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@Bartok – My top MP records as of today would be … damn, this could be a long list… but I'll try to keep it to five:
Trust Us
En Konsert For Folk Flest
HMF
LLM
LTEC
By next week, this list could well have changed! I mean, I can't believe I left out ITF10, DDU, Phano and HBM.
The thing is, I just become immersed in an album and sometimes it's one I haven't listened too so much. Like LTEC – it was ok, but Phano was my favourite from that period, then suddenly – WOW! LTEC is brilliant! I think Trust Us will always be in my MP top five, though.As for one era versus another – I can't really say, except that I can only get into about half of Demon Box, and a few tracks on TM don't do much for me, though mostly it's brilliant. I still haven't heard anything before Demon Box. Each 'era' and each album has characteristics I can get into in a big way though, which is just one reason why MP are so special.
I should add that "being too 90s" is not really an issue. Yes, it's possible to feel some music is too much of its time, and doesn't stand up well in the present, but for me, with the exception of much of the 80s sound, if it's good it's good.
As for Demon Box specifically, I cannot handle growly vocals on pretty much anything, so that means a lot of DB doesn't work for me. But that has nothing to do with it being a 90s album. Pretty much all the rest of it I either really like or am just happy to listen to. Maybe one day I'll have a DB epiphany
AS it's still only a little over six months since I first listened to any Motorpsycho, I've heard a lot of Motorpsycho music in that time – most of it repeatedly. The one album that I really didn't like on first listen but which suddenly revealed itself to me was Blissard. For some reason it sounded rough, awkward, lacking in musicality … Then one day, with over-ear headphones on, playing it on my very good player while wandering down to the shops, I was just bowled over by Sinful, Wind-Borne, Drug Thing and Greener. Funnily enough, I had two copies of the album on the player (one in FLAC format the other in mp3), so each track played twice before moving on to the next one. I think that helped!
I then went on to very quickly appreciate the album as a whole. And then recently I read Johan Harstad's book and my appreciation levels rose even further. While Bent's ability to write good songs was (in my humble opinion) evident before this, I think this album is when he really showed himself to be more than just a good songwriter but an exceptional one.
As I've only seen them twice, I'll take two hours any time. But I also have a ticket to see them two days earlier in Alkmaar, which should be longer.
Just to clarify for others who haven't looked at the Roadburn setlist speculation thread: Motorpsycho will be on at Roadburn on the Friday (April 20) from 15.10 to 17.10. An early set, but two hours. The only other band getting that big a slot is God Speed You! Black Emperor.
That is early!. I hope you can make it Tomcat (and everyone else who was planning on coming along). But the best news is … a proper two hour slot – not the 1 hr 10-15 mins everyone got last year!
@RF – Thanks. Fantastic little interview. Great to see Bent wearing a Magma T-shirt
. And I love what he says about the new music – "getting weirder somehow … less choruses".
@ Juergen. Thanks
UFO!! I was never a fan, even though I did see them at Hammersmith Odeon back in the early-mid 80s. I've probably even heard this song. Must check it out.
@ Tomcat lol I nearly did the same thing. I even started writing a post here. But before posting I went to the Sziget website, looked through the band listing, but no MP. I still checked the details of price, location etc. Then I went back to Facebook and suddenly noticed the date on the ad. 2017. Ha ha.
Are you sure about Sziget? Someone posted that on Facebook but it was an ad from last year. It fooled me until I suddenly noticed it said 2017 on it.
Interesting stats and info there. Now I'm just waiting to wake up tomorrow to read tonight's setlist! And to see if Kristoffer joined them.
@ Johnny – Aha! This is where my lack of experience gives way to your more extensive knowledge. My main intention here is just to speculate on the type of set it might be. The tracks were simply ones I thought might make up a 75 min setlist for such an event. I could just have easily suggested K9, The Tower, Demon Box and Lacuna/Sunrise … or K9, HBM and Taifun. My hope is for a space jam type of set, but who knows. This is just speculation for fun.
Have they been posted anywhere else?