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Post by World71R on May 16, 2019 22:05:17 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.
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Post by World71R on May 16, 2019 21:56:48 GMT -5
Using the album idea that someone did above but not being ridiculous about it:
1994/DM: Slide Away (or Bring it on Down) 1995/MG: Wonderwall (or Some Might Say) 1997/BHN: All Around the World 1998/TM: Rockin' Chair 2000/SOTSOG: Go Let it Out 2002/HC: Stop Crying Your Heart Out 2005/DBTT: Turn Up the Sun 2008/DOYS: The Turning
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Post by World71R on May 16, 2019 18:36:33 GMT -5
I've been listening to The Current recently as they've been doing their 893 Essential Songs Since 2000 Countdown. Today they end the countdown, and it's been really good and fun but #7 was Good as Hell by Lizzo. It's an alright song but it sure as hell is not more essential than the following which are ALL below it: Float On by Modest Mouse; This is America by Childish Gambino; Do You Realize? by The Flaming Lips; If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell; Beautiful Day by U2; Rolling in the Deep by Adele; Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz The rest of the list is here: www.thecurrent.org/list/893-essential-songs-since-the-year-2000
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Post by World71R on May 12, 2019 23:33:59 GMT -5
For What It's Worth is that person at work who knows all the right words but has no idea what they're actually talking about. Kind of. There's a meaning to be put together in there but it's stretched out a bit.
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Post by World71R on May 9, 2019 14:34:26 GMT -5
This was never gonna be Noel’s Kid A. Which is not a bad thing. It's more like his OK Computer. He's still working in parameters that aren't too far off of what he's worked with before but it's just different enough that it marks a change in his sound that pushes the boundaries a bit, and he did it well (with critical acclaim) just like Radiohead did.
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Post by World71R on May 9, 2019 12:25:50 GMT -5
Hell even u2 makes better dance songs these days. Remember The Blackout or Get out of your own way? Hows that for a dance/rock song.. Those songs clearly superior to anything noel released recently.. with dead in the water the sole bright spot As both a U2 fan and a NGHFB fan, that's not exactly true. I enjoy The Blackout but it's not driving in the same sense that Black Star Dancing is since The Blackout is more industrial than dance. Get Out of Your Own Way is also more pop rock and Black Star Dancing is more of a '70s-like dance rock. Simply put, Noel and U2 are operating in different spheres with their most recent works: Noel's going for more of a synth-pop/new wave-influenced rock sound while U2's going for more of an atmospheric industrial and punk-influenced pop rock sound.
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Post by World71R on May 7, 2019 11:52:00 GMT -5
I'm perfectly happy paying £10 a month for all the music I could possibly listen to, with the option to change album's tracklistings, all on one phone - and I don't have much anxiety about Apple suddenly going out of business. In fact, I imagine that an unexplained house fire destroying all your CDs is much more likely than Spotify and Apple suddenly just disappearing. Ive got loads of deep cuts that aren’t on streaming services. You’re clearly just very mainstream. X That is one good advantage of having physical music vs. streaming, but together they serve a good role.
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Post by World71R on May 6, 2019 0:20:27 GMT -5
Coldplay fans (Coldplayers? Cold Playboys?) on Reddit have been mashing the album cover styles together and some of them look really cool: This is also your annual reminder that you can't be truly comfortable with yourself until you admit that Coldplay have wrote some fucking beautiful songs. Thanks. I saw these as well. They'e really beautiful, especially the AHFOD-ified MX cover, the Parachute version of the AHFOD cover, Rush of Blood version of Ghost Stories cover, and the Viva la Vida versions of all the album covers. Their aesthetic is very clean but ethereal and thought-provoking, with a sense of style and flair, which describes their music in some ways. Now if they would just stop working with pop producers like Stargate who are below them and only stand to drag them down, instead of pushing them and building them up like Brian Eno, Rik Simpson, Markus Dravs, and Jon Hopkins have in some way.
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Post by World71R on May 4, 2019 14:37:53 GMT -5
My unpopular opinion is that I like Don't Believe The Truth, the problem for me is that the recording/production is rubbish. I'd agree. The songs are there but the recording and production is too rough. Nothing wrong with production that is a bit unpolished but DBTT is a little too unpolished. I wish all of the songs on the album had the type of production that Turn Up the Sun and The Importance of Being Idle have. Those are the two most well-produced songs on the album and are a model of how each of the songs should've produced like, especially Love Like a Bomb. It has a nice piano solo and acoustic guitar melody but the vocals are atrocious.
