Timothy's Monster

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Timothy's Monster
Timothy's Monster cover
Studio album by Motorpsycho
Released August 6, 1994
Recorded Winter & spring 1994
Genre Rock
Length 96:49
Label Stickman (Europe)
Harvest/EMI (Norway)
Producer Motorpsycho, Deathprod
Motorpsycho chronology
Demon Box
(1993)		 Timothy's Monster
(1994)		 Blissard
(1996)
Alternate Cover
The sleeve of the CD version features two front pages.
The sleeve of the CD version features two front pages.

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

[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 catalog 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.