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	Mercury Rev: All Is Dream: Pitchfork Record Review
		Mercury Rev's All Is Dream claims its share of pop brilliance by taking up this position with enormous reserves of intelligence, grace, and emotion.
		As long-time Rev flautist Suzanne Thorpe-- who's been with the band since their sprawling psych-noise days-- has been demoted to the orchestra pit for this release, the band is now all-male.
		Mercury Rev Prep New LP for Early '05 Release
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/m/mercury-rev/all-is-dream.shtml (831 words)

	Mercury Rev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mercury Rev are an American rock music group, formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York.
		Mercury Rev are often compared to The Flaming Lips, and in fact have close ties: Soon after the band's formation, Donahue also joined the Flaming Lips as second guitarist and appeared on two of their albums.
		Mercury Rev's much-anticipated The Secret Migration was released in January 2005 to mostly positive reviews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury_Rev (372 words)

	MERCURY REV live in 'this swirling sphere' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mercury Rev are currently taking a break after the completion of their Deserter's Songs world tour.
		Mercury Rev had connected, blown themselves away and in doing so utterly mesmerised a sell-out Metro crowd of 1500 with one of the best shows seen in Sydney in many years.
		Mercury Rev are about atmosphere, about placing their music in a fitting ambience that both challenges and seduces the audience.
	www.thei.aust.com /tssmusic1/mercuryrev.html (576 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Mercury Rev
		Every so often, Mercury Rev manages to coerce all the elements it tosses up to hang in mid-air, defying gravity (as on the opalescent "Something for Joey"); more frequently, kismet fails to do its part, rendering tracks like "Trickle Down" and "Downs Are Feminine Balloons" simply slipshod and shapeless.
		Mercury Rev shifted course with Deserter's Songs, focusing the fertile imagination and attention to detail they'd been using to construct psychedelic freakouts on more traditional songs.
		Mercury Rev's next album was released normally overseas but teased into US circulation as a series of EPs.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=mercury_rev (930 words)

	SFburning / Mercury Rev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mercury Rev had become one of the biggest American bands in Europe.
		Mercury Rev did three albums previously to all this with a different lineup.
		Mercury Rev couldn't record anything until all that stuff was resolved.
	www.sfburning.com /mercury_rev.html (2454 words)

	www.mercuryrev.com...the official website...news
		Mercury Rev will return to Beligum on August 26 as part of Feest In Het Park.
		Mercury Rev is proud to announce their sponsorship of former World Cup Downhill Cycling Champion Jurgen Beneke for the 2007-08 cycling season.
		A series of new musical collisions performed live from Mercury Rev. Hosted by Jimmy Buff 10pm-midnight Thursday April 12th on WDST 100.1 fm in the Catskills or WDST.com for a live stream.
	www.mercuryrev.com /news/news.htm (1626 words)

	Splendid: Departments: LiveLine: Mercury Rev
		Mercury Rev has released an album since then, the similarly gorgeous All Is Dream, and though it will never mean to me what the previous album does, it has seen heavy rotation around my apartment in recent months.
		For those of you who haven't hitched your wagons to the Mercury Rev star, describing their sound is rather difficult.
		I arrived just as Mercury Rev was finishing their first song, and as I jostled into picture-taking position, I got a chance to check out the band and its hired guns.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/liveline/mercury (1009 words)

	MERCURY REV
		No two of their records are alike, because each Mercury Rev record reflects the shifting perspectives and impulses of the people who made it.
		Mercury Rev are not afraid to let loose what’s inside them, regardless of what the consequences may be, or whether each new missive necessarily makes sense in the context of what has come before.
		Where once Mercury Rev gigs were mandatory for the chance to see the lead singer standing at the bar heckling his own group (as David Baker was wont to do), now they became communal outpourings of wonder at the glorious properties of the band’s music.
	www.smellslikemusic.com /artist/pages/0429/rev.html (1021 words)

	Mercury Rev: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mercury Rev are an American band, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Mercury Rev's The Secret Migration is due for release at the end of January 2005 and it has received much media acclaim in the build up to it being released.
		The flaming lips are an american rock and rollrock band with psychedelic influences, formed in 1983 in oklahoma city, oklahoma by mark coyne,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/mercury_rev.htm (1175 words)

	mercury rev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		mercury rev-all is dream-tides of the moon mercury rev 7.
		This rev brings some important additions This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 24th No Hora mercury rev do Rock de hoje vai rolar mercury rev Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Radiohead, Charlatans, Delgados, Weezer, Elefant, The Coral, Hard Fi, The Subways, Death Cab For Cutie e Fountains of Wayne.
		Mercury Rev and more for Latitude Virtual Festivals UK - May 10, 2006 Mercury Rev, The Zutons, Regina Spektor and The Pipettes are among the latest acts confirmed for the brand new Latitude festival, which aims mercury rev to recreate the.
	www.cars-vortex.com /detail/mercury+rev.htm (1829 words)

