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Road (1992)

by Motorcyclone

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1.
Queen 06:58
2.
Road 05:09
3.
Full Bred Country 03:49
4.
Victoria Stares 05:36
5.
Light 05:42
6.
Moonrise 06:03
7.
Hotel Joy 05:49
8.
OK Bands 05:02

about

Motorcyclone was one of a series of band projects/aliases created by Ian Button through the 1990s and beyond. Button made this album at home in early 1992 planning for it to be released on Electric Wonderland, the proposed label idea and imprint set up by fellow Thrashing Doves members Ken & Brian Foreman. The release was never official, but CDs were pressed, and Button formed a live band around the project featuring Guy Gausden (formerly of The Beloved), c.v. edwards, and Steve Hellier (soon to co-found Death In Vegas). From 1992-4 the band gigged around London, while the album secured Button a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music and eventually a brief signing with the fledgling Almo Sounds (Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss' post A&M label venture), when the Motorcyclone project was effectively disbanded and transformed into a new alias Ashley Flowers.

The download files here include a pdf of the original artwork, pics and info.

Notes, 2023:
"The Mellotron chords for 'Queen' were achieved by sampling each individual chord from the intro to 'Watcher Of The Skies' by Genesis into my Roland W30, which was the main keys/drums/sequencer instrument I was using at the time. I tried with the studio version on 'Foxtrot' first, but ended up using the version on 'Genesis Live' instead, because the chords sounded more massive.
I suppose was channelling a mixture of influences on this album - Bolan, stately prog rock, stuff like Roy Harper, and also Prince (I was singing in American you'll notice!).
The references on the final track to other bands, DJs and critics are actually quite specific. The faux shock anti-everything tactics of bands like The Manics inspired one verse, and the other two refer to specific incidents in the career of Thrashing Doves which still haunted me (us) at the time, relating to refused radio plays and what we saw as press hostility. I guess this is the one here that I'm least comfortable with, hearing it now - I sound awfully bitter!"

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released June 1, 1992

Written and recorded by Ian Button, Spring 1992.
Pre-mastered by Gordon Vicary at The Town House.

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