Timothy's Monster

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Timothy's Monster
Studio album by Motorpsycho
Released	August 6, 1994
Recorded	Winter & spring 1994
Genre	Rock
Length	96:49
Label	Stickman (Europe) Harvest/EMI (Norway)
Producer(s)	Motorpsycho, Deathprod
Motorpsycho chronology
Demon Box (1993)	Timothy's Monster (1994)	Blissard (1996)

Timothy's Monster is the third full-length studio album by Motorpsycho, and their first on a major label (it was released through EMI in Norway and through the independent label Stickman Records in the rest of the world). Released as a double-CD or triple-LP.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Single-CD version 3 Personnel 4 Miscellanea

[edit] Track listing

1. "Feel" – 3:26 [Sæther]
2. "Trapdoor" – 4:22 [Sæther]
3. "Leave It Like That" – 3:33 [Sæther]
4. "A Shrug and A Fistful" – 3:14 [Sæther/Lien]
5. "Kill Some Day" – 6:53 [Sæther/Ryan/Sten]
6. "On My Pillow" – 7:21 [Ryan]
7. "Beautiful Sister" – 4:11 [Sæther/Lien]
8. "Wearing Yr Smell" – 3:35 [Sæther]
9. "Now It's Time to Skate" – 4:58 [Sæther]
10. "Giftland" – 10:20 [Sæther/Ryan]
11. "Watersound" – 5:11 [Sæther]
12. "The Wheel" – 16:57 [Sæther/Ryan/Gebhardt/Lien]
13. "Sungravy" – 4:36 [Sæther]
14. "Grindstone" – 7:17 [Sæther/Sten]
15. "The Golden Core" – 12:59 [Sæther/Ryan]

• Compact disc: CD1: 1-11; CD2: 12-15
• Vinyl: Side A: 1-5, Side B: 6-9, Side C: 10, 11, Side D: 12, 13 and Side E: 14, 15.

[edit] Single-CD version

It has also been released as a one-CD edition, aimed at the UK and USA markets, with edited versions of some songs.

1. "Feel" – 3:31
2. "Trapdoor" – 4:21
3. "Leave It Like That" – 2:34
4. "A Shrugh & A Fistfull" – 3:14
5. "Kill Some Day" – 6:51
6. "The Wheel" – 8:48
7. "Watersound" – 5:10
8. "On My Pillow" – 5:43
9. "Wearing Yr Smell" – 3:36
10. "Now It's Time to Skate" – 4:55
11. "Grindstone" – 7:16
12. "The Golden Core" – 13:00

[edit] Personnel

• Bent Sæther: Vocals, bass, guitars, mellotron, drums, percussion, piano, sitar, synth bass
• Hans Magnus Ryan: Guitars, vocals, piano, percussion
• Håkon Gebhardt: Drums, banjo, percussion
• Lars Lien: Piano, wurlitzer, hammong organ, vocals
• Helge Sten (Deathprod): Theremin, mellotron, samples, synthesizer

with:

• Øyvind Enger: cello on "Sungravy"
• Lars Mølna: viola on "Sungravy"
• Øyvind Brandtsegg: String arrangement on "Sungravy", vibraphone on "The Golden Core"
• Anneli Drecker: back. vocals on "The Golden Core"

[edit] Miscellanea

• The vinyl version is a triple LP box including a large poster [1] and an etching on the sixth side [2], done by Doc Wör Miran, who also did an etching for the vinyl version of Motorpsycho presents The International Tussler Society in 2004.
• Coverartwork was done by Kim Hiorthøy.
• "On My Pillow" is the first song to feature lead vocals by Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan.
• "Feel" was done by Bent Sæther alone.
• "Giftland" features Bent and Gebhardt both drumming.
• There was a video made for "Now it's Time to skate".
• "Wearing yr Smell" was released as an EP/single. It was the first release on the newly found Stickman Records. And Stickman's cataloge numbers are named Psychobabble###; therefore "Wearing yr Smell" was Psychobabble001 and is still sometimes referred to as "Psychobabble".
• "The Golden Core" is often cited by fans as the best song Motorpsycho ever wrote.
• "The Wheel" was written in Cologne, 1994.