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The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
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Artist: The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Album: Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
Company: Tee Pee
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Rel. Date : 12/25/2004 Streetdate : 11/16/2004
Genre : Indie Style : Indie
Quality : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz Mode : Joint-Stereo
Grabber : EAC Encoder : lame 3.90.3
Songs : 38 Playtime : CD1: 66:47 CD2: 75:22
Size : 173,6 MB Language : English
Type : Album Source : CDDA
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For almost 15 years, Anton Newcombe and his ever-rotating
crew of accomplices in Brian Jonestown Massacre have been
conducting a prolonged experiment designed to test the
validity of the theory that there's no such thing as bad
publicity. Over the better part of their career, the band has
been more closely associated with outrageous ego trips,
prolific drug use, violent feuding, and bountiful sideburns
than with their actual musical output.
The focus on the group's extra-curricular activities has been
more magnified than ever since the release of Ondi Timoner's
Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary Dig!, which
candidly charts the relative career trajectories of the Brian
Jonestown Massacre and their glossy nemeses, The Dandy
Warhols. Although Newcombe has issued statements on BJM's
website and elsewhere denouncing the film's portrayal of him
as a tantrum-prone, self-destructive megalomaniac, there can
be little doubt that the documentary has also generated an
unprecedented level of interest in the band's work. Now,
recognizing an opportunity to re-direct the attention of a
curious public back onto the band's music, Tee Pee Records
strikes with the massive two-disc retrospective, Tepid
Peppermint Wonderland.
From a distance, Brian Jonestown Massacre's rivalry with the
Dandys has always seemed faintly ridiculous, since choosing
between these two wildly erratic, frequently mediocre acts is
a little like asking your kid which he'd prefer for dinner: a
jar of pimentos or a can of water chestnuts? Though BJM can
be an enthralling live act if caught on the right night, on
record, their purebred Summer of Love psych-rock often
suffers in comparison with their 60s formalist peers. They
lack the wit and virtuosic scope of The Bevis Frond or Major
Stars; the prodigious melodic instincts of The Green Pajamas
or the Elephant 6 hordes; and the pure galaxy-flattening mass
of Comets on Fire or Acid Mothers Temple. And needless to
say, unlike such psych-inclined groups as Ghost, Sunburned
Hand of the Man, or Boredoms, BJM have never betrayed any
interest in attempting to transcend their influences in order
to actually expand on rock's known territories.
So where does that leave us for Tepid Peppermint Wonderland?
With a full 38 tracks of Brian Jonestown Massacre's patented
mid-tempo Between the Buttons-meets-The Notorious Byrd
Brothers-meets-Loaded attack to plow through, that's where.
The most remarkable thing about this career-spanning
collection of older, rare, unreleased, and live tracks is to
note how little the band's sound has appreciably changed over
the course of their creative lifetime, despite all of the
intra-band disharmony, wholesale line-up changes, and general
turmoil. This fact is accentuated by the set's
non-chronological running order, which places newer songs
like 2004's "If Love is the Drug" cheek-to-jowl with BJM
oldies like "Wisdom" or "Stars", which Newcombe claims is the
first song he ever wrote on guitar. But the group's entire
oeuvre is so entirely and uncannily of a piece that it's
virtually impossible to date these tracks without checking
the liner notes. So while you have to give Newcombe credit
for keeping to his musical course regardless of outside
trends or stimuli, you're also likely to wish that they
could've incorporated more variety into their Tepid
onslaught.
1996 was a particularly productive year for the band, and not
surprisingly many of this collection's highlights are of that
vintage. The three albums they released that year (Their
Satanic Majesties' Second Request, Thank God For Mental
Illness, and Take It From the Man!) essentially mapped out
the boundaries of their sound, as evidenced on this
collection by such inclusions as the hazy VU drone of
"Anemone", the cosmic country jangle of "It Girl", and the
loose-limbed R&B shuffle of "Oh Lord". How much you'll enjoy
any given BJM track depends almost entirely on your fondness
for its riff (my personal favorite here is a live version of
the Cure-like "Swallowtail") because once Newcombe and crew
latch onto a couple chords they'll typically ride æem
straight through until sunrise. On epic-length tracks like
"She's Gone" or the set-closing "Sue", their steadfast
repetition can quickly cross the thin line separating the
hypnotically powerful from the merely tedious.
Particularly when you factor in these longer, more monotonous
numbers, Tepid Peppermint Wonderland represents a numbingly
large dosage (more than two hours worth) of Brian Jonestown
Massacre. Significantly more, I daresay, than most listeners
are going to require to get the point. Even if you're a
newcomer with an appetite this will likely be all the BJM
you'll ever need, and if pressed I'd suggest you instead get
your hands on a copy of Satanic Majesties' Second and call it
a day. Diehards may find joy in some of the previously
unreleased nuggets included here, but the rest of us will
continue to grow increasingly impatient for the day when the
Massacre's musical feats can prove as adventurous as their
off-stage exploits.
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cd1
01. [05:37] All Around You (Intro)
02. [02:54] Who
03. [03:44] When Jokers Attack
04. [03:24] Servo
05. [04:15] Open Heart Surgery
06. [04:00] If Love is the Drug
07. [02:12] It Girl
08. [03:45] Sailor
09. [04:30] Straight Up and Down
10. [05:28] Anenome
11. [05:18] Wisdom
12. [04:17] Just for Today
13. [03:15] Stars
14. [02:56] Vacuum Boots
15. [03:54] Prozac Vs. Heroin
16. [07:18] She's Gone
cd2
01. [02:38] Nailing Honey to the Bee
02. [03:40] That Girl Suicide
03. [03:30] Nevertheless
04. [03:24] Evergreen
05. [02:29] Starcleaner
06. [03:30] Let Me Land Next to Your Flower - Live
07. [04:18] Hide and Seek - Live
08. [02:23] In My Life
09. [04:09] Mary Please
10. [02:01] Talk-Action=shit
11. [03:21] Oh Lord
12. [01:53] This is Why You Love Me
13. [02:46] Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth
14. [06:27] Swallowtail Live
15. [04:42] Feel So Good
16. [02:15] Fucker
17. [04:55] #1 Hit Jam
18. [02:15] Ballad of Jim Jones
19. [02:30] Free and Easy Take 2
20. [01:27] Stolen
21. [02:20] Mansion in the Sky
22. [08:29] Sue
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