The Brian Jonestown Massacre: 2001 - 2017

 

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American musical outfit led by frontman Anton Newcombe. Their

early music was in a shoegaze style; following their debut album, Methodrone, the group's sound transitioned to a broader style of psychedelic rock, incorporating styles such as garage rock, folk rock and, later, electronica into their sound. The act continue to experiment with musical styles.
                 

The Brian Jonestown Massacre was formed in San Francisco in 1990. The band has had over 40

members since then, but its driving force and main songwriter is Anton Newcombe. Other prominent members have included Matt Hollywood, Dean Taylor, Jeff Davies, Brian Glaze, and Joel Gion. Their sound is heavily influenced by the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s, but also carries influences from shoegaze, jangle pop, garage rock, and lo-fi genres.
         

                   
Multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter Anton Newcombe is the only member who has stayed

with the Brian Jonestown Massacre since its beginning, when it was founded by Newcombe, tambourine player Joel Gion (who stayed with him the longest), and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Matt Hollywood.
                 

Current long-term members include Collin Hegna (bass), Frankie Teardrop (guitar,noise,etc), and Dan

Allaire (percussion). Long-time guitarist Ricky Rene Maymi was recently replaced by Irina Yaikowsky for a short tour, who was in turn, replaced by Ricky Rene Maymi.
             

Much has been made of the fact that Newcombe is head strong and has just one vision in mind: his own. However, many of the musicians who quit his band have stayed in his orbit and continue working

with him in some capacity. Newcombe was, at one point, a drummer in Hecksher's Warlocks. Campanella produces or engineers many of the records on Newcombe's record label, the Committee to Keep Music Evil and has also been on the last 2 highly successful European tours, playing keyboards and on occasion, guitar. Gion is forever showing back up shaking the tambourine at BJM shows. Even the Dandy Warhols appear to have buried the hatchet with Newcombe, as he joined them onstage at Lollapalooza in July of 2005.
               

The band announced the release of a new studio album, tentatively titled My Bloody Underground,

which was released in 2008. On September 3, 2007, the band released rough recordings from the album for download from their website. Music videos of the songs on the album have also been released, including a music video compilation DVD entitled 'Book of Days'. Songs from Brian Jonestown Massacre were specially adapted for use in the score to the critically acclaimed independent film, "Four Eyed Monsters."
                  

             
During the early part of the global pandemic, the band remained relatively quiet, releasing only the

2021 single "Before You Forget." A year later, Newcombe announced he had two full-length albums finished and released Fire Doesn't Grow on Trees in June 2022. Originally slated for release a few months later, BJM's next set, Your Future Is Your Past, eventually came out in February 2023. A surprisingly resilient collection, it was built around bootstrapping anthems of empowerment.
                  

1. BRAVERY REPETITION AND NOISE 2001

                      

Bravery Repetition and Noise is the eighth full-length album by American psychedelic rock band The

Brian Jonestown Massacre, released in 2001. All the songs were written by Anton Newcombe, except the track "Sailor," originally by The Cryan' Shames. The album was produced by Anton Newcombe and Rob Campanella with additional mixing by Courtney Taylor. The front cover features American independent film director Jim Jarmusch. Incidentally, The Brian Jonestown Massacre's song "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" appears on the soundtrack to his film Broken Flowers.
                                            

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Bravery, Repetition And Noise
Label: Substance – BSCP-30009
Format: CD, Album,Reissue 2002
Country: Japan
Released: 2001
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

    
01. Just For Today   4:17
02. Telegram   2:33
03. Stolen   1:29
04. Open Heart Surgery   4:19
05. Nevertheless   3:32
06. Sailor   3:43
Composed By – The Cryan' Shames   
07. You Have Been Disconnected   3:24
08. Leave Nothing For Sancho   2:56
09. Let Me Stand Next To Your Flower   4:55
10. If I Love You?   2:31
11. (I Love You) Always   3:28
12. If I Love You? (New European Gold Standard Secret Babylonian Brotherhood Cinema Mix)   6:20