	BBC - Southampton - Music - Mercury Rev
		After the release of All Is Dream in 2001, The Rev's spent the best part of a year touring the world before they set about writing a set of new songs for their latest album.
		Mercury Rev formed in Buffalo in the late 1980's as a six-piece writing obscure soundtracks for their friends films.
		With their whirling psychedelia, Mercury Rev are an acquired taste, and their gigs certainly aren't your average affair - you can expect to be taken on a magical journey to their dreamworld with lavish production and light shows.
	www.bbc.co.uk /southampton/music/mercuryrev.shtml (328 words)

	Mercury Rev- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is with great difficulty that Mercury Rev's newest, the symphonic Deserter's Songs, be placed in the annals of Rock.
		In 1991, Mercury Rev's debut, Yerself is Steam, was released to moderate praise and set the pace for years to follow.
		Mercury Rev provide the soundtrack of the year to a movie never made.
	www.virginiamusicflash.com /mercury.htm (370 words)

	VH1.com : Mercury Rev : Biography
		With Mercury Rev effectively in limbo and its members scattered across the country, their demo tape somehow made its way to the British offices of the Rough Trade label, which contacted Baker about signing the group.
		Amid considerable tension, Mercury Rev set up studio space in a barn to craft their second album; after completing the principal recording sessions, the group collected samples from sites as far-ranging as Times Square and NASA's Cape Canaveral to flesh out the music's dense, prismatic sound.
		After relations soured to the point where Baker was traveling to gigs apart from his bandmates, he was dismissed from Mercury Rev's ranks; under the name Shady, he returned in 1994 with World, an excellent solo LP recorded with luminaries from the Boo Radleys, Rollerskate Skinny, and St.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/mercury_rev/bio.jhtml (739 words)

	"OH MY GOD. IT'S FULL OF STARS" - A WEEKEND WITH MERCURY REV
		It had been nearly three years since Metro Detroit Mercury Rev fans weren’t required to head out of the country to see the band.
		Mercury Rev was quick to reschedule their own headlining gigs in four of the eight cancelled cities while waiting for the Doves to rejoin the tour in Chicago on a rainy Friday the 13th.
		And if anything was made clear from the reaction of most audience members, it was that Mercury Rev is now officially long over due for their own headlining US tour.
	www.motorcityrocks.com /mrev.htm (749 words)

	David Bowie Wonderworld: BowieNet Live Chat with Mercury Rev 10/12/01
		Mercury Rev answer: The surreal would be a manifestation of the symbolic on this physical, dense, matter plane.
		Mercury Rev answer: Grasshopper says: I actually recorded a rendition of "Memory of a Free Festival (the sun machine)" a few years back for a Bowie compilation.
		Mercury Rev answer: I suppose the desperation and romance of David's voice is something timeless and un-erringly beautiful.
	www.bowiewonderworld.com /chats/dbchatmrev1201.htm (1450 words)

	Static Multimedia - Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Listening to a Mercury Rev album, you get the distinct feeling that all they do is stargaze and intertwine their lyrics with feelings and nature, and that's about all they do.
		Mercury Rev's music is meant for nice people, and if you don't like nice, then there won't be much on Secret Migration that you'll enjoy, sans some nice riffs and the two quasi-popular songs "Vermillion" and "In a Funny Way" (which have undoubtedly been heard on some television show somewhere).
		It would be easy at this point of Mercury Rev's career to try the 'anything goes' approach of the Flaming Lips, but their music is still fresh.
	www.staticmultimedia.com /content/music/reviews/cd/review_1122347602 (478 words)

	Amazon.com: The Secret Migration: Music: Mercury Rev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mercury Rev’s sixth album Secret Migration is a high flying psychedelic concept record filled with paeans to Mother Nature.
		Rev has never been a wildly original band--they’ve been aesthetically joined-at-the-hip with the Flaming Lips for much of their career, and "Diamonds" almost sounds like a parody of Wayne Coyne and crew.
		It may be the only example of convincing optimism in recorded history, but that's only because Mercury Rev take such care to paint leering gargoyles in every corner, scalding the hero's soul with their taunts as he righteously slashes his way through an incomprehensible life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007MEYJ4?v=glance (1611 words)

	MAGNET Archives: Mercury Rev
		It might not be much of a reach to compare Mercury Rev's multi-layered new album, Deserter's Songs (V2), to an imaginary episode of The X-Files in which 19th-century songwriter Stephen Foster is the unwilling victim of an alien abduction.
		Jonathan Donahue, the man who pens most of Mercury Rev's material, should appreciate two of the fanciful TV script's bullet points: endless landscapes of sound from alien planets coupled with a kind of music best described as Americana.
		The spacier elements of Mercury Rev's wide-screen epics are immediately apparent and, at times, they come close to overwhelming the band's finely crafted songs.
	www.magnetmagazine.com /archives/armercuryrev.html (1594 words)

