The Mermen
A Glorious Lethal Euphoria (1995)
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Length:  1:13:51
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Pulpin' Line    3:58
      2.  
      		 With No Definite Future and No Purpose other than to Prevail Somehow...    4:27
      3.  
      		 The Drowning Man Knows His God    3:32
      4.  
      		 Scalp Salad    3:52
      5.  
      		 Obsession for Men    9:23
      6.  
      		 Blue Xoam    4:09
      7.  
      		 Under the Kou Tree    5:41
      8.  
      		 Lizards    3:56
      9.  
      		 Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deforor hospes    5:14
      10.  
      		 Drup    3:21
      11.  
      		 The Intractable Boy    4:28
      12.  
      		 Between I and Thou    9:16
      13.  
      		 And the Flowers They'll Bloom    9:48
      14.  
      		 Brahms3rd Movement 3rd Symphony    2:38
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      The Mermen - A Glorious Lethal Euphoria (1995)

      "The Drowning Man Knows His God" is a song title that immediately lets you in on just what kind of nouveau surf band the Mermen are: a strange, mysterious one best approached with caution. Guitarist Jim Thomas picks up the gauntlet thrown down by thrash master Dick Dale, in turn tossing it into realms of overamped sound generally occupied only by the likes of Neil Young, Sonic Youth, and Glenn Branca. On A Glorious Lethal Euphoria, Thomas eschews the feel-good for excursions into riff wreckage ("Pulpin' Line") and lengthy wavescapes that crash over the living room ("Obsession for Men"). Add a wry nod to the Gilligan's Island theme on "The Intractable Boy" and a passage from Brahms's Third Symphony, and you've got one that not even Brian Wilson would have thought up. --Rickey Wright

      01. Pulpin' Line
      02. With No Definite Future and No Purpose other than to Prevail Somehow...
      03. The Drowning Man Knows His God
      04. Scalp Salad
      05. Obsession for Men
      06. Blue Xoam
      07. Under the Kou Tree
      08. Lizards
      09. Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deforor hospes
      10. Drup
      11. The Intractable Boy
      12. Between I and Thou
      13. And the Flowers They'll Bloom
      14. Brahms3rd Movement 3rd Symphony
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