BONUS TRACKS

13. If Love Is The Drug, Then I Want To Over-Dose   5:39
14. New Kind Of Sick   13:02
15. The Latern   3:28

LINE - UP

Anton Newcombe – vocals, guitar, bass, mini moog, mellotron, organ, drums, horns
Jeffrey Davies – guitar, organ, fuzz, vocals
Rob Campanella – Hammond organ, Mellotron, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, 12-string electric guitar, vox fuzz repeater
Frankie Emerson – guitar
Hunter Crowley – drums
David Koenig – bass
Bobby Hecksher – guitar
James Ambrose – vocals, guitar
Raymond Richards – pedal steel guitar
Jeff Levitz (credited as Jeff Levitts) – guitar
Mara Keagle – vocals
Raugust – flute

Flac Size: 398 MB

2. ...AND THIS IS OUR MUSIC 2003

                       

...And This Is Our Music is the ninth studio album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on

October 7, 2003, on Tee Pee Records. It was re-released on A Records, packaged alongside the "If Love Is the Drug, Then I Want to O.D" single, and was distributed in the UK through Cargo Records. AllMusic's Jo-Ann Greene called the album "the musical equivalent of a carnival fun house, one never knows what one will find upon opening the door".
                 

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – ...And This Is Our Music
Label: Tee Pee Records – TPE-052
Format: CD, Album, Gatefold sleeve, disctronics pressing
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock

TRACKS

01. The Wrong Way   0:22
02. Introesque   1:00
03. Starcleaner   2:28
04. Here To Go   5:15
05. When Jokers Attack   3:42
06. Prozac Vs. Heroin   3:58
07. Geezers   5:18
08. Maryanne   2:05
09. You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up   6:50
10. Here It Comes   3:14
11. What Did You Say?   0:44
12. Prozac Vs. Heroin Revisited   4:36
13. A New Low In Getting High   3:41
14. Some Things Go Without Saying   2:25
15. Tschusse   4:37
16. The Pregnancy Test   2:18
17. The Right Way   0:47

LINE - UP

                    

Anton Newcombe – vocals, guitar, bass, drums, synthesizer
Rob Campanella – dobro, Mandolin, Hammond Organ
Frankie Emerson – 12-string and 6-string guitar
Matthew J. Tow – vocals, Guitar
Ed Harcourt – vocals ("Here It Comes")
Dave Koenig – bass ("Geezers")
Raugust – flute
Jud Pratt - Trombone ("Geezers")
Daniel Allaire – drums, Percussion
Daniella Meeker – vocals ("Here It Comes")
Joseph Campanella – whistling ("You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up")
Darren Rademaker – vocals ("Maryanne")
Kurt Heasley – lead vocal ("Tschuss")

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3. MY BLOODY UNDERGROUND 2008

                 

My Bloody Underground is the tenth studio album by American psychedelic rock band the Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on April 15, 2008[6] on A Records, a label set up by the band's leader, Anton Newcombe. My Bloody Underground was recorded at first in Liverpool, England in August of

2007; however Newcombe found that the album wasn't working out the way he'd hoped, and so, then decided to record the rest in Reykjavík, Iceland in October 2007. The title of the album was originally believed to be a homage to the bands My Bloody Valentine, the Velvet Underground, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, being a combination of first two names (similar to the name of the band being a portmanteau of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones and the Jonestown Massacre) and a play on track name "My Little Underground" by the Jesus and Mary Chain. However, in an interview, Anton mentioned that the word "bloody" is used in place of the word "fucking".
                    

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground
Label: A Records – AUK011CD
Format: CD, Album, Sony DADC, Southwater Pressing
Country: Europe
Released: Mar 31, 2008
Genre: Rock
Style: Shoegaze, Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock

TRACKS

01. Bring Me The Head Of Paul McCartney On Heather Mill's Wodden Peg (Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse)    6:29
02. Infinite Wisdom Tooth / My Last Night In Bed With You    6:07
03. Who's Fucking Pissed In My Well?    4:33
04. We Are The Niggers Of The World    5:20
05. Who Cares Why    8:21
06. Yeah-Yeah    4:30
07. Golden - Frost   3:44
Vocals – Jón Sæmundur
08. Just Like Kicking Jesus    4:38
09. Ljósmyndir    4:08
10. Automatic Faggot For The People    5:47
11. Darkwave Driver / Big Drill Car    7:42
12. Monkey Powder   6:56
Written-By – Mark Gardener
13. Black Hole Symphony    10:20

