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MERCURY REV
Deserter's Songs
2018 U.S. reissue

A perfect album for quiet, chilly Monday afternoon.

An absolute musical masterpiece and one of the finest albums of the #90s .

It’s still the only Mercury Rev album I need. Whenever I hear ANYTHING else by them playing, my immediate thought is “Why isn’t Deserter’s Songs on?”.

When I first bought this on CD in ‘98, it was the first album I had become completely immersed in and obsessed with since Radiohead’s OK COMPUTER, which came out in May of 1997.

For the following 16 months, most everything else I heard came of banal and underwhelming.

Until Deserter’s Songs arrived in September of ‘98.

Just a beautiful, inspirational and timeless sounding record made for a day like I’m having today.

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Mar 16 at 8:25pmWeb
Show threadMartin RundkvistMar 16

@TheVinylApe
Not my favourite, but it played an important role in my life.

I saw Mercury Rev's show supporting this album in Stockholm on 2 February 1999. I talked to a girl there. Almost four months later I ran into her at the library, and she invited me to a party she was having. And at that party, on 6 June, I met my future wife YuSie!

Show threadThe Vinyl Ape 🩧Mar 17
@mrundkvist love those kinds of stories.
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Got news for ya though

That story MAKES it your favorite.
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Show threadAna Bollocks / Kristin C.Mar 17
@TheVinylApe underrated breakup album.