See You on the Other Side (Mercury Rev album)

See You On The Other Side
Studio album by Mercury Rev
Released September 19, 1995
Genre Rock
Length 39:16
Label Beggars Banquet Records
Producer Jonathan Donahue, Dave Fridmann, Grasshopper, Suzanne Thorpe, Jimy Chambers
Mercury Rev chronology
Boces
(1993)
See You on the Other Side
(1995)
Deserter's Songs
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
allmusic [1]

See You on the Other Side is the third album by Mercury Rev, released in September 1995.

This was the first Mercury Rev album following the departure of former lead singer Dave Baker. It also marks a transition between the earlier, noisier sound of their first two releases to the more orchestrated, soft, and lush arrangements the band would embrace on subsequent albums.

The title for the album comes from what Dave Fridmann would say to the band members before going onstage.

Jonathan Donahue considered this album to be Mercury Rev's best, and fell into a deep depression after its commercial failure. The album's back cover is a photograph of Donahue despondently loading a revolver.

The album cover is taken from a 1975 7up commercial entitled 'Uncola'.[2]

The video for "Young Man's Stride" was directed by Moby.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Empire State (Son House In Excelsis)" (Jonathan Donahue, Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak, Suzanne Thorpe) – 7:29
  2. "Young Man's Stride" (Donahue, Mackowiak) – 2:43
  3. "Sudden Ray of Hope" – 5:18 (Jimy Chambers, Donahue, Dave Fridmann, Mackowiak, Thorpe)
  4. "Everlasting Arm" (Donahue, Mackowiak, Thorpe) – 5:15
  5. "Racing the Tide" (Chambers, Donahue, Mackowiak, Thorpe) – 7:31
  6. "Close Encounters of the 3rd Grade" (Chambers, Donahue, Fridmann, Mackowiak, Thorpe) – 3:03
  7. "A Kiss from An Old Flame (A Trip to the Moon)" (Donahue, Mackowiak) – 4:22
  8. "Peaceful Night" (Donahue, Mackowiak) – 3:32

The Japanese version includes the bonus track "Cartwheel" 7:06 at track nine. This version of the album is very hard to find.

Singles

Personnel

References

  1. ^ allmusic review
  2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huV_aRbBcCc&feature=related