BONUS TRACK

14. The Origin Of Love   6:09

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4. WHO LILLED SGT. PEPPER? 2010

                 

Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? is the eleventh studio album by American psychedelic rock band The Brian

Jonestown Massacre. It was released in February 2010 on band leader Anton Newcombe's A Records. The album was recorded in Iceland and at Studio East in Berlin. The album guest features, among a variety of international musicians, Spacemen 3 bassist Will Carruthers and vocalists Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir and Felix Bondareff. The album's title refers to The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
                   

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Label: A Records – auk020cd
Format: CD, Album, Digisleeve
Country: UK & Europe
Released: Feb 2010
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Shoegaze, Noise, Indie Rock

TRACKS

01. Tempo 116.7 (Reaching For Dangerous Levels Of Sobriety)    5:26
02. Þungur Hnífur    4:04
03. Lets Go Fucking Mental    4:41
04. White Music 2    2:13
05. This Is The First Of Your Last Warning (Icelandic)    6:00
06. This Is The One Thing We Did Not Want To Have Happen    7:10
07. The One    4:15
08. Someplace Else Unknown    6:24
09. Detka! Detka! Detka!    5:21
10. Super Fucked    6:36
11. Our Time    2:57
12. Feel It    6:15
13. Felt Tipped Pictures Of UFOs    10:20

LINE - UP

Anton Newcombe - Vocals, guitar, electronics
Will Carruthers - Bass, vocals (tracks 3,6)
Matt Hollywood - Guitar
Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir - Vocals (tracks 5,7)
Felix Bondareff - Vocals (tracks 2,9)
Jón Sæmundur - Guitar
Henrik Baldvin Bjornsson – Guitar
Constantine Karlis – Drums

Flac Size: 428 MB

5. AUFHEBEN 2012

                       

Aufheben is the twelfth studio album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre. It was released in May 2012 on band leader Anton Newcombe's A Records label. The title of the album comes from a German word with several meanings, such as "to lift up", "to abolish" or "to preserve". In philosophy, it is used by

Hegel to explain what happens when a thesis and antithesis interact. The cover art was taken from the Pioneer plaque of a representative depiction of humans and Earth's location in our solar system that had been engraved onto a gold-anodized aluminium plaque which was affixed to the exterior of the Pioneer 10 NASA probe. Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10 became the first of five planetary probes and 11 artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System.  
                          

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben
Label: A Records – AUK023CD
Format: CD, Album, Digisleeve
Country: UK & Europe
Released: May 19, 2012
Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

01. Panic In Babylon    4:39
02. Viholliseni Maalla    4:37
03. Gaz Hilarant    2:41
04. Illuminomi    3:49
05. I Want To Hold Your Other Hand    4:29
06. Face Down On The Moon    5:08
07. The Clouds Are Lies    3:21
08. Stairway To The Best Party In The Universe    4:21
09. Seven Kinds Of Wonderful    5:21
10. Waking Up To Hand Grenades    5:34
11. Blue Order / New Monday    7:09

LINE - UP

                     

Anton Newcombe – guitars, vocals, bass, keyboards, drums, electronics
Will Carruthers - bass, backing vocals
Matt Hollywood - guitar
Constantine Karlis - drums
Joel Gion - tambourine

Additional Musicians

Hallberg Daði Hallbergsson - guitar
Hakon Adalsteinsson - guitar
Eliza Karmasalo – vocals (track 2)
Friederike Bienert – flute
Thibault Pesenti - vocals (track 4)
Fab Leseure – keyboards, electronics

Flac Size: 373 MB

6. POL POT'S PLEASURE PENTHOUSE 2012

                  

Pol-Pot's Pleasure Penthouse is an album originally recorded by Anton Newcombe and possibly The

Brian Jonestown Massacre, though it is unclear if the band helped work on these recordings. Pol-Pot's Pleasure Penthouse was originally distributed on cassettes during 1990 or 1991, also going under the demo name "861-6863." Additionally, there were only 500 copies of the original cassettes made and distributed by Burger Records. The album was reissued on cassettes in 2012, then again on vinyl in 2017. The 2017 version contains the same songs as the original, but they are slower and most have been renamed. Additionally, three songs are not on the vinyl: Fade, Fade II, and Fade V.
                    

