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The last section of mikeplanes' review pretty much sums it up for me. I like the album a lot but I'm not jawdropped amazed in the same sort as I was by LLM or TDDU but that's completely ok as it would be quite impossible. It's a different beast coming from a different place. This is the loose follow up to some serious work indeed. The singing does easily equal TDDU, though.
I share some of Bes feelings about the emotional impact but I am not disppointed by any direction they're taking, because I prefer the adventure. I do miss the great catchy songs they're so brilliant in writing at like Starmelt, Smell, Evernine, Phaseout but they haven't gone lost since Geb left. There was Ozzylot, Hoofed, CotF and Hyena and many many more on BHBC. It's just a matter of time until songs like these reappear and let's not forget about the possible release of the Eggplant's outtakes. And if one craves for Like Always and Windborne, they still play those live. The greatness of this band is built on NOT writing Blissard parts II to XIII.
Quote:I've heard this trilogy theory before, and I think it has some substance but there are albums which don't fit with the sequence, such as SLWE (surely this recent "prog trilogy" would be LLM, HMF and TDDU)…but where do COTF and BH/BC fit in?Yeah, I dunno. I guess I just like the fact that the band is constantly evolving and that one should expect the unexpected from them. I always look forward to their next move. TDDU is not a "pure" MP album in my humble opinion, though. It's more of a stand alone, collaborative project. Kind of like Tussler, in that it features the band collaborating with others on something more "genre specific" (be it C&W, prog operas or motorsource assaults).
Of course, there's abolutely nothing indicating that the band is thinking in terms of trilogies. After all, sticking to patterns and conventions is not their style as such. So it's just the MP-geek in me creating theories.
Finally the review from Krakelurium is here. In Norwegian only, alas.
Im not sure if theres a trilogy. And BH/BC does´nt really fit in anywhere. It´s kind of a random mid-era hit-spitter of different ideas and abstinence from Bent and Snah i believe. I love it, because it was the record that made me look into Motorpsycho, and expand my musical taste!! But when I look at it now, it´s not nealy a "top 5" Mp album.
If there´s a trilogy, it would be LLM, HMF and COTF, though COTF don´t really deserve to be on the same ship as the two others in my opinion.
Motorpsycho does what no one expects. And after TDDU, everyone expected them to do something new and go "even weirder", and thats mabye why they really didnt! (?) Some of the songs are somehow "straight" compared to alot of the TDDU-songs. And its really nice to hear some songs that don´t take ages to know, and like, and still have the "bigger" songs that needs times and good earphones to really get into (Hell and Ratcathcer).
@odindahle: I also think that Barleycorn ist the best song on this album, but it doesn't take me back to Trust Us AT ALL.
I know this is somehow difficult, I also wouldn't want just 3 Blissards in a row (althought I would take another Timothy!), but I just don't like what they evolved into. There are so many bands with 1-2 great albums in their beginning and then they "evolve" and it's just pure crap. Fortunately MP has made far more good records than A LOT of other bands in their whole career and they might have played some of the best gigs in the history of rock, but I just can't relate to this prog stuff. For example the "taking apart" of Live Hogwash in the recent years (Can and all that) really ruins this song for me. I like it as a rocker!
TDDU is really a record I would like to erase from their portfolio. I just can't listen to it and the concert I attended was maybe on of the fes concerts in my life, I left before it finished, because I was starting to fall asleep, being bored to death.
As I said in my previous post. It's just a matter of taste and it's useless to complain anyway, but I just miss the feeling to leave a MP gig stunned for quite some time after…
I'm stuck on the other side of the planet (palm trees and beaches and all that) and have to listen to this in headphones and crap usb laptop speakers, but I have still had goose bumps and the occasional quivering lower lip from this.
It's not a top three album, but it's certainly beyond simply *good*. I think my biggest issue with it is that it's not the greatest album ever released by anyone ever in the universe, which is a feeling I have with most MP albums, at least for a few weeks of "honeymoon".
There are no songs on this that I imagine can become a bathroom break song when played live, and they all have potential to be the best song ever heard live ever anywhere in the universe. Maybe except Afterglow (which are words I would love to eat one day…) (Stoned glass, anyone?).
I like Ratcatcher, btw. Does anyone here really feel cheated because it sounds a little bit like a song on a 10 year old BOOTLEG they've played to bits? Pfft.
Best thing: Having friends who send me an mp3 version so I don't have to wait for weeks and weeks before hearing it (I am of course buying the LP).
Worst thing: I'm listening to SLWE.mp3 on this:
yes, that's me!
@Mikeplanes: since you're working for Normanrecords – do you think there's a chance to get hold of a copy of Stephen Malkmus' CAN cover LP (Ege Bamyasi) through your shop? Record Store Day, pleasure and pain…
or two?
didn't got any of the rsd13 records today that i wanted…instead i got one copy of the most limited rsd-release…fair enough
@Be: I understand you. My favorite concert so far in my life was Motorpsycho @ the opera. But I dont think I would like the tour style, without the strings etc. And I understand that you dont like the prog stuff. My 2nd place gig is Motorpsycho @byscenen in Trondheim before TDDU. It was extraordinary. So personally I feel that TDDU is more like a side-project, because I personally don´t see many of the songs as good live-songs without the extra crew.
@Be: Also; musical taste is one of the most subjective things in the universe
"Also; musical taste is one of the most subjective things in the universe"
That's, why I pointed that out. I somehow don't understand how someone can "love" TDDU, but I don't have to and just because I don't like the recent albums doesn't mean anything.
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