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ALBUM PROFILES
 M.O.T.O. - "pack your troubles in dreams"
The new M.O.T.O. (Masters Of The Obvious) album is slight departure from the most recent album "No Way Street". "No Way Street" was a complete professional sounding recording, a more mature effort (well, as mature as someone who has written "Crystallize My Penis" can get) and one of the most concentrated, pure distillations of M.O.T.O. head honcho Paul Caporino's work. Picture the Ramones if Joey Ramone was more akin to Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices, and wrote and recorded two-minute bursts of hilarious punk pop, and released this stuff at a break-neck pace.
"Pack Your Troubles In Dreams" is a more raw sounding effort, hearkening back to the many cassette and cd-r releases that M.O.T.O. had put out for so many years ("Ampeg Stud", "Terramoto", and "Rock, Roll, And Dismember" to name a few). It's not quite lo-fi, but it's thrown the sheen applied to "No Way Street" out the window and just tears through these 18 songs with a reckless abandon of a man more concerned with rocking then worrying about the needles going into the red. M.O.T.O. is proof positive that rock and roll doesn't need to be pondered over, forced, or even high brow. It just has to shake your metaphorical ass. This album does that in spades. Rating: 10. Been playing this nonstop since I got it. - Jay Mazeffect
listen to & purchase "pack your troubles in dreams" here
Masters of the Obvious (more commonly known as M.O.T.O. or MOTO), is a New Orleans-based garage punk band. Formed in 1981 by Paul Caporino, the lineup of the band has seen many changes over the years, with Caporino being the only consistent member. |