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Condition: Good: An item in used but good condition. May have minor damage to jewel case including scuffs or ... Good: An item in used but good condition. May have minor damage to jewel case including scuffs or cracks, or to the item cover including scuffs, scratches, or cracks. The cover art and liner notes are included for a CD. VHS or DVD box is included. Video game instructions are included. No skipping on CD/DVD. No fuzzy/snowy frames on VHS tape. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

Artist: Levon Helm, Mercury Rev, Garth Hudson

Format: CD

Record Label: V2 (USA)

Release Year: 1998

Release Title: Deserter's Songs

Genre: Alternative, Rock

Run Time: 34 Mins 58 Seconds

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Product Identifiers

Record Label

V2 (USA)

UPC

5033197293127

eBay Product ID (ePID)

22050184471

Product Key Features

Artist

Levon Helm, Mercury Rev, Garth Hudson

Format

Release Year

1998

Release Title

Deserter's Songs

Genre

Alternative, Rock

Run Time

34 Mins 58 Seconds

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MSI Music Distribution

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Country/Region of Manufacture

USA

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Mercury Rev: Jonathan Donahue (vocals, acoustic guitar, chamberlin); Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiack (vocals, guitar, woodwinds); Suzanne Thorpe (flute); Dave Fridmann (piano, Mellotron, bass, background vocals); Adam Snyder (Wurlitzer piano, Mellotron, Hammond B-3 organ); Jimmy Chambers (harpsichord, clavinet, drums). Additional personnel: Amy Helm, Marie Spinosa, Mary Gavazzi Fridmann (vocals); Garrett James Uhlenbrock (slide guitar); Rachel Handman (violin); Garth Hudson (alto & tenor saxophones); Matt Jordan (flugelhorn); Jim Burgess (trombone); Aaron Hurwitz (piano); Scott Pettito (acoustic & electric basses); Jeff Mercel, Levon Helm (drums); Joel Eckhouse (bowed saw). Engineers include: Dave Fridmann, Jonathan Donahue, Aaron Hurwitz. This version of DESERTER'S SONGS is a limited edition, numbered, letterpressed and specially packaged CD. Mercury Rev: Jonathan Donahue (vocals, acoustic guitar, chamberlin); Grasshopper (vocals, guitar, woodwinds); Jimy Chambers (harpsichord, clavinet, drums); Suzanne Thorpe (flute); Dave Fridmann (piano, Mellotron, bass, background vocals); Adam Snyder (Wurlitzer piano, Mellotron, Hammond B-3 organ). Additional personnel: Amy Helm, Marie Spinosa, Mary Gavazzi Fridmann (vocals); Garrett James Uhlenbrock (slide guitar); Rachel Handman (violin); Garth Hudson (alto & tenor saxophones); Matt Jordan (flugelhorn); Jim Burgess (trombone); Aaron Hurwitz (piano); Scott Pettito (acoustic & electric basses); Jeff Mercel, Levon Helm (drums); Joel Eckhouse (bowed saw). Engineers: Dave Friddmann, Jonathan Donahue, Aaron Hurwitz. Mercury Rev's DESERTER'S SONGS is filled with eerie and achingly-beautiful independent rock music that borrows something from the psychedelia of Syd Barrett and something from the melancholy of Radiohead. Special U.K. edition features an amazing PAL-format DVD with the band's film and video interpretations of their songs. Also, this import includes the Chemical Brothers dance remix of "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp." CD contains bonus DVD. A touching, majestic gem of a record, DESERTER'S SONGS raises the bar not just for Mercury Rev themselves, but orchestrated pop in general. There's a timelessness to both the compositions and the arrangements here. Grand sonic visions are realized with horns, keyboards, strings, even a bowed saw! No matter how big the sound gets, though, it's all carefully controlled, and the cinematic scope enhances the songs, rather than obscuring them. Simple--but never blunt--lyrics benefit from an infectious melodicism that speaks to the pop songcraft skills Mercury Rev has mastered. The sweeping scale of DESERTER'S SONGS never denies the small, intimate pleasures that pop up from song to song, as the band combines psychedelia, '60s pop, Flaming Lips-ish indie rock and a homey folk-rock sound (the Band's Garth Hudson and Levon Helm even appear here) for a masterpiece of epic proportions.

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Spin (12/98, pp.184-185) - 8 (out of 10) - "...It's an album of shameless good-byes: to Manhattan, to love, and (most painfully) to not giving a shit. Successfully repressing his Sonic Youth tics, Donahue starts with goofy, SMILE-era Beach Boys and heaps on even thicker strata of strings and brass than SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE..." Spin (12/98, pp.184-185) - 8 (out of 10) - "...It's an album of shameless good-byes: to Manhattan, to love, and (most painfully) to not giving a shit. Successfully repressing his Sonic Youth tics, Donahue starts with goofy, SMILE-era Beach Boys and heaps on even thicker strata of strings and brass than SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE..." Entertainment Weekly (9/25/98, p.107) - "...their fourth effort feels like a watershed, the point where their heady mix of orchestral pop, roots rock, psychedlia, prog, choral, and chamber music finally crystallizes into something special and damn near ineffable..." - Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly (9/25/98, p.107) - "...their fourth effort feels like a watershed, the point where their heady mix of orchestral pop, roots rock, psychedlia, prog, choral, and chamber music finally crystallizes into something special and damn near ineffable..." - Rating: A- Q (10/01, p.59) - Ranked #30 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" Q (12/99, p.100) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." The Wire (1/99, p.27) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [1998]" Mojo (Publisher) (p.63) - Ranked #30 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "The results were rhapsodic: bowed saw symphonies and the ineffable 'Holes', a fantastical elegy to magic and loss."

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