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…called “All my life ( I love you)”
Tomas certainly was the most technically refined drummer in Motorpsycho…with Kenneth being on-par with his unique over-the-top style. They both created brilliant output, but they also altered the way …
….played, in favor of a more technical approach as well…so a shift from the belly towards the brain if you will (which was and is an exciting evolution after the poppier releases).
So, Geb’s drumming certainly was simpler, but it was just so etremely on-the-spot intuitive and so in support of the melodies and harmonies. It’s not about finding a new Geb (let the past be the cherished past), but i hear a lot of that more immediate emotional approach in Ingvald’s drumming and i like it a lot!On Instagram, each single of the club was accompanied by a post containing really nice and revealing liner notes. For some reason, they don’t appear on anywhere else (at least i can’t find them). So, i thought this might be news for the not so social media-intrigued folks around here:
THE CALIFORNIA E.P
The California E.P. was originally released as a double 7’’ on MTA in 2017. It contains music recorded in Joshua Tree and L.A. concurrenly with The Tower, and was issued as a ‘tour special’, initially just sold at the merch stand and later in the webstore. Never previously available digitally.
HYENA PROMO
Hyena was the second promo single taken from the Black Hole/Blank Canvas album in 2006. It was pressed on a special CD that looked like a vinyl single, and had an exclusive b-side (Bonny Lee), but was never released to a general audience. A solid chunk of millenial indie rock, it was a popular album track.
X-3 (KNUCKLEHEADS IN SPACE)
Subtitled ‘Kåre’s kommers klipp’, this is a special edit/mix of the Heavy Metal Fruit album track, made by producer Kåre Vestrheim. Originally released on 7’’ vinyl only, this is the first digital release of this single. The b-side, album outtake I.C.U., was later included on the odds & sods sampler The Light Fantastic.
OZONE
The first single from Trust Us was surprisingly a slab of pure rock and roll, featuring such – for the era – odd instruments as congas and double bass. The E.P. also included 4 more tracks including a fierce gallop through The Who’s version of Mose Allison’s Young Man Blues.
MANMOWER
The title track of this E.P., the 2nd single from Blissard, is a band favourite that still is in the set today, almost 30 years after it was first released. The video was an animated feature that made little sense to anyone, but was great to watch. The E.P.’s other 4 tracks contained a cover of The Who’s Heaven and Hell and the boys’ tribute to the VU Sterling Says.
ULV! ULV!
“Ulv! Ulv! ( lit. ‘Wolf! Wolf!’, but used like ‘cry wolf’) was written on a commission from the NTNU University Museum, commemorating their study and exhibit on wolves and their history in Norway. The song is a round, poking fun at norwegian’s ambivalent relationship to the animal,
co-produced with renowned film composer, violinist and Steamdome head honcho, Ola Kvernberg. the b-side Snahlbatross is an instrumental in the tradition of Fleetwood Mac’s Albatross (duh!), never previously available digitally.”SERPENTINE E.P
The only single released from It’s A Love Cult was this romantic stunner,
written and sung by Snah. Kim Hiorthøy’s video captured the vibe perfectly. The remaining tracks on the E.P. are outtakes from the album and in addition to Gehardt’s stunning Little Ricky Massenburg, contains live favourites SNAFU (Sha-la-la) and Fade To Grey that was played a lot at the time, but somehow didn’t make the cut for the album.THE VISITANT
An outtake from the Heavy Metal Fruit sessions, The Visitant was released as a tour special 7’’ single on MTA, with the band’s version of The Pretty Things (well, ‘The Electric Banana’ to be 100% correct) Eagle’s Son on the b-side. The a-side was later included on The Light Fantastic, but the b-side has never previously been released digitally.
TERJE BREKKSTADS KOSMISKE REISE
Two stretches of collective improv played by Snah and Bent with frequent collaborator Tos Nieuwenhuizen during rehersals for Begynnelser, the play, at Trøndelag Teater, 2016. Released as a bonus freebie with local magazine Nye Oppstøt and on 10’’ vinyl by MTA, it is a rare, non-song based example of Free Motorpsychodelic Music.
STARMELT E.P.
“Starmelt/Lovelight was the single chosen from the Angels and Daemons At Play album in 1997. Kim Hiorthøy’s video is amazing, and a band favourite!
The remaining 4 songs contain fan favourite Wishing Well and hard rock extravaganza Up Our Sleeve, a Humble Pie classic recorded live in Halden.”GO TO CALIFORNIA
The 2nd single from the Phanerothyme album was an edited version of the album track Go to California, down from a chunky 8mins to a radio-friendly 3mins. The accompanying video – a Super8 holiday movie romp filmed on an island with the band sporting 19th century costumes, was a hoot and a half, and a band favourite. Originally this was a promo-only one-song CD single on Columbia Records and Stickman Records in 2001, but it was later released (with a cover of the MC5’s Black to Comm from Roadwork 1 on the b-side) as a split double 7’’ with The Soundtracks Of Our Lives on Munster Records. This is that version.
