MOTOR

I don't spend a lot of time reflecting on the past. I had not listened to the AOE stuff seriously in years until recently. With the upcoming iTunes releases I wanted to refresh my memory for the remasters and I was blown away by the visceral reaction I had to it.  This entire album spawned from the Ugly EP, a collection of songs we had recorded with Bob Rock who had worked with Metallica etc. Bob was gracious enough to help us commit music to tape and help shop it around. No labels were biting so we decided to do it independently. The Ugly EP was released through our own label, God's Teeth Ethel through Cargo Records distributed by Universal who ended up being our label outright. All the songs on the EP were recorded with Bob at Little Mountain Sound in Vancouver. We had a bit of a hit with the song Ugly so we quickly put together a full length LP with 2 songs from the EP, Ugly and Untitled.  We locked ourselves in Sundae Sound in Calgary on a break in the tour and recorded the remainder of the Self titled (or Untitled) album in just 2 or 3 days. Most of it was recorded live, vocals and all. No click tracks, vocal tuning etc. We had been playing the songs live so we had done all the pre production necessary. Motor is a song Ryan Dahle wrote. He is a brilliantly unique writer. His words are outside. Colorful and evocative. He has a solo album out right now that you should check out immediately. Great chorus. I don't think we played this song on the Make A Pest A Pet tour. That's a crime. This shoulda been the opener every night. I don't remember playing guitar on this one. I think that's all Ryan. I sing pretty sharp all the way through this song but that's how raw the recording is. Pure adrenaline.  I'd be lost at any other speed.

All the bad weather in our veins
Comatose in strobe who complains
Take the edge off too uptight
Bored and loose from bitter & spite
What starts your engine.  Do people
Buy their way in for this ride?
 
Motor, Motor I’d be lost at any other speed
Motor, Motor.  In my space is the place for me
 
People try to tell me what’s best
Drive by weakness in their myths
I haven’t driven this far by
Jumping on every star
We can’t grow untwisted.  Everyone has
Their own opinion I wish they’d keep ‘em
 
Motor, Motor, I’d be lost at any other speed
Motor, Motor.  In my space is the place for me
In my space is the place for me