Hey Mercedes

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Eleven To Your Seven 00:00 Tools
It's Been A Blast 00:00 Tools
Quality Revenge At Last 00:00 Tools
Playing Your Song 00:00 Tools
Lashing Out 00:00 Tools
Knowing When To Stop 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday 00:00 Tools
The Frowning of a Lifetime 00:00 Tools
A-List Actress 00:00 Tools
Go On Drone 00:00 Tools
Police Police Me 00:00 Tools
Every Turn 00:00 Tools
Oh Penny 00:00 Tools
Absolute Zero Drive 00:00 Tools
Haven't Been This Happy 00:00 Tools
Bells 00:00 Tools
Que Shiraz 00:00 Tools
The Slightest Idea 00:00 Tools
What You're Up Against 00:00 Tools
Quit 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Blue 00:00 Tools
Unorchestrated 00:00 Tools
Stay Six 00:00 Tools
The Switch 00:00 Tools
Boy Destroyers 00:00 Tools
The House Shook 00:00 Tools
St James St 00:00 Tools
Roulette Systems 00:00 Tools
Save a Life 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working for the Weak 00:00 Tools
The Boy Destroyers 00:00 Tools
Warm Chords 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Blue (live) 00:00 Tools
Wearing a Wire 00:00 Tools
Own Up 00:00 Tools
We Lie Half the Time 00:00 Tools
Unorchestrated (live) 00:00 Tools
St. James St. 00:00 Tools
The Slightest Idea (Live) 00:00 Tools
Weekend Starts on Wednesday 00:00 Tools
Save A Life (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bells (Live) 00:00 Tools
Every Turn (Live) 00:00 Tools
Stay Six (Live) 00:00 Tools
The House Shook (Live) 00:00 Tools
St. James St. (Live) 00:00 Tools
That's Right, I Said It (Live) 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday - EP Version 00:00 Tools
St James St (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Stay Six (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The House Shook (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Frowning of a Lifetime (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Bells (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Save A Life - EP Version 00:00 Tools
A-List Actress (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working For The Weak - EP Version 00:00 Tools
Every Turn (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Eleven To Your Seven (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
She's an Angel 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Que Shiraz (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Slightest idea (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Haven't Been This Happy (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Blue (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
What You're Up Against (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working For The Weekend 00:00 Tools
Quit (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Save a Life (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Quality Revenge 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working For The Weak (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Wearing A Wire (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Promise (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
A Salty Salute (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Easy Way Out 00:00 Tools
The Promise 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Stay Six 00:00 Tools
st. james street 00:00 Tools
Cigarette 00:00 Tools
St. James St 00:00 Tools
That's Right, I Said It 00:00 Tools
A Salty Salute 00:00 Tools
Wearing A Wire - EP Version 00:00 Tools
11 To Your 7 00:00 Tools
10. Quit 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working for the Weak [#] 00:00 Tools
10 - Quit 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 01 - Quality Revenge At Last 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 02 - It's Been A Blast 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 03 - Playing Your Song 00:00 Tools
Eleven 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Bells 00:00 Tools
Hey_Mercedes-11toyr7-128 00:00 Tools
st james street 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 04 - Knowing When To Stop 00:00 Tools
02 St. James St 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 06 - Unorchestrated 00:00 Tools
A Salty Salute (rough mix) 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 05 - Boy Destroyers 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Wokring For the Weak 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 12 - Go On Drone 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 08 - Police Police Me 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 07 - Lashing Out 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 09 - Oh Penny 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 10 - The Switch 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Loses Control - 11 - Absolute Zero Drive 00:00 Tools
Own Up (Demo Session) 00:00 Tools
We Lie Half The Time (Demo Session) 00:00 Tools
Switch 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - The House Shook 00:00 Tools
Stay Six - LP Version 00:00 Tools
