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''Yerself is Steam'' is the 1991 debut album by Mercury Rev. The title is a malapropism of the phrase "Your self-esteem," and is taken from a recurring lyric in the opening "Chasing a Bee." "Car Wash Hair" was released as a single to follow the album. "Very Sleepy Rivers" is supposedly about a serial killer, with the river acting a metaphor for the killer's relative calm and sudden tendency to snap. A music video for the song "Chasing A Bee" was shot at an abandoned infectious disease hospital that once housed "Typhoid Mary" on North Brother Island in New York City, and was directed by Jim Spring and Jens Jurgensen. Other editions of ''Yerself is Steam'' have been released in the UK, including CDs with the "Car Wash Hair" CD single or the Mint Films label compilation CD ''Mint Humbucker'', and LPs pressed on white vinyl with blue splatters, pink swirl vinyl or transparent blue vinyl. Dean Wareham made a guest appearance on "Car Wash Hair" and helped with recording, supposedly after Fridmann spent the band's advance on a holiday package (). ==Track listing== The back cover lists deliberately erroneous run times. They are listed here in ''(parentheses and italics)''. # "Chasing a Bee" – 7:11 ''(4:27)'' # "Syringe Mouth" – 4:04 ''(3:27)'' # "Coney Island Cyclone" – 2:37 ''(3:27)'' # "Blue and Black" – 6:00 ''(4:27)'' # "Sweet Oddysee of a Cancer Cell t' th' Center of Yer Heart" – 7:41 ''(5:27)'' # "Frittering" – 8:48 ''(4:27)'' # "Continuous Trucks and Thunder Under a Mother's Smile" – 0:43 ''(2:27)'' # "Very Sleepy Rivers" – 12:15 (13:15 on Sony/Columbia CD edition) ''(12:27)'' # "Car Wash Hair (The Bee's Chasing Me)" – 6:44 (hidden bonus track on Sony/Columbia CD edition) "Car Wash Hair" appears as track 9 on the 1992 Sony/Columbia version of the album. Also, on this same version, "Very Sleepy Rivers" is divided into fragments between tracks 8 (7:15) and 9 to 98, which are each 4 seconds long. The audio slowly fades out around track 83 and, around track 88, someone starts saying 'pick' repeatedly with some barely audible laughter. During this quieter section, a low-level sub-bass signal (under 20 Hz) was mixed underneath, which reportedly caused damage to some equipment at Sony's mastering studio. The unusual method of splitting the track was included in Pitchfork Media's 2010 list of "ten unusual CD-era gimmicks".〔http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7856-a-feature-about-nothing-the-1990s-in-lists/4/〕 All songs written by Mercury Rev. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yerself Is Steam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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