Brian Jonestown Massacre - several albums
Brian Jonestown Massacre (named after the Rolling Stones guitarist) are a psychedelic band featuring Anton Newcombe and a rotation of more than 40 artists through the 90s.
Methodrone, Spacegirl, and Their Satanic Majesties Second Request are sloppily recorded but reminisce over a broad range of shoegaze and psychedelia . Take It From the Man! is a more accessible retreading of the Stones, BB King, Bo Diddley, The Animals, Them, Jimi Hendrix, and others. The appropriately titled Give It Back further relives 60s rock, while Strung Out in Heaven is perhaps their most mature work, sounding more like The Byrds than the Stones.
Bravery Repetition & Noise is a darker, dreamier, more atmospheric album as much dependent on post-punk as the 60s, and And This Is Our Music is even prettier and more ghostly. Bringing It All Back Home Again is only 30 minutes long and country-tinged.
Brian Jonestown Massacre is definitely the “biggest” name I know of to post so much of their work on the Internet; here’s hopin’ others follow suit!
The albums (and other tracks) are available for download in zipped packages of 96kbps OGG files from the download page.
Update:: The BJM web site is down but the links below should still work. Eiron Page (see comments) has also provided me with the link for the album download page for all of the albums named below plus some new additions.
Download
Methodrone
Spacegirl
Their Satanic Majesties Second Request
Take It From The Man!
Give It Back
Strung Out In Heaven
Bravery Repetition & Noise
And This Is Our Music
Bringing It All Back Home Again
wow….thanks!!! They’re coming in all their strung out glory to my native DC on Thursday and I have four days to learn all their songs. For an admirer of junkie musicians, I had never heard of them until Dig!. Does that make me lame. If not, there are several other things that make me lame, so don’t bother answering. Thanks again.
Comment by d — August 2, 2005 @ 1:58 am
Just noticed that Thank God for Mental Illness, another superb album, is available from their download page; it wasn’t when I wrote this post.
Comment by Luke — February 11, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
Very good music
Comment by Kelkar Rajendra — February 15, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
Hey, can anybody help me. ive just downloaded an album.. but when i try to extract it, it asks for a password which i dont have.. somebody help?? cheers
Comment by thomas — May 28, 2008 @ 4:28 am
you just unzip them out of the folders….I tried to open the folder and then pull out the zipped folder unto my desktop…that is not gonna work..I had to extract each folder right onto the destop…BANG…so simple..
Comment by rocker — June 6, 2008 @ 2:07 am
These albums are no longer available on the site but the direct download urls still work so I’m keeping them up. When I checked them they all worked except Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request which needed a password. No I don’t know the password.
Comment by Marvin — June 6, 2008 @ 2:32 am
I was able to download and extract Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request just fine. No password required.
Comment by ntrval — August 29, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
What do I have to do to be able to play OGG files?
Comment by Lethe — September 4, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
Winamp will play Ogg Vorbis files. You may need to get into the file type preference list and make sure Winamp recognizes these files. Other than that you can google for other players that play Ogg.
Comment by Marvin — September 5, 2008 @ 4:27 am
Watch a lot of this stuff live in a 3 hour video of their recent Sydney Metro gig here:
http://www.moshcam.com/?#?page=player&type=gig&id=128
Emjoy!
Comment by moshcam — September 20, 2008 @ 3:17 am
Thank so lot man!!! i miss you all guys! Wow o)
Comment by modi — October 14, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
is there anyway to convert ogg to mp3?
Comment by huvvie — January 6, 2009 @ 1:25 am
huvvie: “is there anyway to convert ogg to mp3?”
At least Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) can do it.
Comment by Deathbreath-999 — January 18, 2009 @ 9:52 am
The links are still up and the folder still contains everything that the BJM were hosting before their site went dead. If you navigate to http://media.deadbees.com/BJM/ you can get these albums and the more recent additions.
Comment by Eiron Page — January 22, 2009 @ 6:28 am
this is so great !… i would never listen to this if it werent for you !! ! ! THANK U Free albums galore ! ! !
Comment by juan carloz — May 27, 2009 @ 2:44 am
hell yeah not had a comment on here for 4 years and bjm are still fuckin top, sniff you dick heads
Comment by simon — July 8, 2009 @ 12:56 pm