
The Brian Jonestown Massacre Tepid Peppermint Wonderland Rar
Over the years, and have gotten more promotional mileage out of their self-sabotage than they have ink spilled on their shambolic musical blend of,, and Summer of Love-derived transcendence. Megalomania, drug abuse, internal strife, aborted tours, and frustrated fans -- it's a checklist for band destruction.

And yet endure. They got a boost outside of their sizable niche in 2003 with the release of a documentary that traced both their contentious relationship with and 's mercurial antics/genius.
Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective is a double compilation album by American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released in 2004. The album is a best-of compilation spanning the band's career (with the exception of Strung Out in Heaven, due to legal issues).
Ondi Timoner's Dig! Won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and it proved a captivating depiction of the group's long strange trip. As the film showed, albums can be a long time coming. So Tee Pee Records has capitalized on the exposure with, a two-disc, nearly 40 song set of rare, old, unreleased, and live material.
Each track is accompanied by recollections from various band participants (there have been over 40 since the group's 1990 inception), and there's a wealth of photos from that same stretch. But by including album cuts from throughout their career, also re-emphasizes just how great -- after all the drama -- can really be.
Disc one includes the softly swirling haze of 2004 single 'If Love Is the Drug,' the highlight 'Sailor,' and both 'Anenome' and 'All Around You (Intro)' from the amazing, grimy, and beautiful 1996 effort. 'Wisdom' could be an ancient single, and 'Stars' is a brittle, very heavily '60s acoustic number about tortured love -- 'I warned you I'd kill you/And I love you' -- that 's notes say is the first song he ever wrote on guitar. 's second disc is equally strong, beginning with an unreleased track and moving through the band's first-ever single ('Evergreen'), live versions of 'Let Me Stand Next to Your Flower' and 'Hide and Seek,' the nearly garage rock stomp of 1996's 'Oh Lord,' and 'Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth,' the -baiting single that plays a pivotal role in the documentary. The album closes with 'Sue,' eight minutes that put and 's most central themes -- drugs, drone, dirt, and melody -- into epic relief.