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Post by mrose on Nov 13, 2017 11:45:26 GMT -5
I work at a clothing store and I just don't understand why people are so fucking rude when they come shopping. I'm not trying to make you spend more money and I'm not keeping you from getting any deals. If I ask you if you're finding everything okay, it's because you look lost, not because I want to chit chat all afternoon. No, I'm not going to give you 50% of a $20 shirt because it's creased, it doesn't matter how loud you raise your voice, you're not getting it. Why can't people just be polite? It's not hard.
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Post by mrose on Nov 12, 2017 7:59:37 GMT -5
When you google his height it says he's 5'9, but he looks significantly smaller than Liam. You do get a bit shorter though the older you get.
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Post by mrose on Nov 11, 2017 10:36:54 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thinks going through this thread is fun? No you're not it's pretty entertaining. I'm only skimming and I'm finding some good gems in here haha
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Post by mrose on Nov 10, 2017 21:08:47 GMT -5
FWIW on the Howard Stern show is a nice little gem. As well as Live Forever at the Ritz, just because of the meaning behind it.
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Post by mrose on Nov 10, 2017 12:30:57 GMT -5
Eminem's released a new single with Beyonce called "Walk on Water". I don't know if I like it or not.
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Post by mrose on Nov 10, 2017 9:30:25 GMT -5
The only thing I've become annoyed at is the assumption that if you don't like Noel's new music then it's for one of the following reasons: You don't have good taste in music and you're not smart enough to get it, you're stuck in the 90's, or you're a Liam super fan. Noel has always been arrogant and claimed anything he has done or is doing is the best thing since sliced bread, and Noel has always made fun/belittled Liam in interviews. I can understand where people are coming from because there is a different air about his interviews that are slightly off putting, I couldn't say what it is though. That's just my take.
On a side note, I'm not too crazy about what Noel's released so far- none of it has really grabbed me yet, so I was interested to get another opinion. I asked my sister what she thought of both Fort Knox and Holy Mountain without telling her who it's by. She only listens to rap, hip-hop, and pop (and she doesn't like Oasis so that was a plus), so I thought these newer songs would be more tailored to her likes, especially Fort Knox. However, she thought Fort Knox was only alright and she couldn't get through the whole song, and she thought Holy Mountain sounded like someone was trying to make a punky song for a coming of age Disney film. It's not that important but it's interesting to hear people's opinions on his new stuff by people who had no interest in his solo work or Oasis. I'm curious to see where the rest of the album will go, I'm sure it'll be entertaining if not for the music then for people's opinions on it.
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Post by mrose on Nov 10, 2017 7:30:26 GMT -5
I'm not sure where to post this but here's an interview Noel did with i-D.
“i’m over here doing my thing, you’re over there doing my thing” – noel gallagher on liam, scissors and his most joyful record yet Matthew Whitehouse NOV 10 2017, 7:06AM As i-D’s week exploring the north of England draws to a close, we meet Manchester’s most famous son to talk revolutionary new music, revolutionary old music and the small matter of the man he calls “the singer”.
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There was a moment about halfway through Noel Gallagher’s hour-long set at York Hall last week that just about summed up being a northerner. As you may well have seen, Noel and his rotating cast of High Flying Birds are releasing a new record this month. It’s called Who Built the Moon? one of those pleasingly vague album titles the 50-year-old songwriter has been knocking out since 1994, when Definitely Maybe announced the arrival of that band with an abundance of certainty and a healthy dose of possibility. So far so Noel. What you wouldn’t have put your money on, however, was Noel Gallagher -- he of real, no nonsense rock and roll™ -- arriving on stage that night with a French woman playing a pair of scissors.
