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This song was the first started and the last mixed, so from start to end, I worked on it for three years, which is patently ridiculous. The percussion is a drum machine (with me playing live cymbals) because I was convinced that no one could keep perfect time. What an idiot. But I think I nailed the guitar solo. I can still play it in my sleep, which is way better than actually playing it because then I'd find out I'm wrong. And when I hear that rhythm guitar part come crashing in at the start of the first refrain, a Duncan Hot Rails pickup in my Strat plugged into my Duncan Convertible 100 amp with the high-gain module set in an odd way that would make a Scholz Rockman weep, well, perhaps it was worth it after all.

I can't recall if I heard the Buzzcocks' "A Different Kind of Tension" (the song off the album of the same name) before or after I wrote Perpetual Motion. I own that album on vinyl, so it's certainly possible it was before. But the call and response at the end is certainly similar.

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from The Lunch: One Song About Love, Four Songs About Sex, and Several Ill​-​Fated Stabs At Social Awareness, released June 1, 1988

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th. ... more

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