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Now it's just getting silly.

I haven't read today's Morgenbladet yet, I'm in a hotel in Stavanger, but according to Robert Hoftun Gjerstad, a rather frustrated journalist in Aftenposten, Timothy's is not even in the top ten. He's written a short article about how unbelievable it is that a glorious album that contains the two best songs ever written (his words – Leave it like that [!] and The Golden Core) isn't rated higher by other musicians.

I'm not even sure if I want to know what album is top of the list now. By looking at the musician's top ten, that Morgenbladet keeps publishing, it wouldn't surprise me if a-has debut album, Hunting High and Low, will top the list. Hopefully Juba Juba, another album on very many top ten lists, will be rated higher.

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Demon Box at 21. Slightly disappointing.

Morgenbladet will, like I mentioned earlier, arrange some concerts with artists from the list. There will actually be several, where albums from the list are performed in full. Some such shows were listed today (http://mbtopp100.no/live/), the most interesting being Holy Toy performing their classic Warzsawa, In Oslo, November 3rd.

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This may or may not mean anything, but in an ad for Morgenbladet they mention their list of 100 albums, and have various record covers spread around the ad. Motorpsycho presents the International Tussler Society is one of the covers used, which probable means that that album will appear on the list.

(The others albums used in the ad are Hunting High and Low, Ass Cobra, Neste Sommer, Materialtretthet, Levva Livet, Juba Juba, Death in the Rocking Horse Factory, and albums by DumDum Boys, Maria Solheim and Bel Canto, and two albums I don't recognize.)

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Blissard at #25, as mentioned in another thread.

With three albums on the list so far, and with at least two more to come, Motorpsycho will certainly be the band with most albums on the list. My guess is that Demon Box will be in the top ten, and Timothy's in the top three (together with Materialtretthet and Block to Block).

On Morgenbladet's web site, short essays about every album is published. These will be published later – the essays for albums 11-100 will be collected in one volume, while there will be longer essays written about the top ten albums. These longer essays will be published as ten short books, by Falck Forlag.

And there will also be at least one show to celebrate the top album / top albums.

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Trust Us at #65.

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Oh dear. My brother-in-law works at the Opera, and a year ago he got me free tickets for a (bloody marvellous) Wagner opera. The tickets were in one of the boxes right next to the stage – I wouldn't really mind getting the same seat this time.

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Yes, quite a statement to make, especially when he gives the concert 5 out of 6. Correct me of I'm wrong, but I seem to recall some MP-shows that should be rated at least twice as high.

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Hi,

to me this was a very uneven show. Some of the jamming just didn't seem right, especially the one in the middle of Manmower. Apart from that it was a good night, and for an old p-naut like myself it was great to (finally) hear Mountain again.

Some more thoughts here (Norwegian only):

http://kulturguffen.blogspot.com/2011/03/motorpsycho-byscenen-trondheim-18311.html

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fcuk indeed… They play three gigs in the Bergen area, close to where I live, and I'm elsewhere, due to work commitments.

but i shouldn't complain too much, for the very first time i will see them in trondheim.

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TraktorBass: You may be right, sir. There are indeed some similarities there.

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Re Mountain:

In a program on Norwegian radio back in the mid-90s, Norwegian radio legend Harald Are Lund talked about the music that had influenced Motorpsycho. He mentioned the band Mountain, and said that the MP song "Mountain" was inspired by a song by Mountain. He played that song, and you could hear his point. The two songs were not identical, far from it, but there were some similarities.

A few years later, on an impulse in a record shop, I bought a Mountain collection, Over The Top. I managed to get through the 34 songs a couple of times, but couldn't figure out if any of these songs had influenced "Mountain". I haven't listened to it since, my main recollection is that even if the music was ok, the vocals were just horrible. Almost painful.

Wanting to get the bottom of said riddle, I e-mailed Harald Are Lund, to find out more. He replied that he remembered the program, and that there indeed was one Mountain song that had inspired "Mountain", but he couldn't recall what the song was called. So there you are – a mystery unsolved.

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jonstyle:

Maybe Alex’s reply has given you the help you need, but you’ll find what you need here:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tasks.html

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This is not confirmed, but I recently heard a rumour that Roger Whittaker would close next year’s Øya festival, performing his 1978 classic “The Roger Whittaker Christmas Album”.

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The Monster re-entered the Norwegian charts at number 7, which must be a lot higher than in 1994.

http://lista.vg.no/show_list.php?ListsOp=showWeek&listID=2

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Here’s the opening of the concert, including Bent’s very, very short version of The one that went away:

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