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Post by World71R on May 4, 2019 13:52:59 GMT -5
If you listen to the first singles from Noel's projects it becomes more and more shocking the choice of The Heat Of The Moment as the first single of Chasing Yesterday. It just feels anemic in its studio form. I cant say that about Death of You and Me, HM or BSD. I totally agree. It really tries to be a dance-y track that has a modern sound and feel to it, but it plods too much and doesn't really look the part like Holy Mountain and Black Star Dancing do. HM is a more-realized version of In the Heat of the Moment and the production is much more vibrant and fun, while Black Star Dancing takes that one step further, and neither of them having the damned annoying "Na na na na"s that In the Heat of the Moment does. In hindsight, Chasing Yesterday's production does feel flat in some places. It works well on the jazz-influenced songs (The Right Stuff, Riverman), the more atmospheric songs (The Dying of the Light, While the Song Remains the Same), and some of the in-between songs that have a strong rhythm section (Ballad of the Mighty I, You Know We Can't Go Back), but songs like The Mexican and In the Heat of the Moment just don't come across as well, and the other two come in waves.
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Post by World71R on May 4, 2019 0:07:46 GMT -5
In the Mountain in the Cloud by Portugal. The ManWhile people may take their more recent works like Feel it Still and Live in the Moment, which I do enjoy at times even though Live in the Moment feels a bit manufactured, I will take this album which is chock-full of orchestral instrumentation, good guitar work, solid melodies, and some interesting things going on. The closer, Sleep Forever, is my favorite but I also enjoyed Floating (Time Isn't Working My Side) and Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs). With all the appearance of parentheses in the song titles (6 of 11 titles have it), you'd almost think that it was an album that Noel had a hand in writing 8/10
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Post by World71R on May 3, 2019 23:43:14 GMT -5
I mean you could have broken up MOON into 3 EPs when you think about it. Fort Knox Holy Mountain Keep On Reaching It’s A Beautiful World She Taught Me How To Fly Be Careful What You Wish For Black & White Sunshine If Love Was The Law The Man Who Built The Moon If Noel did this in 2017 how many people are pissed? Ultimately it doesn’t matter. I'd split it in 2 EPs, one with cosmic pop/whatever, the 2nd with fuller sound, IMO Holy Mountain Keep On Reaching It’s A Beautiful World She Taught Me How To Fly Black & White Sunshine Fort Knox Be Careful What You Wish For If Love Is The Law The Man Who Built The Moon completely happy to ignore the first one while I'd enjoy the other one more I think it's unfair to write off the songs of the first EP. She Taught Me How to Fly is a great New Order/Blondie-esque new wave song that has a unique place in Noel's discography, Holy Mountain is pure fun, Keep on Reaching is a driving Motown-inspired track that has good power and is an intense & good lead-in to It's a Beautiful World which is a cool spin on the typical Noel formula of brooding & melodic verses and soaring choruses. Black & White Sunshine is good for a listen or two every now and then, but it's no Probably All in the Mind or Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is. Those five have their place and are very good, especially when you pair it with the four in the second EP.
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Post by World71R on May 3, 2019 21:49:05 GMT -5
I was annoyed with the way there wasn't another run through the chorus after the solo and with the repetition of "Nature is dancing..." bit at the end so I whipped up this edit. Check it out: sorry mate, I had to delete that link. try using some website that's stremaing only, no download links. I doubt youtube will allow it but maybe clyp.it or something like that Got it! I will try clyp.it
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Post by World71R on May 3, 2019 16:09:55 GMT -5
Elephant Stone always has my heart, but these come close too:
Waterfall Shoot You Down Sugar Spun Sister Sally Cinnamon This is the One Made of Stone
Breaking Into Heaven and Tightrope are also damn good. I wish they had made more than just the two albums and some odd & end songs & singles, but their influence is incredible given how (relatively) little work they put out.