Ah, yes, the scissors. If Bob Dylan had going electric and John Lennon had banging a nail into a ceiling, then Noel will always have the scissors. The moment when the whole of Longsight turned on him, as the hitherto down-to-earth musician disappeared up his own arse with a pair of hand-operated shearing tools (ouch). In fact, never has a pair of scissors created such division (unless, of course, you count the reason that they were invented). “This is cutting edge music,” he joked to the crowd. It felt like a very northern way to frame it -- a self-awareness that, on the one hand, it’s really fucking cool to have someone playing the scissors in your band, and on the other, it’s a little bit daft. You probably wouldn’t make that joke if you were a trendy five-piece from Peckham, would you?
“When Holy Mountain came out, one of the girls in the office said, ‘Oh, there’s been quite a bit of negative reaction to the video.’ I was like, really? This might be a laugh then. If people are getting upset about it, this might be a laugh from here on in.”
“If you were from Peckham, you would be obliged to intellectualise it,” says Gallagher today, holed up in the mezzanine of a swanky Covent Garden restaurant with the purpose of promoting solo album number three. “You would be at the mercy of intellectualising it. Plus she’s French and she’s eccentric to say the least. I said to her, can you play the tambourine? She said, [adopts French accent] ‘I cannot play the tambourine.’ I said, ‘Oh right. Shaker?’ ‘Non. I can play the scissors.’ She brought them in and I was looking at my bass player going, if that’s not the greatest thing you’ve ever seen then tell me what is. A French bird in a cape playing the scissors? It doesn't get any better than that does it?”
Such is the enthusiasm Gallagher has for his new record that you find yourself agreeing with him, despite the lingering sense that, yeah, there probably are on balance better things than a French person playing the scissors (penicillin, space travel and squeezy Marmite to name but three). That’s not the point though -- what matters is the mood, the vibe.
Who Built the Moon? is Noel Gallagher’s most playful album to date; a rock and roll pop record about hope and joy preceded by a bonkers, glam-stomper that is said to have been met with frosty silence when first played to his record label. Gallagher’s done experimental before, sure -- see 1997’s Chemical Brothers collab Setting Sun; 2009’s Falling Down (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix) or 2015 Chasing Yesterday album track The Right Stuff to name but three -- but only ever as one-offs or B-sides, and never in such a concentrated fashion.
“It just seemed like the right thing to do,” he suggests of a record that flits between French pop psychedelia and Spector-esque Wall of Sound. “There’s no master plan behind it. When Holy Mountain came out, one of the girls in the office said, ‘Oh, there’s been quite a bit of negative reaction to the video.’ I was like, really? This might be a laugh then. If people are getting upset about it, this might be a laugh from here on in.”
If you have even the most passing knowledge of Noel Gallagher, you will know that he is a man not entirely bothered by what you think. For him, the chance to make a record written solely in studio for the first time in his career was an “adventure”, one in which Northern Irish producer David Holmes encouraged him to step outside of his comfort zone (case in point, the album’s largely instrumental opener, Fort Knox, which references Kanye West’s Power as an influence).
“David’s whole thing was, you can sit there for the rest of your life with an acoustic guitar and do what you do and you’re the best at it and no one will argue. But you know, why don’t you try something different?” describes Noel. “Do we wear the same clothes every day? No. Do we get dressed up to go out? Yeah. Do you like fancy dress parties? I fucking hate them but it’s a thing. So it’s like, why make the same fucking record every few years?”
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“Do we wear the same clothes every day? No. Do we get dressed up to go out? Yeah. Do you like fancy dress parties? I fucking hate them but it’s a thing. So it’s like, why make the same fucking record every few years?”
Well, for starters there are an awful lot of people who still like scissor-less Noel Gallagher records (his second solo album, 2015’s Chasing Yesterday, went easily platinum). “Yeah, but it’s only a moment in time, it’s only a record,” he shrugs. “As a band we might look back in five years and think, what the fuck were we thinking? But it’s better than looking back on some benign success in five years time and thinking, well, that was just the same as what we do all the time.”