That's Right 00:00 Tools
Easy Way Out (Elliott Smith Cover) 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Save a Life 00:00 Tools
Fuck You Aurora 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Every Turn 00:00 Tools
Haven't Been This Happy In Minutes 00:00 Tools
Wearing A Wire/The Promise 00:00 Tools
Save a Life (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Everynight Fire Works 00:00 Tools
Frowning Of A Lifetime 00:00 Tools
10 Quit 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - She's An Angel 00:00 Tools
Unorchestrated [live] 00:00 Tools
Quality Revenge at Last (720p) 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - St. James St. 00:00 Tools
03 - Own Up 00:00 Tools
06 - Unorchestrated 00:00 Tools
04 - Stay Six 00:00 Tools
11 Let's Go Blue 00:00 Tools
03 - Playing Your Song 00:00 Tools
01 - Bells 00:00 Tools
We Lie Half the Time [demo] 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Haven't Been This Happy 00:00 Tools
04 - Knowing When To Stop 00:00 Tools
04 The Slightest Idea 00:00 Tools
08 Haven't Been This Happy 00:00 Tools
Save 00:00 Tools
A-List Actress [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Own Up [demo] 00:00 Tools
09 - Oh Penny 00:00 Tools
08 - Police Police Me 00:00 Tools
09 What You're Up Against 00:00 Tools
10 - The Switch 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday (EP Version) 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Quality Revenge At Last 00:00 Tools
05 - Boy Destroyers 00:00 Tools
07 - Lashing Out 00:00 Tools
11 - Absolute Zero Drive 00:00 Tools
Que Shiraz [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Hey_Mercedes-11toyour7-64 00:00 Tools
Save A Life (EP Version) 00:00 Tools
12 - Go On Drone 00:00 Tools
Go On Drone [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Haven't Been This Happy [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Karma Police (radiohead cover) 00:00 Tools
Slightest Idea [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
04 Knowing When To Stop 00:00 Tools
03 Playing Your Song 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working For The Weak (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts On Wednesdays 00:00 Tools
A-List Actress (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Wearing A Wire (EP Version) 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
It's Been A Blast [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Everybodys Working For the Weak (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Boy Destroyers [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Quality Revenge At Last (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working For The Weak (EP Version) 00:00 Tools
Slightest Idea 00:00 Tools
Everybodys Working For The Weak 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday (muzak) 00:00 Tools
Eleven To Your Seven (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Que Shiraz (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
03 - The House Shook 00:00 Tools
Haven't Been This Happy 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Lashing Out 00:00 Tools
Absolute Zero Drive [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
02 - St. James St. 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Blue [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Absolute Zero Drive 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - The Frowning of a Lifetime 00:00 Tools
Lashing Out [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Frowning Of A Lifetime (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Promise (When in Rome Cover) 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend 00:00 Tools
Unorchestrated [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Every Turn (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Police Police Me [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Oh Penny [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Wearing A Wire 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Knowing When to Stop 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - St James St 00:00 Tools
Quit [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Everbody's Working For The Weak 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Que Shiraz 00:00 Tools
01 Quality Revenge At Last 00:00 Tools
What You're Up Against [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
07 Lashing Out 00:00 Tools
10 The Switch 00:00 Tools
St James St. 00:00 Tools
st james 00:00 Tools
Quality Revenge (At Last) 00:00 Tools
Playing Your Song [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Wearing A Wire [EP Version] 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Blue (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Switch [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - That's Right, I Said It 00:00 Tools
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12 - Everybody's Working for t 00:00 Tools
05.Eleven To Your Seven 00:00 Tools
St. James 00:00 Tools
Track 04 00:00 Tools
Knowing When To Stop [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
