Yerself Is Steam (studio album) by Mercury Rev

Yerself Is Steam by Mercury Rev
Year: 1991
Overall rank: 1,016th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 298 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1991 (18th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (196th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,016th)

Mercury Rev bestography

Yerself Is Steam is ranked 2nd best out of 19 albums by Mercury Rev on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Mercury Rev is Deserter's Songs which is ranked number 649 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,757.

Mercury Rev album bestography « Higher ranked (649th) This album (1,016th) Lower ranked (2,254th) »
Deserter's SongsYerself Is SteamAll Is Dream

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78/100 (from 298 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.

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75/100
From 07/01/2023 11:36
Very weird and noisy, but somehow quite enjoyable album.
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From 09/08/2021 15:43
Shoegaze with a bit of desert rock mixed in. This sounds really similar to a couple early 90s Flaming Lips albums, namely Hit to Death in the Future Head.
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From 08/01/2021 23:05
This is an album that you can definitely tell is near the start of the artists career. There are some fantastic moments on this record like Chasing A Bee, Syringe Mouth and the 8 minute epic of Frittering. The rest of the songs just aren't up to this level but are still decent and the ideas are present in the music but I just don't think they are fully realised in the tracks. The instrumentation is very impressive throughout though and is a high point for me. Overall this is a good record with glimpses of greatness scattered throughout.
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80/100
From 02/08/2017 16:20
I know it is a bonus track or whatever, but I wish Car Wash Hair was listed. It is one of the best songs on the album!
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From 10/02/2016 13:05
This is, as far as I know, pretty unique music. Very psychedelic mix of melody and noise.
There are some genius moments on here. However at other times I wonder why I am listening. Probably a bit too much of 'noise' for me all the way through. But then again, sometimes this album really amazes me.

Favorite tracks: Car wash hair (Hidden/Bonus track), Frittering
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From 08/19/2016 02:07
It's good. If it would have ended at Frittering, it would have been great. Very Sleepy River, was very f**king long, and not really any tonal shifts to keep it interesting. I don't know if Car Wash Hair is considered it's own track, but if so, it'd be one of my favorites on the album.

Favorite Tracks: Syringe Mouth, Frittering, Car Wash Hair

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From 05/28/2015 23:25
My favorite Mercury Rev album. It's not as poppy as Deserter's Songs and honestly, the guitar work is just breathtaking considering this came out in the same year as Loveless.
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From 09/25/2014 14:36
The years between the 80s and the 90s were historically crucial for the birth of a vaste range of new rock styles: noise, indie, shoegaze, brit pop, grunge... Yerself Is Steam is in the right middle of all this stuff and, thanks to Mercury Rev's recognizable psychedelic influence, is also one of the most important episodes in the development of rock music during this age. It sounds cathartic.
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From 04/15/2014 08:13
Same band, different sounds...If you are coming here after listening to "Deserter's Songs", well these are a different set of songs more in the realm of rock than that of pop music, still as good - as long as you are prepared for it and have adjusted your expectations...
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From 03/03/2014 02:42
Really good noise pop
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