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The 20th Anniversary tour is finished. Time to make some maths!
Starting from my eternal XLS page with (almost) all the setlists of MP history, I’m going to give you some useless statistics about their 20 years live career, telling you how many times did the guys play their songs since 1990!
My database counts 688 concerts!
It’s actually not complete, because some setlist is missing (there’s a big hole back in the times when Bent kept track of setlists, and then some little holes when no fanatic-g35ers where there to write down or steal Snah’s setlists). But I can safely say that no more than 40 setlists are missing. I’ll act as if they’ve been never played…
The INTERNATIONAL TUSSLER SOCIETY concerts are NOT included!
Not all the setlists are accurate, but the great majority is.
Some “medley-covers†are missing (i.e. Not Fade Away, Turn on your Lovelight, and others which were often played in the middle of other songs) because they were not indicated in setlists.
I also had to guess some “new song†in the setlists, by their descriptions or by some logic (which makes no sense as long as MP setlists are completely unpredictable), so maybe there’s one too much “Sunship†instead of an “Alchemystâ€Â, but still, even with these approximations, I think I have a 95% correct statistics.
So, let’s start it easy:
CONCERTS BY YEAR
1990: xxxx 9
1991: xxxxxxxxxxxx 24
1992: xxxxxxxxx 18
1993: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 54
1994: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 48
1995: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 54
1996: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 57
1997: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 72
1998: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 50
1999: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 43
2000: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 53
2001: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 28
2002: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 61
2003: xxx 7
2004: xx 5
2005: 0
2006: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 31
2007: xxxx 8
2008: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 38
2009: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 28
Now let’s attack the tough part.
SONGS PLAYED BY ALBUM:
Maiden Voyage (Tape 1990)
69 – Blueberry Daydream
8 – How Was I to Know
5 – Politician
0 – Queen Chinee
Lobotomizer (LP 1991)
256 – Hogwash
82 – Home of the Brave
41 – Grinder
32 – Frances
12 – Wasted
12 – TFC
0 – Lobotomizer, Eternity
Soothe / 3 Songs for Rut (EP + Single 1992)
58 – Loaded
56 – Sister Confusion
47 – California Dreamin’
43 – Some Real Mindfuck
30 – Step Inside
25 – The Wait
20 – Have Fun
16 – Lighthouse Girl
0 – We All Float Down Here (too…)
Demon Box (2LP 1993)
237 – Nothing to Say
178 – Waiting for the One / The One Who Went Away (both versions)
149 – Plan # 1
132 – All is Loneliness
74 – Demon Box (Including previous version “Strange Days”)
68 – Sheer Profoundity
57 – Mountain
54 – Feedtime
54 – Junior
23 – Sunchild
22 – Come on In
21 – Gutwrench
10 – Babylon
4 – Step Inside Again
3 – Tuesday Morning
0 – Mr. Who
MP-Hedge Hog Split / Mountain / Another Ugly EP (Split / EP 1993 / EP 1994)
84 – Into the Sun (MP/HH Split)
44 – Fleshharrower
24 – She Used to Be a Twin
21 – The House at Pooneil Corners
20 – Another Ugly Tune
1 – Watching You
0 – Viscount GriSnah, Summertime is Here, Motorhead Mama
Timothy’s Monster (3LP 1994)
142 – Feel
131 – The Wheel
118 – The Golden Core
103 – Kill Some Day
99 – A Shrug and a Fistful
96 – Watersound
83 – Wearing yr Smell
49 – Now It’s Time to Skate
46 – Giftland
42 – On My Pillow
30 – Leave It Like That
17 – Beautiful Sister
15 – Trapdoor
12 – Grindstone
9 – Sungravy (first time in this tour!)
Wearing yr Smell EP / ProMotor / Tussler / The Nerve Tattoo EP / Manmower EP (1994 / 1996)
37 – Heaven and Hell (Manmower EP)
33 – Mad Sun (Nerve Tatto EP)
7 – Working for MCA (Promotor 1)
4 – A Memory (Tussler)
2 – President Block (WYS EP), 7th Dream, Sterling Says (Manmower EP)
1 – Sonnyboy Gaybar (Tussler)
0 – The Birds (WYS EP), Of Beacons and Beams, Pale Day (TNT EP), A Saw Sage Full of Secretion (MM EP), all the remaining of TUSSLER.
