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Post by World71R on Jul 8, 2019 22:30:48 GMT -5
matt I love you for putting TJT, but there's another great U2 album that I think tops it just slightly, Achtung Baby. This is going to be hard but here goes it: 1. Ultra Violet 2. One 3. The Fly 4. Mysterious Ways 5. Acrobat 6. Love is Blindness 7. Until the End of the World 8. Zoo Station 9. Even Better Than the Real Thing 10. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses? 11. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World 12. So Cruel The quality on this album is incredible, which is why it was really hard ranking this since any of the top 7 could be #1. U2 went through a sonic re-invention but still kept what made them great and launched themselves towards being a transcendent rock band. It changes from time to time. But Achtung Baby is the hardest to rank. I know for certain Love Is Blindness is number one for me and Arms Around The World last, but what goes in between is anyone’s guess. It changes so often. I agree as well. TJT is #1 some days and then AB is, it fluctuates. I'll give my TJT ranking: 1. Streets 2. With or Without You 3. Running to Stand Still 4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 5. Red Hill Mining Town 6. Bullet the Blue Sky 7. Exit 8. One Tree Hill 9. In God's Country 10. Trip Through Your Wires 11. Mothers of the Disappeared ...and BSSM because God bless you Manualex that's one of my favorites too 1. Sir Psycho Sexy 2. Under the Bridge 3. Mellowship Slinky 4. The Power of Equality 5. My Lovely Man 6. If You Have to Ask 7. Funky Monks 8. I Could Have Lied 9. Breaking the Girl 10. Blood Sugar Sex Magik 11. Apache Rose Peacock 12. Give it Away 13. The Righteous & The Wicked 14. Suck My Kiss 15. Naked in the Rain 16. The Greeting Song 17. They're Red Hot But regarding Funky Monks being ranked so low on your list...
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Post by World71R on Jul 6, 2019 19:01:45 GMT -5
matt I love you for putting TJT, but there's another great U2 album that I think tops it just slightly, Achtung Baby. This is going to be hard but here goes it: 1. Ultra Violet 2. One 3. The Fly 4. Mysterious Ways 5. Acrobat 6. Love is Blindness 7. Until the End of the World 8. Zoo Station 9. Even Better Than the Real Thing 10. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses? 11. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World 12. So Cruel The quality on this album is incredible, which is why it was really hard ranking this since any of the top 7 could be #1. U2 went through a sonic re-invention but still kept what made them great and launched themselves towards being a transcendent rock band.
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Post by World71R on Jul 1, 2019 19:00:39 GMT -5
Been a while since I posted an original. Here's a new one. I like it! The song is very Oasis-like and the meaning is good. Good lyrics, melody, and the guitar part is infectious.
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Post by World71R on Jun 26, 2019 14:18:39 GMT -5
Would you mind if I disagreed? The b-sides were a massive part of the magic of the time. oh I don't deny that but be here now was generally considered to be abit of a let down. If you took the best songs from BHN and mixed them up with the best songs from the masterplan, you probably wouldve had something that couldve gone some way to living up to the hype.
I can understand Noels frustration that he had enough songs there for 3 high quality albums and then ended up wasting a good chunk as B sides. If Noel knew then what he knows now, its almost certain he wouldnt of used songs like rockin chair as B sides. He wouldve spread his best work out more.
Noel's songwriting talent of the 90s clearly didnt last (he couldnt of known that of course). As he said, be here now was pretty much the moment where he started losing it. As much as I love BHN, its pretty clear that the quality of the songs was finally starting to slip. There is obviously other factors like releasing BHN too soon after WTSMG etc. They probably shouldve gone away after knebworth.
Going away to write and experiment for a year and a half or two would've been a good move. Then get back into the studio for another few months, and have a second half 1998 or first half 1999 release. 1997 was just too soon, especially with the party mindset that the band was in.
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Post by World71R on Jun 26, 2019 14:14:38 GMT -5
does anyone remember how good this was? I hope he plays it live with his band I've never heard this before, tbh, but I like the 70s rock vibes I get from it. The acoustic approach brings out the groove melody well and the little piano & electric guitar flourishes sound cool. Noel sounds just right for a cover like this too.
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Post by World71R on Jun 23, 2019 21:31:24 GMT -5
1. Sail On
2. Rattling Rose
3. Black Star Dancing
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Post by World71R on Jun 13, 2019 22:13:06 GMT -5
Sail On has such simplistic beauty. Noel's voice carries it so well and the arrangement & production is just perfect. The writing is effortless, too, and flows so well. I liked Rattling Rose and Black Star Dancing but this feels just right and so natural for Noel that it's probably my favorite of the three. These three have been a fun trio of songs, though. You can hear in Noel's music that he's at a point in his life where he's enjoying himself but is trying new things, and I applaud him for that.
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Post by World71R on Jun 13, 2019 21:44:11 GMT -5
Shockwave was played on The Current about an hour ago. Then they played Coffee & TV by Blur right after it.
