Is NGHFB still the best post Oasis album? (Read 4,717 times)

[PepsiNebula]

Jan 15, 2021 8:53:37 GMT -5 galaxydisagreement said:

9. Stranded On The Wrong Beach
been going back to this one too. Maybe I'm the only fan of this song here as well? 8/10

It's one of my dark horse favorites. I don't know what it is, it just has a lot of energy and always makes me smile when it come on.

More generally, this is definitely my favorite NGHFB album. Chasing Yesterday has a few songs I like but a lot I just don't need to listen to again, and honestly my favorite track from WBTM is Fort Knox, the instrumental track, which tells you all you need to know about how that album and I get on.

My favorite post-Oasis album overall is the half of WMWN that I love. Unfortunately if we mix in the half that annoys the crap out of me, it becomes just an average album. A lot of highs and lows, that one.

[fluff123]

Stranded on the wrong beach is one of my all time favourite NG songs.

[carlober]

LTLSALOM should have been on the album. What a brilliant track.

[andymorris]

Jan 29, 2022 6:30:50 GMT -5 carlober said:

LTLSALOM should have been on the album. What a brilliant track.

Yep, Noel’s bond theme right here

[carlober]

Noel's missed Bond themes:

LTLSALOM
Freaky Teeth
The Man Who Built the Moon
Come On Outside?

[4everlife]

Somedays I feel Chasing Yesterday is better than BE Here Now.

So that's definitely my favorite post-oasis album.

The Debut HFB album is fine, but the only tracks I really still listen to now a days is The Death Of You And Me and Dream On (which a lot of people here seem to dislike). I just love the horns on both tracks.
If I Had A Gun is great song, with one of Noel's most beautiful choruses, but the production on it is horrid. I'd rather listen to The Dying Of The Light on CY, because it's a similar vibe, and although it's a weaker song the production is much more flattering.

In fact- I pretty much love all of Chasing Yesterday, except for The Mexican, and somedays maybe I could do without the Na Na Na's in ITHOTM, but other days I like them. The rest of the album is outstanding.

[crisppacket]

All things must pass is by far the best

[Aman]

As You Were my fav. by far.

CY my fav. Noel album.

[Velo]

i still love this album but his later stuff has def taken the spotlight for me.

it works really well as a conclusion to the songwriting he was exploring with DBTT and DOYS, I think we'd have a different opinion of this if this had been an Oasis album.

whereas CY feels like a ground zero.

[The Crimson Rambler]

There's very little separating the 3 High Flying Bird's LP's for me. None of them are perfect but Noel's done a more than sound job every single time, which is as much as could realistically hope for. I think song for song his debut takes it but the other two really aren't too far behind.

'Everybody's On the Run', 'If I Had a Gun', 'The Death of You and Me', 'AKA... What a Life!' and 'Broken Arrow' are all solo career highlights and everything else (bar 'Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks', which is pretty average) is solid. I've never understood the view that 'Record Machine' and 'Stop the Clocks' are in anyway not up to par. Maybe the demos, live recordings and comments made by Noel took away their shine for some people? I don't know or care. To me they're good album tracks.

Not technically album related but the b-sides are great. 'A Simple Game of Genius', 'Let the Lord Shine a Light On Me', 'Alone On the Rope' and to a lesser extent 'I'd Pick You Everytime' (I'm gonna pretend 'The Good Rebel' was released by accident) stand to me as the strongest collection of b-sides he's released since 'WTS(MG)?'.

I'd describe the production on the album as being very average. Definitely not as bad as some make out but little more than alright. I think the most disappointing thing at the time was that an artist of Noel's standing who was hitting out on his own adventure for the first time would adopt something so middling and safe. Not that that was surprising of Noel. Thankfully he took it up a gear on his next two releases with 'Who Built the Moon?' production being really quite good. 

[walrus91]

Yes it is .. Noel has the best (first two albums), and the worst albums (everything after the first 2)