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Mercury Rev
Back to Mine
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. New Career in a New Town - Mercury Rev, Bowie, David
2. Hotel Borg - Mercury Rev, Johannson, Johann
3. Seasons in the Sun - Mercury Rev, Brel, Jacques
4. When Will You Come Home - Mercury Rev, Galaxie 500
5. I'm a Fool to Want You - Mercury Rev, Herron, Joel
6. Days of Steam - Mercury Rev, Cale, John
7. Opposite Day (Reprise) - Mercury Rev, Bird, Andrew
8. The Grand Tour [Clean Version] - Mercury Rev, Richey, George
9. If I Were a Little Star - Mercury Rev, Dunger, Nicolai
10. Wrap Your Troubles in My Dreams - Mercury Rev, Reed, Lou
11. Cecilia's Lunar Exposé - Mercury Rev, Donahue
12. Big City - Mercury Rev, Kember
13. Dream Baby Dream - Mercury Rev, Rev
14. Let Me Get Close to You - Mercury Rev, Griffin
15. Astral Traveling - Mercury Rev, Smith, Lonnie Listo
16. Cast Anchor - Mercury Rev, Hukkelberg, Hanne
17. Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues - Mercury Rev, Newman, Randy
18. When You Wish Upon a Star - Mercury Rev, Harline, Leigh

CD Details

All Artists: Mercury Rev
Title: Back to Mine
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Back to Mine
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 10/30/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock
Styles: Outlaw Country, Hardcore & Punk, Indie & Lo-Fi, New Wave & Post-Punk, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5029418023246

Synopsis

Album Description

2006 compilation handpicked by Alternative weirdoes Mercury Rev featuring many songs that have influenced them as well as a few current favorites. Includes tracks from Suicide, Andrew Bird, David Bowie, Terry Jacks, Nico, Alex Chilton, Galaxie 500 and Randy Newman plus a brand new Mercury Rev track, 'Cecilia's Lunar Expose', recorded specifically for this collection. 18 tracks. DMC. 2006.

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CD Reviews

Beautiful late-night mixtape.

jazzmusikeditor | U.K. | 11/20/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"As one might expect from a band as eclectic as Mercury Rev, their late-night mixtape compilation offers a selection of style and genres, incorporating legends (Billie Holiday, George Jones, Nico, Pharoah Sanders and Randy Newman) alongside more outré talents. What's also no surprise, given the layered approach of their early albums, is the elegant congruence of many of the segues: the opening link from Bowie's "A New Career in a New Town" to Johan Johannsson's "Hotel Borg", for instance, is all about shared intent and melodic echoes, while the move from John Cale's "Days of Steam" to Andrew Bird's "Opposite Day" involves the subtlest of shifts from viola to violin. The most sustained progress, however, is from the band's "Cecilia's Lunar Exposé", a slice of Saucerful Of Secrets-era Floydism, through the Neu!-style groove of Spacemen 3's "Big City", to the erotic trance-scape of Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream", a beautifully modulated arc for the more ambitious musical explorers, with childlike comforts furnished by "Seasons In the Sun" and "When You Wish Upon A Star".

Highlights :'Days Of Steam', 'Big City', 'Dream Baby Dream', 'Cecilia's Lunar Exposé'

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