Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American alternative rock group, that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. Original personnel were David Baker (vocals), Jonathan Donahue (vocals, guitars), Sean Mackowiak, a.k.a. "Grasshopper" (guitars, clarinet), Suzanne Thorpe (flute), Dave Fridmann (bass) and Jimy Chambers (drums).
History
The first years with David Baker
With their early records, Mercury Rev offered experimental, psychedelic rock, which gradually shifted to a melodic, ornate sound. Mercury Rev is often compared to The Flaming Lips, and in fact share close ties: soon after the band's formation, Donahue also joined the Flaming Lips as second guitarist and appeared on two of their albums; and since the 1990 album In a Priest Driven Ambulance, Dave Fridmann has co-produced every Flaming Lips studio album to date except 1993's Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.
Despite considerable critical acclaim, their early releases never gave Mercury Rev more than cult popularity, though they appeared on the smaller second stage at some 1993 Lollapalooza stops. Baker left after their second record, Boces (1993), citing musical and personal disputes; he later recorded an album as Shady. With his departure, the thematically darker and musically experimental features of the band began to disappear.
Mercury Rev Filmography
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2015, role: composer
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2014, role: actor
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2005, role: actor , character name: Themselves
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2005, role: composer
Mercury Rev
ALBUMS
- Inner Autumn Outer Space released: 2012
- Beyond the Swirling Clouds released: 2011
- The Peel Sessions released: 2009
- Strange Attractor released: 2008
- Snowflake Midnight released: 2008
- Back to Mine: Mercury Rev released: 2006
- Hello Blackbird released: 2006
- The Essential Mercury Rev: Stillness Breathes 1991-2006 released: 2006
- The Secret Migration released: 2005
- All Is Dream released: 2001
- See You on the Other Side released: 1995
- Boces released: 1993
- Lego My Ego released: 1992
- Yerself Is Steam released: 1991
- Le Divan du Monde, Paris, 08-11-2001 released:
- 2001-08-28: Black Session #170: Paris, France released:
- Deserter's Songs released:
Back to Mine: Mercury Rev
Released 2006- A New Career in a New Town
- Hotel Borg
- Seasons in the Sun
- When Will You Come Home
- I'm a Fool to Want You
- Days of Steam
- Opposite Day (reprise)
- The Grand Tour (clean version)
- If I Were a Little Star
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
- Cecilia's Lunar Exposé
- Big City
- Dream Baby Dream
- Let Me Get Close to You
- Astral Travelling
- Cast Anchor
- Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues
- When You Wish Upon a Star
Hello Blackbird
Released 2006- Blackbirds Call
- Illumination by Streetlamp
- Waltz for Alice
- Trial by Wire
- Daydream for Nina
- Audition Scene Sketch (Simply Because)
- The White Birds
- Josef's Vision
- Eye of the Blackbird (Travelling Music II)
- The Last of the White Birds (March Funebre)
- Cinema Theme
- First Flight of the White Birds
- The Chimpy Waltz
- Dempseys Theme
- Fantasia No1
- Robert Y Roberto
- Travelling Music
- Departed Angels
- Simply Because
Racing the Tide
I'm so close I'm almost inside/Won't be long before the mystery is mine/I'm so close I'm almost inside/But there were times I hung my head and cried/I'm so close I'm almost inside, I'm so close Racing the Tide/I'm so close I'm almost inside/A dream unchained that can't escape my mind/I'm so close I'm almost inside But there wre times there was no end in sight/I'm so close I'm almost inside/Those big waves we always knew I'd ride/I'm so close I'm almost inside I'm so close Racing the Tide
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American alternative rock group, that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. Original personnel were David Baker (vocals), Jonathan Donahue (vocals, guitars), Sean Mackowiak, a.k.a. "Grasshopper" (guitars, clarinet), Suzanne Thorpe (flute), Dave Fridmann (bass) and Jimy Chambers (drums).
History
The first years with David Baker
With their early records, Mercury Rev offered experimental, psychedelic rock, which gradually shifted to a melodic, ornate sound. Mercury Rev is often compared to The Flaming Lips, and in fact share close ties: soon after the band's formation, Donahue also joined the Flaming Lips as second guitarist and appeared on two of their albums; and since the 1990 album In a Priest Driven Ambulance, Dave Fridmann has co-produced every Flaming Lips studio album to date except 1993's Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.
Despite considerable critical acclaim, their early releases never gave Mercury Rev more than cult popularity, though they appeared on the smaller second stage at some 1993 Lollapalooza stops. Baker left after their second record, Boces (1993), citing musical and personal disputes; he later recorded an album as Shady. With his departure, the thematically darker and musically experimental features of the band began to disappear.
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