He offers a story as an example. “I sat at home one afternoon and I wrote Cigarettes and Alcohol after listening to T. Rex. I took it into the rehearsal room and I got the same silence as I did after playing people Holy Mountain. The singer, in particular, was jumping up and down on the spot like fucking Michael Palin in the Life of Brian saying, ‘You can’t do that! People are going to laugh at us! I can’t sing that.’ And I was like, calm down dear. It’s going to be fine. So I had the same spirit of adventure then, playing Cigarettes and Alcohol to six people in Manchester, some of the most cynical people in the fucking world going, that riff’s just T. Rex, mate. ‘Is it? No shit? What? That one?’ It’s like, really? I wasn’t expecting anyone not to notice. And I get the same feeling now.”
At least someone brought the singer up. As you may well have seen, Liam Gallagher also has a new record out, readers -- the properly excellent As You Were. The brothers haven’t been seen eyebrow to eyebrow since Noel stamped on a guitar or Liam threw a plum or something like that in a Paris dressing in 2009, ending the band formerly known as Oasis -- but does he still care what he thinks of the album?
“I don’t give a fuck as long as he promotes it on his twitter feed,” laughs Noel. “It’s like, I’m over here doing my thing, you’re over there doing my thing, and never the twain shall meet, thank you very much.”
“For me, it’s freedom to do what the fucking hell you want. I’m not owned by anybody. I’m not owned by the whims of a fan base or the bank balance of a record company. I do what I want when I want to do it. And I live and die by the consequences.”
Come on, you must have listened to his. “I’ve heard Wall of Glass and the one that sounds like Adele shouting into a bucket,” he replies. “But I’m not a fan so I wouldn’t listen to it.” His voice sounds good, we offer. “But we’re not striving for good are we? We’re striving for great.”
He continues, warming to the theme: “I’m not sure I can be arsed formulating an opinion on a record that’s written by an army of songwriters. Isn’t the one from One Direction doing that? The little Irish fella with the acoustic? At least he has the decency to play a guitar. I’m not a fan. I have nothing to say about it.” Not even on a brotherly level? “No. I think at the beginning, from this side of the fence, there was a lot of good will as in, yeah, man, I fucking hope it works. It’s about time. But that’s all gone now because it got personal. So it’s like, fuck what he does. As long as he keeps promoting my record, there’s a good boy.”
Alright, back to the business of Noel then. For all the wibbling rivalry that may or may not ensue in the coming weeks, what’s important right now is that big brother has proved himself capable of creating a record that carries ideas previously only hinted at, over an entire 11 tracks. At a time when, as he puts it, “anyone who straps on a guitar is almost obliged to write about the news”, he’s made an album that successfully boils down what pop and roll should be: an escapist sweet spot where the sublime and scissor-playing ridiculous fuse as one.
“Look, I know what I’m doing,” he says. “I’m not about to get on stage and play an arena with a bird in a cape playing the scissors, unless it’s great. I’m not a fucking idiot. The record will stand up. I have no doubts about that. I’ve listened to it enough, I know what it is. It’s a great record. And it’s a great rock and roll record and I’ll tell you why. I go round the world and I do interviews a lot, and the term ‘rock and roll’ is banded about usually 40 times a week. And a lot of people, I find, have a pretty weird idea of what rock and roll is. It’s usually the leather jacket and the shades and the booze and the cigs and all that. For me, it’s freedom to do what the fucking hell you want. I’m not owned by anybody. I’m not owned by the whims of a fan base or the bank balance of a record company. I do what I want when I want to do it. And I live and die by the consequences.” He pauses. “It’s only a record man. I’ll make another one in a few years. That one might be worse.” As a wise man once said, (it’s good) to be free.
Who Built the Moon? by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is released 24 November.
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Post by mrose on Nov 9, 2017 22:05:26 GMT -5
I would say plugs as well, and I agree it isn't that bad. I just saw a few pictures that looked like he had thinned out more as well with the rage against the machine thing.
