Artist: The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Track: All Around You
Album: Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request
Genre: Psychedelic
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.
Over its decade-long history, the band has undergone a large number of personnel changes.
Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request is the fourth album by American neo-psychedelia band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, the second of three critically acclaimed albums released by the band in 1996.
It was released on Tangible Records, distributed by Bomp! Records.
The title is a both a pun on and a tribute to the Rolling Stones’ 1967 album, Their Satanic Majesties Request.
In homage to and influenced by the Stones’ somewhat controversial psychedelic album, Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request reveals vast experimentation with Indian drones, sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels.
Following in the footsteps of Keith Richards and Brian Jones, BJM capture and explore the psychedelic rock sound of the late 1960s.
The opening track, All Around You (Intro), pays tribute to the showmanship of the Stones, calling one and all to the psychedelic trip that they are about to be put through