Blissard (LP 1996)
297 – Sonic Teenage Guinevere
109 – Sinful, Wind-Borne
99 – The Nerve Tattoo
83 – True Middle
79 – Greener
76 – Manmower
48 – Fools Gold
46 – ‘s Numbness
39 – Drug Thing
3 – Nathan Daniel’s Tune from Hawaii
Angels and Daemons at Play (2LP 1997)
261 – Walking on the Water
177 – Starmelt / Lovelight
154 – Un Chien d’Espace
145 – Heartattack Mac
89 – Sideway Spiral (I, II, III, IV, whatever)
86 – Like Always
71 – Pills, Powders and Passionplays
20 – In the Family
16 – Back to Source
9 – Stalemate
4 – Timothy’s Monster
0 – Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Ohm’s Concerto for Alto and Soprano Saw
Starmelt / Ozone / Hey Jane EP (1997 / 1998)
123 – Flick of the Wrist (Starmelt)
119 – Young Man Blues (Ozone)
28 – Wishing Well (Starmelt)
17 – The Skies are Full of… Wine? (Ozone)
12 – Up Our Sleeves (Starmelt)
5 – The Ballad of Pat and Put (Hey Jane)
0 – Instamatic (Starmelt), Accute Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms (Ozone), MM Stomp, Celestine, Valis (Hey Jane)
Trust Us (2LP 1998)
189 – Vortex Surfer
187 – Superstooge
144 – Hey Jane
75 – Taifun
73 – Psychonaut
57 – 577
29 – Rad. Freq.
28 – Ozone
26 – Ocean in Her Eye
22 – Mantrick Muffin Stomp
22 – Coventry Boy
20 – Evernine
0 – Siddhartino, Dolphyn
Roadwork 1 / Barracuda (2LP live 1999 / EP 2001)
138 – Black to Comm
94 – Hi Time
44 – Heartbreaker
44 – The Other Other Fool
26 – Dr. Hoffman’s Bicycle
23 – Glow
16 – ***
14 – Vanishing Point
0 – Rattlesnake
Let Them Eat Cake (LP 2000)
105 – The Other Fool
86 – Whip that Ghost
80 – Upstairs Downstairs
71 – Never Let You Out
64 – Walkin’ with J
56 – My Best Friend
53 – Big Surprise
15 – Stained Glass
0 – 30 / 30
The Other Fool EP / Walkin’ with J EP (EP 2000)
NONE
(heh, this would mean something…)
Phanerothyme (LP 2001)
103 – Go to California
62 – Bedroom Eyes
46 – For Free
44 – Landslide
34 – Painting the Night Unreal
33 – The Slow Phaseout
25 – When You’re Dead
17 – Blindfolded
2 – B. S.
It’s a Love Cult (2LP 2002)
93 – Neverland
72 – Serpentine
56 – Uberwagner
41 – One More Demon
20 – What If…
13 – Circles
10 – The Mirror and the Lie
0 – This Otherness, Carousel, Composite Head
Serpentine EP / In the Fishtank (2002 / 2003)
46 – Tristano
29 – Fade to Grey
24 – Snafu
17 – Little Ricky Massenburg
3 – Theme de Yo Yo
0 – Shane 2†AM
Black Holes Blank Canvas (2LP 2006)
69 – Kill Devil Hills
58 – No Evil
42 – Sail On
41 – Triggerman
38 – Hyena
28 – You Lose
25 – Devil Dog
20 – Coalmine Pony
16 – Before the Flood
13 – Boney Lee (actually from “Hyena†single)
12 – The Ace
10 – In Our Tree
10 – Sancho Says
7 – Critical Mass
6 – 29th Bulletin
6 – L.T.E.C.