What You're Up Against (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
01 - Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday 00:00 Tools
everybodys working for the wea 00:00 Tools
09.What You're Up Against 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - The Switch 00:00 Tools
Go Blue 00:00 Tools
The Promise (When in Rome) 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Go on Drone 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Unorchestrated 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts on Wed 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Quit 00:00 Tools
12 Go On Drone 00:00 Tools
11 Absolute Zero Drive 00:00 Tools
Track 10 00:00 Tools
Mixed Emotions 00:00 Tools
Haven't Been This Happy (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
02 - Save a Life 00:00 Tools
Quit (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday 00:00 Tools
It's Been A Blast (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The frowning of a 00:00 Tools
Fuck You Aurora (Alkaline Trio cover) 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - A-List Actress 00:00 Tools
Police Police 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Playing Your Song 00:00 Tools
What You're Up Again 00:00 Tools
07 - Our Weekend Starts on Wed 00:00 Tools
02 it's been a blast 00:00 Tools
Track 05 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Eleven to Your Seven 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - The Boy Destroyers 00:00 Tools
04 - Wearing a Wire 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Oh Penny 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts on Wednesd 00:00 Tools
11.Let's Go Blue 00:00 Tools
golden slumbers 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - It's Been a Blast 00:00 Tools
13.Save A Life 00:00 Tools
That's Right I Said It 00:00 Tools
08.Haven't Been This Happy 00:00 Tools
01.The Frowning Of A Lifetime 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts on Wednes.. 00:00 Tools
Track 03 00:00 Tools
Oh, Penny 00:00 Tools
05 Boy Destroyers 00:00 Tools
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Track 02 00:00 Tools
05 - The Promise 00:00 Tools
The Frowning Of A Litetime 00:00 Tools
02 - St James St 00:00 Tools
Promise 00:00 Tools
Playing Your So 00:00 Tools
Playing Your Song (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Slightest Idea (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Havn't Been This Happy 00:00 Tools
Go On Drone (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Absolute Zero 00:00 Tools
Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday (EP Version) [EP Version] 00:00 Tools
02-Every Turn 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - Police Police Me 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Working For the Weak (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
10.Quit 00:00 Tools
its_been_a_blast 00:00 Tools
Police, Police Me 00:00 Tools
our weekend starts on a wednesday 00:00 Tools
The Frowning of a Life Time 00:00 Tools
11- Let's Go Blue 00:00 Tools
01.Quality Revenge At Last 00:00 Tools
A - List Actress 00:00 Tools
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06.Que Shiraz 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - What You're Up Against 00:00 Tools
07.Our Weekend Starts On Wednesday 00:00 Tools
04.The Slightest Idea 00:00 Tools
Hey Mercedes - That's Right, I Said 00:00 Tools
03.A-List Actress 00:00 Tools
Confetti (Lemonheads Cover) 00:00 Tools
08 Police Police Me 00:00 Tools
Track 01 00:00 Tools
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Hey Mercedes were an indie band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, that formed in 1999/2000 after the dissolution of Braid. The band consisted of Bob Nanna on guitar and vocals, Todd Bell on bass and vocals, Mark Dawursk on guitar and vocals and Damon Atkinson on drums. Hey Mercedes proved a more melodic antidote to Bob Nanna's previous band, Braid. With such hits as Stay Six, Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday, Let's Go Blue and Eleven to Your Seven, the band quickly gained popularity in an audience that had never been exposed to the scene. Hey Mercedes' first release was a Self Titled EP on Polyvinyl Records. Soon after its release, they signed to Vagrant Records and started touring for support of their upcoming Vagrant full length. In 2001 alone, they performed 114 shows. After the release of the band's first full length at the end of 2001, Dawursk left the band and was replaced with Mike Shumaker. With 2 full lengths, 3 EP's and 358 shows under their belt, Hey Mercedes called it quits. Their final show (#359) was at the Metro in Chicago on April 23rd of 2005. In a 2007 e-mail campaign, Threadless Tees reported that Hey Mercedes would play at the Metro, to celebrate the grand opening of the company's Chicago store. Spread Eagle, Wisconsin is a place best known for water, wilderness and paintings of the local ducks. Now it can take credit for LOSES CONTROL, the