Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: Retrospective
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Free Music Review: Anything but Tepid!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have loved The Brian Jonestown Masscre ever since I first saw them play in SF back in the early 90s. This retrospective is an excellent collection of their work dating from the conception of the band in the 90s up until today. Its a collection that can be appreciated by old fans as well as those who are new to the band. As for the music, well its indescribeable. You have to hear to to believe it!Free Music Review: Better than the Beatles
Hit: 5 Stars
This double CD is fantastic. I highly recommend it. Surreal rock songs incredibly played and powerfully sung. After first hearing this American band while in France, I have listened to this CD over and over since buying on it Amazon after I returned to the USA.
Free Music Review: The Real Deal
Hit: 5 Stars
The perfect collection for someone who maybe just saw DIG! or read an article somewhere--it's got it all. Now you can hear what all the so-called (and well-deserved) hype is all about.Free Music Review: Amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
Buy this album now! You will be pleasantly surprised. The best thing I have heard in a long time. This is a great introduction to BJM's work.Free Music Review: 4.5 Stars... Satisfying introduction to BJM that also works for the rest of us
Hit: 4 Stars
Music: 5 Stars; Compilation: 4 Stars
I'm going through another Brian Jonestown Massacre phase, as I seem to do every couple of years. I recently watched the "DIG!" documentary again, and what a fascinating movie that is. This compilation was not accidentally issued the same year (2004) that "DIG!" was released to great acclaim, and certainly brought greater exposure to the band than ever before.
"Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective" (2 CDs; 38 tracks; 142 min.) brings a more than generous sampling of the band's first ten years (1994-2003). CD1 (16 tracks; 67 min. ) starts off with 2 of the bands best-known tracks, "All Around You" and "Who?", but from there it brings a smorgasbord of tracks from its albums, including the 1996 track "Stars" (which Newcombe reveals as his first song ever written, in 1990), as well as the 2004 single "If Love Is the Drug". It brings an excellent overview of the band's sound, and the CD someone only vaguely familiar with BJM should listen to. CD2 (22 tracks; 75 min.) is more geared towards the BJM fan that already has all of the albums, as it brings a number of rare, or unreleased studio and live tracks, such as the very first 1995 single "Evergreen", the excellent 2002 studio track "Nailing Honey to the Bee", which kicks off CD2, the 2003 live track "Swallowtail", and the 1999 studio track "Feel So Good". It also includes the track "Not If You Were The Last Dandy on Earth", which plays a critical role in the "DIG!" movie, and which ironically was not written by Anton Newcombe, but by Matt Hollywood.
This is a great, but not definitive overview of the band's output. For that, there are a couple of inexcusable gaps in the overview. I mean, only 2 tracks from "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request", one of 2 essential albums from the band (the other essential album, "Take It From the Man" has 7 tracks on here, rightfully so). Due to their erratic touring, I never had an opportunity to see the band live, until finally at last year's Monolith Music Festival (at the Red Rocks), and it was quite the experience. Anton Newcombe berated band members and the crowd alike, and he walked off a couple of times, only to return, creating confusion and disbelief alike, but when the band played, it sounded magical. LAst but not least, the release earlier this year of the solid "My Bloody Underground" album proves that Anton Newcombe is not quite finished yet. Stay tuned!