6 – Trixeene
0 – Fury on Earth
Little Lucid Moments (2LP 2008)
49 – The Alchemyst
49 – Suite: Little Lucid Moments
46 – Year Zero
32 – She Left on the Sunship
Child of the Future (LP 2009)
24 – Cornucopia
23 – Whole Lotta Diana
22 – The Ozzylot
15 – Riding the Tiger
9 – Child of the Future
6 – Mr. Victim
0 – The Waiting Game
UNRELEASED SONGS
Only the unreleased songs that have been played at least 10 times.
19 – Dora Peach (2002)
18 – Sunday Trane (2001)
18 – Close Your Eyes (2002)
15 – Kissoon (1990-1991)
COVERS
I counted 60/70 covers in the setlists, excluding those which where then published. But they’re probably a lot more. Here’s a list of the most played:
33 – I Believe (Ray Charles)
23 – The Witch (some german band I don’t remember)
22 – Summertime Blues (someone BEFORE the Who)
19 – Shakin’ All Over (see above)
14 – Inside Looking Out (GFR?)
12 – In Memory of Liz Reed (Allman Brothers)
12 – Dave Gave Up (?)
10 – Sparks (The Who)
Endlich…
The OVERALL TOP 20 of songs played by MP:
1. 297 – Sonic Teenage Guinevere
2. 261 – Walking on the Water
3. 256 – Hogwash
4. 237 – Nothing to Say
5. 189 – Vortex Surfer
6. 187 – Superstooge
7. 178 – Waiting for the One / The One Who Went Away
8. 177 – Starmelt / Lovelight
9. 154 – Un Chien d’Espace
10. 149 – Plan # 1
11. 145 – Heartattack Mac
12. 144 – Hey Jane
13. 142 – Feel
14. 138 – Black to Comm
15. 132 – All is Loneliness
16. 131 – The Wheel
17. 123 – Flick of the Wrist
18. 119 – Young Man Blues
19. 118 – The Golden Core
20. 109 – Sinful, Wind-Borne
That’s it for now. Hope you enjoy this nerd’s work!
Marco
#### SOME EDITS DONE. Got some difficulties for the “Child of the Future” affair, also because, apparently, I missed the setlists of the 2006 summer festivals! If anyone have got a link to them, I’ll be happy
#### Svartlamon gig added, fall 2006 CotF added instead of LLM.
#### 2006 summer festivals added!
(are there any other concerts scheduled in 2009?)
What an incredible nerdy, useless, fantastic and brilliant list of excellence!
Great work Marco. You rule!
I’m not worthy
Øystein
Amazing work Marco. Thank you!
If I can add something to your impressive work, Into the sun was published in:
Motorpsycho/Hedge Hog – Split 7″/CD-single (1993)
1.Into The Sun (Motorpsycho) Cover tune.
2.Surprise (Hedge Hog)
Strange Days, instead, should be an early version of Demon Box (if I remember well there is a video in Haircuts in which they play this song).
Francesco
Indeed! That’s a remarkable piece of statistic! Did you actually count all the single instances of every song? Or did you use some kind of helpful software?
There are some things worth mentioning, I think. To me it seems quite surprising that they played certain songs very rarely, f.ex.:
Babylon – 10 times
Trapdoor – 15 times
In the family – 17 times
But most surprising to me:
Sonnyboy Gaybar – just once??
I remember that back in the late ’90s/early 2000s they played it once on request as the guy who posted the setlist pointed out… Was that really the only time? Wow!
Btw, 684 concerts (at least) in 20 years (or rather 19, as fillmore pointed out elsewhere), that’s an average of more than 34 concerts per year! Not too bad over such a long time…
Way cool!
Addition/comment:
Someone pointed out not so long ago, that the ‘unknown new song’ that was played as opener at the Haldern pop festival in 2006 (and some other summer/fall dates in 06) was actually a forerunner of ‘child of the future’. Can someone verify?
Classic, Marco!
It’s not that nerdy, diehard sports fans do it during every season, keeping track of stats; birdwatchers do the same thing after every trip, noting species, whether it’s the first time seen, where, when; and…oh crap, maybe it *is* nerdy, or simply obsessive
I remember that Sonnyboy Gaybar request–Berlin…the year escapes me though; they were having some technical difficulties and launched into it after some yelling from the audience, hilarious.
