''All Is Dream'' is the fifth studio album by American

rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...

band

Mercury Rev Mercury Rev is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Buffalo, New York.
Original personnel were Q'' listed ''All Is Dream'' as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.

Track listing

All songs written by

Jonathan Donahue Jonathan Daniel Donahue (born May 6, 1966) is an American rock musician. He is best known as the frontman and a founding member of Mercury Rev, with whom he has released nine studio albums since 1991. He is also a former member of The Flaming Lips ...

, Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak and Jeff Mercel. # "The Dark Is Rising" – 4:52 # "Tides of the Moon" – 5:13 # "Chains" – 4:22 # "Lincoln's Eyes" – 7:09 # "Nite and Fog" – 3:58 # "Little Rhymes" – 5:13 # "A Drop in Time" – 4:20 # "You're My Queen" – 2:33 # "Spiders and Flies" – 4:11 # "Hercules" – 7:52 ;Japanese bonus track #

"Cool Waves" – 3:10

Limited edition bonus CD-ROM

The album was also released as a limited edition featuring a

CD-ROM A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data. Computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both comput ...

with the following tracks: # "Saw Song (Live)" (Audio track) # "Hercules (Live)" (Audio track) # "Little Rhymes (Live)" (Audio track) # "Nite and Fog" (Video) # "The Dark Is Rising" (Video) # "Documentary Footage" (Video)

Personnel

– words and

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

Grasshopper Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grasshopp ...

– moth-light guitars * Jeff Mercel – drums and piano *

Dave Fridmann David Lawrence Fridmann is an American record producer and musician. Career From 1990 onwards he co-produced most releases by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips. Other bands he has worked with include Weezer, Saxon Shore, Neon Indian, Wolf Gang, ...

– bass guitar and

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

Tony Visconti Anthony Edward Visconti (born April 24, 1944) is an American record producer, musician and singer. Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers. His first hit single was T. Rex's " Ride a White Swan" in 1970, the first of man ...

– string arrangement,

, additional orchestration * Mary Gavassi Fridmann – soprano vocals * Justin Russo –

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

* Jason Russo – electric guitar * Rex L White – pedal steel * Suzanne Thorpe – flute * Joel Eckhaus – bowed saw * Bethany Crescini – child vocals * Katie Fox, Amy Helm and Deb Curley – female vocals * Marc Guy – French horn * Larry Packer – solo violin * Gregor Kitzis – violins * Sarah Adams, Martha Mooke, Laura Seaton – violas * Maxine Neuman – cello * Aaron Hurwitz –

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

Charts

In other media

In his album '' Falling Off the Bone'', comedian

Todd Barry Todd or Todds may refer to: Places ;Australia: * Todd River, an ephemeral river ;United States: * Todd Valley, California, also known as Todd, an unincorporated community * Todd, Missouri, a ghost town * Todd, North Carolina, an unincorporated ...

recounts the fact that, while in Manhattan on September 11, a friend of his in the crowd recognized Barry and told him, "The new Mercury Rev album is out."

References

{{Authority control Mercury Rev albums 2001 albums Albums produced by Dave Fridmann