	Comments for Mercury Rev - Secret Migration - Stylus Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mercury Rev's peak occurred on Yerself Is Steam and Boces.
		I'm quite familiar with the Rev's first couple of records, and like them a lot, but discussed the more recent ones because they're relevant to the point I was making about the band's direction on the new album.
		Mercury Rev seems to be in a permanent downward spiral artistically.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /reviewcomment.php?ID=2811 (410 words)

	www.myspace.com/mercuryrevmusic
		MERCURY REV was formed in Buffalo, New York in the late 1980's.
		In the beginning, MERCURY REV's first recordings emerged simply as a means for creating soundtracks to experimental films that they and their friends were creating.
		MERCURY REV reconvened to record their debut, YERSELF IS STEAM.
	www.myspace.com /mercuryrevmusic (1268 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Secret Migration: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a natural extension of 2001’s All Is Dream, Mercury Rev’s sixth album is one of pomp and grandeur.
		Mercury Rev is one of those bands whose musical commitment is to explore new territories rather than basking in some popular formula.
		Mercury Rev still sounds excellent in "Secret Migration," but it's just a little too fairy-tale-ish for its own good.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006G7ZQ0 (1309 words)

	Mercury Rev: All Is Dream (2001): Reviews
		Mercury Rev has not only matched the Herculean effort of Deserter's Songs, they've surpassed it.
		But for all their love of musical saws and [Jonathan] Donahue's quavering voice, Mercury Rev are unashamedly grandiose, and their references may be too in thrall to the rock hegemony for some.
		Mercury Rev's ongoing foray into a strange sort of beauty overload remains a noble endeavor, but it inspires more admiration than emotional attachment.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/mercuryrev/allisdream (685 words)

	Mercury Rev: The Secret Migration - PopMatters Music Review
		The difference here is that Mercury Rev have paired down the fringes, allowing the bizarre to slip through the sieve.
		In the case of Mercury Rev, it was likely returning from touring; for the rest of us it is subtle reminder to occasionally return to the beautiful things of the past in order to remain grounded through the chaos of life.
		While Mercury Rev does abandon some of what made many fall in love with them initially, a closer listen reveals that all of those elements still remain in some form or another.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/mercuryrev-secret.shtml (831 words)

	Mercury Rev
		With Rough Trade interested in signing the band, Mercury Rev reconvened, and after a series of recording sessions rife with intense personality conflicts, eventually produced their debut LP, Yerself Is Steam.
		At this time, Mercury Rev's life as a band was similarly chaotic, filled with infighting, bizarre episodes of violence, and haphazard, ill-prepared live performances of the sort that got them kicked off the 1993 edition of the Lollapalooza tour.
		In the wake of Baker's departure, Mercury Rev began to move towards a shimmering, emotionally expansive new sound, first displayed on 1995's See You on the Other Side and later, in superb form, on 1998's highly regarded Deserter's Songs.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/mercuryrev.html (515 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Mercury Rev
		Coming off the critical success of their creative watershed, Deserter's Songs, Mercury Rev has decided to take the sound they created on that album out for a joyride.
		Mercury Rev's unique talent lies in their ability to take a page from nearly every book and mold it into their own nuanced brand of music.
		And for all of you guitar enthusiasts, Mercury Rev guitarist Grasshopper has gotten his hands on Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane" pedal and is abusing it appropriately on "Tides of the Moon" and "Hercules." Lord have mercy.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/sep-10-01/mercury.html (446 words)

	Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration: Silent Uproar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mercury Rev is often compared to their stylistic brethren, The Flaming Lips, and for good reason.
		However, if the Lips are the sci-fi loving darlings of the current psychedelic rock scene, Mercury Rev are their Tolkien treasuring comrades.
		To use a metaphor consistent with the themes of the album, had Mercury Rev worked on pruning the trees a bit more, The Secret Migration could have cemented a position for the band as a unique and exciting musical force.
	www.silentuproar.com /showreview.php?ID=1124 (404 words)

	Mercury Rev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thankfully, they chose to be Mercury Rev. Free of the noisy antics that got them kicked off of Lollapalooza's second stage several years ago, the show was a drug-free, psychedelic experience, all heavenly melodies and powerful music.
		Mercury Rev was opening for Hum, in a situation that continues the odious trend of spectacular veterans opening for less talented bands.
		Regardless, their transcendent performance indicates that the members of Mercury Rev know something profound, and they communicate it in their nearly spiritual music.
	ogb.wfu.edu /back_issues/1996_Spring/2-22-96/A_and_E/a.mercury_rev.html (567 words)

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