To those in the know:
19 August, new album to be released: Ancient Astronauts. Already excited!
I have
Let Them Eat Cake. That's a great record, especially this tune
Quote from: Slim on June 03, 2022, 11:56:03 AMI have Let Them Eat Cake. That's a great record, especially this tune
Couldn't agree more, on of my favourites. The follow up Phanerothyme (the title no one ever remembers) is in similar style. Very good.
New album alert:
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/yay
Quote from: Thenop on May 05, 2023, 09:22:39 AMNew album alert:
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/yay
Yay!
can't have enough Motorpsycho :)
Found out they are playing in (Dirty) Leeds on 25th June, but Mrs S has already arranged for us to be somewhere else that night >:(
I have been living with thge new album for a while now, I like it. It is a change of pace for sure, it harkens back to earlier days of the band and is mostly acoustic. Ist is a nice change. having said that I am 100% a fanboi so the band can do very little wrong in my eyes.
The Motorpsycho boys have decided to dive into the past and start releasing all the singles & EPS they ever made (that won't happen, but the thought is nice) one at a time each Monday starting the 26th of February. All susual channels will carry them, I'll be following the Bandcamp releases, but I expect I have at least half of them already. They won't release them chronologically, bit random I suppose. Seems most of them were not available in their own country.
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com
First 2 singles released:
California single, 4 songs from 2017, from the Tower sessions. These are short form track, nice but not groundbreaking.
Hyena single from 2006, the track itself is from Black Hole/Blank Canvas, the 2006 2LP that found the band without a drummer, original drummer Gebhardt had just left and as a repsonse to that they recorded a collection of indie rock songs that sounded gritty and dirty. Bent (bass / vocals) plyed drums on the album. It's really a one off, a band trying to figure where to go next and shedding it's skin. I really like it, but the tone and overall feel is not for everyone. The B side Bonny Lee was already on the rarities comp The Light Fantastic.
Looking forward to subsequent re-releases, there are some singles and EPs even I don't know / have!
2nd set of 2 singles is up:
Ozone 5 track EP from 1998's Trust Us
and
X-3 (Knuckleheads In Space)(Kåre's kommærs-klipp), a condensed version of the full thing from Heavy Metal Fruit backed with the marvelous ICU, already released on the rarities comp The Light fantastic.
Another Monday morning, another set of singles:
1998's Manmower (with a cover of the Who's heaven and Hell also being pat of the 5 song EP set)
and 2021's Ulv! Ulv! (Wolf! Wolf!) backed with instrumental Snahlbatros (an instrumental in the style of Fleetwood Mac's Albatros).
MPs guitarists' nickname is Snah, that explains the weird title.
Motorpsycho monday again!
2002 - Serpentine EP.The song itself is a lovely tune, taken from the album
It's a Love Cult. In fact, we even get the video with the download:
We also get a low ket acoustic ditty called
Shane 2AM,
Ricky Little Massenburg written and sung by drummer Gebhardt (immortalized earlier by playing it on tour),
Snafu a piece that really sounds like an outtake and the often played live
Fade to Grey2010 - The Visitant single. An outtake form heavy Metal Fruit, a short track that has a Cream riff, very nice. And a cover of The Pretty Things'
Eagle's Son that sounds like they could have written it themselves.
Great releases again!
Wow, love that last one.
And it is Monday again!
release 01:
Terje Brekkstad's Kosmiske Reise (Pts 1&2) - 24 mins of ambient, so only try this if you like this sort of thing. I am happy they finally release this digitally though, it was only part of a set with a Norwegian magazine. I have it, with the vinyl, but most were too late in buying it.
release 02:
Starmelt / Lovelight (1997)
The title song is a lovely tune tune from
Angels and Daemons At Play. It's a but of alternative pop Motorpsycho style. The B sides though, oh my.
