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While mowing the lawn yesterday I listened to Demon Box twice in a row, probably for the 30th time. Aside for being a fantastic album, I noticed Plan #1 properly for the first time. The talking part (about pretty fucked up things like a crowbar in a vagina) is really, really cool. Can’t explain why, but something about the mix of Bent’s voice and the parts with dialogue is gripping. I was just wondering where the ….
Found out it was better to look around myself, it was of course Matt Burt (which is presented as “Narrator” in the personell list in the Demon Box leaflet. And Burt is also obviously the narrator of True Middle on Blissard. “There is no insurance policy for a life wasted”, true poetry. He is colaborating with a band called Alpaca Ensamble from Trondheim, and you can check out their music here: http://www.myspace.com/alpacaensemble
Cheers!
OtherFool
And the band Dog & Sky, of course http://www.myspace.com/dogsky
Quote:I noticed Plan #1 properly for the first time.After 30 listens?? I’ve always considered it to be the center track with the rest spinning around it. 8O
thanks for the links.
Supernaut, I know. Something is wrong with me! Of course I’ve enjoyed the track all the times I’ve listened to it, but yesterday it was mesmerizing for the first time. :oops:
I was quite stoned when I heard the album way back then for the first time at a friend’s. And got hooked to Motorpsycho eternally at around the second chorus of Nothing To Say. So I went and bought it and listened through it at home and song after song crashed over my poor little brain. Everything I loved so far from Krimson to Hüsker Dü, Pink Floyd and Dinosaur Jr, everything that wasn’t “supposed to mate” gave birth to this beautiful monster and showed the glory of bastardizing. It changed a lot of my perceptions about music. And Plan#1 immediately was the most indescribable experience. Can there be wisdom in notes and sounds? Understanding in sonic textures? Without actual drugs, mind. I don’t need them no more for this. Or maybe it’s a long term effect, I dunno. :lol:btw the haircut version goes even further I think.
Uh I love pathos.
Don’t for get his solo cd “Grumpy groovy” released Stickman Records back in 97. Maybe the worst seller in in the Stickman history but worth a listen.
http://open.spotify.com/album/1cOPbsMcWuhrRsht9ZHMR5
http://www.stickman-records.com/index.php?frame=/shop/index.php
And for god sake check out the Dog & sky lp. Its a hidden classic.
http://musikkfranorge.blogspot.com/2009/03/crispin-glover-records-presenterer.html
Off-topic (sort of): Matt Burt actually played support as Butt Mart (together with Kim Hiorthøy I think) at the first Motorpsycho-gig I attended, in 1997. I don’t remember much about it other than that it was quite strange…
Yeah, he opened for them sometime in the early 00’s too.. It was nice, but I remember thinking it was strange that he didn’t join them for Plan #1 later in the show (and True Middle too…?). They used the usual recordings instead.
Plan no.1 was the piece that finally hooked me into Motorpsycho, via an archived live set from Dutch radio. I had been knocked out by Supersilent, and followed the connection with Deathprod to MP. I was initially disappointed with some of the poppier stuff, but then Plan no.1 came on and I was lost to the music, and the journey continues! The Deathprod box set on Rune Grammofon has some other pieces featuring Matt Burt, all interesting, some hilarious, some other pieces also feature MP members on unexpected instruments too.
Slightly on-topic: Does someone have the exact text featured/projected during the live “Plan #1” on “This is Motorpsycho/Hair Cuts”? The line that comes to my mind is “I became the Devil’s loudspeakers”.
Greets,
Thomas
Found this here
(album version)
Plan # 1
This is a transcript of Matt Burt's manuscript. Thanks May Hellerud. And yes, it does say organism.
Dog's Heart — Plan Number One
He held her down.
Zero is the center of the universe.
Purple alfalfa vetch
Small pubescent hairs, sloughed off.
How can a man be a man when he can't what he can?
Wheel of life, rock of Sisaphis
The Open body of a woman
At the climax of organism there is a shudder – mostly felt in
the stomach – almost identical, but less intense than shudder
experienced at the moment of death.
Party til she's cute a young man's t-shirt reads
Infinity likewise is a verb
Small stones begin to rise and float on the water.
What strange snake is this that can be sick with fever
Are not snakes cold blooded creatures?
Like a crowbar in the vagina, ripping to pry loose the pelvis
Thus are structure and form now wed
In a small cottage, just outside of town
a dark and narrow gravel lane
so overgrown the leaves
touch a passing car with smoke
Death the life giver
Death the life taker
Death the advisor
Damned are those who think they have befriended death
Death knows nothing of these struggles
Unthinking shadow
Worthy opponent
Challenger of the left
A man stands in a doorway of a room in a small white cottage
He stalks himself using death
Much like a wolf stalks the caraboo
He stands himself, watching himself, waiting for himself
The meadowlark's call – makes you feel uneasy
The unrelenting march of sleep
Veterans of subconscious deprivation
Song lyrics: here
Queen bitch, slut child
I know you so well
you gave it all away, sister-
you gave it all away
but I know your eyes……..
you're just like me
Sick,filthy
naked and abused
I've seen you all before
cos you gave it all away
you raped your own pride…..
you put too much slack on your live wire
saw too many thrills that killed your desire
too many nights that paled your complexion
and made you a 'nigger' in their conception of life
….just like me
you're just like me
see that creep
couldn't you just smash his face?
still don't understand
what he's doing in this place
I know I didn't
when I was him
when I was him….
you're just like me.
Quote:Slightly on-topic: Does someone have the exact text featured/projected during the live "Plan #1" on "This is Motorpsycho/Hair Cuts"? The line that comes to my mind is "I became the Devil's loudspeakers"Pretty sure it's during TGC and not Plan, at least on the old "This is Motorpsycho" video tape. I don't know the words without watching it again but I remember it ends with "Anything's possible"!
Quote:At the climax of organism there is a shudder – mostly felt inthe stomach – almost identical, but less intense than shudder
experienced at the moment of death.
I find that very hard to believe. "Organism" doesn't make any sense whatsoever but "orgasm" does, and that's what I've always understood. Maybe it says "organism" on Matt Burt's manuscript but in my ears it really sounds like "orgasm" on the album.
And anyways the spelling of "Sisyphus" in the manuscript is incorrect. Burt wrote "rock of Sisaphis". Interesting myth, and a must for all fans of Camus
I agree with GKR, it must be orgasm.
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