Mezcal Head

Swervedriver | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (October 12, 1993)
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B00000EAFS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #654,505 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. For Seeking Heat

2. Duel

3. Blowin' Cool

4. MM Abduction

5. Last Train to Satansville

6. Harry and Maggie

7. A Change Is Gonna Come

8. Girl on a Motorbike

9. Duress

10. You Find It Everywhere

11. Never Lose That Feeling/Never Learn

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The more I listen . . ., April 30, 2002

By 

Dan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mezcal Head (Audio CD)

. . . the better it gets. I was introduced to Swervedriver through the Playstation game Road Rash, and I came across Mezcal Head in the Used section of a local music store. The only songs I wanted were Duel and Last Train to Satansville, but when I listened to the whole album, I was blown away by the summer-dusk feel of the music and the gritty, hopelessly passionate textures interwoven throughout. It makes no difference where I am; the moment I stick in this cd, I am instantly transported to a convertible '69 Vette blazing down a lonesome highway in Arizona with the waning sun setting fire to the land, turning rock formations into golden sculptures. My favorite songs include Blowin Cool, Never Lose That Feeling, and Duress, although the whole album is excellent and has a cohesiveness and thematic intensity that many albums seem to lack nowadays. Duress is a stunning, ultrapassionate panorama of steamy love on a dense, vivid night in July, when time moves sluggishly through the dank air and the sound of the insects and the scent of the summer air binds up all the past and future into one sweltering moment of passion. You will not be disappointed if you buy this album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tied for best album of the 90s, December 31, 2000

By 

Rocklover1968 "rockandrolllover" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mezcal Head (Audio CD)

Along with OK Computer, this is the most memorable album of the decade. Gets better with age - if you listen with headphones, tracks you thought you knew like best friends reveal new wrinkles and surprises (just like best friends).

If i ever have kids, they'll be begging me to turn this one off in 2025.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST ROCK MUSIC FOR YOUR CAR!!!!, December 8, 1998

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Matt Donner ([e-mail]) (American Highways) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mezcal Head (Audio CD)

I went for two years without this record and my life wasn't the same...Swervedrivers everywhere will appreciate the ability this band has to express the feeling of the wide open road through hard-hitting grooves and sweeter-than-honey melodies. Quoting great surf rock as equally as the Beatles, this album has the singular ability to make life seem understandable. Inspirational, and satisfying, any true rock fan will LOVE this record! " Harry and Maggie " is the defining song of the spirit of passionate love whose closest second is " Never Lose That Feeling ". Both songs express the intangibility of love while inspiring the soul to go figure it out by doing it! I wont live again without this album!