Give It Back!

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Give It Back!
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Studio album by
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
ReleasedOctober 7, 1997
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length55:11
Label Bomp!
Producer
The Brian Jonestown Massacre chronology
Thank God for Mental Illness
(1996)		Give It Back!
(1997)		 Strung Out in Heaven
(1998)

Give It Back! is the sixth studio album by American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released in 1997 by record label Bomp!.

Psychedelic rock Style of rock music

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music is intended to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs, most notably LSD. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre American psychedelic rock band

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American musical project and band led by Anton Newcombe. It was formed in San Francisco in 1990.

Bomp! Records is a Los Angeles-based record label formed in 1974 by fanzine publisher and music historian Greg Shaw and Suzy Shaw.

Contents

Background and recording

Notably, this is the only album that features Peter Hayes, who later founded the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Peter Hayes (musician) American guitarist

Peter Hayes is an American musician and singer, best known as a member of the rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club american band

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an American rock band from San Francisco, California. The group consists of Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been, and Leah Shapiro (drums). Former drummer Nick Jago left the band in 2008 to focus on his solo project.

The sessions for the record were filmed for the documentary Dig! . Though only a couple of minutes of these sessions appear in the film, the second disc of the double-disc DVD features more footage from the sessions, including the recording of "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth", the guitar track for "Servo", and the vocals for "Super-Sonic". The latter song includes a sample of The Dandy Warhols' song "Be-In", the opening track from their ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down album.

<i>Dig!</i> 2004 film by Ondi Timoner

Dig! is a 2004 documentary film directed by Ondi Timoner, and produced by Timoner, Vasco Nunes and David Timoner. Compiled from seven years of footage, it contrasts the developing careers and love–hate relationship of the bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and the bands' respective frontmen Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Anton Newcombe. It won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

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Sampling (music) reproduction of short extracts from a musical work

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"Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth"

The stand-out single on the album, "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth", is best known for being a sardonic reply to The Dandy Warhols' single "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth", which was itself directed at The Brian Jonestown Massacre. On the DVD commentary for Dig! , Matt Hollywood claims that he wrote the song in a tongue-in-cheek manner towards The Dandy Warhols, and goes on to discuss how Anton even borrowed elements of The Dandy Warhols' sound.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth single by The Dandy Warhols

"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" is a song by American rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in 1997 as the second single from their second studio album, ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down.

Matt Hollywood is an American indie rock guitarist and singer. He was a founding member and leader of the Portland-based indie rock band The Out Crowd, as well as a founding member of the psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. He currently fronts the drone rock band The Rebel Drones.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
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AllMusic reviewer Richie Unterberger wrote of the album: "about half of this is run-of-the-mill pseudo-'60s garage/psych with too many indulgent guitar breaks. They get a lot more interesting when they slow things down to a wasted quasi-junkie folk-rock mode". [1]

AllMusic Online music database

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Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival and the influence that the Beatles and other British Invasion bands had on members of that movement. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds—several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles—attempted to blend the sounds of rock with their preexisting folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community. The term "folk rock" was initially used in the U.S. music press in June 1965 to describe the Byrds' music.

Legacy

"Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth"" was featured on the soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's 2005 film Broken Flowers .

Jim Jarmusch American film director, screenwriter and actor

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Track listing

  1. "Super-Sonic" – 5:15
  2. "This Is Why You Love Me" – 1:55
  3. "Satellite" – 3:39
  4. "Malela" – 3:09
  5. "Salaam" – 1:44
  6. "Whoever You Are" – 4:41
  7. "Sue" – 8:30
  8. "(You Better Love Me) Before I Am Gone" – 3:35
  9. "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" – 2:46
  10. "#1 Hit Jam" – 4:55
  11. "Servo" – 3:23
  12. "The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)" – 6:04
  13. "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (Enrique's Dream)" – 5:35

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Unterberger, Richie (1997-08-26). "Give It Back! - The Brian Jonestown Massacre". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
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