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Post by World71R on May 3, 2019 16:02:44 GMT -5
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Post by World71R on May 2, 2019 10:44:56 GMT -5
This sounds cool! The only gripe I have with it is that it can't decide if it's going to be a hard-hitting Tame Impala-crossed-with Arcade Fire's Reflektor disco track, or if it's going to be something more spacey. I feel it should take off, but also that it doesn't need to? I would love another run through the "I'm gonna shine on..." chorus at the end but either way, after first listen, I really like this. It's a good realization of what Noel has been trying to do since he first did What a Life, which is to do something fun and dance-y that's still interesting and different from what other people are doing. I'd love to have a whole album of production like this, too, because it sounds so damn good.
8/10
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Post by World71R on Apr 30, 2019 12:31:44 GMT -5
The Bends - Radiohead
(Listening to (Nice Dream) right now.)
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Post by World71R on Apr 28, 2019 23:37:05 GMT -5
"I'll never say that I won't ever make you cry..."
You're damn right in saying that, Noel. Talk Tonight is a beautiful masterpiece of a tune that brings a tear to my eye for its raw beauty, especially when considering the story behind it that is noted in the Supersonic doc.
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Post by World71R on Apr 27, 2019 18:46:47 GMT -5
It doesn't happen much these days since I've really gotten into them, but today I discovered a U2 song that has some cool moments from the rhythm section and is from the Boy era, but was only ever performed live:
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Post by World71R on Apr 23, 2019 0:54:18 GMT -5
Fuckin' in the Bushes, by far.
The Swamp Song does have that nostalgic quality to it considering the time when it came out in. If it had come out in Mk.2 Oasis, I definitely don't think it would be praised as much. It's still a good piece though.
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Post by World71R on Apr 23, 2019 0:51:28 GMT -5
This song is criminally underrated; as is the band and album that the song comes from, for that matter:
It's like I Am the Resurrection but if it was done by The Beatles with heavy influence from their India trip, mixed in with some MBV guitars. It's so damned good and The Seven Seas has some other fantastic cuts (Bombs Bomb Away, I Am Blind, How Long, Blood From a Stone, etc.) too.
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Post by World71R on Apr 21, 2019 23:13:15 GMT -5
Across the Universe is a top tune, and the Let it Be Naked version is far superior to the original Let it Be version.
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Post by World71R on Apr 21, 2019 22:37:14 GMT -5
What a tune Falling Down is. I remember listening to it before DOYS came out... great times. Time flies indeed. Same for me, "The shock of the lightning" & "Falling down", which I listened to every day, made me expect a great album. Not to bring up the whole DOYS alternate track list thing again but if they had just gone with To Be Where There's Life, Come on Outside, Falling Down, I Believe in All, Soldier On, and Boy With the Blues as the back half (after I'm Outta Time), it would've been at or around that great status.
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Post by World71R on Apr 21, 2019 21:55:57 GMT -5
My 10 favourite albums in no particular order: Air - Moon Safari Oasis - Definitely Maybe The Stone Roses - s/t My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Beatles - Revolver Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead The Verve - A Northern Soul Massive Attack - Mezzanine Nirvana - Nevermind Only allowing one per artist: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay The Life of Pablo - Kanye West A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead Agaetis Bryjun - Sigur Ros The Suburbs - Arcade Fire Bringing it All Back Home - Bob Dylan Good Kid, Mad City - Kendrick Lamar Abbey Road - The Beatles Using this formula and reflecting my feelings right now: (What's the Story?) Morning Glory - Oasis The Joshua Tree - U2 Viva la Vida or Death & All His Friends - Coldplay Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP The Bones of What You Believe - CHVRCHES To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Bringing it All Back Home - Bob Dylan Currents - Tame Impala Abbey Road - The Beatles The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground Honorable mentions: Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin, Automatic for the People - R.E.M., OK Computer - Radiohead, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - M83, Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd.
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Post by World71R on Apr 17, 2019 22:52:03 GMT -5
She Taught Me How To Fly might just be the finest pop song Noel has ever written. Everything about it is just perfect, and it continues to grow every time I listen. I agree, but finest pop song? Not quite. Definitely not quite. It's a good song but not THAT good. This is the same man who wrote songs like Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, Don't Look Back in Anger, Live Forever, The Masterplan, and Slide Away.
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