Motion City Soundtrack
I missed most of this show due to reading the starting times wrong. I got to the Meridian in time to catch the last couple of songs of OK-Go. Unfortunately that means the only band I got to really see that night was Motion City. I wrote about it when I got home when the pain was still fresh in my head. so let me me start off with this:
WARNING DISCLAMER: This review is the most caustic one I think I've written about a band to date. It's not nice it's not fair and it doesn't really even take into account that everyones tastes are different. It's a cold mean nasty thing that you should skip if you are a fan of this band. You have been warned. And yes I know they are very popular and lots of you like them. I just don't care.
The one time they open the doors early (5:30) I don't notice. I figure 4 bands I'll go in late cause I've been busy writing stuff... doors should open at 7, but I'll leave at 8 and not get there so early like I usually do. Dammit I come in on the last song of OK-Go, the only band I halfway had an interest in hearing. Well shit happens. Motion City Soundtrack is up next.. lot's and lots of teenagers are out for this supposedly sold out, so I guess they are popular. I don't know maybe later I'll check Myspace and read how dreamy they are. I saw a girl almost hyperventilate from excitement. I swear to god, her eyes were rolling back and she almost fainted. All this before the band took the stage. It was like the Beatles all over again. well except the talent and good songs.. but more on that later. The band comes out, and I'm only gonna address two of the members of the band and my thoughts on them at this time. First the lead singer. Somewhere between Toecutter from Mad Max and the Snozberries guy from Super Troopers is what I thought he looked like.
His
voice was higher pitched than I thought it would be. But not annoyingly
so. The music would have been incredibly average if it were not for the
musical stylings, of this guy playing some kind of smallish keyboard
contraption with all the energy and moving one would expect from a really
raucous Nine Inch Nails show or even Marilyn Manson. he was tilting the
machine's stand all over the place and slamming his head up and down
for all that it was worth. Which in my opinion would be about the cost of
9mm bullet. Seriously this instrument and I'm using the term in a broad
sense of the word here was more annoying than a Theramin and you know how
I feel about that crap. It made this horrible high pitched noise which should
only be used in bad 50's horror films. (like the theramin in this respect).
It would be annoying and bad in almost any situation but that it seemed
like it was way higher pitch than the rest of the music made it stand out
all the more. Can I describe the sound? Yep simple.. you know in Kill Bill
where there is this high pitched wheee wheee sound signaling scene changes
and such. You know the one.. like a siren or blaring headache.. that' was
his keyboard.. in the middle of pop songs.
I asked some kids about it after they show and they seemed to really
like the annoying as shit sound. One girl even went on to say she loved
his energy and how he really got into his show. I explained he had to,
it's not like playing that instrument alone could warrant his being in
the band could it, so he has to compensate somehow. I then tried to explain
the parallel situation with Frankie Goes to Hollywood where one of the
members of the band didn't play an instruments and only barely did backup
vocals. his job seemed to consist of dancing a lot on stage... her response..
Who is Frankie Goes to Hollywood?.. sigh... She did at least know the
song "Relax"..
I asked her if she knew what they song was about.. she didn't.. I explained
it's about sucking cock.. just like that damned keyboard does. I may
have traumatized her I think.
Below are a couple of pics of the instrument of evil and the guy bowing and worshipping at the altar of suck
If you ever see one of these keyboard things, shoot to kill. David Koresh didn't and the Govt. used it to torture the Davidians for a month after broadcasting the sound rabbits being slaughtered over loudspeakers losts it's effect, and we know how that turned out.
satyr
3/09/2006
satyr@satyrgraphs.com ( skip the hate mail on this one and just deal
with the fact that I just didn't like this band and go on with your life
ok)
