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Rating: While I'm writing this review, the Brian Jonestown Massacre are on tour in the United States, and I must admit that I wouldn't mind being there, just as I wouldn't mind owning the entire discography of these guys (16 albums not counting singles, EPs, and scattered pieces), but well, you can't have everything in life (as an old saying goes).
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying this ...And This Is Our Music (in response to Galaxie 500's This Is Our Music). The start is entrusted to the narcoleptic folk of Starcleaner and Here to Go, while When Jokers Attack is electric with a nice guitar work that reminds me of Elliott Smith. It's worth mentioning Prozac Vs Heroin if only for the title. Geezer, written for Will Sergeant and Mac, is characterized by background distortions, and in Maryanne, folk makes its appearance again.
With You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up, you can feel western and spacey atmospheres at the same time. The album then continues alternating tracks rooted in folk or the psychedelia of the '60s, or adding experiments such as the electronic tribalism of Prozac Vs. Heroin Revisited.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Starcleaner (02:28)
I have missed the shiny beams
Vapor floating in the breeze
In your mind
Just goes to show
No matter what you think you know
It's never right
We could
walk for miles
In our lonely minds
This is the greatest time
We could walk for miles
This is the greatest love we can find
Oh-whoa
Oh-whoa
Oh-whoa
Ohhhh
Ohhhh
This is the
greatest love we can find
04 When Jokers Attack (03:42)
love dies fast, now
whenever you're uncertain how
this unsure that you love
dreams die fast, fast
whenever you dream they can last
take this pain when you go, yeah
life is fast, now
whenever you're uncertain how
this unsure do you know
love dies faster, fast
when you think it can never last
take me please if you go, yeah
05 Prozac vs. Heroin (03:58)
Stars
Come out of the sky
You shine like the summer's sun
And
I might even die
Whatever thy will be done
Smile
Try for the heaven
Or maybe just kingdom come
And I will be done
And I will be done
So
Talking ?
Whatever their words must say
If
Heaven could fall
It's not gonna make him stay
Try
To keep it together
Or make it to kingdom come
And you will be done
And you will be done
Smile
You open the sky
You star like the sunken sun
I
Might even die
Whatever, I will be done
Just try
To make it together
Or maybe to kingdom come
Add you will be done
Yes you will be done
And you will become
But you will
Become
06 Geezers (05:18)
Geezers
Believe us
Believe us 'cause we taught you what you know
Dreamers
Keep dreaming
'Til the dream ends then they tell you where to go
Believe us
Believe us 'cause we taught you what you know
Well you know
Geezers
Believe us
You lead us 'cause we taught you where to go
Dreamers
Keep dreaming
Keep dreaming 'til we say it’s time to go
Believe us
You need us
And we’ll tell you where to go
To go
Geezers
Believe us
Believe us 'cause we taught you all you know
Dreamers
Keep on dreaming
Keep dreaming we’ll say when your time to go
Believer
Keep believing the thing that you know
Believe
Believe
Yeah
You know
You know
09 Here It Comes (03:14)
Ohhh
Here it comes
Ohhh
Here it comes
Yeah
Old Mom and Dad
Couldn't believe
They made me so mad
I had to leave here
Ohhh
Here it comes
I went to the man
Took my decree
Said please understand
I've got to be free
Ohhh
Here it comes
Ohhh
Here it comes
Yeah
Ohhh
Here it comes
Ohhh
Here it comes
Lying in bed
Talking to you
The things that you said
Baby, none of it's true
Ohhh
Here it comes
Ohhh
Here it comes
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By Workhorse
An album varied and multifaceted, yet always incredibly cohesive and fluid.
You Look Great When I’m Fucked Up, perhaps one of the group’s best pieces, as epic as a Thelma & Louise with Morricone’s music.
