost every point, moment and juncture.

At least The Residents didn't know how to write songs. box

And then they met a geezer from London who did, but threw all of that knowledge out the window cos for 'sh*ts and g*ggles'.

They also had, along with T/G, one of the gertest one-man graphics dept. of all time.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:55 pm

I'll be nice.

There was them songs and an half.

by Butterfield Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:53 pm

I've just listened to my Deserter's Songs CD for the first time in about 5 years. Excited

I'd kept it in a separate box to my most favourite CDs so I knew that I must have at least accepted it into my general collection, and although it's perhaps not what I'd normally listen to I did enjoy it a lot more than I remembered. I think the saw used throughout is a delight. yes

4/5

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