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Post by World71R on Apr 16, 2019 22:50:18 GMT -5
I'm surprised how much of a bad rap Chasing Yesterday gets these days. I remember when people complained Ballad of the Mighty I was too different compared to the rest of Noel's catalogue. I think WBTM has just made the more colourful fringes of Chasing Yesterday seem duller in comparison. Riverman felt exciting and new at the time, but now we have bangers like Fort Knox and Holy Mountain opening albums it feels kind of tame. Still some great tracks on CY, though; if Noel had recorded Just Let it Come Down Over Me and put it in The Mexican's place, everything from The Dying of the Light onwards would have been great IMO. I think Chasing Yesterday still holds up, though, with songs like Riverman, The Right Stuff, While the Song Remains the Same, You Know We Can't Go Back, and Ballad of the Mighty I (essentially the standouts). I don't much care for The Mexican or In the Heat of the Moment anymore, but The Dying of the Light and The Girl With the X-Ray Eyes are good, and Lock All the Doors has that classic Oasis energy at first but does wear out after a little while. The production on it is definitely an improvement over many songs on HFB1 and it serves as a good stepping stone for WBTM. Noel has really progressed the HFB sound nicely with each album.
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Post by World71R on Apr 14, 2019 14:37:51 GMT -5
Who Built the Moon? is a damn fine album. All the tracks flow well with each other and Noel takes on a whole new approach to his songwriting and production and does so very well. Him and David Holmes are a potent duo.
Holy Mountain shits all over In the Heat of the Moment. In the Heat of the Moment feels too mid-tempo and forced while Holy Mountain is just bursting out the seams with excitement and joy.
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Post by World71R on Apr 12, 2019 15:43:32 GMT -5
She Taught Me How To Fly is an awesome song. The rhythm section on it so groovy and danceable, and that guitar riff slides right in & catches you. It's such a fun song and I hope Noel does more songs like it.
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Post by World71R on Apr 8, 2019 21:21:23 GMT -5
Are we ever gonna finish this ? Honestly we could slap a closer on here and call it good since that would make it 11 tracks.
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Post by World71R on Apr 5, 2019 22:42:04 GMT -5
How is I Got the Fever the best-produced track of the Be Here Now era?? It sounds class! All 3D and layered and sonically pleasing and textured! Why couldn't they have made Stand By Me or All Around the World sound that good? Fucking hell, the most frustrating band of all time. Or It's Getting Better (Man!!). There is some cool keyboard work in the solo that doesn't come out at all and there's some good drumming on that song too.
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Post by World71R on Mar 20, 2019 2:08:08 GMT -5
I actually like the 2000-02 Oasis logo. Don’t get me wrong i prefer the original and at the time it was a bit of a shock but overall I feel really nostalgic about it. I love my 2001/02 Oasis t-shirt with the Stars and Stripes O and that logo underneath The logo was good for its time and fit in well, but I'm glad they went back to the classic Oasis logo. Nonetheless, it was a bold move by Noel to move away for it and he deserves credit for doing so to try it out. It gave SOTSOG, and even HC, a different feel from other albums.
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Post by World71R on Mar 20, 2019 2:06:49 GMT -5
Very underrated U2 song, except to Bono who said it was his favorite, and I commend him for saying such a thing. It's a damn good song with a great build-up.
