#13-engines — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #13-engines, aggregated by home.social.
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13 Engines – Perpetual Motion Machine (1993, Canada)
Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 815 on The List, submitted by pjohanneson. This is the 4th album from a Canadian arty electronic folk rock band that worshipped at the altars of Neil Young, The Tragically Hip, and Robyn Hitchcock, and may have made a bigger splash if they had been from a different area of the continent.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at https://linernotes.club/@1001otheralbu[email protected] or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/12/17/13-engines-perpetual-motion-machine-1993-canada/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/i/714736645
Happy listening!
#13Engines #FolkRock #AltRock #Canada #1990s #music #1001OtherAlbums
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13 Engines – Perpetual Motion Machine (1993, Canada)
Our next spotlight is on number 815 on The List, submitted by pjohanneson.
I had initially incorrectly indexed this band as American but, if I hadn’t already caught that mistake prior to listening, I would’ve by song 2 of this album, given the Canadian spelling plus reference to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, our version of PBS). That said, if they had been American, say from Seattle, I think these guys might’ve made it big and maybe wouldn’t have to be on a list such as this. I was all of 9 years old when this came out so I really have no context but, on first listen, this album – 13 Engines’ 4th – sounds to me like their response to what was going on south of the border – not a ‘here’s our version of grunge’ but rather ‘okay, sure, MTV and grunge and plaid shirts yadayada…but we’re just going to keep doing our Neil Young/Tragically Hip/Robyn Hitchcock-worshipping arty electric folk-rock thing that we’ve done for years, eh?’ sort of thing. I mean, I hear Beatles and Beach Boys more than Nirvana in this (okay, maybe I’m exaggerating…but check out the delightful “What If We Don’t Get What We Want?”)… Anyway, Rolling Stone apparently said this was “acid-burn rage & roll” but, seeing as there is (as yet) no viable design for a perpetual motion machine, don’t expect that rage to indefinitely roll.
#13Engines #1990s #altRock #Canada #folkRock #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery
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13 Engines – Perpetual Motion Machine (1993, Canada)
Our next spotlight is on number 815 on The List, submitted by pjohanneson.
I had initially incorrectly indexed this band as American but, if I hadn’t already caught that mistake prior to listening, I would’ve by song 2 of this album, given the Canadian spelling plus reference to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, our version of PBS). That said, if they had been American, say from Seattle, I think these guys might’ve made it big and maybe wouldn’t have to be on a list such as this. I was all of 9 years old when this came out so I really have no context but, on first listen, this album – 13 Engines’ 4th – sounds to me like their response to what was going on south of the border – not a ‘here’s our version of grunge’ but rather ‘okay, sure, MTV and grunge and plaid shirts yadayada…but we’re just going to keep doing our Neil Young/Tragically Hip/Robyn Hitchcock-worshipping arty electric folk-rock thing that we’ve done for years, eh?’ sort of thing. I mean, I hear Beatles and Beach Boys more than Nirvana in this (okay, maybe I’m exaggerating…but check out the delightful “What If We Don’t Get What We Want?”)… Anyway, Rolling Stone apparently said this was “acid-burn rage & roll” but, seeing as there is (as yet) no viable design for a perpetual motion machine, don’t expect that rage to indefinitely roll.
#13Engines #1990s #altRock #Canada #folkRock #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery