Stream The New Nicolai Dunger/Mercury Rev
Listen to Nicolai's excellent chamber folk release This Is My Song here. The full album title is actually This Is My Song: You Can Have It ... I Don't Want It Anymore/Yours 4-Ever (inspired by the demise of a long-term relationship, as you probably guessed).
Song marks an exciting direction for the Swedish singer/songwriter. Credit that to backing band Mercury Rev (!), who got Nic to put down his guitar and bear his soul in the vocals. "We literally took Nicolai's guitar out of his hands," Mercury Rev's Grasshopper told The Boston Globe. "When he strummed along, he sang a certain way, and when we took the guitar away he'd be out there naked. At first he freaked out. Then again, they were supposed to be demos, and when we got to Sweden to re-record the tracks we just kept most of them."From the same article, two other blogworthy quotes from Dunger:
"When I was young, I made it too much complicated. I listened to a lot of symphonic rock, Yes and Rush and Genesis. I still like that, but I think I like to be a little more simple now."And:
"I really want to work Vincent Gallo. He's crazy."Mercury Rev → Vincent Gallo. Makes sense.
Oh, dig that '60s-throwback album cover.
Posted at 2:18 PM
As a graphic designer - I'd say that cover looks like crap - or worse.
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Mercury Rev. Vincent Gallo. Yay Buffalo!
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As somoene that's NOT a graphic designer, I'd say that joke is getting a LITTLE old now.
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What happened to Mercury Rev? I remember when they sounded like a different band. I know that they lost their origional vocalist but the difference goes way beyond the vocals.
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Mercury Rev needs to rerelease "See You On The Other Side." I can't find it anywhere.
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this is totally unrelated, but i can't think of a better place to find an answer (or at least someone who knows what i'm talking about), but i'm watching a re-run of conan and once again wondering why the singer for the hold steady sounds exactly like coyote shivers, who sang the song "sugar high" with renee zelwigger in "empire records". is it the same guy? doesn't look like it. am i out of the loop here? and does anyone have any idea what i'm talking about?
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http://www.myspace.com/davidsmyspacesongs
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totally agree with mfunk...the cover is the most important thing.
Who would ever care whether a musician can play or even sing???
it's all about the COVER...especially when you listen to the song in the radio without
owning the cd...sucker!
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