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Post by World71R on Mar 18, 2019 15:48:57 GMT -5
I think it's pretty unfair to say 'Go Let It Out' is masked in gimmicks. What do you consider a gimmick? To me it sounds like Noel trying something new and doing so successfully. Diversifying the bands sound was bound to tread on other artists feet but I think Oasis's reputation as rip-off merchants can be pretty firmly rooted to the direct song lifts of the 90s. Has the band ever had a bigger head butt than the opening riff of 'Cigarettes & Alcohol'? I like 'All Around the World'. It's got one of them classic sounding melodies that Noel was pumping out in 1993, which in my opinion was probably Noel's strongest year as a songwriter. Unfortunately however the final execution of the song was real poor. The drums sound rubbish, the mix is terrible, many of the lead guitar lines are completely redundant and like others have said it's a good 2 minutes too long. On the flip side 'Go Let It Out' feels far, far sharper. It's not a short song but it feels structurally perfect. It arguably has the best bass line of any Oasis song and the drum loop to take it on. I also love all the little additional details they added: "two, a three, a four", "Feel the bass", "Ugh!!", record scratching, whistles... The instrumental break and outro are superb and feature some quality guitar lines (2:55-3:20 & 3:43-4:40). And of course production wise it's undeniably superior. Both a solid tunes. GLIO is exactly what we needed in 2000. I wish SOTSOG was more concise with its vision. It’s 2 songs away from being a top shelf release. I agree. Even Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is was damn close to being a good song. It just needed a second verse and some better vocal treatment. Little James & I Can See a Liar being swapped out for Let's All Make Believe and Full On, plus some more stripped back and electronic production on some of the Noel-sung songs, would've done the album some favors.
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Post by World71R on Mar 7, 2019 21:38:00 GMT -5
As a diehard fan of Jeopardy!, this news is like finding out one of your family members has cancer. I hope and pray that Trebek can pull through and beat this, but it will be quite a road ahead for him and his family, and he deserves our thoughts & prayers. I can't think of a more well-respected and genuine person on TV today. He's a modern-day classic who I would hate to see go.
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Post by World71R on Mar 3, 2019 0:18:25 GMT -5
Lest we forget Lord Don't Slow Me Down... I actually don’t think Liam sounds good on that song. And I also feel Noel sings Step Out better. Sure it’s exciting to get these alternate takes with Liam, always cool to hear such things and have in the collection but I think Oasis got the right singer for both songs. Granted each of them are just ok tunes to begin with. If anything, they could've had Liam on vocals for the B-side version and then had Noel sing it live, similar to what they did with She's Electric in the early-2000s, but it would've been mega to have Liam sing it live in the MG era at a gig like Maine Road... I get goosebumps just thinking about it. It's a good tune, minus how it ripped off some bits of Stevie Wonder's Uptight, and would've shined in a live setting with Liam on vocals. I do enjoy Noel's SOTSOG Tour performances, like the Familiar to Millions version, where it doesn't sound as polished as the album version does. I always said that Liam should have sung every song, and this just backs up that belief. My thought exactly! Hope more recordings like this with Liam on vocals will see the light of day. I would sooooo love to see a video of MG-era Liam doing DLBIA. That would be pretty cool, I can imagine, even if Noel was perfect for the song.
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Post by World71R on Feb 27, 2019 22:12:41 GMT -5
Do You Feel Loved by U2
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Post by World71R on Feb 27, 2019 21:52:35 GMT -5
Don’t Look Back in Anger The Importance of Being Idle Falling Down Part of the Queue Where Did It All Go Wrong? Little By Little Sunday Morning Call Waiting for the Rapture She is Love Mucky Fingers Magic Pie (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady Force of Nature
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Post by World71R on Feb 27, 2019 13:07:37 GMT -5
CHVRCHES Alvvays Bad Suns The 1975 M83
CHVRCHES is a solid electronic band and something different than what you expect from modern electronic music. Their first two albums are awesome, and Love is Dead is good too.
Alvvays is a sublime indie rock/pop band with some very good songwriting and a swell mix of a pop, rock, dream pop/shoegaze. I love the song Saved By a Waif and think it's one of the best of the last five years, as well as the Antisocialites album.
Bad Suns is a band that doesn't get enough recognition for their solid rhythm section and good guitar work. It reminds me a bit of a young U2 and of '80s post-punk. The lead singer has a very distinct voice too.
The 1975 is good, but I won't go too crazy for them. They're still enjoyable and are a bright spot in music. I just wish they'd go for more guitar-prominent songs more often.