Did you get the Sinful, Windborne single with Workin’ for the MCA on the flipside? Wonder how that stacks up in the cover stats.
It was great fun to look over your list; in true nerd fashion since 1994 I have experienced an estimated 17.5% of the shows :MPD:
Unbelievable! But I miss Junior.
I am glad, I saw some rare songs like stalemate, she used to be a twin and stained glass. Oh, and I think neverland has been played 90 times to often
If there had been a quiz, I would never have put stg at number 1. To me it feels as if U lied was played a 1000 times.
fantastic Marco, i’m an absolute fan of these stats! really interesting!
sonnyboy gaybar was played in Berlino “casino” in fall 2001, I was attending the show and filming! it was a wonderfull concert!
speaking about rarities, I’ve got B.S. (only 2 times played) seen in Rimini Velvet 2001
Heartattack Mac at position n°11?? shit, wow! I’ve seen it only back in 1997! it’ probably beacuse they played a lot of concerts in that year…
Thank you all!
I didn’t actually think that anyone would have read this, but you did! So I have some corrections to do: CotF, which was apparently played! Junior, which was just skipped (it’s freudian: apparently MP forgot that song too, they don’t play it since ’96!).
Sonnyboy Gaybar was actually played only in Berlin just before another rarity, Trapdoor… But it was played of course many times in TITS concerts!
I’ll make some edits later… thank you!
Marco
Some answers:
“Motorpsycho/Hedge Hog – Split 7″/CD-single (1993)”
Thanks! I knew it was somewhere but didn’t know where! I’ll put Into the Sun from the covers list to the “Another Ugly” period…
“Strange Days, instead, should be an early version of Demon Box (if I remember well there is a video in Haircuts in which they play this song).”
That’s some news! I have the Haircuts, but didn’t remember this info.
It makes sense, since they stopped playing “Strange Days” and then begun playing Demon Box. I’ll edit this…
“Babylon – 10 times”
“Trapdoor – 15 times”
“In the family – 17 times”
They’re quite accurate. The most surprising to me is In the Family, played only three times in ’97, and then rescued only in 2003! Babylon was abandoned quite early, probably they preferred the Tussler version. Trapdoor was played only 5 times in the Timothy’s tours, and then rescued in 2001. I think it’s simply not one of their favourite, even if it was the only chance to see Bent do a guitar solo
“Someone pointed out not so long ago, that the ‘unknown new song’ that was played as opener at the Haldern pop festival in 2006 (and some other summer/fall dates in 06) was actually a forerunner of ‘child of the future'”
Heh, as I said, “logic” doesn’t work with MP!
“Did you get the Sinful, Windborne single with Workin’ for the MCA on the flipside? Wonder how that stacks up in the cover stats.”
It’s 7 times: you can find Working for MCA among the 1994/1996 singles, as “ProMotor”!
“Unbelievable! But I miss Junior.”
Yeah, I’ll edit later. It’s a 54, anyway
“Heartattack Mac at position n°11?? shit, wow! I’ve seen it only back in 1997! it’ probably beacuse they played a lot of concerts in that year…”
Infact it’s the only “top20” that I missed! Stupid Moog!
In addition, I just discovered another show yesterday in Svartlamon! I thought they were off…
Quote:CotF, which was apparently played!Yeah, it was played some times in 2006. Approx 9 times in total, (2 of 3 summer festivals and 7 of the 9 Norwegian dates on the autumn tour) A faster version than on the album.
“(2 of 3 summer festivals and 7 of the 9 Norwegian dates on the autumn tour)”
Great: as for the Norway tour, I thought it was “Little Lucid Moments”!
I don’t have any summer festival setlist for that year! Can you send me a link to them?
Thank you very much
Ok, here they are (in the old forum):
http://motorpsycho.fix.no/comeonin/oldforums/read.php?4,24042 (Haldern, Germany)
http://motorpsycho.fix.no/comeonin/oldforums/read.php?4,24071 (Øyafestivalen, Oslo)
http://motorpsycho.fix.no/comeonin/oldforums/read.php?4,24124 (For Noise, Switzerland)
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