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The demo they want you to think never took place:
I would imagine, David, that some voted to leave and some to remain; but don't you think perhaps that many of them, like most intelligent people, saw that there were good and bad arguments on both sides? Maybe they weren't constrained by dumbed-down, binary thinking.
Such rights and freedoms as we currently enjoy are always threatened – but never, in the modern age, in the west, more so than right now.
Never take those rights and freedoms for granted. They were hard-won by just the sort of people you sneer at.
Here's what's going on in London right this minute. LOTS of people, but I don't expect much, if any, mainstream coverage – and that alone you should find troubling:
Glad you highlighted that, Mikke – that moment really gives me the chills. The whole thing is, of course, a fantastic piece of music. Maybe I would just concur a little bit with you, Johnny, about it not quite coming together, in that the piece doesn't quite seem ready for when the climactic moment hits, but, once you know the piece, that's just how it is, and you love it for what it is.
Now that we're talking about Snah, and bringing it back to the present, is anyone else concerned about the recent shortage of Snah material? I mean, he's still working wonders with the guitar – no question – but what happened to the Snah songs? Bent said he is no longer interested in standard song format. Well, Snah doesn't have to go along with that if he still wants to write a 'song'. At the risk of always bringing it back to Yes, after producing so many epics, they weren't above composing little gems like Wonderous Stories and Don't Kill the Whale before they went into decline. It's an art.
Snah has given us some truly unique pieces – all real one-offs that are never obvious, and that surprise at every turn – Serpentine, Upstairs-Downstairs, Year Zero, The Light Fantastic, etc., etc. He really moves this listener's heart with his writing – long or short form.
Wasn't The Light Fantastic a track that didn't make it onto The Tower? I wonder why. I think I prefer it to at least three or four of the tracks on that album. Still, at least it got to be a title track! But, there's been precious little since (the odd co-credit aside).
It feels like we are missing something important – part of the MP DNA. I guess Snah is conscious of quality control, and only wants to send his creations into the world when he has polished them and judged them worthy.
Anyway, let's hope it's not too long before we hear another one of those utterly unique beauties – the sort that only Snah can give the world.
Not new! I hope it's OK to throw in the occasional, unearthed, old treasure, in the hope that it clicks for someone else too. I'm just 51 years late to this particular party! Something tells me it's the sort of thing Bent and Snah might have tracked down for their collections. Apologies if this is not new to you.
T2 – It'll All Work Out In Boomland (1970)
(hold on for No More White Horses!)
Toundra have Hyena in their top ten Motorpsycho tracks. Interesting reading – I reckon about four would overlap with my top ten:
https://www.loudersound.com/features/toundras-ten-favourite-motorpsycho-songs
Lukewarm Classic Rock review:
https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/motorpsycho-set-the-dials-to-rocking-on-kingdom-of-oblivion
After Mockingbird, The Cuckoo, The Magpie and now Cormorant, I just think they should do more bird songs. I believe Albatross is taken, but they could still have the Sangihe Shrike-thrush, Stresemann's Bristlefront or the Noisy Scrub-bird.
I won't suggest the Bearded Tit in case it's taken the wrong way…
My tuppenyworth.
The Afterglow – an absolute gem including one of Snah's sweetest ever bits of guitar
Child of the Future – very uplifting – a great end to a great album
ASFE – loved it from first listen, loved it when they opened with it live in London, and its appeal, for me, has outlasted that of some of its more complex bedfellows on The Tower (although I can't understand TAF not going for Ship of Fools, but we're all different!); I really appreciate its energy and directness, and I'll put this out there: is this the most 90s Motorpsycho thing to come out of the Kenneth and Tomas eras?
Hyena – also just fine
The All Is One – I'm probably with a lot of others on this, judging by comments; on a really very, very good album, it's curious that the title track/opener is so relatively underwhelming; it's overwrought, overlong and not as good as it thinks it is
No problems with the others…well, except Neverplayed, but I do like watching the Japanese teenyboppers getting into it!
I think you make a lot of good points, Shakti. I wouldn't want to tinker with the past too much, although I've often considered making my own compilation of concise hard rock Kenneth-era tracks comprising all of Child of the Future plus The Promise and the best bits of Motorpnakotic Fragments and The Light Fantastic. What a hard-hitting double that would be!
However, I do think recent material would have been better served by having N.O.X. as a stand-alone album, perhaps with the addition of something in a similar vein – or maybe those heavy parts from Begynnelser that inexplicably didn't make it onto the audio version.
@ Kid A: I was sort of with you until you wanted to leave out The All Is One side D. I think that's good stuff – maybe suffering from following on from N.O.X. The reverssion from something so radical and original to something belonging more to the classic rock genre might work live, but it diminshes what follows on disc, which is a shame. In a different context, Dreams of Fancy might garner rave reviews. Personally, I think it is a brilliantly constructed composition. If there's a bit of late Led Zep to it, I would say it could grace any of their later albums. Like Chrome is pretty fair too (also a touch of Led Zep there).
@JERO: "the cousins tucked away in the basement" – that tickled me!
He's particularly keen on Dreamkiller, quite hot on The Hunt and Lurker, and not so positive about some of the rest. Nowhere near as good as The All Is One, he reckons. He makes a comparison with Porcupine Tree. Can't see it myself.
While we are in a Hawkwind mood, check out the recent album from Nik Turner (Hawkwind) and Youth (Killing Joke):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5FXR1oeJrU&list=PL5mxDeg0WY5L422R9sFB2rzS5FKswGFeJ
