Mercury Rev Deserter’s Songs

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• Fully cementing Mercury Rev’s rebirth as purveyors of a cosmic brand of the popular American songbook, Deserter’s Songs is an album of grandiose proportions. Merging jazz, folk, sweeping orchestration, and a dose of 60’s rock, the album was intended as the band’s swan song and therefore made with utter abandon. However, it became the band’s most acclaimed platter and remains one of the essential records of the past 30 years. Deserter’s Songs was released to huge worldwide acclaim and went on to be named album of the year in 1998 by NME, MOJO and many other publications, quickly propelling the legendary iconoclasts into living rooms worldwide and pioneered the launch of a new genre of music, heard today in bands like Arcade Fire and Beirut.

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• Artist: Mercury Rev Label: Excelsior Melodies Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock

• A1 Holes
  A2 Tonite It Shows
  A3 Endlessly
  A4 I Collect Coins
  A5 Opus 40
  A6 Hudson Line
  B1 The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
  B2 Goddess On A Hiway
  B3 The Funny Bird
  B4 Pick Up If You’Re There
  B5 Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp