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Bringing It All Back Home Again

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Named after a classic Bob Dylan album, this EP is one the finest recording the Jonestown ever did. Only 6 songs that clocks-in less than half an hour. When the disc is over, you just crave for some more. Recorded by any means, with almost no drums or bass, The BJM welcomes here Miranda Lee Richards and her beautiful and eerie voice. Hard to find but definitely worth the looking.

This is a brilliant record. The music floats between quiet and beautiful tracks like 'reign on'... then on to the fun, hellraising blasphemy of the 'godspell according to Newcombe'. the last track, 'arkensa revisited', is as crazily cool as it is dangerous. Note the charles manson reference.
"Goin' back to Arkensa, gonna kill my ma and pa...gonna kill my ma and dad cause they made my life so sad."

Ain't nothing better than this album in a dusty pick-up driving through an old mining town. This time, they take it all the way back---to birth of the Western underground---to the outlaws and the prospectors.

BJM continue - with this brilliant, countrified-bluesy 6-tracker - to cut a blistering path through the history of American music. No-one can touch them. If you doubt, check out 1998's sublime "Strung Out in Heaven" or 1996's neglected blues-folk-rock masterpiece "Thank God for Mental Illness". They are one of the few bands in American music worth dying for. Name my pill Anton!!!!

If you're already a Brian Jonestown fan and don't have this, well, you'll probably like it. It's an all acoustic album, and it's got upbeat songs and mellow songs... all pretty damn good. From what I understand, Charles Manson wrote the very creepy "Arkansas", the 13 minute final track. I guess my only complaint would be that there aren't more songs.

About six months ago I discovered the band known as Brian Jonestown Massacre. I first bought Strung out in Heaven (which I highly recommend) then this album. I have to say that this is the best band of the ninties. With all the mass confusion of sound going around this is a breath of fresh air. They define the meaning of music. They are true muscians who are in it for the love of music. They will never sell out to the "industry". I recommend any album they have made and I am sure you will throughly enjpy it.