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Finally got around to listen a few times. It is a grower. ASFE for example seemed like a cool rocker when it was published a few weeks ago. But that one just gets bigger every time. Bartok and Intrepid Explorer have been my highpoints as long as I didn't listen to sides 3 and 4. I thought I'd dive in easily and listen to the first disc a few times and then go on to sides 3 & 4. But then…. Ship Of Fools!!! Jesus! What a ride! The scope, the musicality, the boldness… well that may be nothing new in the Motorpsychoverse but they still top it after all those years???
A remark about Thomas: I expected more traight drumming after hearing ASFE and some comments in here but actually – going out on a limb here – if I wouldn't have known, I might have thought this is still Kenneth. Not that Thomas sounds all that similar, but more because a) he's not at all that straight as expected and b) he fits in perfectly. As if he's been their drummer for years already.
THE TOWER
The Cuckoo
Keep holding the mirrors up, Narcissus is holding court
Hope isn't the only thing we might lose today
Invincible empire, with pride comes the fall
Grace isn't the only thing we might lose today
No The Tower in my listings because I haven't got the album yet. Browsed some of its lyrics in here, though, and I get why some already mentioned they're up with if not the best of them.
So…
Question 1)
ah,the elloquence of trash
the persuasiveness of cash
rings true like the whispered lies
of half-forgotten lullabyes;
designed to please ,
designed to soothe
designed to shift a million units or two
designed to mean nothing at all
for anyone
but thats OK
it doesn’t matter anyway
it’s still those with the least to say
that will be heard
From The Nerve Tattoo. For me this sums up the madness and spiritual disorder of our world.
Question 2)
I do think each album has a stand out lyric, be it a whole song or a verse or one line.
BEHIND THE SUN
This one off The Promise I like for similar reasons like The Nerve Tattoo:
But there is something outside of this
valley of consumer bliss
something too prechious, too great to miss,
to throw away
… a promise
… a promise
… a promise
… a golden promise
Hell 4-6 spoke to me on a personal level right at the time of release. That was weird but welcome.
THE DEATH DEFYING UNICORN
The opening lines for The Hollow Lands gets me for its choice of words:
They nabbed me poaching last spring
said I could choose to sail or swing
I don't know how english sailors talked back then, but I feel the vocabulary on the album is so well chosen to set the proper moods.
LITTLE LUCID MOMENTS
The whole lyric for A Hoof to the Head is just brilliant. As an excerpt:
I'm the whirlwind that you reap
Having sown the wind I'll wake you from your sleep
I am chaos I combust
To leave your pure enlightened mind fucked in the dust
I love how one being/force/idea rips every elaborated scheme to shreds not leaving shambles but presenting the simple and clear truth.
TRUST US
The lyrics to Taifun might not be sooooo spectacular by themselves but I think that's exactly the point in this highly dramatic song. Calm words before the storm.
BLACK HOLE BLACK CANVAS
Another "what's wrong with you people?" lyric in Kill Devil Hills. It's not that I like these per se. On the contrary, I find most of social commentary songlyrics dumb and generic. But Bent and Snah seem to think those extra miles when they approach such themes. Anyways I can't really quote one or two lines out of this one. The whole song is a effing great statement.
more to follow, maybe, that's a thinker 8O
Ah so it's not too bad then? Still on holidays for another week while my copy waits in my postbox back home. Could listen to it on youtube but must.resist.and.be.patient…….. And stoked to hear Alain Johannes is involved, I hope he and Dave Catching spread the word!
Respect is due. And if they authorize it, then it's probably not too shabby and something to look forward to.
Ha
but another obvious question: What's A.S.F.E.? And why do they always tease us with riddles? I like the space and ocean references in the titles, some of their best songs went there.
ooooh Alain Johannes? That would've been interesting. But anyway "Musically this is in parts the hardest album Motorpsycho has perpetrated in a while, and the material runs the gamut from short and sweet to lengthy and mean" aaah can't wait! Sadly I'm on a 2 week holiday right around the release date. :o I guess the next live shows will be highly energetic and out there!
Ha! I meant to write that, too. "It is what it is, music for the play". Don't see a reason to be disappointed. It's a soundtrack and an art thing, needs therefore a different mindset to digest. By itself the tracks on the vinyl/CD come across somewhat aimless here and there, but that's the point. It's not a jawdropping overwhelming experience, but a restrained wash of fragments. Some cheesy mellotron choirs, too, which I find quite funny. We use those as well in my little band. "Satan" is comically scary.
I've yet to watch the play all the way through. Intromusic (and images) I do find to be a jawdropping overwhelming experience, though.
