Yerself Is Steam

Mercury Rev | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000028TM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,827 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Much praised in the U.K. press, this is a reissue of the 1991 debut of a highly touted Buffalo, New York, band. Somehow tuneful psychedelia cheerfully coexists with the white-noise maelstrom. --Jeff Bateman

Product Description

The quirky American alternative rock group's 1991 debut, out of print in the U.S. Eight tracks. The album received much critical acclaim, including rave reviews by Uncut magazine ('A wayward, psychedelic classic'), Alternative Press magazine ('An Album of the Decade'), Vox magazine ('Absolutely stunning'), NME magazine 'A visionary, brilliant debut - still sounds great today') and Melody Maker magazine ('Like nothing you've heard in your life - sprawlingly magnificent'). 1991 release. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like..., May 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Yerself Is Steam (Audio CD)

Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, the Pixies, the Velvet Underground... good for you. But forget all that for a moment because this album is different. While containing elements similar to other revolutionary music, this album is a unique psychedelic vision with an early 90s underground sound--without the trappings or pretentions of their contemporaries.

Insane but beautiful.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME, February 27, 2006

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yerself Is Steam (Audio CD)

Yerself Is Steam is an album of sweeping anthemic bursts of rock that follow strange trains of thought. The opener Chasing A Bee is a symphony of skilfully applied distortion and rumbling guitar attack behind world-weary lyrics, leading up to an earthquake-like climax and then subsiding to the tune of a flute, leaving the listener breathless at its conclusion. There are also the majestic swirls of Coney Island Cyclone, the straight hard rock of Syringe Mouth and the intelligent piano, orchestral buildup and poignant lyrics of Blue And Black. Steam was a most impressive debut album that extended the boundaries of rock in daring new directions. Just be warned that this is not immediate music - it takes persistent listening to really grasp, let alone appreciate, its subleties.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life-changing psychedelia, January 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Yerself is Steam (Audio CD)

This album seemed like some sort of nightmare when I used to listen stoned in college, rooted to the couch unable to move because of the FEAR and the beauty and energy in this disc. Finally I'd crawl to the stereo intending to stop it so I could relax, then a new song would start and I'd curl up and whimper with pleasure/pain again. Rumour has it they were on a group acid trip during the making of this, and it sounds like it. God, it's wonderful.