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@ Johnny_Heartfield: "A little light music" it ain't. Stupid idiot!
Though based on modernized Sabbath sounds and a little pompous symphonic rock elements with the occasional very slight tendency towards solo drywank (sorry Snah!) – stuff I abhor (not the Sabbath of course) – Motorpsycho take a stylistic pile of shit and turn it into gold on this record. A very grown-up album, extremely sophisticated and very motorpsychedelic, despite all the musical changes over the years. When you get older you obviously lose some of the roughness and mindless energetic drive of adolescent years, but – in this case at least – gain a lot of experience, craft and a little humour and irony hardly found in stone(r)-age youngsters.
This album is a feast for the ears, and I still talk about the first two sides!
Have to correct myself again:
The best Motorpsycho album is always the one you listen to. Period.
@ Kid A: No!
@ Spacebandit: For once I disagree most distinctly – the best MP album is always the next to come! As for the Dead – come on, there is no MP album like "Anthem of the Sun"! Alright, I agree – there is also no Dead album like "Kingom of Oblivion". They're both the only ones who do what they do…
Really nice diversion from the more dramatic stuff of the "Gullvag" years. Still a little too clean for my taste. Even a little math-rock inspired zappa/vai-style guitar wanking included on "Cosmoctopus Lurker".
My favourite part is clearly side three – the gloomy Empire's End, the Hunt, the Jansch-inspiret Atet. There are several elephants in the room this time – not only the whiskered one and the one-legged one with(out)the flute. Some obvious references with typically MP style mock-reverence titles like the "Cormorant". Tony Iommi style riffs all over the album. A quiet Roy-Harper vocal melody introducing "Dreamkiller". The folk-inspired or acoustic pieces give a nice contrast and make up for the more streamlined hard rock pieces like "The Waning" – the latter could have been called "After the Gold Rush pts 2a and b" lyricwise. They should have named the album "A little light music" and themselves "Elephant's memory" for this one. Still they're the only ones who do what they do, so no real criticism on my part. I'm really starting to enjoy the album already.
Got it today and played the first record. Will try to shut my mouth until digesting the whole thing, though it is hard. Quite ironically the by far most quiet, silent song is the Lemmy one. Makes the old warthog laugh in his permanent LA domicile under the ground, I guess. Lyrics hardly comprensible, more whispered than sung, that one. Good choice though – makes the whole thing even creepier than the HW original. And MP managed to Sabbathize even this cover version, sending the Watcher astray with some motorpsychedelic Planet Caravan.
I will probably sum up my misgivings abouth the record and why it might turn out the weakest MP album since COTF – but only after several runs of both discs on my turntable tommorrow. And might still be rushing the affair – as we all know MP albums tend to grow with time. Btw. – I had the impression I really LISTENED to the Beginnings stuff for the first time last sunday…
@ marc: I have quite often considered very favourite reviews poor craft. Not because I don't agree with them in general, but sometimes they are either rather poorly informed or repeat the odd cliché once too often. There are so many outlets for music reviews these days that you sadly can't avoid that.
"Kings of Oblivion" – I almost missed that connection! That's why the title of MP's new album sounded so familiar…
Contrary to Pink Fairies, who were a great live band, Motorpsycho have been able to keep the standards high on their album releases. This will hopefully continue with the new one – I'm looking forward to next friday!
This could give opportunity for an interesting study: psychonautic behaviour awaiting a new MP release these days. Typical phenomena: minimizing expectance to avoid disappointment, signs of small enthusiasm at first listen, hope for improvement…
Happended to me with the last release – single (SOR) and album alike. These days I'm digging both a lot.
Anyway I might agree that the latter day releases show certain signs of more controlled approaches to recording and mixing that might encourage a certain feeling of overproduction and sterility. But still you couldn't complain of a lack of adventurous spirit with Motorpsycho up to now.
Sounds like Jon Anderson imitating Ozzy or vice versa, with ZZ Top playing "Children of the Grave". Very Yes-Sabbathish…
One of these first listening impressions that grow increasingly irrelevant after some time
The sociopaths take over. didldidldildadam dadei – I'll just shut my mouth, keep dreaming golden dreams…
Probably TIDAL does not only offer better sound but also pays the artists decently instead of just saving the big record companies and letting most of the artists starve, like Spotify does? (Wishful thinking, I know…)
My last reply on the matter:
Yes, I know the difference of the new mRNA Vaccines. No foreseeable problem there, they work (as tested in large studies with tens of thousands of people involved). A friend of mine who has already been vaccined is looking daily for growing tentacles – in vain. They are supposed not to alter the DNA cell code anyway, just deliver a short-term information to produce antigens before they dissolve. A very clever invention imho. Ironically some problems seem to arise with the more traditional vaccines (in very small numbers though).
As for mutations – of course there is some kind of competitive race between vaccines and the virusses, so we must adapt our stuff from time to time. Nothing is 100 per cent safe or efficient. 70 per cent is already quite a lot.
Long term problems may always arise – with any medicine or vaccine. We just don't know. What we know is that without vaccine we will not overcome CoViD easysily – and only with much more losses. Anything else is just blown-up insecurity and fear. Yes – I will probably have a strange feeling myself when getting the stuff, but these are emotions – the voice of reason says different.
And yes – our immune system is extremely important, and we should do everything to strengthen it. This is however a long-term effort and will probably not get us there in time. On the other hand the best immune system might not manage with some heavy attacks – without vaccination quite a few of you might not be here today, because your ancestors died of the pocks. Just relying on your immune system alone is – in extreme situations like that – like singing OMMMM to restart your broken down car (this sometimes works, but not regularly).
The Nietzschean argument that the strong survive implies "let the weak and feeble die" and is therefore quite perverse. And yes – we must take risks, yet it is not a sheer gamble, but a bet on rather extensive studies and experiences made in the last few years. The chances are good (that this vaccine will respond to you, as FZ might say…)
And denying the dangers of the virus is just stupid (sorry, folks). There have been enough deaths, heavy long-term cases and other casualties around, albeit probably not in your direct circle, because there are so many of us. We must somehow rely on the information we get – and the regular media is much more suited for that than the usual paranoia and rumour bubbles in the web, even if they have their faults too. If you start relying on the latter alone you might as well go back to the stone-age cave.
This sounds harsh, but without proven information (chequed by institutions more or less trustworthy) we are blind. This sounds naive, but rather that than entirely dumb or completely disorientated.
And a last point: Lots of scientists join the paranoia express as well out of competition matters or craving for importance and acknowledgement. Not every scientist is an expert on every matter. And even some specialists go astray. The scientific community has to discuss, argue und hopefully find out a relative truth. This is the regular process – we should therefore not take every comment as the final statement and firmly proven counter-truth.
At the same time most of us (myself included) do not have half the learning and training it takes to take part in these discussions with hopes for a sensible result. We're not medical specialists. Digging out every contradictory specialized opinion does not make sense except furthering our doubts and fears. (I think that's what Kid A pointed out above).
This is not merely an opinion, but based on common sense and experience – and while I acknowledge the need for doubts and understandable worries I cannot accept some of the arguments that I have heard here and elsewhere much too often. I fear this matter has become some sort of religious belief system for too many – and you can't argue with religion.
Despite metaphorically bashing some of you guys over the head several times I want to congratulate all of you for the way we lead this discussion – even if some of the points seem quite irrational to me or mine to others we have managed to behave in a human and friendly way as befits fellow psychonauts. And thanx four your patience with those awfully long forum entries. Peace and Love!
(And I should've read Punj Lizard's long entry a little more thoroughly, this would've saved me repeating several of his insights without having his detailed firsthand information
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