The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Discography 1995 - 1999 (6 Albums) + 2 EPs (1999 + 2005)

 
The ever-evolving musical vehicle for notorious psych-rock brain trust Anton Newcombe, the Brian Jonestown Massacre has endured numerous phases and iterations since arriving in the mid-'90s, becoming something of an independent institution in the process. Early highlights like 1996's Their

Satanic Majesties' Second Request showed Newcombe's propensity for melding late-'60s psychedelia with textured shoegaze, while later standouts like 2015's imaginary soundtrack Musique de Film Imaginé took a more cerebral and experimental approach. Undoubtedly, their most visible period followed the release of the 2004 documentary film DIG!, which focused on the contentious relationship between Newcombe and Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. With the film criticized by members from both bands for what they considered to be an unfair portrayal, the Brian Jonestown Massacre nonetheless survived the media attention and moved into a particularly fertile period of creativity that continued well into the 2010s.
                                                                       

Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern

culture and music into the world of Western rock & roll, the Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco, California in 1990. Some 40 different members passed through the group's ranks over the next half-decade, but the focal point always remained singer/guitarist Anton Newcombe, who, along with bassist Matt Hollywood, guitarist Dean Taylor, organist Mara Regal, accordionist Dawn Thomas, drummer Brian Glaze, and percussionist Joel Gion, recorded the band's 1995 shoegaze-influenced debut LP, Methodrone.
                                                                                

A collection of early recordings, Spacegirl and Other Favorites, followed on the band's own Tangible

label in early 1996, and was the first of four Brian Jonestown Massacre LPs to appear that year; next up was the brilliant Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, a full-blown homage to the Stones' glorious psychedelic-era excesses. Recorded live in the studio, the grittier Take It from the Man! found the band exploring even broader territory. Finally, the year ended with the release of Thank God for Mental Illness, a showcase for their strong country and blues leanings.
                                                                           

In 1997, the BJM -- now consisting of Newcombe, Hollywood, Gion, Taylor, guitarists Jeff Davies and

Peter Hayes, and drummer Brad Artley -- resurfaced with Give It Back! After signing to TVT, they released Strung Out in Heaven the following year, but the band and Newcombe's own eccentricities kept them from staying on the label. After a few scattered EPs, they resurfaced in 2001 with Bravery Repetition and Noise, distributed by Bomp. And This Is Our Music followed in 2003.
                                                                            

Despite a continued lack of major distribution, the Brian Jonestown Massacre earned the largest profile

of their career in 2004, when the band became the unlikely focus of an award-winning documentary, DIG!, which charted the trials of Newcombe and those of his former friend and perceived rival, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols. The We Are the Radio EP followed in August 2005. Three years later, the band reinvented itself with My Bloody Underground, featuring yet another lineup and a hint of shoegaze and noise pop, and marking the first release for Newcombe's own A Records label. The noisy experimentalism continued on 2010's Who Killed Sgt Pepper?, which Newcombe recorded partly in Iceland and Berlin.
                                                                      

By this time, DIG! was fast becoming a cult classic, and even though the lineup had changed many

times over since the movie premiere, the BJM's popularity remained thanks to a bevy of solid releases. In 2012, Newcombe and Matt Hollywood teamed up again to record what he considered his most cinematic record, Aufheben. In 2014, the project's 14th full-length album, Revelation, materialized, featuring tracks toiled over in Newcombe's Berlin studio between 2012 and 2014.
                                                            

In 2015, Newcombe returned to the themes of Aufheben with Musique de Film Imaginé, a collection of

soundtrack cues for a nonexistent movie, inspired by his love of classic French cinema. A seven-song collection of new, more rock-based material arrived later that year under the amusing title of Mini Album Thingy Wingy.
                                                                

Ever prolific, Newcombe and his collaborators returned first in October 2016 with the lush psych-

shoegaze LP Third World Pyramid, followed four months later by Don't Get Lost, their 16th album overall. Something Else, the first of two albums released in 2018, found the BJM eschewing some of the experimentalism of their later period in favor of a more straightforward rock approach akin to their early releases. The band's 18th album, the eponymously-titled The Brian Jonestown Massacre, arrived in 2019, as did the non-album single "Forgotten Graves."
Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny

METHODRONE  1995

                                                  

Label: A Records ‎– auk 008cd
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 2007
Country: UK
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie,Alternative

TRAXS

01. Evergreen     3:24
02. Wisdom     5:20
03. Crushed     6:08
04. That Girl Suicide     3:41
05. Wasted     4:21
06. Everyone Says     4:15
07. Short Wave     2:47
08. She Made Me     4:42
09. Hyperventilation     9:53
10. Records     1:50
11. I Love You     4:11
12. End Of The Day     5:09
13. Outback     4:07
14. She's Gone     7:18
15. Untitled (Methodrone)   4:52

MP3 @ 320 Size: 168 MB
Flac  Size: 410 MB

SPACEGIRL AND OTHER FAVORITES  1995

 

