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Quote:The new album has Whole Lotta Diana – AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie?
Since that guitarsolo after the flanged vocalpart is very Jimmy Pageyish, I’d rather go for Whole Lotta Love there.
I always thought ‘A Saw Sage Full Of Secretion’ was a variation on
Pink Floyd’s: ‘a Saucerful of Secrets’
About ‘whole lotta diana’: I think it’s like with what mp said about ‘hey jane’, beatles did hey jude, hendrix hey joe, etc.. so we did hey jane.
Apart from the coverversions, I can’t think of a lyrical or songtitle related Kiss reference. Odd. But there’s of course the Deuce 1-1-2-1 sideways headbanging tribute in the Sinful-Windborne video.
So I’d add Kiss – Alive!
What about starting a “Quintessentially Motorpsycho” thread; because the more I read here the more I start to wonder if they’ve ever managed to come up with an original song!
Of course that is an exaggeration and I understand that all music is more or less ‘borrowed’/’influenced’ by countless other musicians, songs, records, etc…
But seriously (and again, feel free to start a diff. thread, not trying to hijack yours, Elvin), what would be a full-on Motorpsycho song?
Or is the very essence, the very definition, of Motorpsycho a patchwork quilt of readily identifiable* references, riffs and quotes?
The influences being not so much ‘up our sleeves’, but ‘ON our sleeves’?
*by ‘music nerds’, that is :wink:
Quote:without remembering exactly where and when, I seem to remember the line “free your mind and your ass will follow” somewhere in some live-recs from around 97-98.. this would then be taken from the Funkadelic abum with the same name, released in 1970..Yup! Check out some 90’s recordings of the wheel, and Bent sings the lyrics to that song in the end jam. Musically, they don’t even try to quote that song though…
They also quoted “Free your mind” inside many other jam songs, most commonly in “Hogwash”. In Berlin 2000 i.e. the “Hogwash”-jam featured a “Free your mind”-tease in super funky mode alongside a fully articulated quote of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstitious”.
@LLM
Yeah the thought comes to the head sometimes. Then again, the boys are like living superjukeboxes. They obviously eat and breath 40 years of music history and digest it for their own stylistically spread oeuvre. You can’t have the common originality this way, like other artists have by simply repeating one idea for twenty records.
The way they treat their music, how they perform and produce it, with tons of various instrumentation, I think that’s what leads to their originality. I’d also say they’ve maintained a signature style long ago, mostly in terms of tension and dynamics. So they can easily cite themselves, pulling an “ah, there we go again” then and now. By building up tension and stomping on that Taurus pedal. This too is something that defines them as unique.
So I can’t think of a pure and typical Motorpsycho song. Well… Feel maybe? But the biggies like Heartattac Mac, Back to Source, Kill Devil Hills, STG, TGC, Wheel, Surfer, Ocean and Taifun and of course the LLM album are characteristic and defining works. Trust Us was such an elaborate album in these terms and therefore an ending to an era. Looking back, the westcoast poppier albums were an obvious move. And then jazz and country. And then the return of big growling amplification. Motorpsychedelism probably is simply a way of doing things.
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