M83, I love Hurry Up, We're Dreaming and I'm slowly getting into their other works. They're a bit like CHVRCHES with how their works are electronic but in a different way and have some rock songs as well.
I thought about including HAIM, but they're too inconsistent at times and almost slip into the girl group territory to where I can't say they're one of my favorites. They have some good songs though (The Wire, My Song 5).
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Post by World71R on Feb 27, 2019 12:58:46 GMT -5
If Love is the Law, as a nod to Noel
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Post by World71R on Feb 17, 2019 22:41:17 GMT -5
RELAPSE - EMINEM 1) Dr West 2) My Darling 3) 3 AM 4) My Mom 5) Insane 6) Paul (Skit) 7) Bagpipes from Baghdad 8) We Made You 9) Crack a Bottle 10) Tonya (Skit) 11) Same Song and Dance 12) Deja Vu 13) Beautiful 14) Steve Berman (Skit) 15) Drop the Bomb on 'em 16) Stay Wide Awake 17) Careful What You Wish For 18) UndergroundSooner or later I'm gonna have to face up to the fact that this is my favourite Eminem album. Beautiful is a top tune. I like your preference.
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Post by World71R on Feb 17, 2019 21:59:51 GMT -5
Anyone else a fan? Always really liked it. I never thought of it as a great song but a good one and one that would've belonged on HC better than Probably All in the Mind. Andy did a good job writing this, and the acoustic version's very nice:
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Post by World71R on Feb 15, 2019 15:43:18 GMT -5
I've never liked those gaudy orange-and-gold photos. Makes him look like a cruise ship singer to me. Absolutely. They're rubbish. I can't believe people are saying they would have made a decent album cover! Most of the Chasing Yesterday artwork is substandard but it has far more style than a 10 minute photoshoot in a naff looking tunnel. In my opinion album covers with the artist plastered over them generally look like marketing exercises and are usually shit for it. Noel not featuring in the 'Who Built the Moon?' era covers is one of the reasons why they are more successful. Now he just needs to get rid of his crap logo. It's not the best, but it's a hell of a lot better than the awful-looking cover we ended up getting for Chasing Yesterday. The cover we got looks like Noel is trying to fit into some sort of manufactured boy band or trying to be "hip" and "cool" but failing really badly. The yellow-ish alternative cover gives Noel more of a classy image than the actual CY cover. It's not the best but it's better than the actual CY cover.
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Post by World71R on Feb 15, 2019 15:38:32 GMT -5
Greta Van Fleet gets a lot of hate, and in many ways rightfully so, but Highway Tune by them sounds damn good. Admittedly, the lead singer sounds just like Robert Plant at the beginning, but otherwise it's a solid rock tune.
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Post by World71R on Feb 12, 2019 22:16:48 GMT -5
Just returned from a long weekend in Geneva. On Sunday, I crossed the border into France for the first time ever in my life. lubeck , have you been to the Alpine town of Annecy? I spent the whole day there and fell in love with it, what a beautiful part of the world it is. I have some great memories being in these places! Geneva is an awesome city. There's so much beautiful architecture, the Fountain of course, some awesome shops, and beautiful scenery. I love the beautiful mountain and lake scenery of Annecy and the canals with the awesome places to go to... ahh it's so beautiful. I still remember driving a boat we rented there and just looking around and thinking of how it felt like a Paradise of some sort. Geneva and Annecy are beautiful. Thank you for mentioning it and bringing back some good memories. I'm glad you were able to check out the city and admire it as well.
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Post by World71R on Feb 12, 2019 16:52:33 GMT -5
mossy , guigsysEstring , Lennon2217 , do you Zep heads have a favourite live performance, either whole gig or just one song? I'm not well versed in their live recordings, but the How the West Was Won recording of 'Since I've Been Loving You' has always struck me as being particularly outstanding. A comment underneath: "0:03 This snare changed my life." First Led Zep song I heard Those drums You could measure them with a seismograph. They pack so much power and sound awesome.
