MERCURY REV Yerself Is Steam LP MINT FILMS 1991 UK orig+clear blue FLAMING LIPS
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MERCURY REV
From Buffalo, NY.
Critically revered psych-tinged indie band; their beautifully spacey music reveals considerable songwriting talent."YERSELF IS STEAM"
1991 LP MINT FILMS RECORDS MINT LP 4
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
LIMITED EDITION BLUE LIGHT, MARBLED VINYL
SINGLE SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 5 013145 800416
LABEL: MINT FILMS - ROCKET/AHRMONY ARTWORK LABELS - WHITE TEXT
Label Code: LC 9308
Other (Distribution Code): EFA 75184
Catalog on cover: (spine) MINT LP4 (rear) MINT LP 4
Catalog on labels: MINT LP 4 (Rocket) / MINT LP 4 (Harmony)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): MINT-LP-4-A1 RIGHT ABOUT NOW I FEEL LIKE A DROP PAULS'
Other / Runout (Scratched Out, Etched): MINT 4 A1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): MINT-LP-4-B1 PUSHED OUT YER SYRINGE MOUTH THE EXCHANGE PAULS'
Other / Runout (Scratched Out, Etched): MINT 4 B1
On labels: (All tracks Mercury Rev/Jungle Music)
© 1991 Mint Films/Jungle Records
Side A rim text reads "MASTERWORKS MINT FILM"
Side B rim text reads "BOX 66462 BALT MD 21239"
On Spine: STEREO FUCKED
On Back Cover: All songs Copyright Control/Mercury Rev 1991.
Mint Films thru Jungle
Made in England
A MINT FILM STEREO 35MM
Original master recorded on 35/mm magnetic film
tracklisting (from label)
Side A: CHASING A BEE - SYRINGE MOUTH
CONEY ISLAND CYCLONE - BLUE AND BLACK - SWEET ODDYSEE OF A CANCER
Side B: FRITTERING - CONTINUOUS TRUCKS AND THUNDER - VERY SLEEP RIVERS
gradingRECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Music dictated not by logic but by intuition, Yerself Is Steam is an album at war with itself, split by
its desire to achieve both melodic pop bliss and white-noise transcendence within the same space;
it succeeds brilliantly, avant-bubblegum fuel injected by fits and flourishes of prismatic chaos.
From the comic malevolence of David Baker's mad-scientist creations to Jonathan Donahue's opiate
lullabies, Yerself Is Steam is vividly cinematic -- between the roller coaster feedback of
"Coney Island Cyclone" and the narcoleptic ebb and flow of the climactic "Very Sleepy Rivers,"
the songs perfectly evoke their titular aspirations; likewise, from the album title (say it out loud)
onward, the lyrics revel in the quirks and idiosyncrasies of language, buoyed by a homophonous
prankishness and dada rhyme schemes, which, in their own odd way, suggest a kind of poetry.
A near-perfect debut from a band that would only get better from here on out...(AllMusic)
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