Up Our Sleeves is a Humble Pie cover and done in true MP fashion with that roaring bass,
Wishing Well a 5 minute acoustic low key tune that I really like,
Flick of the Wrist is a nearly 9 minute piece of alternative rock, very 90's and it is hard to believe it was left off the album. It's an alternate version to the song that was recorded during the 1996 Blissard recordings. And we close proceedings with the oddball
Instamatic which is a twangly ditty.
The video for Starmelt/Lovelight is a band and fan favourite:
Monday, more Motorpsycho
2002 -
Go to California, a severly trimmed down version of the
Phanerothyme highlight backed with
Black to Comm a cover of the infamous MC5, a live staple in the late 90's. Great listening!
This includes the clip for GTC, more and more I start to think MP might be the only band in existance that enjoyed making videos
1994 -
Wearing Yr Smell, from 1994's Tomothy's Monster. They were very much discovering what they were back then. A cross between alternative rock and a more melodic version of that, it starts to show which direction they would take in the following 2 albums: more drawn out songs and much more their own style.
President Block is very much a 90's track, noisy and it sounds like a Seattle track.
JR. is a take on the
Demon Box song
Junior, very much a practice room sounding track
Birds is a TM outtake as well.
And we end with an edited version of
Leave it Like That, an album track.
And of course, it is Monday, just like that!
1996 - Mot Riving
3 non LP tracks, the first one sung by future novelist Samuel Bjørk, quite succesful he turned out to be! A bit of an odd track to be honest (Star Danceer vs. Car cancer) with a very unusual MP beat, almost like a Bonham sample. A banjo twang, a less than melodic affair than normal, nevertheless it sounds very 90s.
La'Mon Rag is a 2 minute ditty that comes straight out of a silent movie.
The real prize is the demo for Baby Jesus II, a gorgeous acoustic track.
It's all over in little over 7 minutes in total.
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/mot-riving
2024 - Rock Bottom (Tour single)
You guessed it, it is a cover of UFO, and a very good one. A tight exercise, not the guitar galore effort UFO used to make of it, but more focused on the song itself. Lovely! Backed with Nazareth's Silver Dollar Forger this makes or a great single!
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/rock-bottom
And again!
1996 - Sinful / Wind Borne
The 3rd single from what they back then called their 'pop' album, and it is a catchy tune for sure. Backed with a Lynyryd Skynyrd cover:
Workin' for MCA.
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/sinful-wind-borne
2016 - Spin Spin Spin
A laid back dreamy tune (an edit), seems to be a cover but I don't know the original, backed with
Go Around Once and acoustic balled.
The interesting part of this is that the album the single was taken from, is an progressive very long winded tune album:
Here be Monsters. it was followed by
Here be Monsters II, a tour only release for which I just noticed copies start around 100 EUR.. :o
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/spin-spin-spin
Quote from: Thenop on April 15, 2024, 04:57:01 AM2016 - Spin Spin Spin
A laid back dreamy tune (an edit), seems to be a cover but I don't know the original, backed with Go Around Once and acoustic balled.
It was written by an American folk singer Terry Callier
Motorpsycho's version is closer to the cover by HP Lovecraft
1 loose song and 1 EP:
1996 - Mad Sun, a track from the Blissard period. A very echo-ey effort much in line with their alternative rock period.
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/track/mad-sun
https://youtu.be/GWkOq0m7Smo?si=5TOU3WRKCt-qIfVX
1999 - The Other Fool EP. Now we're talking! One of my very favourite MP tracks (albeit in edited form here). Such a great tune, the opener for Let Them Eat Cake, this has it all: great song writing, playing, lyrics, a bass that souds like ahuge cat is purring under your seat, acoustic guitars, strings, a horns section. Fantastic!
(Yes I am aware this ios not the clip, but ths is the full version, which does it justice!)
https://youtu.be/LfDGDv_NWNY?si=oFqYx7IlUELjQt9r
4 other tracks on here:
The Sailboat Song a dreamy acoustic ditty hat feels like you are adrift on a huge lake. Johnny Finds a Leak a lo-fi effort as is Jumpin' Flashback modelled after, well you know who ;)
We end proceedings with Funk '99 which is very ehm, funky ;D
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-fool-ep