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Yeah the thought comes to the head sometimes. Then again, the boys are like living superjukeboxes. They obviously eat and breath 40 years of music history and digest it for their own stylistically spread oeuvre. You can’t have the common originality this way, like other artists have by simply repeating one idea for twenty records.
The way they treat their music, how they perform and produce it, with tons of various instrumentation, I think that’s what leads to their originality. I’d also say they’ve maintained a signature style long ago, mostly in terms of tension and dynamics. So they can easily cite themselves, pulling an “ah, there we go again” then and now. By building up tension and stomping on that Taurus pedal. This too is something that defines them as unique.
So I can’t think of a pure and typical Motorpsycho song. Well… Feel maybe? But the biggies like Heartattac Mac, Back to Source, Kill Devil Hills, STG, TGC, Wheel, Surfer, Ocean and Taifun and of course the LLM album are characteristic and defining works. Trust Us was such an elaborate album in these terms and therefore an ending to an era. Looking back, the westcoast poppier albums were an obvious move. And then jazz and country. And then the return of big growling amplification. Motorpsychedelism probably is simply a way of doing things.
to the devastated, there’s another Berlin show coming up in 2010 http://www.lido-berlin.de/events/view/549
Lido sold out but another Berlin show is confirmed for 2010: http://www.lido-berlin.de/events/view/549
so there is another very very nice tour coming up.
@GBD, yeah something buzzes somewhere. All passed and gone due to too much respect or something… Look at those daring italians! 8O
About Berlin:
I MIGHT have one ticket left. My berlin friend probably won’t make it to the show. So if it’s sold out and/or you need a ticket, mail me wiper@gmx.ch But I can’t tell you for sure yet.
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I’d like to see them in a bigger venue for a change. In switzerland, they always play the 300-500 ppls venues.
Apart from the coverversions, I can’t think of a lyrical or songtitle related Kiss reference. Odd. But there’s of course the Deuce 1-1-2-1 sideways headbanging tribute in the Sinful-Windborne video.
So I’d add Kiss – Alive!
Quote:The new album has Whole Lotta Diana – AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie?Since that guitarsolo after the flanged vocalpart is very Jimmy Pageyish, I’d rather go for Whole Lotta Love there.
nice set, nice clips. of course with the odd idiot shouting in Year Zero. i wonder if i ever get to hear Glow live.
i just realized that they probably won’t ever play the LLM suite again… i mean it’d take about 30min off a setlist. buried now. like the k9 suite. sad. i don’t mind the k9 but LLM…
ah lovely. i’m so looking forward to hear the new album live.
but only 70 people????? last time i witnessed that was in ’97 in geneva…
it wants to be liked. it’s the little cute ever happy neighbor’s boy, rabbit teeth & glasses. but it’s also one of those ballroom mccartneys giving me a hard time to listen to. like Obladidelida. Martha my Dear and When I’m 64.
Now I’m discovering the pre Revolver stuff. There’s wonderful popsong craftmanship before that one. The whole Help! album is perfect. Especially Hide Your love Away and Ticket to Ride. And then I Saw Her Standing There, Drive my Car, Norwegian Wood, If I Needed Someone, A Hard Day’s Night, Can’t Buy Me Love, Day Tripper, I Wanna Be Your Man, You Can’t Do That, Anytime At All, Things We said Today… shedloads of brilliance.
I’m not sooooo bedazzled by the whole Sgt Pepper and Revolver albums and there is some filler stuff on the White Album too. About half of each album amazes me. From this period I prefer the weirder songs on Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour such as Hey Bulldog, It’s All Too Much, Only A Northern Song, Blue Jay Way, Baby You’re A Rich Man and the probably best ever written song by humankind I Am The Walrus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnpil_pRUiw&feature=related
If they’d omitted Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, the Abbey Road album would be perfect.