long-awaited second album from Hey Mercedes. As powerful as it is melodic, the follow-up to 2001's "Everynight Fire Works" finds the midwestern foursome's sharp, wounded songs crackling in a guitar-driven bonfire set by producers Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, Dinosaur Jr., Mighty Mighty Bosstones). From the instantly catchy anthem "Quality Revenge At Last" to the more insinuating closer "Go Drone," LOSES CONTROL is remarkably tight and accomplished for a sophomore effort -- though not without good reason. Prior to forming Hey Mercedes guitarist/vocalist Robert Nanna, bassist Todd Bell and drummer Damon Atkinson played together in Braid, a band often referred to as "emo pioneers," though you probably won't find the trio pleading guilty to either description. Nanna and Bell have been musical compadres since 1993, coming together at the University of Illinois as fans of Chicago punk bands like Naked Raygun and Screeching Weasel, while Atkinson joined them in 1997. Braid broke up two years later with five studio albums and several hundred shows behind them, "but it was just so obvious that we needed to keep playing," Nanna says. The trick was to go down a different path, not just in terms of music, but logistics -- having done everything themselves for years and years, they wanted to stay connected to that grass roots ethic while cutting down on both genuine despair and "Spinal Tap"-like moments. "It's hard to focus on writing honest music when you're 3000 dollars in debt or have three more shows to book, or the show just got cancelled 'cause the cops came," Nanna says. This time, there'd be a record label and a more patient approach. Joined by guitarist Mark Dawursk, Hey Mercedes played their first show in August of 2000, put out an EP on Polyvinyl and spent the next year touring and developing their sound. Vagrant released "Everynight Fire Works," produced and engineered by old friend J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines), in April 2001. It earned rave reviews, including Audio Galaxy's Album of the Year and a Top 5 position on the CMJ chart. Along the way, the band racked up their usual 200-plus shows per annum, including the sold-out Vagrant America tour and bills with Jimmy Eat World, New End Original and Saves the Day. They also found the time to share themselves with fans on a regular basis via "Are You Wearing A Wire?" a collectively written "blog" that can be found on the band's web site. 2002 saw the release of "The Weekend EP," as well as a personnel change - Clevelander Michael Shumaker stepped in for Dawursk, adding an enthusiasm for AC/DC and an eagerness to merely play guitar after fronting his own band Sheilbound. LOSES CONTROL was recorded at Slade and Kolderie's studio in Cambridge, MA. The band went into the session’s half-afraid the unfamiliar knob-twirlers would impose a different style, but the veteran duo made sure Hey Mercedes' particular quirks and uniqueness were always at the fore. They broke down every part of every song in pre-production, built an amazing set of drums for Damon and gave Robert and Michael access to some three dozen guitars. "Because they knew our songs so well they knew which guitars would sound good on different parts of every song," Nanna says. "The guitars are awesome, really layered -- they just sound big and fat. "I think overall LOSES CONTROL is just more of a rockin' record than Fire Works," he adds. "It's really loud and in your face. Though lyrically, it's pretty bleak and desolate." Nanna's vocals bridge the gap between those poles, whether he's locked into "Boy Destroyers"' riff-o-rama or bringing a melancholy overtone to the textured spaciness of "Absolute Zero Drive" (a song the band had earmarked as B-side until Slade and Kolderie convinced them otherwise). Another highlight is "Lashing Out," angry/catchy pop-punk that unexpectedly mutates into a sweet lyrical homage to Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" - a couplet Bob sang while the song was being written, then couldn't bring himself to drop. And what of Spread Eagle? The band - three-quarters of whom currently reside in Atkinson's hometown of Milwaukee, with Nanna two hours away in suburban Chicago -- wrote much of LOSES CONTROL at a friend's home there, just a few miles from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. "It was probably a drunk moment," Nanna says. "We were like, 'y'know, what we should do is find someone with a cabin or a trailer someplace far away in the woods, where we can be as loud as we want for as long as we want, in total seclusion." So they dragged all their gear and a little bit of soundproofing up to Spread Eagle for two weeks of playing, writing, cooking and canoeing. "And we didn't go crazy," he marvels. "It wasn't like 'The Shining.'" Except maybe for this: Whether you're talking King or Kubrick, "The Shining" stands the test of time. LOSES CONTROL is a dynamite rock'n'roll record that's bound to do the same. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.