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Post by World71R on Feb 12, 2019 16:49:40 GMT -5
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Post by World71R on Feb 8, 2019 17:43:29 GMT -5
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
All eight tracks are fantastic. I like how it starts with the jam-like The Song Remains the Same and goes into The Rain Song beautifully, then back into some of the more rockier tracks, starting with Over the Hills and Far Away, then back into the quieter No Quarter and ending with The Ocean, and doing so with such seamless transitions and cohesiveness. It's a classic album and even the least best song (imo), The Crunge, does the trick of expanding the band's horizons while showing what they can still do best.
Only problem I have with the album is that Robert Plant's vocals are a bit spotty in places, but nonetheless everyone is still on point with much of this album. I also wish it was longer than eight tracks and 41 minutes but that's an afterthought just considering the quality of the album as it is. IV and this one are top notch classic rock albums and a true mark of Led Zeppelin's legend status.
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Post by World71R on Feb 8, 2019 17:23:50 GMT -5
Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams
Listened to it with All I Can Think About Is You replacing Army of One/X Marks the Spot. The album wasn't as bad as I thought. The songs are there and are good, but the loudness and the synthesizer-heavy production let it down, as well as an over-emphasis on Chris and the rhythm section
Hymn for the Weekend wasn't actually as bad as I thought, either. Everything but the lazy chorus is pretty good. Army of One/X Marks the Spot is probably the worst song on the album, though. On a more positive note, Up&Up, the title track, and Birds are the best on the album imo and if All I Can... was on the album, it would be one of the best as well.
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Post by World71R on Feb 7, 2019 18:40:48 GMT -5
A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay actually isn't too bad.
There's some good songs in there, albeit some not so great ones, but the production & mixing lets it down. A lot. It's too focused on the synthesizers, Chris, and the rhythm section in many songs (Army of One especially) and the mixing is just awful. On many songs, like Hymn for the Weekend, it sounds like they turned all the layers up to 10 and let it go.
The guitars also don't have enough room to breathe in many of the songs when they should, like Hymn for the Weekend and some parts of Amazing Day where you can hear something going on but it just doesn't have a space in the mix which is really too bad.
Also, HFTW. It's not as bad of a song as I thought it was. The chorus and the production really let it down. The horns and the guitars need to be more prominent. They really missed a good opportunity to legitimately mix the Coldplay sound with some R&B flair.
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Post by World71R on Feb 6, 2019 15:06:47 GMT -5
U2 - The Joshua Tree Incredible. I thought I knew how good I thought it was, but I guess I had never paid enough attention to the lyrics before. Like in Bullet The Blue Sky(possibly the most badass song of all time), which is the most brilliant takedown of US foreign policy I've heard in music. The ending really brings it home, with "the rain through a gaping wound, pounding on the women and children who run into the arms of America." The US destroys their home, and they will now seek a new home and a better life fleeing to... the US, where they might be viewed as dirty immigrants trying to make a living out of doing nothing. The vicious cycle of a military run nation, brilliantly exposed by a stadium rock band. That is not something you can take for granted. Everything else is great, apart from the slightly less intriguing closing track Mothers of the Disappeared. I listened to The Unforgettable Fire yesterday, and it's almost like night and day comparing the two. That album (mostly)lacked remembarable choruses and intriguing lyrics, those things can be found ALL OVER The Joshua Tree. Guess I'll have to give Achtung Baby another chance! Every track is incredible, honestly, and you nailed it on the head with Bullet the Blue Sky. That album has one of the strongest openings I've ever heard (Streets is one of the most beautiful guitar pieces ever composed) with just the sheer quality of the first seven tracks (although Trip Through Your Wires is good), then One Tree Hill and Exit. If you haven't, give a watch to the live performance of Exit on the 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree Tour. It's fantastic and brings the song to life so so much. Achtung Baby, yes, that is a good next step. Then War, Zooropa and Boy, if you haven't already, and Pop if you're feeling a little adventurous
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