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@Anders: Ah, so that was you?! Hehe, cool! Nice to get a face to the name. Though I might need a reminder next time we meet, bacause I have problems remembering what people look like
Yes, in hindsight it might seem a bit weird being so harsh on a gig with three superfave tracks. That's more than during the following – enormously good – show (which "only" had one). But those songs I'm not a big fan of really affected my overall feeling and verdict in Malmö. Again, it sounds as if I thought it was bad. It wasn't. It was very good, just not overwhelming or mindblowing.
Very happy I could attend these two dates, and looking forward to next time I get the opportunity to catch the band live – whatever they might cook up!
Will follow every report from this tour with excitement. Have fun, you all! Cheers from Stockholm!
Yesss! SO much better than Malmö the night before! Mp really proved why they are the best band in the world! Actually only one of my "absolute favorites", that's "NOX", but very strong stuff all the way through, with the exception of "Like chrome", which I'm not a huge fan of, and despite being the closer of the set it actually wasn't the anticlimax one might think – I was surprisingly fine with it. This show was a body function test: no time to pee or get something to drink, haha!
In parts pretty messy "NOX", with some miscommunication onstage leading to Reine getting ahead of the other guys for a moment, but that didn't ruin it for me – quite the opposite, actually! I love this kind of tension and I get sort of nervous – in a good way. Excitement, they say. Like the pros they are everyone soon was back on track, and towards the end Tomas gave beautiful pondus to the chaos by speeding things up. Maximum brilliance!
Usually not a fave of mine, but "Superstooge" was awesome! Relatively short and to the point, I'd say, with a cool noise part after the first chorus (if memory serves me right).
I'm so happy that the two shows I witnessed came in this order, and not the opposite
Such a great trip!Unfortunately I'm no ThorEgil, but anyway…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/grindove/52045386839/in/album-72177720298582039/
My "absolute favorites" were few and far inbetween: "A hoof to the head", "Cosmoctopus" and "Plan #1". Total worship during those moments!
"Hell, part 1-3", "The united debased", second half of "A Pacific sonata" and "Lacuna/Sunrise" were solid.
I actually love "STG", but it didn't sound as powerful as I'd wish, and I often want it a bit faster, as was the case also this time. Still good, though!
Unfortunate for me there was too much I always can do without, such as second half of the "LLM" suite (but I needed to visit the toilet anyway, so it was OK), "Cloudwalker" (although the new section/jam made it slightly better, or at least kind of interesting), first half of "A Pacific sonata" (but I was almost dying from thirst, so it came timely), "Feel" (somewhat nice version anyway) and especially "Hogwash" (which was in parts saved by Tomas' whims of playing uptempo).
Worth the trip from Stockholm? Hell (part 1-7) yes! Even a "decent" Motorpsycho gig is better than most other bands. The "weak" Mp songs are still strong in comparison with other "similar" stuff out there. The main ruining factor of course being my expectations/hopes of "The wheel", "Mountian", "NOX", "Heartattack Mac", "Mad sun", "Ghost", "Hell, part 4-6", "Back to source", "Dreamkiller" etc. But hey: no covers, and finishing off the set with the best song of the evening – that's how I like it!
The barrier making the huge distance to the stage/band is something we might have to accept in these times, but it doesn't do miracles with creating a nice atmosphere.
Setlist pic (incl drummer):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/grindove/52045077576/in/album-72177720298581439/
@Johnny_Heartfield: Hehe, yes, I'll enjoy whatever they do, I suppose, as long as they don't do the "complete album from start to finish" thing – a trend that I'd love to see disappear and never return, grrr. The show I witnessed on the "Unicorn" tour was by far the least good Mp gig I've attended
Part of what I worship about this band is not knowing what next song will be at the concerts. The surprise! The excitement!! And I need a couple of non-favorites in order to pee once in a while :lol:
@Johnny_Heartfield: Not originally performed/written by Mp, so, obviously no :wink: But yes, sure, they always do great versions of those, as well as of "Into the sun" and "Black to comm" for example, but as they have tons and hours of own songs even better than that, I'd rather see them focus on their own material
I got tickets for Malmö and Copenhagen. Will be awesome! I hope for a lot of stuff, but mostly: no covers
I want 100% Motorpsycho!
Huge thanks to Vegard! Even if I'm not very active here I appreciate this forum A LOT! One of the few places I visit every day.
Sorry for not having any ideas or suggestions concerning the technical part of things. I would donate if it was about the cost. If due to hassle you can't keep this forum going, I won't blame you.
I was determined to not jump into this, since I don't have the time, energy, intellect or language to express what I feel and think. With that said, I probably won't return with further comments if someone replies or reflects on this – sorry!
I just want to point out that while some people go on here as if Bent was the one making governments' decisions, I don't even see him saying there SHOULD be vaccination certificates or regulations like that. He only said it would be "reasonable", and that he "would not have any problem with such a regulation". To me, there's actually a difference.
@ boomer former helm: I agree (I would have missed out on A LOT of my favorite music if I went by first impression), but even more strange to actually look at someone judging a track during first listen.
Though: I don't blame anyone! I'm wasting sooo much time just looking at clips of dogs doing nothing at all
I support what Punj Lizard does and writes – as usual.
GREAT album! And so far – after multiple spins – no track I want to skip. Wohoo!
My habit faithful, I refused to listen to the "single"/"teaser", or whatever it's called nowadays, to have the whole album with no familiar track overshadowing anything else when I received it.
"The waning" has some interesting/surprising chord progressions during the verses that are cool, but as a whole, it might actually be the least exciting track on the album. Weird for an opener? Well, this has happened before on MP albums.
I was a bit disappointed when I read here that it contains a cover, especially when it's of a song that I'm familiar with and fond of. But it turned out to be OK – it's so low in volume compared to the previous track that I hardly notice it
The Black Sabbathism (which some of you have mentioned) I hear is mostly towards the end of "The united debased" (instrumental parts after first vocal line in the final uptempo section), which makes me think of something from "The eternal idol" – an album I didn't like upon its release in 1987, but love now – but I bet it wasn't intentional. Also: it's brilliant!
"The transmutation of cosmoctopus lurker" is the highlight for me. Really one of my new favorite MP tracks. Fantastic! Top 50! Maybe even top 20! Complaint: too short! If this guitarism is compared to Dream Theater I have to stop hating that band. New exciting territory. I worship! And the effects on the vocals suits the song just perfect, adding some extra texture to the mood. Total geni! "Cormorant" rounding off the adventure in a nice way.
I love it when albums start good and end fantastic! There are few examples, and I'll add "KoO" to this little list.
Respect to audionauts, but sorry, complaints such as "compression" this, "mixing" that, "mastering" thus… I really can't relate when the album is this awesome
Hey, I even like the folky songs!
I repeat from my last post: I feel spoiled being a Motorpsycho fan.
Rant alert!
I feel spoiled being a Motorpsycho fan. I think their creativity is amazing and the release pace now is perfect! According to me, there has always been less good songs on their albums – sometimes one, other times a few. I could easily remove tracks from "Demon box", "Tim's monster", "Trust us", "LLM", "HMF", "HBM", "The tower", "TAIO" etc, to make them more solid and even better than they already are – for me. But nothing points in the direction that the band (or the majority of you psychonauts) would choose to ditch the same material as I, so I'd rather have them as they are – with (for me) a few fillers – and see this flow of massive albums continue, than to wish that MP restricted themselves to shorter and fewer releases.
Sure, if I ever start using Spotify for real, I'm sure I'll rearrange quite a few MP albums for myself, but I don't have a smartphone, and at home I spin the vinyls.
Some of you sound as if putting "NOX" in the middle of "TAIO" was something that just happened without much thought. I'm pretty sure of the opposite – that they really wanted it to feel inconvenient, unpredictable, nontraditional and maybe even slightly weird. It works fine for me (even if I every other time start with side 4, followed by 1, and finish with "NOX").
I give up on most bands/artists after they disappoint me with an album, but when it comes to MP I know that it's still worth checking out next release, because maybe they've steered onto a different course, which keeps it exciting in itself, OR it might sound similar but with songs that simply appeal more to me, which definitely is good enough! A new MP album is always one of the highlights of the year here!
And what do I want next album to be like? Heavy? Prog? Pop? Metal? Psychedelic? Stoner? Hard? Soft? Long epics? Short to-the-points? I don't care! As long as the songs appeal to me, I really don't care which style it happens to be. Just "doing the genre" is absolutely no guarantee it will be good. Oh, hey, I always hope for NO COVERS on their albums. I hope for the same every time I see them live. I want 100% Motorpsycho!
OK, sudden end to this harangue:
Still my all time favorite band, and "KoO" really is awesome!
Yes, a rather annoying bundle
Can't make up my mind whether to spend a fortune now and be sure to get "Maiden voyage", or to wait until it's available separately, with the risk of missing it.I'd happily pay twice the cost for a bundle of 1) "Maiden voyage" one-sided 12", 2) "Mountain" M-LP, 3) "Another ugly EP" M-LP, and 4) secret LP of unreleased/live Mp stuff
@Vegard B. Havdal
"The TNT record to listen to is Knights of the new thunder."
Yes, totally! I first bought it in 1985, when I was 11, and still listen to it – at least every time one of the members has his birthday
"I would at least add Seigmen to the list"
Same here (although I prefer "Total"), but when I think about it I can only recall that Mp mentioned them once, when Snah 22 years ago in passing (maybe jokingly) said that Seigmen stopped using tremolo when Jimmy Fernandez' death put an end to The God Machine.
For some reason I expected Det Glade Vanvidd and Mark Anthony
