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@fillmore, nowadays I'm totally in the heavy listening of the stuff put on youtube by the user "fromtheaquarius". Which is nothing less than about 1200 (one thousand and two hundred) COMPLETE Phish shows, from 1984 to nowadays. Most of which of "A" sound quality! Something huge and quite surely unique in the history of live recordings and sharing!
Still hoping that someday someone will do something similar for Motorpsycho…
@Phishhead – when Gebhardt finally settled in Florence, he wrote a post with some variation of the "Watch the Uffizi, drive me to Firenze" verse, so I suppose you should count him in!
I'm quite sure Blissard is in spotify… everything from Motorpsycho is in Spotify.
Start with Angels and Daemons for both: Un Chien d'Espace can NEVER fail.
I'm sorry you people feel offended by this game. A game which implies discussion and critical approach to things. I failed to read anywhere that critics were forbidden here, but I have written on this forum only for the last 18 years so I may be wrong.
They're musicians, not a sacred cow.
The part of the 30th anniverasry present was obviously just a joke. Really, you think I'd send a mail with this discussion to Bent saying happy birthday?
And I completely agree with the obvious thoughts of JERO about being not perfect and the freedom to fail, but I don't see any part of your thoughts that may prevent me from opening a thread about which ones are the lesser songs and why. I'm personally interested in knowing that exactly the way I'm interested in knowing which songs people consider the best and why. But that part is the argument of 90% of the forum, so I'm not asking anymore.
Misplaced in this forum? It's a forum about Motorpsycho, where should I ask instead?
Gotta say that I'm very close to Shakti's feelings about some kind of songs, especially the poppish 2000-2001 stuff in each setlist, and Year Zero. But my list is still different:
Truly Fine Citizen – Probably the less "mature" lyrics (euphemism…) from Bent, and in fact I don't think even he is so proud of it. Musical part also is quite meh.
Grindstone – same feeling as kippenhok: not a bad song, but that final part is out of place in the marvelous last three sides of the Monster, and a physical offense to the ear. I know it's exactly what they wanted, but still, I gotta skip it every time!
The Slow Phaseout – the entire "pop" phase of the band is not my cup of tea. This one wins the ballot with some other short uninteresting songs from that period, like The other fool, Neverland, BS or Big Surprise…
Carousel – Apparently everyone has its "very bad Love Cult song", spanning form Mirror&Lie (that is one of my favourite from IALC!) to poor Composite Head, and silly What If… But Carousel is the low point in my opinion: all those strings, all that sort of out-of-place atmosphere… And I've always seen that as a bad attempt of regaining the glory of their "forgotten" masterpiece Radiation Freak, with that very similar structure. But no way.
Before the Flood – I really don't love BH/BC second disc at all, but this one is very very boring to me. It was my "I go smoke a cigarette" song. "Year Zero" is a sort of "Before the Flood 2" for me, but I reckon that's quite better than the original! Still, I feel lucky that I have often dodged it in the tours…
L.T.E.C. – Yes, the blank canvas deserve a double! LTEC is quite a nonsense…
Afterglow: The most uninspired and uninspiring Kenneth-era song.
Honorable mentions to Ratcatcher (yes, the Dora Peach version was much better!) and to Pacific Sonata, really tooooo loooong…
On the other hand I like Whole Lotta Diana a lot, it's one of my favorite in Kenneth's era, but that's the only surprising title I've seen in your list… I mean, there are other songs that I like, but that I can understand they may fill this list. Whole Lotta Diana seems quite a blast to me!
@JERO, @sunchild.holgi: it's just a game, played by people that have an average of 50 Motorpsycho concerts in their curriculum… And an exercise of criticism on a band we all love probably more than any other! And a way to discuss the impact of the various phases that MP have crossed in 30 years.
Billions.
Really, where do you wanna start from?
