Old Mercury Rev or new?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMZ9E6ZK81g

MaresNest, Sunday, 30 October 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

i know i asked this on another thread

but does anyone know where the cover art from BOCES or Something For Joey single comes from? i know the yerself is steam artwork is an edited photo of patricia highsmith and SYOTOS is a still taken from a 70s 7-up commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjyyScBdsc

syringemouth, Friday, 25 November 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link

also some cool rev knowledge to behold

the car wash hair cover art has lettering thats falling down. that was actually an accident. someone bumped the table they were using to glue the letters on and they just dried that way. jonathan told mooneyham he liked it so they stuck with it.

syringemouth, Friday, 25 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link

Their pre Deserter’s Songs artwork was incredible.

Cow_Art, Friday, 25 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link

i also vaguely remember reading that the 30 or 40 minute track on the car wash hair ep is a mashup of random movie dialogue with actual recordings of one of the band members during a psychiatric visit

take it with a grain of salt since i have no way of verifying this

syringemouth, Friday, 25 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link

that would fit with its title ('lego my ego')

imago, Friday, 25 November 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link

anyway they should have changed the name after baker left

imago, Friday, 25 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link

Not posting it, but if you search Youtube for (ahem) 'Lionel Richie's Dick' you can see the video from which that psychiatric hospital section is taken... pretty harrowing stuff of course

PaulTMA, Friday, 25 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link

Supposedly from an HBO documentary on schizophrenia that the band had a tape of

PaulTMA, Friday, 25 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link


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