 
Label: The Committee To Keep Music Evil ‎– EVIL11
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 2003
Country: US
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock

TRAXS

01. Crushed     5:53
02. That Girl Suicide     3:36
03. Deep In The Devil's Eye & You     5:22
04. Kid's Garden  (Drums – Ricky Maymi)   7:21
05. When I Was Yesterday  (Bass – Ricky Maymi)   3:56
06. Spacegirl     11:39
07. Spacegirl (Revisited)     5:20
08. After The Fall     4:30
09. Thoughts Of You     5:23
10. Hide And Seek     3:58
11. Never Ever!  (Tambourine – Ricky Maymi)   6:01
12. Ashtray     5:12
13. Fire Song  (Bass – Ricky Maymi)   4:04

MP3 @ 320 Size: 168 MB
Flac  Size: 457 MB

THANK GOD FOR MENTAL ILLNESS  1996

 

 
Label: A Records ‎– auk 007cd
Format: CD, Reissue  2007
Country: UK
Genre: Rock
Style:Folk Rock

TRAXS

01. Spanish Bee     3:48
02. It Girl     2:11
03. 13     2:34
04. Ballad Of Jim Jones     2:14
05. Those Memories     2:01
06. Stars     3:15
07. Free And Easy, Take 2     2:28
08. Down     3:52
09. Cause I Love Her     1:14
10. Too Crazy To Care     1:21
11. Talk-Action=Shit     2:06
12. True Love     3:31
13. Sound Of Confusion     33:02

MP3 @ 320 Size: 148 MB
Flac  Size: 383 MB

TAKE IT FROM THE MAN! 1996

 

Label: A Records ‎– auk 005 cd
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 25 Jun 2007
Country: UK
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRAXS

01. Vacuum Boots     2:57
02. Who     2:53
03. Oh Lord     3:21
04. Caress     2:29
05. (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six     3:24
06. Straight Up And Down     4:30
07. Monster     3:15
08. Take It From The Man     2:41
09. B.S.A.     4:42
10. Mary Please     4:10
11. Monkey Puzzle     4:03
12. Fucker     2:12
13. Dawn     2:04
14. Cabin Fever     7:56
15. In My Life     2:22
16. Be Song     3:26
17. My Man Syd     1:49
18. Straight Up And Down     11:01

MP3 @ 320 Size:162 MB
Flac  Size: 509 MB

GIVE IT BACK!  1997 

 

Label: BOMP! ‎– BCD 4068, BOMP! ‎– BCD-4068, Tangible ‎– tan 1067
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRAXS

01. Super-Sonic  5:14
02. This Is Why You Love Me  1:54
03. Satellite   3:37
04. Malela   3:09
05. Salaam   1:42
06. Whoever You Are   4:40
07. Sue  8:28
08. (You Better Love Me) Before I Am Gone  3:33
09. Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth   2:45
10. #1 Hit Jam   4:53
11. Servo   3:23
12. The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)   5:52
13. Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request   5:35

MP3 @ 320 Size: 130 MB
Flac  Size: 336 MB

STRUNG OUT IN HEAVEN  1998

 

Label: TVT Records ‎– TVT 5780-2
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Alternative Rock

TRAXS

01. Going To Hell     2:58
02. Let's Pretend It's Summer     3:37
03. Wasting Away     3:13
04. Jennifer     3:31
05. Got My Eye On You     3:10
06. Nothing To Lose     2:52
07. Love     3:53
08. Maybe Tomorrow     4:13
09. Spun     4:14
10. I've Been Waiting     4:24
11. Dawn     2:13
12. Lantern     3:26
13. Wisdom     5:28

MP3 @ 320 Size: 108 MB
Flac  Size: 322 MB

BRINGING  IT ALL BACK HOME - AGAIN (EP)  1999

 

 

Label: A Records ‎– AUK-001CD, A Records ‎– AUK001CD, A Records ‎– auk- 001
Format: CD, EP, Reissue, Stereo 02 Oct 2006
Country: UK
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Alternative Rock

TRAXS


01. The Way It Was     2:50
02. Mansion In The Sky     2:19
03. Reign On     4:31
04. Gospel According To A.A. Newcombe     3:18
05. All Things Great And Small     3:06
06. Arkansas Revisited     13:26

MP3 @ 320 Size: 72 MB
Flac  Size: 182 MB

WE ARE THE RADIO (EP)  2005

 

Label: Tee Pee Records ‎– TPE062
Format: CD, Mini-Album
Country: US
Released: 2005
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRAXS

01. Never Become Emotionally Attached To Man, Woman, Beast Or Child     3:42
02. Seer    2:31
03. Time Is Honey (So Cut The Shit)     2:54
04. Teleflows Vs. Amplifaction     3:05
05. God Is My Girlfriend   3:21

MP3 @ 320 Size: 41 MB
Flac  Size: 98 MB

 

The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request HERE