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Post by mrose on Nov 9, 2017 21:32:55 GMT -5
This isn't all that important, but I'm curious if Liam will be able to pull off a bald head, or if he'll actually get a wig or something.
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Post by mrose on Nov 5, 2017 14:52:44 GMT -5
Bjork, Robbie Williams, and Little Mix also come out with albums on Nov, 24. Eminem and Morrissey also release theirs the week before on the 17th. I don't know if Little Mix are popular still but if kids still love them they could get the number 1 instead.
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Post by mrose on Nov 5, 2017 10:48:09 GMT -5
I gave it a 7 just because I'm giving it some room for growth when the album comes out. I think this is the best one yet, although I'm not crazy about some of his inflections, I think it could sound really cool with a little bit of an edge to his voice so it's not so clean. For some reason every time he sings the chorus it makes me laugh? I don't know why.
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Post by mrose on Nov 2, 2017 16:44:34 GMT -5
Sounds Like Friday Night, it'll get high viewing's as well because Liam Payne is a host.
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Post by mrose on Nov 2, 2017 15:09:31 GMT -5
I just noticed that his bass player has his tongue pierced
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Post by mrose on Nov 2, 2017 11:13:14 GMT -5
I'm a relatively new fan of Oasis. but I can remember when I first started to really get into and them the biggest thing I noticed were all the comments on how horrible Liam was. At that point I started to really like Noel because he was in the spotlight more, there were more interviews, and in the interviews Liam had at the time he was pretty dull. So I started to agree with most of what Noel was saying because if you're a casual fan, Liam comes across a bit of a dick. My opinion was only heightened when reading all the comments on YouTube, Liam's twitter, or even when you do a simple search for Liam, the comments are unbelievably mean. It felt like no one was on his side for anything, no matter what he did he was always the "luckiest man in music". When I became a bigger fan of Oasis, the more I started to warm to Liam, I still love Noel though. But when I became a bigger fan of Noel I found out he was coming to Cleveland and I went to go listen to his music and had a hard time really getting into it; then Beady Eye randomly came on to playlist I was listening to and I enjoyed some of their music. So when I saw people's reviews of Beady Eye and Liam in particular I was a bit confused because I didn't think they were half as bad as people were making them out to be. Reading people's comments on here about Noel's new music doesn't seem to be as harsh as any comment Liam has gotten, while the reviews aren't all positive they all seem to take an optimistic tone, while the negative comments on any Liam venture seem to take a more pessimistic tone. I will say though, some of the harsher comments of Noel I've seen are on Instagram, not really on here.
I think there's a slight difference because Noel has a reputation of amongst his fans of not putting out poor music, so going on past experiences people have enjoyed his music so why would this time be any different.
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Post by mrose on Nov 1, 2017 19:02:59 GMT -5
Noel Gallagher presents new album at Apple Music concert at York Hall CULTUREMUSICLIVE MUSIC
1ST NOVEMBER 2017 Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor FILIPPO L'ASTORINA
There must be something special about York Hall. Only a few months back, Arcade Fire were presenting here their latest album, and now it’s the turn of Noel Gallagher, who just a week ago brought an end to his support duties for U2’s mammoth world tour.
Who Built the Moon, due for release on 24th November – the same day this concert premieres on Apple Music in the form of a special documentary – seems to mark a departure from the 90s rock style the singer-songwriter is known for.
Gallagher enters the stage as Fort Knox plays on the PA. He opens the show with lead single Holy Mountain; live, there’s more gravitas to the song which polarised opinions among the fans. It’s a Beautiful World follows and it’s the first debut of the night. Set to be the new single from the album, it’s a melancholic piece characterised by a slow trip-hop beat.
The mood of the packed Bethnal Green venue suddenly ignites when Oasis songs are played: first Little by Little then Champagne Supernova. “This one is dedicated to my children [points at them] listen to these words.” It’s Be Careful What You Wish For, a quiet 70s rock piece, acoustic-guitar-led, enriched by electric riffs and solos. Next is another debut, Black and White Sunshine, an uptempo track built on a classic rock groove.
