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  • Posted: 10/16/2014 20:00
  • Post subject: Album of the day (#1422): Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev
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Today's album of the day

Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1998.
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Overall rank: 574
Average rating: 81/100 (from 208 votes).



Tracks:
1. Holes
2. Tonite It Shows
3. Endlessly
4. I Collect Coins
5. Opus 40
6. Hudson Line
7. Happy End (The Drunk Room)
8. Goddess on a Hiway
9. Funny Bird
10. Pick up If You're There
11. Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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  • Posted: 10/16/2014 20:03
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Love

I sometimes think of it as The Soft Bulletin lite, but it's still one of my all-time favorites.
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  • Posted: 10/16/2014 20:06
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I remember this being a good alternative rock album. I rated it well though and though I think I may have forgotten any songs from it.
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  • Posted: 10/16/2014 20:07
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Definitely a precursor for The Soft Bulletin, but it's a bit underdeveloped in places. Mercury Rev are a weird band for me; sometimes I find myself liking some of their songs a lot, but then recoiling at others. Holes is absolutely gorgeous though.
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  • Posted: 10/16/2014 20:09
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What makes it so touching is how it works on the ever-thin line between grandiose and totally blown-up. That ever-thin line will be crossed next time.
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  • Posted: 10/16/2014 21:33
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Their third best I'd say. Don't like it near as much as the first two but it's still a fantastic album in its own right.
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  • Posted: 10/17/2014 01:25
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Seeing as this was released in 1998 a year before Soft Bulletin,I initially thought the Flaming Lips were taking some ideas from here.Turns out it's the other way round.


"In a 2011 interview, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne discussed Deserter’s Songs, The Soft Bulletin, and the symbiotic creation of the two albums:

“...there were times when [The Flaming Lips] would go in [to the studio] right after [Mercury Rev], or they would come in right after us, and we were all exploring the same new gadgets together. They were starting to work in Protools at the same time we were. And whatever instruments, whatever new gadgets, between us, Mercury Rev and Dave [Fridmann]... which ever band would get them, the next group into the studio would use them too. If Dave had just had some breakthrough moment he'd recorded with us, when Mercury Rev would come in he would say 'Hey... we've got to do this, this is cool'. And the same thing would happen with us. So I think the connection is Dave Fridmann, and also this lack of really believing there would be an audience for this record. I think Mercury Rev felt the same way. Their audience had gone away, and all they could do was make the music that was in their dreams.
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  • Posted: 10/17/2014 04:15
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This album is sooooo coooooool and goooooood. And I prefer it over the soft bulletin.
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  • Posted: 10/17/2014 06:45
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HazeyTwilight wrote:
Holes is absolutely gorgeous.
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  • Posted: 10/17/2014 11:04
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Lots of classic songs here. It may not be The Soft Bulletin, but it's still amazing in its own right.
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