WEARING YR SMELL
Released on E.M.I. and Stickman Records in 1994, the Wearing Yr Smell E.P. was released on CD and 10’’ vinyl, and contained two songs found on Timothy’s Monster (albeit the edited version of Leave It Like That ), plus three exclusive songs. The acompanying video for the title track showed the band bicycling over Svartlamoen, in a now legendary one-shot film.
ROCK BOTTOM
Originally released as a stand alone 7’’ on Agitated Records, this cover of UFO’s Rock Bottom has long been a staple of Motorpsycho’s concerts. Backed with Nazareth’s Silver Dollar Forger, this celebrates the best thing about the UK in 1974: Hard Rock!
MOT RIVING
Mot Riving! was a benefit CD released to help the Svartlamoen area of Trondheim stay alive and avoid demolition. Originally a split CD with local pop group Tre Små Kinesere, it was released on Harmonien Records, with all income going straight to the cause (which the Svartlamo organisation won, by the way. The band has it’s offices and rehersal room/studio there to this day). Lead-off track Star Dancer vs Car Cancer was sung by future internationally renowned novelist Samuel Bjørk
SINFUL, WIND-BORNE
Sinful, Wind-borne was the 3rd and final single from the Blissard album. Released as a vinyl- only 7’’ on Runt records in 1996, it was backed with Motorpsycho’s fierce version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Workin’ for MCA, and was accompanied by a Monkees-style video shot on tour.
SPIN, SPIN, SPIN
Taken from Here Be Monsters, Motorpsycho’s version of H.P.Lovecraft’s version of Terry Callier’s Spin Spin Spin (!) was a groovy, yet laid back and concise edit of a tune from a fairly progressive and obtuse album. The video was shot both in the sunny Malibu mountains and in a snowfilled, grey Lade in Trondheim. The b-side, acoustic ballad Go Around Once was later included on The Light Fantastic
THE OTHER FOOL
Contains an edited version of the lead-off track from 2000’s Let Them Eat Cake album. This was almost a hit (again!) and won the Edvard award for ‘song of the year’ from Tono, the composers guild of Norway. The video featured the boys on a trampoline and felt very strange. The Sailboat Song is an outtake from the album, and the rest of the EP contains various experiments in recorded sound. Good fun!
MAD SUN
Mad Sun was a single done for Musical Tragedies in Nurnberg. At the time, they owned one of the last functioning shaped-disc presses in Europe, and did a series of sawblade-shaped 7’’ singles with one celebrity artist (in this case Alice Cooper) and an unknown one (MP). A success, this eventually came in 3 different colours (red, yellow and blue), totalling a little over 1000 copies.
WALKIN’ WITH J
Walking’ with J was the 2nd EP from the Let Them Eat Cake album in 2000. Written by drummer Gebhardt, the title track was one of the rockier songs off the album, and the accompanying video (a spoof on Norwegian children’s classic ‘Karius & Baktus’) was a confusing addition to the psychodelic world the band inhabited.
The EP’s b-sides are all compositions Gebhardt had a hand in, and this EP in many ways served as an introduction to the Geb-verse. A strange and scary place…
Originally this was both a 10’’ vinyl disc and a 5 song CD single on Columbia Records and Stickman Records, 2001.THE NERVE TATTOO
The Nerve Tattoo was almost a hit. Almost. When asked by the label to edit off the noisy, avantrock second half of the song for this single release, it gained a gong, and also kept the 15 second intro that was cut off the Blissard album version. Silly commercial self sabotage perhaps, but very punk and a lot of fun. Besides, who doesn’t love a gong?
MAIDEN VOYAGE
This was Motorpsycho’s first ever release. Originally released in an edition of 100 cassettes through Knall Syndikatet, later on vinyl through GLHS. This is the first official digital release of this demo tape from 1990.
HEY, JANE
Probably the most obvious single the powers that be could ‘ve chosen at this point, Hey, Jane was instead saved for the follow up to the Trust Us album in 1998, when an edited version of it was released as the title track to this E.P., which also contained outtakes from both the Trust Us and When The World Sleeps sessions.
The acompanying video is a Kim Hiorthøy masterpiece.PSYCHONAUT/TOYS
Released especially to commemorate the ‘Supersonic Scientists’ exhibit at Norway’s national museum of rock – ‘Rockheim’ – in 2015, this double a-side, initially sold only at the museum, on the surface seems like a weird combination of songs, but hear us out:
⁃ Psychonaut, the opener on 1998’s Trust Us album, was a focus track in the exhibit where punters were allowed to do their own mix from the multitracks. Not selected for the exhibit’s tie-in compilation album Supersonic Scientists, the song nevertheless needed to be available and hence it’s inclusion here.
