| Holes | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Mercury Rev |
| 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 |
| Producer: | Dave Fridmann, Jonathan Donahue, Aaron Hurwitz |
| Prev Title: | Opus 40 |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | Goddess on a Hiway |
| Next Year: | 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 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]
Australian tour single:
2006 promo single: