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Here's the asshole performance. I suppose he's the guy who tumbles down at 0:17…
Great job Hovmod!
Listening to this, I wonder how can people still complain for the use of vocoder on Roadwork 4!
BEST SONG !!!
Yes, the final and mot-awaited poll is here. Hope you have ade your bets on the winner…
I want to publish ALL the songs voted, even though they are 86!
Let's start with the 35 songs that only got one vote:
B.S.
Beautiful Sister
Big Surprise
Birds
Blueberry Daydream
Devil Dog
Dr. Hoffmann's Bicycle
Fools Gold
Greener
Have Fun
How Was I to Know
In the Family
Into the Mystic
Kill Devil Hills
leave It Like That
Like Always
President Block
Serpentine
She Left on the Sunship
She Used to Be a Twin
Sideway Spiral
Sister Confusion
Sunchild
Sungravy
The 29th Bulletin
The Ballad of Pat & Put
The One Who Went Away
This Otherness
Timothy's Monster
Triggerman
With Trixene bla bla
True Middle
W.B.A.T.
Whip that Ghost
X-3
(Surprised by Greener having only 1 vote!)
17 songs received 2 votes. They are:
Feedtime
Feel
Giftland (?)
Junior (?!?)
Lighthouse Keeper
Mountain (!)
Nothing to Say
Ozone
Psychonaut (O_O)
Riding the Tiger
Stained Glass
Starhammer
Starmelt / Lovelight
The Ocean in Her Eye
The Other Fool
The Slow Phaseout
Ueberwagner
(I suppose you understood which songs are underrated in my opinion here)
10 songs with 3 votes:
30 / 30
Before the Flood
Cornucopia
Heartattack Mac
Manmower
Painting the Night Unreal
Radiator Freak (!!!)
The Nerve Tattoo
Through the Veil
Walking on the Water
7 songs received 4 votes:
Demon Box
Drug Thing
Flick of the Wrist
Hey Jane
Hogwash
Mutiny!
Wishing Well
7 more songs with 5 votes, then we'll reach top 10!
Gullible's Travails
Kill Some Day
Sonic Teenage Guinevere (argh!)
Suite: Little Lucid Moments
Un Chien d'Espace (ARGH!!!) What were you thinking about while you were voting??
Wearing yr Smell
Year Zero
And the TOP TEN here (while I'm still astonished that STG and Un Chien didn't make it!)
8th position ex aequo (6 votes)
577
The Alchemyst
Watersound
4th position ex aequo (7 votes)
Mad Sun
Plan # 1
Sinful, Wind-Borne
The Wheel
THE PODIUM:
Bronze medal (9 votes)
TAIFUN
Silver Medal (12 votes)
VORTEX SURFER
Gold Medal (18 votes)
…………
hehe, I won't tell, and anyway you all know!
A hint: it's not from "IT'S A LOVE CULT"!
Oh, ok, of course the winner is, again, THE GOLDEN CORE, as it was ten years ago, and it completes the Timothy's Monster triumph, which wins as best album and as best song.
No surprises for the winner, the big surprise is TAIFUN on 3rd position, more than the Wheel and more than some masterpieces which were actually underestimated here. Un Chien, STG, Giftland, Demon Box, Psychonaut…
Another proof of the scarce loce for the Baard times is that no songs from that trilogy got more than 3 votes (25th position!), while the Kenneth era is more considered (The Alchemyst with 6 votes, in top10). Lobotomizer is more or less lobotomized, with the exception of Hogwash; No songs from AADAP made it to the top 10! Blissard and Demon Box have one each (SWB and Plan # 1) while there are 3 songs from Timothy's Monster and Trust Us, reflecting quite exactly the albums poll. The best song from EPs is Mad Sun, in a great 4th position, though ex-aequo.
OK, that's it… quite late here, I suppose the second Trondheim concert is going to an end, and want to see some comments.
Please, fill this thread with your comments!
Good night!
BEST ALBUM!
Here we go! You had to choose 3 albums out of 16, and you all made your choices, so that we had a total of 75 votes.
Only 3 albums received 0 votes. No surprises, they are the podium of the WORST album poll:
Lobotomizer
Roadwork II
It's a Love Cult
1 vote:
Roadwork I
Roadwork IV
Black Holes / Blank Canvas (OK, we don't love it!)
2 votes:
Let Them Eat Cake
3 votes:
Heavy Metal Fruit (great cover, not great contents apparently!)
4 votes:
Phanerothyme (6 total votes for the 3 pop albums)
5 votes:
Little Lucid Moments
6 votes:
The Death Defying Unicorn (Hype effect or real value?)
Well, only 5 albums remain, and you all know which albums they are, don't you? So, we only have to sort them in order:
7 VOTES (Ex-aequo 4th position)
Angels and Daemons at Play
Demon Box (this album has lost some appeal in the last 10 years I think… young generations who don't love grind/grunge?)
Bronze Medal (8 Votes)
BLISSARD (despite the vote taken in the "worst" list)
Silver Medal (11 Votes)
TRUST US
AND THE WINNER IS…..
TIMOTHY'S MONSTER with 19 VOTES!!!!
Almost double the votes of the 2nd! 19 people out of 25 voted for the Monster which still remains the favourite MP album ever, as it was ten years ago.
Trust Us, in the years, has surclassed AADAP and Blissard, and I can only agree to this. Actually, Trust Us is MY favourite album, but the order of this poll is really satisfactory!
So Timothy's Monster triumphs as best cover AND best album. Couldn't do better than this
LET'S GO WITH THE FINAL POLL!
BEST NON-ALBUM
OK, some debate here about how to consider Child of the Future. I imposed my vision, and it became a non-album! Also, there would have been debate on the Roadworks too, but maybe I made my division between album and non-album too fast…
Well, we have a result anyway! 18 non-albums were voted here:
1 VOTE for 8 soothing Songs for Rut (uh, shouldn't it be an album? Oh well, not very revelant after all!), Haircuts, Roadwork III (or should they be together?), Into the Sun, Soothe, the Visitant Single, The Tussler (and this is a big surprise! I thought it would have won this one!)
2 votes to Barracuda and Manmower EP
4 votes to Ozone and Wearing yr Smell EP
5 votes to Mountain and Serpentine EP (Serpentine with the same votes of Mountain? Uh!)
4th Position ex-Aequo (6 votes)
ANOTHER UGLY EP
THE NERVE TATTO EP
3rd Position (7 votes)
IN THE FISHTANK
2nd position (9 votes)
STARMELT EP
AND THE WINNER IS…..
CHILD OF THE FUTURE with 12 VOTES!
I'm very surprised, and of course repented of letting the Child out of the albums
Infact, I think that, EXCEPT for the first position, the chart reflects my taste!
Child of the Future is good but DOESNT CONTAIN neither Wishing Well nor Flick of the Wrist!
OK, and now only the two main polls remain, just like "Best movie" and "Best director" at Hollywood!
Stay tuned…
BEST COVER
The simple fact of having 22 different releases voted here gives an idea of MP's huge production!
The results are, uh, surprising?
Not sure, gotta admit that my estethic sense is equal to zero, so I've had my problems in saying which cover is the best… but you didn't, and the chart talks clearly.
Of 22 choices, only 13 reached 2 votes:
2 VOTES:
Angels and Daemons at Play
Demon Box
It's a Love Cult
Let Them Eat Cake
Little Lucid Moments
Soothe (Steel Box!)
3 VOTES:
Black Holes / Blank Canvas
The Death Defying Unicorn
Phanerothyme
Then, we have a huge gap to the top 4 positions:
4th position, with 8 votes:
BLISSARD
3rd position, with 9 votes:
TRUST US
2nd position, with 12 votes:
HEAVY METAL FRUIT (!)
AND THE WINNER, QUITE OBVIOUSLY IS:
TIMOTHY'S MONSTER (with 14 votes)
Nobody specified it, but I suppose everyone refers to the 3LP box and not to the CD version… Anyway, great exploit for the Heavy Metal Fruit, that actually has a very good cover which even contended the top position to the Monster! Surprisingly poor result for AADAP and Demon Box…
BEST LYRICS
Quite a sleepy poll this one, many of you admitted that they aren't really IN the lyrics.
So there has been a lot of vote dispersion, and 4 votes have been enough to win!
35 songs voted, 17 with more than one vote:
2 VOTES for 12 songs!
577
Before the Flood
Demon Box
Feel
Fools Gold
Heartattack Mac
Mad Sun
Now It's Time to Skate
Suite: Little Lucid Moments
Taifun
The Golden Core
Un Chien d'Espace
3 VOTES (ex-aequo 2nd place)
Kill Some Day
The Alchemyst
Wearing yr Smell
Wishing Well
AND THE WINNER IS…..
VORTEX SURFER (with only 4 votes!)
So, Vortex Surfer wins in 2 categories, lyrics and vocals… and the main category has to come!
As said, this poll isn't very indicative, due to the low votes for the winner. But heh, this is your choice anyway!
Now, we're going to examine the three polls regarding MP's releases themselves! Interesting results on the horizon!
BEST LIVE SONG
Motorpsycho have four roadworks out, but g35ers have seen a lot of concerts and have a lot of bootlegs of hundreds of concerts 1990-2011 (probably, there is some 2012 recording around yet
)So, we all know how different are MP in studio and live. And this makes this question interesting.
36 songs were voted, only 17 received at least 2 votes. Here we go:
2 VOTES:
Demon Box
Gullible's Travail
Hey Jane
Mountain
Plan #1
Sideway Spiral III
Sonic Teenage Guinevere
The Alchemyst
Walking on the Water
Watersound
3 VOTES:
Taifun
The Golden Core (uh! and it's the most desired!)
Vortex Surfer
4th place, 4 votes:
577
3rd place, 6 votes:
THE WHEEL
2nd place, 7 votes:
HOGWASH
AND THE WINNER, WITH 10 VOTES, IS:
A K9 SUITE!
Yep, the impressive 30 minutes-and-more monster won this poll by far. Not a big surprise, I'm more surprised by Hogwash and by Taifun being the top choice among songs not published live. Of course, everybody remembers the POWER of that moog-taurus in the live version if you've been lucky enough to witness it!
Still, I'm apparently the only one to consider the studio CHIEN better than the live version! That's only because I consider UN CHIEN the best song recorded in the last 30 years…
WANTED LIVE SONG
Not a very canonic poll this one, just a bunch of "wishes" for the tours to come… This Unicorn tour doesn't seem to be the good one for peculiar setlist choices (I still hope they stop this rock-opera madness before they come to Europe, but I suppose this will be their show for the whole spring…).
Anyway, let's see your desires! 15 songs out of 49 have recieved more than one vote:
2 VOTES:
Before the Flood (again???)
Dr. Hoffman's Bicycle
Feedtime
Flick of the Wrist
Lighthouse Girl
Mutiny!
Painting the Night Unreal
President Block
Timothy's Monster
3 VOTES:
Stalemate
The Ocean in Her Eye (someone specified: "in a PROPER version!")
2nd place ex-aequo with 4 votes:
Demon Box
Heartattack Mac
Radiator Freak
AND THE WINNER IS….
THE GOLDEN CORE with 5 votes!
Uh… can't agree with this one, because Golden Core is performed every now and then… I expected more rarities on the top of the podium, to be honest I'm surprised that Demon Box didn't win!
And I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one to wait for Radiator Freak!!!
WORST ALBUM
More participation here than on the worst song. The results are quite predictable though.
1 vote to Little Lucid Moments and (!!!!) BLISSARD (!!!!) Who's the guy???
This vote to Blissard is the only one to one of the 5 albums between Demon Box and Trust Us, and I'm surprised enough to see Blissard here…
2 votes to 8 soothing Songs for Rut and the latest two albums, Heavy Metal Fruit and Death Defying Unicorn.
Six albums remain:
4 votes to Phanerothyme! The pop-album less hated!
5 votes to Let them Eat Cake and Black Holes / Blank Canvas (BH/BC surprises me, I think it's a very good album!)
Second place ex-aequo with 10 (TEN!) votes:
Roadwork II (uh, predictable!)
It's a Love Cult (heh, I was afraid I was the only one!)
AND THE WINNER (or loser???) IS:
LOBOTOMIZER with a bunch of 14 votes!
No surprises here, maybe I should have not allowed Roadworks, but on the other hand I'm surprised that nobody votes Roadwork IV: if I remember well it received some sever criticism here on the forum, or am I wrong?
The interesting data is the lot of votes taken by IALC. C'mon people, that album SUCKS!
WORST SONG
OK, I'm a bit disappointed by you here!
A lot of people just said "I can't vote this one", "there's no worst song" and so on… or just voted the "Siddarthino" and "Dolphyn" stuff… c'mon guys! It was OBVIOUSLY the funniest part of the poll, and I'm not the Bent's secret agent! Lost the opportunity to make this poll more interesting just because you didn't want to type "The Slow Phaseout", but you can't love Mountain AND Carousel!
