Holes (Mercury Rev song)

"Holes"
Single by Mercury Rev
from the album Deserter's Songs
Released	July 7, 1999
Recorded	Tarbox Studios, NRS Studios, Six Hours Studios
Genre	Chamber pop
Length	4:10 (edit) 5:55 (album version)
Label	V2 Records
Songwriter(s)	Jonathan Donahue, Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak
Producer(s)	Dave Fridmann, Jonathan Donahue, Aaron Hurwitz
Mercury Rev singles chronology
"Opus 40" (1999) "Holes" (1999) "Goddess on a Hiway" (1999)

"Holes" is the fourth single from Mercury Rev's fourth studio album, Deserter's Songs. The single was released in Australia only as a limited edition tour EP on July 7, 1999, although promotional CD singles were distributed to UK radio stations in 2006 (to coincide with the release of the Mercury Rev collection The Essential Mercury Rev: Stillness Breathes 1991-2006). The tour single included a live cover of "Caroline Says Pt. II" (Lou Reed) and featured Robert Creeley reading his poem "I Dreamt" over a Mercury Rev soundtrack.

PopMatters rated the song 60 in its list of 100 greatest alternative singles of the 1990s.^[1] The song has been described as a "crowd-pleaser".^[2]

Track listing

Australian tour single:

1. "Holes" (Edit) - 4:10
2. "Car Wash Hair" (Live) - 7:55
3. "I Dreamt" - 1:30
4. "Caroline Says Pt. II" (Live) - 3:33

2006 promo single:

1. "Seagull" (unreleased outtake from The Secret Migration) - 3:07
2. "Holes" - 5:55

References

1. "The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '90s - Part 3 (60 - 41)". PopMatters. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
2. Taylor, Mark (14 July 2017). "Review: Mercury Rev & The Royal Northern Sinfonia at Bristol's 02 Academy". Bristol Post. Retrieved 7 August 2017.