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Post by World71R on Jun 11, 2019 20:25:28 GMT -5
I was listening to some Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis, so a few thoughts:
My Way by Sinatra is such a great song, probably one of the greatest of all-time. Just as great is Davis's album, Kind of Blue.
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Post by World71R on Jun 10, 2019 14:25:23 GMT -5
After a few listens I still like this song but I do think the intro is a little too long and I wish there was another run through the chorus after the guitar solo but before the outro. Otherwise, this still sounds very good.
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Post by World71R on Jun 10, 2019 14:21:36 GMT -5
The Man Who Built the Moon
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Post by World71R on Jun 10, 2019 14:21:06 GMT -5
Champagne Supernova all the way, mate. DYKWIM is awesome and on a high level, but CS is on another level that is in the stratosphere and is one of the best things the band ever did. DYKWIM is a great Oasis song, but not as great as CS.
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Post by World71R on Jun 10, 2019 14:19:04 GMT -5
I can't imagine bongos in a gallagher tune (maybe they have used them before) but as its been said above, going by that description, this tune could be fantastic or utterly dreadful. There were bongos on Part of the Queue, but I agree. It could either be a mish-mash of ideas or something amazing. I think it's gonna be the latter. I have faith in Liam and his writers to get it right. If it were BDI, I'd be concerned, but I think we're gonna get something good from Liam.
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Post by World71R on May 28, 2019 23:34:35 GMT -5
Hey Now! by Our Liam, Noel, Bonehead, Guigs, and Whitey.
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Post by World71R on May 28, 2019 17:46:44 GMT -5
I do not care what anyone else says, this is tune and the entire audio-visual performance is brilliant. I lost interest in Coldplay in 2005, but this a mega. Fuck the haters. Their performances have never fallen off, that's for sure. In fact, they've gotten better and really evolved well over the years. Their music has too but AHFOD was a misstep for their music, imo, with how drum, bass, and synthesizer-heavy it is and how poorly mixed it is, as well as how damned mainstream pop-y it is. Going back to SJLTS, this is another example of that. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice song and has a good build-up with some nice piano flourishes and a good guitar solo at the end, but The Chainsmokers parts are just so bland and overdone. You can Roses all over the break down with a tinge of Closer and Don't Let Me Down. All of their songs have that same type of build-up and I just hate that Coldplay did a song that falls right into that. At least with Avicii, it was still a Coldplay song underneath all of the Avicii-added layers, and it's a good song, but this just sounds like Chris + The Chainsmokers for most of it, until their end where Jonny busts out that solo, and I don't like that. Coldplay is better with a big sound when it's their unit and their unique touch, same with when it's stripped down. Mainstream pop producers just don't work with their sound (aside from Avicii imo) no matter how much Coldplay tries forcing it to work. It only cheapens their music, which is of good quality.
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Post by World71R on May 28, 2019 17:39:33 GMT -5
Why would Noel want to have anything to do with Richard Ashcroft? Stop being obsessed with the past. It happened. We have videos, and music, and more! I think Black Star Dancing is great. Sounds like an artist really enjoying their freedom and finding their voice. It's doing OK on radio & there's the promise of more to come this year. If you want 15 Little by Littles, make youself a playlist with 15 little by littles on it & fuck off. I agree, but I think that Noel & Ashcroft working together would be something cool and not too far off of where Noel should be at this point in his career, same with a Noel & Damon collaboration. That's a good launching pad for Noel working with other artists and that will also appeal to one part of his base, while the other side of his base gets something else, like Black Star Dancing. I'd love to see Nile Rodgers do more with Noel besides calling one of his songs "dope" because I think those two together would be a cool collaboration. Noel with people like Daft Punk or George Clinton would be a fucking dream, but Noel working with Nile would be a good start and entirely possible.
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Post by World71R on May 25, 2019 14:27:46 GMT -5
Richard ashcroft's voice is what propels noel's songs to another level. This could potentially be bigger than late-oasis, if you think about it..Noel rock songs + Ashcroft's voice= massive potential Bigger than late Oasis? No. Ashcroft can’t sing Noel’s songs better than Liam. No one can - Noel included (apart from a couple of his acoustic songs maybe). Ashcroft doesn’t have a great vocal range either I don’t think. Although I would say he could do with having guest vocalists in on the odd song because a whole LP with just Noel’s vocal is a fucking chore to listen to after a while. I know just the man actually... I agree about having guest vocalists. It would add to the whole idea of the original idea of the High Flying Birds being a number of different musicians and people involved. It would be really cool to hear people like Ashcroft, Damon Albarn, and others do vocals on some songs to mix things up a bit. I could imagine Albarn doing a killer vocal performance with Stop the Clocks and Record Machine, with Noel on backing vocals, or even Ashcroft on vocals for Record Machine.
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Post by World71R on May 25, 2019 1:16:44 GMT -5
Harmony Hall by Vampire Weekend is a very good song and a definite earworm. I heard it this morning and the chorus has been stuck in my head all day.