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Pol Pot's Pleasure Penthouse
Label: A Records – AUK041LP
Format: CD
Country: UK, Europe & US
Released: Apr 22, 2017
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze

TRACKS

                    

01. Fingertips   6:12
02. Rotary Eight   8:43
03. Telephone   6:07
04. Thoughts Of You   5:08
05. Pictures Of Us   4:56
06. Evergreen   3:20
07. Psychedelic Sunday   3:20
08. No One Can Hear You Cry In Space   6:59
09. Jazz   3:00
10. That Quiet Song   5:14
11. Snails In Winter   4:18
12. Memphis Sounds   2:15
13. Don't Do It
14. Platinum Dust Disaster Dril        
15. Yesterday  2:69
16. Exhaus   0:59        
17. Mouth To Mouth   4:16
18. Collision   4:02
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Flac Size: 492 MB

7. REVELATION 2014

                     

Revelation is the thirteenth studio album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre. It was released in May 2014 on band leader Anton Newcombe's A Records label. Newcombe is joined by a scant few guests, including original BJTM member Ricky Maymi laying down a little guitar, as well as some minimal help from members of Les Big Byrd, Asteroid No. 4, and Dimmer drummer Constantine Karlis. Much

like 2012's Aufheben, Revelation is a pastiche of old and new influences, trading in some of the Krautrock influence and extended jams of the albums before it for murkier experiments with Eastern folk (as on the crumbling lo-fi acoustics and woodwinds of "Second Sighting"), ornate goth rock with subtle horn arrangements ("Fistful of Bees," "Food for Clouds"), and a whole lot of strung-out psychedelia. Worshiping at the altar of both the Stones in their most woolen production moments and the narcotic euphoria of Spacemen 3, the standout tracks on Revelation happen when Newcombe does what he does best. This album is full of a vivid spectrum of production, stylistic distractions, and psychedelic black holes for the listener to get swallowed up by.
                   

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation
Label: A Records – auk030cd
Format: CD, Album
Country: USA & Europe
Released: May 20, 2014
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock

TRACKS

01. Vad Hände Med Dem? (Written-By – J.Åhlund)  4:41
02. What You Isn't     5:30
03. Unknown    1:54
04. Memory Camp    5:40
05. Days, Weeks And Moths     4:20
06. Duck And Cover     4:43
07. Food For Clouds    5:18
08. Second Sighting     3:41
09. Memorymix    4:36
10. Fist Full Of Bees    5:46
11. Nightbird    3:26
12. Xibalba    3:23
13. Goodbye (Butterfly)    4:42

LINE - UP

Anton Newcombe
Dino Karlis
Joakim Åhlund
Ricky Maymi
Ryan Van Kriedt

Flac Size: 348 MB

8. MUSIQUE DE FILM IMAGINE 2015

                     

Musique de Film Imaginé is the fourteenth studio album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on

April 27, 2015. The album is a soundtrack for an imaginary French film and pays homage to the great European film directors of the late 1950s and 1960s such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. It includes guest performances from the French multi-instrumentalist SoKo and Italian actress, singer, and director Asia Argento. Musique de Film Imaginé was recorded in Berlin in August 2014.
                   

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Musique De Film Imaginé
Label: A Records – AUK032CD
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

01. Après Le Vin      3:16
02. Philadelphie Story   4:05
Arranged By – William Sheller
Composed By – G. Skornik
Featuring – Soko
Lyrics By – François Wertheimer
03. La Dispute    3:07
04. L'Enfer    6:04
05. Elle S'Échappe    3:03
06. Le Cadeau    1:30
07. Le Sacre Du Printemps   6:05
Featuring – Asia Argento
08. Le Souvenir    2:18
09. Les Trois Cloches    0:20
10. Bonbon    1:39
11. L'Ennui    3:03
12. Bonbon Deux    1:36
13. La Question    0:38
14. Au Sommet    2:58

Flac Size: 202 MB

9. MINI ALBUM THINGY WINGY 2015

                  

With 2015's Musique de Film Imaginé, Anton Newcombe's long-running outfit, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, took an unusual detour, delivering a cerebral set of imaginary soundtrack cues that paid homage to vintage French cinema. A mere six months later, they came back with the casually named

but no less robust Mini Album Thingy Wingy. Returning to more song-based material, the seven-track collection was made in Newcombe's adopted home of Berlin and features plenty of sleekly crafted psych-pop that nods to the band's San Francisco roots while continuing to nurture their European influences. In typically eclectic BJM fashion, the collaborations here range from a Slovakian-language track from guest singer Vladimir Nosal ("Prší Prší") to a 13th Floor Elevators cover ("Dust") that features Alex Maas from Austin-based psych band the Black Angels on a tricked-out jug track. 
             

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Mini Album Thingy Wingy
Label: A Records – AUK033PROMO
Format: CD, Mini-Album, Promo, Cardboard Sleeve
Country: UK
Released: Sep 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

01. Pish   4:58
02. Prší Prší   4:49
03. Get Some   4:18
04. Dust   4:24
05. Leave It Alone   6:00
06. Mandrake Handshake   3:40
07. Here Comes The Waiting For The Sun   5:58

Flac Size: 215 MB

10. THIRD WORLD PYRAMID 2016

                 

Third World Pyramid, a somewhat meandering nine-track set that feels like an extension of their latter-

day psych-shoegaze mixture. While bandleader Anton Newcombe has always maintained a healthy output, he's been especially prolific in the years leading up to this LP, soundtracking films both real (2016's Moon Dogs) and imaginary (2015's Musique de Film Imaginé), while adding numerous BJM releases to the band's already stout catalog. Written and recorded at Newcombe's Cobra Studio in Berlin, the songs on Third World Pyramid cascade out in a textural multitude of jangling guitars, horns, and voices. Lead single "The Sun Ship" is dreamy and Beatlesque, with a robust John Lennon piano pulse and grandiose psych elements. The weirdly titled "Assignment Song" feels like anything but an

assignment, its droning majesty clocking in at nine-and-a-half minutes. The horn-assisted "Don't Get Lost" is another highlight with an almost Brit-pop vibe and plenty of freewheeling attitude. Elsewhere, things feel a bit more unfocused and loose with a pair of instrumental tracks in "Oh Bother" and "Lunar Surf Graveyard," which are pleasant if somewhat underwhelming psych jams that resemble their respective titles.
                    

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Third World Pyramid
Label: A Records – AUK036CD
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock

TRACKS

                

01. Good Mourning    2:34
02. Government Beard    3:36
03. Don't Get Lost    4:12
04. Assignment Song   (Composed By – Jan Hendin)   9:35
05. Oh Bother    3:47
06. Third World Pyramid    4:58
07. Like Describing Colors To A Blind Man On Acid    3:01
08. Lunar Surf Graveyard    3:42
09. The Sun Ship    4:05

Flac Size: 272 MB

11. DON'T GET LOST 2017

                                 

Arriving a scant four months after their last full-length, Don't Get Lost finds Brian Jonestown Massacre

trekking ever further afield into the psych wilderness. Since launching his Cobra Studio in Berlin, bandleader Anton Newcombe has turned his operation into a bursting warehouse of sound, opening the floodgates to deliver a torrent of new music over the early 2010s. Bearing the name of a song from 2016's Third World Pyramid, the 14-track Don't Get Lost offers a pretty wide cross-section of BJM's

various modes, with a particular emphasis on electronic experimentations. As on many of their 2010s records, a handful of guests can be heard scattered throughout the proceedings, like singers Tess Parks, Tim Burgess, and Shaun Rivers, as well as Norwegian musician Emil Nikolaison (Serena Maneesh) and British saxophonist Pete Fraser. Immediately challenging listeners,
                  

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Don't Get Lost
Label: A Records – AUK040CD
Format: CD, Album
Country: USA & Europe
Released: Feb 24, 2017
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                 

01. Open Minds Now Close    8:15
02. Melody's Actual Echo Chamber    3:49
03. Resist Much Obey Little    4:02
04. Charmed I'm Sure    2:55
05. Groove Is In The Heart    4:40
06. One Slow Breath    7:08
07. Throbbing Gristle    6:07
08. Fact 67    6:29
09. Dropping Bombs On The Sun    6:24
10. UFO Paycheck    3:57
11. Geldenes Herz Menz    3:27
12. Acid 2 Me Is No Worse Than War    5:25
13. Nothing New To Trash Like You    3:30
14. Ich Bin Klang    4:50

Flac Size: 440 MB

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