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Hamburg: special gig for the stickies?

Greets,

Thomas

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Got my tickets to Paradiso and Effenaar! :MPD:

Greets,

Thomas

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Hello all,

In no way was I trying to say that my view on this is correct or something, it’s just my view of their work. JTR’s division makes more sense to me, by the way.

What the next phase will be? I have no clue, and I don’t want to really. One of the main reasons I love this band so much is that element of suprise. I wouldn’t want them to concede to any tastes, ideas or theories except their own.

For me: I just hope they keep going deeper into the territory they are exploring now and please PLEASE leave the pop-thing well in the past. I mean, I love their vocal harmonies and the other stuff they kept from that phase, but I couldn’t stomach another “This Otherness”. Again, in my opinion and with tongue firmly in cheek.

Greetings,

Thomas

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I have always felt that generally they needed at least three records to go through a particular phase in their evolution.

METAL

1991: Lobotomizer

1992: Soothe

1993: Demon Box

ALTERNATIVE

1994: Timothy’s Monster

1996: Blissard

1997: Angels and Daemons at Play

1998: Trust Us

POP

2000: Let them eat Cake

2001: Phanerothyme

2002: It’s A Love Cult

ROCK

2006: Black Hole/Blank Canvas

2008: Little Lucid Moments

2010: Heavy Metal Fruit

Of course, such nice broad strokes never cover the entire spectrum, especially not of a band as loosely defined musically as Motorpsycho. For example: the country-records seem to end eras (between Demon Box and Timothy’s Monster and between IALC and BH/BC respectively), but Barracuda is right smackdab in the middle of the pop-phase, and COTF is much more in the classic rock vein than the modern progrock of LLM and HMF. And that’s disregarding the EP’s and Roadworks.

Timelines, like periods in art, are always constructed in hindsight and serve the need of the audience and critics to find governing principles in something that develops organically and without a strictly defined principle. People do not seem able to accept that art, like life, does not follow the rules of time, space or ratio, but has its’ own momentum, the direction of which sometimes does not become apparent until years later. Life always seems clearer when you look back on a period than when you’re actually living in that period.

And now I need a drink. NURSE!

Greets,

Thomas

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Any Dutchies have the cd in yet?

*crosses his fingers and hopes to find bliss in his mailbox

Greets,

Thomas

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mr. CB: Kenneth is an old metalhead and he played drums in a tribute band formed for a Slayer day. So I’m pretty sure he likes Slayer’s “Reign In Blood”.

Greets,

Thomas

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Yeah Yeah! Great news. I was afraid I might miss them on this tour, since the only rumoured dutch gig was in Groningen, and that’s too far a trip from Rotterdam if you work the day itself and the day after.

See you all there! Any of the Magic Busers going? Lighthouse Girl erm… Little Lucid Me?

Greets,

Thomas

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I remember the 10.000 figure: 5000 from Rune and 5000 from Stickman.

Greets,

Thomas

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for Crackpot Idea, who has trouble reading:

We were discussing records by Motorpsycho produced by others than MP’s inner circle. I brought up “Phanerothyme” as being produced by someone else and that’s what we were discussing. It turns out Deathprod produced “Phanerothyme”, helped by an outside engineer, and mastered by someone else again. We were not discussing the producer of “Heavy Metal Fruit,” but thanks anyway!

I love you, man.

Greets,

Thomas

P.S. The new album is ordered and paid for, The Wait is unbearable!

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Rattlesnake, Ratmaus & Krist: Thank you for replying. Thank God I am not the only one remembering this, I have a tendency to remember dreams as reality, hahaha! Only, I could not have read it in a Norwegian mag, Ratmaus, since I speak no Norwegian at all. It must have been Dutch mag OOR. Thanks again for helping to figure this out!

Greets,

Thomas

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@ Ratmaus: Here’s what I found on the net:

Technical credits

Motorpsycho Producer

Deathprod Producer

Björn Engelmann Mastering

Hmm… I distinctly remember some interview where they said that for this album they wanted that pop-sheen, so they hired an outsider to help do that in the studio formerly owned by Abba they rented for the occasion. Maybe the mastering guy is the one I’m confusing it with. There was a lot of talk about it here and/or on g35.

Greets,

Thomas

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Concerning the production: I thought something was wrong with my stereo the first time I played LLM, but I have grown to love the dark sound. On COTF they did use an outsider to produce – okay, record them in his studio: Steve Albini. I loved the raw sound of that record. And a bit farther back: “Phanerothyme” was produced by an outsider, who – if memory serves – had a thoroughly pop track record (didn’t he produce an album for A-Ha or something?). Anyway: if this is the best produced one, I think we’re in for a real treat!

Greets,

Thomas

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@ harry: Don’t get your hopes up, BOL is quite good at not delivering on a promise. On most order-sites they give you the ‘best case scenario’-arrival time and you find out you have to wait for a long time after your order is already final and processed.

Greetings,

Thomas

edit: On BOL the release-date is given as december 17th. I think they just forgot a month.

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The same stickfrau answered my question regarding a pre-order with ‘beginning of january, but no information about the exact date yet’.

Greetings,

Thomas

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Motorpsycho “Child Of The Future”

Them Crooked Vultures “Them Crooked Vultures”

PJ Harvey & John Parish “A Woman A Man Walked By”

Slayer “World Painted Blood”

“Captain Beefheart’s Jukebox” (compilation exploring the early roots of Captain Beefheart)

Greetings,

Thomas

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