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Post by World71R on May 24, 2019 12:33:18 GMT -5
On Monday, The Death of You & Me was played on The Current here in Minnesota!
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Post by World71R on May 20, 2019 20:24:35 GMT -5
The acoustic guitar melody in the verse is very Liam-like, as are some of the lyrics, but in other parts he definitely had help. When you say definetely, do you have any evidence for this? Wouldn't whoever helped him get credit for such help? Even When I'm In Need, that sounds very Liam by numbers to me, has an extra writing credit. Guessing that's just for that long outro part but still, I think any extra help would have been credited. The electric guitar part and solo definitely seems like it was done with outside help, and the chorus is sort of Liam-like but I think he had help with the structure because the chorus is similar to GGTIA's bridge, so they may have encouraged him to move the chorus from a bridge part to a chorus part and encouraged him to work on it. I see that with Bold and the "Lay it on me" part being layered with the chorus. If that had been a BDI or Oasis Liam song, I think it would've been just the "Lay it on me" part and then the song finishing, like BWTB is.
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Post by World71R on May 18, 2019 12:05:19 GMT -5
But more than that, he was a fan of more electronic and dance music as well. Noel was always into the Hacienda dance music to the extent that Oasis was rehearing a version of Cartouche's Feel the Groove in their earliest days. When Oasis were up for the Mercury Prize in 1995, a reporter asked Noel that if he didn't win, would he be rooting for Supergrass but Noel said he'd like to see Portishead winning. And it was at this time that he began his partnership with The Chemical Brothers and not long after that he worked with Goldie. This is all by 1998. So while it is true that Noel's musical palette has expanded since that time, it is nevertheless true that his tastes were always quite open and were not limited to a few big acts from the 60s. Thinking of this makes me wish that SOTSOG would've been more in the vein of the darker, more electronic and trip hop-influenced rock that was apparent on songs like Go Let it Out, the Where Did it All Go Wrong? demo, and Fuckin' in the Bushes. Gas Panic!, Roll it Over, and Let's All Make Believe are good in their own right and are good twists on the Oasis sound but some more tunes like the first three and some dance-y tunes, sort of like Columbia but more electronic and darker, would've been really, really cool and a true transformation. PYMWYMI was a good step but they mis-stepped with that song before it even came out of the gate.
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Post by World71R on May 17, 2019 21:59:28 GMT -5
I need the studio version. The quality of these recordings are awful. It sounds very plodding here, I'm sure the studio version will help us pick up more subtle but brilliant sounds. Different and new is good, but I'm also not ready to slap the "plodding + different > plodding + another acoustic guitar generic riff" tag on it. I agree. She Taught Me How to Fly sounded flat from the live performances but the studio version is damn good and one of the best on the album with some strong new wave/New Order/Blondie vibes, so it's worth it to take the fan-recorded video(s) of it with a huge grain of salt.
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Post by World71R on May 17, 2019 21:49:38 GMT -5
Did Liam write I've all I Need? The acoustic guitar melody in the verse is very Liam-like, as are some of the lyrics, but in other parts he definitely had help.
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Post by World71R on May 17, 2019 1:20:59 GMT -5
On the whole Beady Eye thing... While it wasn't a great success, it did allow Liam to get a reality check and subsequently led to him really getting his voice & swagger back. AYW had a lot more riding on it than if Liam had just gone from Oasis right to AYW and it really shows up with the effort and care he put into it. Did Liam not have swagger on the DOYS tour? I thought he looked and sounded great. Granted I saw Oasis twice that December 2008. No complaints from me. Awesome gigs. Could DOYS have been a better album? Sure. Same could be said for every Oasis album post 1997. I certainly think so, but the performances that both Liam and Noel do nowadays seem to have more on-stage energy than the later days of Oasis and the crowd feeds off of that, even though the problem has never been the crowd (see Manchester '05, Argentina '09).
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Post by World71R on May 16, 2019 23:11:43 GMT -5
I'm so glad that I'm no longer scared of liking pop music. Mylo Xyloto is a gorgeous, colourful, creative album. Yess!! I think once you gain an appreciation for MX, you gain a greater appreciation for Coldplay as a whole. Even in what many proclaimed to be a low for them (at the time), there are still some fantastic tunes that stack up with other great Coldplay songs (Charlie Brown, Paradise, Hurts Like Heaven, the B-side Moving to Mars) and others that stand out and are amazing to uncover (Major Minus, Us Against the World, Don't Let it Break Your Heart (but not without A Hopeful Transmission!), Up With the Birds), as well as some songs that really grow on you over time (Up in Flames, UFO, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall). I'm not too keen on Princess of China but the rest of the album is just a lot of fun and sounds just right with the maximalist production, and it's not too fatiguing because quieter songs like Up in Flames and Us Against the World offset the louder songs like Every Teardrop... and Hurts Like Heaven. It has a unique, warm feeling to it that AHFOD, its cousin album, completely misses. Plus the songwriting is really good and isn't cliched like AHFOD is. It just feels very natural, and those transitional tracks help too.
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