“This lady here last night [at Jools Holland] played scissors for the first time on British television.” And they launch into a spirited rendition of the refreshing She Taught Me How to Fly. After a huge singalong on Don’t Look Back in Anger, the Mancunian singer closes with AKA…What a Life!.
Tonight’s great performance opens a new cycle of Noel Gallagher’s career; the newer sound doesn’t come as a surprise for the fans of the former Oasis leader who, not long ago, had promised a mind-blowing, psychedelic album which he actually recorded with Amorphous Androgynous and then scrapped in 2015. The soundscape might have changed a bit, but the older of the Brit rock brothers is still the same: “See you next year, keep the faith and all that bollocks,” he says before leaving the stage.
★★★★★
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Post by mrose on Oct 31, 2017 20:03:22 GMT -5
It's a bit underwhelming. If it came on the radio I wouldn't switch stations, but if I heard it out somewhere I don't think I would try and find out what it was.
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Post by mrose on Oct 30, 2017 18:27:56 GMT -5
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Post by mrose on Oct 28, 2017 15:53:33 GMT -5
when i heard it a month ago it looks great but it wasn't a pro shot I remember watching a video on Instagram and he sounded great, but just watching the show it really felt like he wanted to get it over with. It wasn't good.. He sounded much better during his set at CalJam.
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Post by mrose on Oct 28, 2017 15:37:19 GMT -5
He's on now, and I'll be honest: It's not very good, at all. Might be the worst Wonderwall in a while.
This was preformed a little while ago so I hope his voice is better for all of those seeing him at Samhain.
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Post by mrose on Oct 28, 2017 14:20:02 GMT -5
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Post by mrose on Oct 28, 2017 8:12:27 GMT -5
This is really cool, but the way Noel and David Holmes come across really rub me the wrong way.
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Post by mrose on Oct 27, 2017 5:53:53 GMT -5
I genuinely can't believe he sold this out without announcing any other acts! Incredible.
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Post by mrose on Oct 26, 2017 14:33:15 GMT -5
I understand it's a pretty generic drum loop in the beginning, but isn't it exactly the same as the one from Go Let it Out? Just faster?
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Post by mrose on Oct 26, 2017 12:45:45 GMT -5
I gave it a 6/10 because although it's different it feels a little long and a little dated. Most of the songs that it reminds me of are all from the early 2000's or Moby's songs, it's not a bad thing but I don't think it's particularly good either.
After listening to it again it weirdly reminds me of a few songs: Natural Blues-Moby, Now We Are Free-Hans Zimmer, and Chaiyya Chaiyya-Sukhwinder Singh (I don't know why I think it's the female vocals), and parts of Lotus Eater-Mura Masa, and the instrumental version of Lift Me Up-Moby. Someone else said Extreme Ways by Moby. That's what I get from it anyway.
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Post by mrose on Oct 26, 2017 12:35:09 GMT -5
I only got to listen to it once, but I don't really have an urge to listen to it again. Even though I don't like Holy Mountain, I had to listen to it because it was stuck in my head. However, since this reminds me so much of Bonobo's stuff and Lotus Eater by Mura Masa, it kinda falls short for me because both those artists do that kind of music sooo well. Ive only seen one músic vídeo oficial bonobo the one where it repeats itself after 5 seconds of going foward and theres am alien invasión at the end😂. Recomend sometida songs to listen to? hahah I don't like that song that much I think it's called Cirrus. There's a few songs that I like, but I'll give you a handful of ones that sound a little different (to me anyway). A lot of their stuff is quite chilled out, they blend a lot of sounds together and it never really feels cluttered. Sapphire Changing Down Recurring Prelude into Kiara- these are the first two tracks on their album Black Sands, it's cool how they flow together Bambo Koyo Ganda On Your Marks Les La Bas- it's a remix they did Kong
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