A San Francisco band that built a catalog of distorted guitars and hypnotic tracks through decades of turbulence.
If you're trying to get a sense of their sound, start with 'Anemone.' It's all there, the hypnotic repetition, the hazy vocals, that feeling of being pulled into a specific, slightly warped world.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre matters because they've been making this specific kind of psychedelic music since 1990, and it still sounds like nothing else. Songs like 'Anemone' from their 1997 album 'Give It Back!' have that hypnotic, hazy quality that defines them. Even with all the stories about lineup changes and unpredictable behavior, the music itself, tracks like 'She Made Me' and 'Fuck You For Fucking Me', has a consistent, raw pull.
They formed in San Francisco in 1990, with Anton Newcombe leading from the start. Their first album 'Methodrone' established a lo-fi sound, and they kept releasing music through the years despite frequent lineup shifts. The 1997 album 'Give It Back!' included 'Anemone,' which became one of their best-known songs.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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