Their self-titled album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005. In the Future was a finalist for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize and was also nominated for "Best Alternative Album" in the 2009 Juno Awards. The song "Stay Free" from In the Future was featured on the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack.
In 2005 the band opened for Coldplay on their Twisted Logic Tour for three weeks, with their final opening in San Diego.
In September 2010 Black Mountain performed in an amphitheater located in the woods of Oisterwijk at the Incubate (festival) in Tilburg, Netherlands.
Leader Stephen McBean also heads another similarly named band, Pink Mountaintops, who are the more experimental side of McBean's musical abilities. Black Mountain is the front line band for Black Mountain Army, a collective of musicians, artists and friends in Vancouver. In an interview the band said "Black Mountain is just the five of us. The Black Mountain Army… which has kind of gotten blown out of proportion, it was kind of just a joke, because everybody thought we were this hippie collective, like we all lived in one house. But it’s basically just our friends at home in Vancouver, just our extended family of creative people that we know."
Several members of the band have, for as long as a decade, worked for organizations that meet the basic living requirements of the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood, such as Insite. In an interview, the band said: "After work we all try not to think too hard about the effect it has on our lives. It keeps us grounded."
Wilderness Heart was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.
March 11, 2014 The Black Mountain song "Wucan" was featured on season 2 of the FOX drama "The Following" during the eighth episode entitled "Messenger".
The Black Mountain song "Druganaut" is featured in a June, 2014 Father's Day commercial for J.C. Penney.
Space To Bakersfield
Black Mountain Lyrics
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Are you listening?
Are you willing?
Are you able?
Two hits in digital
Space to Bakersfield, space to Bakersfield
Are you listening?
Space to Bakersfield, space to Bakersfield
Are you listening?
Are you listening
"Space to Bakersfield" is a song by Canadian psychedelic rock band Black Mountain, off their 2016 album, "IV". The song has a surreal feel of a sci-fi road trip with a mix of both excitement and fear. The lyrics seem to be asking the audience if they are ready and willing to embark on such a journey by asking "Are you listening? Are you willing? Are you able?".
The repetitive focus on "Space to Bakersfield" creates an illusion of being in a peculiar hallucinogenic world, possibly reflecting the theme of escaping reality. It may also reflect the concept of traveling to a distant place through a futuristic mode of transportations, like in a spacecraft. Another interpretation could be that the song is the journey of the mind to achieve a level of consciousness that is out of reach for most people.
Overall, the song's lyrics are enigmatic, making it open to numerous interpretations. Its surreal atmosphere invites the listeners into a world that could alter their perspective on space, time, and reality.
Line by Line Meaning
Space to Bakersfield
Our minds are travelling from one place to another like a journey from space to Bakersfield
Are you listening?
Are you paying attention to what we are about to say?
Are you willing?
Are you ready and prepared to accept what we have to offer?
Are you able?
Are you capable of understanding and making the most of the information we provide?
Two hits in digital
We are offering our musical composition in a digital format consisting of two parts.
Space to Bakersfield, space to Bakersfield
Our journey continues from space to Bakersfield, emphasizing the importance and significance of our destination.
Are you listening?
We want to make sure that our message is being understood and absorbed by our audience.
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, CCS RIGHTS MANAGEMENT CORP, Kassner Associated Publishers Ltd
Written by: Amber Webber, James Bull, Jeremy Schmidt, John Ollsin, Joshua Wells, Stephen McBean
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@robertbeniston553
One of the greatest songs ever written
@supervidere7
It's a good tune, a very good tune. Let's not get carried away.
@joshuadowling8778
@@supervidere7Hahaha!. Agreed. Overindulgence.
@joshuadowling8778
@X51AWaverider You have to admit that this collaboration of members is fuckin tits. This guy's solo rips it!
@ira2919
But not live...
@hinder90
This is what space rock is supposed to sound like.
@andrasbrnk7863
For me it'd be Spiritualized though
@peschi79
@@andrasbrnk7863 Why not both
@trentdenham5844
Stephens guitar solo in this live version shatters my brain and liquefies my spine, its so f'ing good, thanks KEXP you guys rock
@markwhite2207
The best song Pink Floyd never recorded, brilliant Rick Wright style keyboards. Find dark skies,light fire then a fat bifter,lie back and contemplate the Universe. Mind Yoga for the lazy,love it!