Give It Back!

Give It Back! is an album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released in 1997 by Bomp! Records. Notably, this is the only album that features Peter Hayes, who went on to found the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Give It Back was the band's fifth studio album in two years. The sessions for the record were filmed for the documentary "Dig!". Though only a couple of minutes of these sessions appear in the film, the second disc of the double-disc set features more footage of the sessions (including recording Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth, the guitar track for Servo, and the vocals for Super-Sonic).

[edit] Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth

The stand-out single on the album, "Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth", is best known for being a sardonic track that targeted their supposed rivals, The Dandy Warhols. On the DVD commentary for DiG! Matt Hollywood notes that people would say things such as "Wow, Anton wrote a song about him stalking the Dandies?" He quickly ends "Actually, I wrote a song about how I like them, and it got taken as an attack" (quote is paraphrased). Hollywood goes on to discuss how he even borrowed elements of The Dandy Warhol sound. This refutes the popular opinion that the song was a scathing, literal attack and now shows the true friendship between the two bands.

The song was featured on the soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's 2005 film Broken Flowers.

[edit] Track listing

"Super-Sonic"^* – 5:15
"This Is Why You Love Me" – 1:55
"Satellite" – 3:39
"Malela" – 3:09
"Salaam" – 1:44
"Whoever You Are" – 4:41
"Sue" – 8:30
"(You Better Love Me) Before I Am Gone" – 3:35
"Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth" – 2:46
"#1 Hit Jam" – 4:55
"Servo" – 3:23
"The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)" – 6:04
"Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (Enrique's Dream)" – 5:35

^* Includes a sample taken from The Dandy Warhols' track "Be-in," the opening track on "…The Dandy Warhols Come Down".

[edit] Personnel

Anton Newcombe - Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards
Matt Hollywood - Bass, vocals, guitar
Peter Hayes - Guitar
Joel Gion - Percussion
Miranda Richards - Vocals, guitar
Jussi Tegelman - Drums
Adam Hamilton - Drums
Raugust - Flute

Discography
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Anton Newcombe \| Matt Hollywood \| Joel Gion Peter Hayes \| Jeffrey Davies \| Rob Campanella \| Miranda Lee Richards \| Dean Taylor \| Ricky Maymi \| Frankie "Teardrop" Emerson \| Collin Hegna \| Pacer Stracktrain \| Daniel Allaire \| Raugust Bobby Hecksher \| Travis Threlkel \| Brian Glaze \| Mike Whitemann \| Graham Bonnar \| Mike Sharperson \| Matt Tow \| Sarabeth Tuceck
Albums and extended plays: Spacegirl & Other Favorites \| Methodrone \| Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request \| Take It From The Man! \| Thank God For Mental Illness \| Give It Back! \| Strung Out in Heaven \| Bringing it All Back Home - Again \| Bravery, Repetition and Noise \| And This Is Our Music \| Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective \| We Are the Radio \| My Bloody Underground
Related articles
DiG! \| Ondi Timoner \| Bomp! Records
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