More than the "I like" polls, the "I dislike" poll should have given an idea of which "phase" of Motorpsycho is more (or less) appreciated by their fans…
Oh, well, I should have put the answers to this one mandatory to participate…
Anyway, many people voted instead, and I really appreciated comments like "this is really AWFUL!"…
In the end, we had 56 songs voted, but only 13 with more than one vote.
2 VOTES:
Close Your Eyes (Album version, not live!)
Coventry Boy
L.T.E.C.
Mr. Butterclut Goes to the Fair
Of Beacons & Beams (heh, not a serious vote this one!)
The Mirror and the Lie
Whole Lotta Diana
3 VOTES:
B.S.
What If
4th place with 4 votes: WALKIN' WITH J
3rd place with 5 votes: NEVER LET YOU OUT
2nd place with 6 votes: NEVERLAND
AND THE WINNER (OR THE LOSER?) IS:
COMPOSITE HEAD with 8 votes!
Well, the top 6 songs of this poll come from the pop-trilogy, and I'm not surprised at all. I'm quite surprised by the "winner", which surely is not a great song, but it actually polarized g35ers attention… considering that it didn't break our balls live (it was never performed!) as did instead Neverland, Walkin' w/j or Never Let You Out…
Well, now THEY know!
WHO IS THE BEST DRUMMER?
Gebhardt or Kenneth? Hehe, probably the hardest question in the poll. No one wanted to answer, but in the end (almost) everyone did!
And this is the finale result:
BENT SAETHER – 1 VOTE! (hehe)
HAAKON GEBHARDT – 8 VOTES
KENNETH KAPSTADT – 15 VOTES
Yup, Kenneth won this one!
Many of those who voted Kenneth specified that they referred to the sole "technical level", but not necessarily to the affection for one's drumming. As a drummer, I can surely agree: Kenneth is far superior technically (and I think Geb would be the first to recognize it!) but not necessarily better in Motorpsycho's economy.
For example, I voted Geb, because I'm quite sure I'd recognize his personal drumming in any situation, while I'm not sure about Kenneth, less original though more powerful and fast.
That's it for the single-instrument polls.
Give me some time for the next part, the WORST poll!
BEST DRUMMING
I'm surprised of the results here. As a drummer I was very curious to see who would have been the winner… and of course I was curious for the duality between Gebhardt and Kenneth. In the end, we had a lot of dispersion of votes, at least up to the second place!
36 songs voted, 17 with at least two votes.
2 VOTES:
Gullible's Travail
Hogwash (Roadwork III)
Kill Devil Hills / The Alchemyst (Roadwork IV)
Nothing to Say
Sinful, Wind-Borne
Sonic Teenage Guinevere
Through the Veil
Timothy's Monster
Walking on the Water
Whole Lotta Diana
2nd place, with 3 votes:
Feedtime
Hey Jane
Mutiny!
Whip that Ghost
The Golden Core
The Hollow Lands
AND THE WINNER IS……..
SUITE: LITTLE LUCID MOMENTS
…..with 12 VOTES!!!
Well, half of the voters DID vote LLM! Amazing result, considering you had only 3 options!
I suppose that for most of you (and me also!), that song was the first impact with Kenneth's drumming… and what an impact!
Still, I'm impressed by the "unanimity" of the vote… a vote with which, honestly, I don't agree!
BEST GUITAR SOLO
Snah's time now. I considered this one a very tough one, and I was right: the winner has only one vote more than four other songs in second position! So a very strict victory for… well, let's see.
40 songs voted, 12 with more than one vote:
2 VOTES:
Drug Thing
Greener
Vortex Surfer
Wearing yr Smell
Year Zero
3 VOTES:
Gullible's Travails
Sinful, Wind-Borne
2nd place ex-aequo for 4 songs with 4 VOTES:
Before the Flood
Flick of the Wrist
Into the Gyre
Wishing Well (Roadwork IV version!)
Heh, the Roaswork version of Wishing Well has stunned many people, and so did the weird fripp-metallic solo un Into the Gyre…
AND THE WINNER IS…….
577 with 5 votes!
577 and Flick were my "bets" for this poll, the most classic Snah's solos in the discography. Surprised by Before the Flood, a song that, I understand now, is much more loved than I thought. Uhm, I think I voted it among the worst songs, ehm….
