•
Rating: 'Mercury', released in 1993 and produced by Mitchell Froom, is undoubtedly the most important album in the songwriting of Mark Eitzel, who succeeds in shaping a profound and sincere project that unfolds in an alternation of folk-pop and claustrophobic pieces. These pieces aim to finally bring to light that search for space already sketched in previous efforts.
Eitzel's voice melancholically accompanies us through all fourteen tracks, alternating enigmatic silences with desperate pleas for understanding and love, along with electric hisses that close the circle around the element that dominates everything the most, namely, an emotionality that reaches disorienting and incredibly engaging levels. Thus, we move from the fabulous initial intro of "Gratitude Walks" to more rock-oriented and faster tracks like "Challenger" and "Keep Me Around", which act as a glue to the presence of a killer chorus like that of "If I Had A Hammer".
Also noteworthy are the almost murky atmospheres of "What Godzilla Said To God When His Name Wasn't Found In The Book Of Life" and the tribal-oriental tones of "Dallas, Airports, Bodybags", and especially the dreamlike "Apology For An Accident" and "The Hopes and Dreams of Heaven's 10,000 Whores", which connect to the two final songs "More Hopes And Dreams" and "Will You Find Me?", full of psychedelic accents that mark the end of one of the most important albums of the nineties in a hybrid genre that had almost entirely lost its splendor in the previous decade.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Challenger (03:00)
Back seat over the wing
And i'm the happiest hot potato on the plane
Yeah i'm looking i'm looking it's beautiful
I think i wanna go and live out there right now
Oh stewardess can you fix me some mercury
The city below me shines
I guess i'm part of detriot's shining dream
The ones that forget that i was ever here
The one that's going to forget that i had ever been
Oh stewardess can you fix me
I'll follow the rules if you tell me
With one of those endless smiles
I love all your little bottles of mercury
My throttle's open wide
And i'm wasting my life and i'm wasting time
And i'd give all of hitler's broad oceans
Ready to swallow detriot a million times over
The city below me shines
I guess i'm part of detriot's shining dream
The ones that forget that i was ever here
The one that's going to forget that i had ever been
Oh stewardess can you fix me
I'll follow the rules if you tell me
With one of those endless smiles
I love all your little bottles of mercury
My throttle's open wide
And i'm wasting my life and i'm wasting time
And i'd give all of hitler's broad oceans
Ready to swallow detriot a million times over
Loading comments slowly
