Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: Retrospective
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Free Music Review: Great albums: get it now!
Hit: 5 Stars
Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of the great American bands. Anton Newcombe has been making music his whole life and has been able to revive the sprit and heart of bands like The Velvet Underground and The Jesus and Mary Chain. He was doing this music fifteen years ago. Today almost every garage band is making this similar minded music. Today a lot of bands are safe, polite, and business-like. Anton somehow has embraced the rock and roll myth and has updated it. His music is always the most important thing though, and it supercedes his influences. After I saw that stupid movie DIG, I wrote to Vice Records and asked them about doing a greatest hits records of BJM. A year later and here it is. 38 of the best BJM songs. Too bad they left off some songs from Strung Out in Heaven.
Anton Newcombe has done his best work in the past three years. BJM has played hundreds of shows in America, Canada, and the UK. His band has been the launching pad for about artists such as BRMC, Miranda Lee Richards and The Warlocks. His influence is still enormous and inspiring. I don't really see the same inspiring hotbed of creative activity from someone like the Dandy Warhols. Most bands now just seem like a bunch of smug, rich kids, or social climbers, who when they got in the door,, they just kicked the ladder away. This collection is just a weathermap. The real art is the music of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Anton Newcombe. I suggest you get this and every BJM album.
Free Music Review: Not Tepid At All - Rather Wonderful, Heavy, and Far Out
Hit: 5 Stars
Saw BJM in the movie DIG, and just knew he had something. So I spent money I didn't have and got this 2 Cd glimpse into their earlier works. No disappointment here, more like a new love for music. Kinda like the first time a Stones or Beatles song really got hold of you. BJM is in that super star realm, but no one seems to be aware of them, except online. As my first BJM album this was the best door to have opened. I might not have had the same experience starting with the latest- My Bloody Underground. This prepared me for that and I am truly glad because I can really appreciate what many are disappointed by and not ready for. This has many of Anton's real classics and the whole album flows well. Anton Newcomb is the real deal, not a poser. Like the movie said, this is what he does and if it didn't work out he would not go get a job. The man was homeless while making these songs, and as far as stage hissy fits,etc. , he is just a bad drunk. No alcohol for you Anton. Just play til insanity takes over, you are great. We love you.
Back to the Retrospective, one of the electric guitarists has this knack for memorable chord progressions. I really love all the unique instruments hidden in the mix. This an album you can be proud to pay hard earned cash for and get treated tomorrow and the nexxxxttttttttc. Not like the cash you spent on gas to buy it. High, 'er Highly Recommended. Buy first before the other BJM albums. Drone Drone Drone!!!
Free Music Review: ok?
Hit: 5 Stars
despite the band name, the song titles, the album titles, the rock star nonsense, their hipster status (which has probably been revoked in light of their fame), well, despite everything, this is a great band, and this retrospective encapsulates their brilliance perfectly. bjm staggers, usually on a massive amount of drugs and liquor, between noisy, ethereal shoegazer stuff, and boozy, bluesy, early-stones rockin', and they make both styles seem somehow conducive to the other. jesus and mary chain playing muddy waters songs.
look, this collection of perfect, stupid rock songs, is, ummm, perfect, but here's the caveat: listen to this before you see "dig"- anton is a completely unnecessary person and a jackass, and you might not want to listen to his songs after seeing how full of himself he is. he seems to think that he is important, an error in judgment unifying all great, disposable musicians. ten years from now, bjm will probably be regarded as the late-90's indie motley crue, in that they, like, ruled and were entirely ridiculous. though this music is amazing, and anton a disciple of rock and friggin roll, seeing "dig" before hearing this will make you dismiss rock and roll altogether and try to find some other arena in which to do drugs, which would be bad both for you and amazon.com. sorry- just saw "dig" and lost all respect for that brain-damaged hippy vulture. but yeah, this cd IS perfect, and it goes well with drugs and alcohol.
Free Music Review: More Minty Than Tepid
Hit: 5 Stars
The Brian Jonestown Massacre's 2-disc retrospective of their work called Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: Retrospective is a must for fans of the band or those who want an introduction to the infamous BJM.
As their name would suggest, the band's musical style marries elements of deceased Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones with the self-destructive bent of the late Jim Jones, the cult leader who poisoned himself and his huge congregation in Guyana.
BJM's music has strong 1960s influences (i.e. the aforementioned Jones), including the Byrds, which is most evident in the band's jangly Rickenbacker guitars a la Roger McGuinn. But BJM is dark at times too, and there's some Velvet Underground influences at work. Some of the best songs are That Girl Suicide, When Jokers Attack, and Starcleaner. Overall, the set is very good. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an acquired taste, but if you love them, you'll love this.
The timing for Tepid Peppermint Wonderland's release couldn't have been better. The band and its leader were news off and on late last year, thanks in part to the critical success of the film Dig! (think Sundance winner), a feature length documentary shot over seven years about best friends Anton Newcombe (leader of the BJM) and Courtney Taylor-Taylor (leader of the Dandy Warhols). It's a wonderful mess indeed.
Free Music Review: If Anton is the drug, I want to o.d.
Hit: 5 Stars
To know Brian Jonestown Massacre and Anton A. Newcombe is to love them fully and completely and with a passion undying. I know some haters can't get over the obvious influences. Yet BJM transcends the old and new and creates a sound so completely theirs that it cannot be ignored!
Tepid Peppermint is vital. By no means is it the best of the best of their music, but a tiny slice into their world. I supposed I'd categorize it broadly as lo-fi psychadelic. Years ago I started listening to them because of their connections to The Dandy Warhols. And where the Dandies scratch that stoney-druggy-droning itch I get every once in a while, Brian Jonestown Massacre actualy makes me stop in my tracks and listen. Over and over and over and over.
Anton A. Newcombe is one of the greatest writer/musicians of our time. His music speaks to the sad and weary, the hopeful and optimistic, the downtrodden and spiritually empty... I could go on & on.
This double cd is a fantastic bargain and will hopefully get BJM some new fans. Of course, seeing them live is absolutely mindblowing, but until they tour again, at least we've got their cds. Personally, I think it's important to collect all of their work, but for those who are just started out down the BJM highway, this is a perfect introduction.