Mercury Rev
Biography
Not so much a band as a long, strange trip, the chaotic avant pop pranksters Mercury Rev formed in Buffalo, NY, in the late '80s. Originally comprised of vocalist David Baker, vocalist/silver pickup guitarist Jonathan Donahue, guitar shaper/single-exhaust clarinetist Grasshopper (born Sean Mackowiak), rooster-tail bass flutist Suzanne Thorpe, bass explorer Dave Fridmann, and mojo stick drummer Jimy Chambers, the sextet -- always rife with personality conflicts -- interacted with one another infrequently, and their first recordings evolved simply as a means of creating soundtracks for the...Read more
Discography
- The Secret Migration (2005)
- All Is Dream (2001)
- Deserter's Songs [Japan] (1998)
- See You on the Other Side (1995)
- Boces (1993)
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Pictures
Lyrics
- A Drop In Time
- Across Yer Ocean
- Arise
- Black Forest (lorelei)
- Chains
- Diamonds
- Down Poured The Heavens
- First-time Mother's Joy (flying)
- Hercules
- In A Funny Way


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