Simple stuff: "false" covers from other bands. We have:
"Sterling Says" – tribute to Velvet Underground
"Motorhead Mama" – quite obvious
"Whip that Ghost" – Song for A(llman) Bro(thers)
"Captain Geebhardt" – Captain Beefheart
Uh, no, really, it's a hell of a job!
Happy to see that my 2LP Here Be Monster has some followers!
I've been even more extreme on this kind of things, but usually on the other way: by "compressing" MP's long albums in a single one, removing the weakest stuff to obtain 45 minutes of real masterpieces! The biggest problems have come with Trust Us, can't really compress it that way!
About Hell 1-7, the problem is that you couldn't fit it all in a single vinyl side!
But I'm not a real lover of neither Still Life or Behind the Sun, so I'd probably squeeze both of them in a single LP with stuff like Hell 1-2, August, Kvaestor and only a few more stuff…
The Wheel on RW II is because the whole concert was released… I'm sure they wouldn't repeat any song they released before as long as they can choose among 53 (fifty-three!) songs!
Mountain, Lacuna Sunrise, Manmower, Taifun, among the songs that deserve a live rendition.
I have 52: On a Plate haven't been played starting 16th of september, though it's been played in all the 5 previous 2017 concerts!
Found Muffin Man, 'twas actually the one from Bad Doberan. But I wouldn't call it a "snippet", it's a good 3/4 minutes after Starhammer…
https://soundcloud.com/stereosofa/motorpsycho-starhammer-muffin-man-zappanale-04-08-2012
I've attended only two shows, Parma and Trezzo, Italy.
Trezzo had the BEST SOUND EVER that I can remember from a Motorpsycho show, while Parma sound was terrible. Not the setlist of my life, but a majestic K9. TREZZO wins.
LOL, I made something very similar something like ten years ago, but I divided the songs by album
Wow, it's really really accurate, more than my list anyway! Congratulations for being more nerdy than I am!
#152 – "Kick out the Jams" is an MC5 cover.
#Muffin Man – I'm quite sure I found a complete version of Muffin Man somewhere in Soundcloud. I will check.
#217 – I believe Pidah's Void is True Middle sent on tape by Pidah from the mixer, but I may be wrong.
#236 – Rocket USA is definitely the Suicide cover. Note that snippets were often played in the Black to Comm jam, along with other things like "Not Fade Away", "TV Eye" and many others.
"Spaceways" was also sung in a K9 version from 2000 spring tour, as witnessed by the mighty "Cake Tree" compilation!
Congrats again! I wanna make an appendix to your work by listing the top played songs live:
MOST PLAYED SONGS (1990-2017)
1. Sonic Teenage Guinevere (344)
2. You Lied (301)
3. Hogwash (293)
4. Nothing to Say (285)
5. Superstooge (220)
6. Vortex Surfer (209)
7. Un Chien d'Espace (199)
8. Starmelt / Lovelight (198)
9. All is Loneliness (185)
=. Feel (185)
11. Plan #1 (182)
12. Hey, Jane (164)
=. The One Who Went Away (164)
14. Heartattack Mac (160)
15. The Wheel (152)
16. Go to California (139)
17. Black to Comm (138)
18. Flick of the Wrist (131)
=. Upstairs / Downstairs (131)
20. Sinful, Wind-Borne (129)
=. The Golden Core (129)
MOST PLAYED SONGS WITH KENNETH ON DRUMS (2006-2016)
1. Year Zero (97)
2. Starhammer (89)
3. You Lied (80)
4. Kill Devil Hills (78)
5. The Alchemyst (77)
6. All is Loneliness (73)
7. Sail On (70)
8. Hogwash (69)
=. Cornucopia (69)
10. Hell pt. I-III (67)
11. No Evil (65)
12. Greener (62)
13. Whole Lotta Diana (58)
14. Serpentine (56)
=. Little Lucid Moments (complete) (56)
16. Plan #1 (52)
17. Through the Veil (51)
18. Nothing to Say (50)
19. On a Plate (49)
20. Mountain (47)
