Motorpsycho Nitemare

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“Motorpsycho Nightmare”
Album cover
Song by Bob Dylan
Album Another Side of Bob Dylan
Released 1964
Label Columbia Records
Writer Bob Dylan
Composer Bob Dylan
Producer Tom Wilson
Another Side of Bob Dylan track listing
  1. "All I Really Want to Do"
  2. "Black Crow Blues"
  3. "Spanish Harlem Incident"
  4. "Chimes of Freedom"
  5. "I Shall Be Free No. 10"
  6. "To Ramona"
  7. "Motorpsycho Nitemare"
  8. "My Back Pages"
  9. "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"
  10. "Ballad in Plain D"
  11. "It Ain't Me Babe"

"Motorpsycho Nightmare" is an early song written by American singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. The song was first released in 1964 on Dylan's Another Side of Bob Dylan LP.

[edit] Interesting facts

  • Bob Dylan often playfully refers to Communism in many of his earlier recordings. This can be heard in the songs, "Talking World War III Blues" and "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", among others.
  • The chord progression and lyrical flow in "Motorpsycho Nightmare" is re-used on the song, "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream", which was released the following year on the album Bringing It All Back Home. The new song was among Dylan's first electric compositions.
  • The story of this song is parodied in the Seinfeld episode The Bottle Deposit, Part 2, where Newman ends up at a remote farmhouse with a farmer and his proverbial daughter.
  • The song referenced to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie "Pyscho".

[edit] Cultural References

White Zombie pays homage to this song in "Thunderkiss '65'" in the second stanza: "Livin' fast and dyin' young, like an endless poetry. My Motorpsycho Nightmare freak out inside of me."

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