⁃ Toys had just been released as a one-sided 7’’ freebie with 10% of Sorgenfri magazine’s x-mas special edition a few months earlier. With a cover underlining it’s place as the ‘9th fragement’ from the Motorpnakotic Fragments box set – already a collector’s item – it was reasoned a lot of people would be happy if this was the other a-side of this single. It was
LAILA LOU
The second promo single from Motorpsycho Presents The International Tussler Society is a stone country tune. An ode to Barry Hillien’s dog, Laila Lou was one of the songs that made the Tussler’s reunion in 2003/2004 such a success. Originally released by Columbia Records, 2004.
THE SLOW PHASE OUT
Was the first single and video from the 2001 album Phanerothyme.
Treading a fine line between Burt Bacharach-pastiche, Love-tribute and a proper Motorpsycho song, it embraces a few elements contemporary listeners found a bit saccharine, but today sounds like yet another classic tune from the first era of Motorpsycho.
Originally this was a promo-only one-song CD single on Columbia Records and Stickman Records, 2001.SATAN’S FAVOURITE SON
The linchpin of the whole second Tussler album, was Satan’s Favourite Son. Recorded in a seperate session from the rest of the album a year or more (no one remembers) before the other sessions, it has an Allman Brothers Band-inspired southern rock vibe, is slightly further along on the sliding scales of american roots rock than the Burritos/Dead stylistics of the ’96 sessions released as bonus tracks with the original ’94 album, and is a harbinger for the much more rocked out second album. A minor hit, and a solid representative for the album as such, it’s lyrically an update of Six Days On The Road crossed with a James Ellroy-esque ‘killer on the road’ story. Good fun for the whole family …
THE SAME OLD ROCK (One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy)
Released as a digital-only single from The All Is One, this was the closest that album came to a reasonably short and concise song suited to tell the world a new album was coming. In context on the album this semi-acoustic tune worked really well. As a single? Perhaps not so much. Cover artwork is an alternative Håkon Gullvåg painting not used on the album.
THE WANING (pt.1)
The Waning (part 1) was – as the title indicates – an edited version of the Kingdom Of Oblivion’s lead-off track, released as a digital-only single ahead of the album in 2021. Indicative of the general thrust of the album, it was a proper ‘stoner-boogie’, made loud to be played loud! Exclusive art by Sverre Malling.
A MEMORY
An outtake from Mororpsycho’s very first recording session in early January 1990, this version of
A Memory was first released on the compilation cassette Knall The Album Vol.3 in the summer of 1990.
The song is best known in it’s C&W incarnation from the first Tussler album, but was initially conceived and written as this Hüsker Du-esque punk rocker.
A Memory saw it’s first vinyl release on a bonus 7” with Grevene Langs Hemmelige Selskap Vol.1 in 2021.(All info taken from https://www.instagram.com/motorpsychoband/)
Great, thank you! I’m looking forward to 3 hour sets with spaced out jams and sonic excursions in the near future, but right now this is exactly my jam! Just on the spot straight forward motorpsychedelic bliss
On behalf of my wife, I’m hoping for Hey, Jane at the Erfurt show 😬
Ah, i see…i didn’t know that Psycholab was on that record. I wonder if it’s going to be part of another proper album, since Small Boats also only has the single edit….where will the extended one find its place?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6yd4uttuA6/?igsh=MXZkMHkweWVscjFhMA==
Somewhat obscure album announcement. Thing might be called “No commercial potential’, might be online only and might be the songs that didn’t make it on YAY…..my attempt.of deciphering the short text and the hashtags attached to it.
Hope they bring some of the “singles exclusively” concept of the Norwegian dates to the subsequent part of the summer dates. Lots of gems
29.06.2024 “BANDHAUS ÜBER ERFURT”-Festival / Erfurt (Germany)
https://events.design-erfurt.de/bandhaus-ueber-erfurt-2024/
@boomer Thanks a lot for your super-swift reply! The record/ticket-store I frequent a lot told me that tickets are gone, but a friend just sent me a link where ordering online still worked. Thanks..problem solved ;-)
Same for Berlin. Some ticket stores say sold out, but the link on motorpsycho.no still seems to offer some!I prefer a classic over a cover, simply because meanwhile many many gems don’t make it into the setlist anymore. After 30 albums the band would have to play 4hour-sets to appropriately represent their discography and with each new release chances to hear old tunes get lower. That’s the downside of hypercreativity, i guess
Buthey…after all, it is their party….they can do whatever they want! Looking forward to Dresden.Sounds promising. I really want to know (as i did in the past) how they rehearse while being on tour? Extended soundchecks for sure, but given the number and length of the tunes, i wonder if they do something like “dry-playing” the songs while on the highways
If anyone knows…enlighten me please!
