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| | Methodrone | | | Music Artist : | | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Bomp Records | | Release Date : | | 1995-08-25 | | Store Price : | | $15.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Evergreen
2. Wisdom
3. Crushed
4. That Girl Suicide
5. Wasted
6. Everyone Says
7. Short Wave
8. She Made Me
9. Hyperventilation
10. Records
11. I Love You
12. End of the Day
13. Outback
14. She's Gone
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 a narcotic addicts dream/nod.a masterpiece
Submitted on: 2009-05-31 |
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| this album sounds like what heroin feels like(trust me).its called "methodrone"(methadone!!!ha!) for gods sake!sheer genius.a shogaze/dream pop master class.it stands up there with all the shoegaze greats and holds its own!!!i wish anton would have done more stuff like this.dont get me wrong,all his stuff is great and essential.i just like this better.pretty,pretty shoes.i think im gonna scratch myself and throw up now.later! |
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 A Great Drone Rock Album
Submitted on: 2006-07-25 |
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The best place to start if you are a newcomer to BJM music is the retrospective Tepid Peppermint Wonderland. This debut album as other reviewers have noted, is a product of the so-called "shoegaze" era, whereupon a bunch of mainly English bands made jumping around on stage very unfashionable. They also used lots of layered guitar sounds, ditsortion and feedback. I'm talking Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and the early Creation Records (i.e pre Teenage Fanclub) catalogue generally. BJM do this with aplomb, but you can sense the 60s nostalgia underneath and sometimes it brims forth in songs such as "That Girl Suicide" (the best song on the album in my opinion.) Shoegaze had given way to Britpop and Grunge when this came out, which might explain why the BJM extended their musical palette to include Dylanesque folk rock and West Coast psychedelia within a drone-rock framework... an excellent mix in my opinion.
There are enough good tunes on the album to make it worth buying but I personally like their music when they ditched being part of a trend and started approximating the music they love... all those great psychedelic bands from the west coast like Love and the Music Machine, the Seeds etc etc.
With all the years that have past since this was released I think its for fans of the band rather than newcomers, but like all of BJM stuff, it is worth listening to. |
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 One of their three best
Submitted on: 2006-07-03 |
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This album along with "Take it From the Man" and "Give it Up" are sheer genius. Anton may be one dysfunctional little prick, but, to paraphrase Courtney Taylor, it doesn't matter because he makes such important and powerful albums. This is not music to listen to while driving or puttering around the house. This is music you listen to while sitting directly between your speakers (or with headphones) and no distractions. Intoxicants are optional. This is a lush, layered tapestry that deserves four or five listenings to fully appreciate. Highlights include, but are not limited to, "Evergreen", "Crushed" and "Hyperventilation". This is probably BJM's most psychedelic record. I've played this CD for several people and their reaction is always "Who is this band?" "Why haven't I heard of them before?" "Are they a new band?" Unfortunately BJM, like too many other great bands, are not part of corporate radio's narrow playlists.
I would have given this five stars but BJM can be repetitive. Anton seems to be fond of certain chord changes and phrasing that he uses a lot on all of his albums, but they can all stand on their own merits. It's just when you take his (vast) body of work as a whole that this repetition becomes apparent. |
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eh.....
Submitted on: 2006-02-27 |
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| I have tried to get into these guys based on the reviews. I purchased this and "thank god for mental illness." Not terribly impressed and I really don't get the hype. while both albums are quite different, they are both derivative. for methodrone, you would be better off checking out the bands they are ripping off (lush, ride, my bloody valentine, the telescopes, etc.....). |
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shoegazing
Submitted on: 2005-08-11 |
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| Not like Anton doesn't add dreampop in some of his recordings, but Methodrone can rival any My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Catherine Wheel, Slowdive, etc - as one of the most overlooked treasures to the genre. This was made in 1995, a point when shoegaze was phasing out to britpop like Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish in 1994 (look at the transition for the band LUSH regarding catalog). What I am saying is he was a penny short of getting real success with this record, not like Anton could ever put all his eggs in one basket. He is one talented bstrd and the debut should have gave him more of a fanbase. I am happy he is getting the attention now. |
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