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Post by I Built The Moon on Jun 3, 2023 2:32:47 GMT -5
Time for those kneejerk reactions with Council Skies only just out.
Chasing Yesterday will always be number 1 for me, for sheer enjoyment of every song on the album from start to finish. Though each of the others have moments I hugely enjoy.
Worth noting that if Flying on the Ground had been on any of the other albums, that may have changed things 🥲
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Post by supertronic on Jun 3, 2023 2:57:27 GMT -5
Moon
Faster Than The Speed Of Magic
Council Skies
Chasing Yesterday
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Post by mossy on Jun 3, 2023 3:03:16 GMT -5
Moon Faster Than The Speed Of Magic Council Skies Chasing Yesterday Hipster 😀 |
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Post by settingson on Jun 3, 2023 3:04:43 GMT -5
Although I enjoy all 4, I'd rank them in the order they were released ... #1 NGHFB ....
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Post by LlAM on Jun 3, 2023 3:57:58 GMT -5
Chasing Yesterday
NGHFB#1
Council Skies
EPs
Who Built The Moon?
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Post by Nyron Nosworthy on Jun 3, 2023 5:19:25 GMT -5
Chasing Yesterday
Who Built the Moon
NGHFB
EPs.
Far too early to judge Council Skies.
Could easily flip the 1 and 2 though. WBTM has higher highs but Chasing Yesterday is consistently very good.
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Post by LightsOffInside on Jun 3, 2023 5:52:31 GMT -5
1. Chasing Yesterday / Council Skies (too early to say for me between the two) - 8/10
2. Who Built The Moon (fantastic first half, but falls apart in the second half except for TMWBTM) - 7/10
3. NGHFB (Some great songs but has aged poorly, best songs were left off the album, I.e. Alone On The Rope) - 6.5/10
4. EPs (couple of cracking B-sides but the title tracks suck so much) - 5/10
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Post by Supersonic on Jun 3, 2023 6:01:12 GMT -5
1. Chasing Yesterday / Council Skies (too early to say for me between the two) - 8/10 2. Who Built The Moon (fantastic first half, but falls apart in the second half except for TMWBTM) - 7/10 3. NGHFB (Some great songs but has aged poorly, best songs were left off the album, I.e. Alone On The Rope) - 6.5/10 4. EPs (couple of cracking B-sides but the title tracks suck so much) - 5/10 I completely agree with this, but Black Star Dancing is a great pop song in my opinion |
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Post by The Escapist on Jun 3, 2023 7:02:53 GMT -5
WHO
BUILT
THE
MOON
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Post by matt on Jun 3, 2023 11:55:12 GMT -5
1 - Who Built The Moon
2 - Council Skies
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3 - Debut
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and way way down at the bottom:
4. Chasing Yesterday
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Post by The Boy Without the Blues on Jun 3, 2023 12:09:38 GMT -5
Chasing Yesterday still stands tall for me. Too many pearls in that album (Riverman, WTSRTS, BOTMI, TDOTL, TRS).
NGHFB comes second but might the one fighting with Council Skies. Too early to say if INGUT, TSB and Toan will be up there with the likes of EOTR, WAL and BA.
Moon probably gets last place but, just for the record, I still enjoy it. TMWBTM is one of my all time favorite gallagher song
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Post by Thomas on Jun 3, 2023 12:11:44 GMT -5
Chasing Yesterday is my favourite – and, granted, there's a lot of personal reasoning behind it. Riverman, The Dying Of The Light, The Right Stuff, While The Song Remains The Same... all of those meant and mean so much to me and helped me through dark times.
Who Built The Moon? is a close second. I think it's a better album overall, definitely a more interesting one and its highs are stellar, but it didn't resonate as much as CY did in my heart.
The debut is also special, it was released just when I was getting into Oasis. Really don't touch it much nowadays though, agreed it hasn't aged the best.
And Council Skies might be a bit too early to judge, but it's probably 3rd or 4th right now. It's lovely and has a much welcomed consistency, but I don't think its high are as good as the ones on CY or WBTM?.
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Post by Aman on Jun 3, 2023 14:56:00 GMT -5
Comfortably, Chasing Yesterday.
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Post by tiger40 on Jun 3, 2023 15:37:06 GMT -5
Chasing Yesterday
Council Skies
Who Built The Moon.
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Post by tiger40 on Jun 3, 2023 15:39:29 GMT -5
I do like the first album but the production ruins it a bit for me.
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Post by neila83 on Jun 3, 2023 16:46:02 GMT -5
I do like the first album but the production ruins it a bit for me. Agree with that, some songs with great potential that become a drag. The Death of You and Me is the only song I really go back to at all. For me right now it's: 1. CS 2. WBTM 3. CY 4. Debut Chasing yesterday for me is very up and down. Great highs, but I can't get fully behind an album with Lock all the doors, X ray eyes, and The Mexican on it. Dying of the light I got bored of very quickly too although I can appreciate it's a nice enough melody. The Riverman is one I have just never got, I know everyone loves it, and I just don't get it! I don't hate it or anything, it's just very meh to me, I wish I could find what everyone else is hearing in it. WBTM needs to lose black and white sunshine, not sure how that got past David Holmes. Shame INGUT wasn't finished for it. But then we wouldn't have it now so... |
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Post by andymorris on Jun 4, 2023 1:51:11 GMT -5
NGHFB#1 Will always be my favorite
The death of you and me is up there with oasis and it has the biggest and strongest track list. Sure STC and RM are kinda weak but can be swapped with alone on the rope and Let the Lord Shine a Light on Me.
It still has that « Oasis magic » with strong and confident vocals from
Noel. An underrated record that could have been one of the biggest Oasis record.
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Post by vera000 on Jun 4, 2023 2:17:47 GMT -5
1. CS
2. CY
3. NGHFB_1
4. WBTM
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Post by shadowplay on Jun 4, 2023 5:57:02 GMT -5
There really isn't much between them for me and it'll likely change depending on my mood. All 4 are consistently good to great so it depends on taste.
HFB1 has some really strong songs. EEOTR, IIHAG, TDOYAM, WAL, Broken Arrow are all top tier for Noel and that's half the album. There aren't any weak songs for me either, I quite like Dream On and Stop The Clocks.
Chasing Yesterday might be the weakest for me, but only because of a few weaker tracks on there. The Mexican and X Ray Eyes are rubbish and I can't for the life of me hear what everyone seems to think is so great about The Right Stuff
WBTM is by far the most interesting album and it has three of my top 10 solo songs from him on there in Holy Mountain, She Taught Me How To Fly and If Love Is The Law. It's a couple of tracks short though, it only has 9 complete tracks and I don't really care for Be Careful What You Wish For. I think if they could have finished the older version of This Is The Place and maybe allowed for one older song on there like Come On Outside (With Holmes producing it) it would probably be my favorite
Council Skies is really strong from start to finish. I don't hear a single song that I would skip but for me it only has two absolute top tier songs in Dead To The World and Think Of A Number. I give it bonus points though for how eclectic it is and I know people have moaned about the production but I like the way it sounds.
I would probably go
HFB1
WBTM
CS
CY
But there really isn't much between them, they're all an 8.something to me.
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Post by NY on Jun 4, 2023 6:35:01 GMT -5
Who Built The Moon? will probably always be his best solo album.
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 6:47:59 GMT -5
There really isn't much between them for me and it'll likely change depending on my mood. All 4 are consistently good to great so it depends on taste. HFB1 has some really strong songs. EEOTR, IIHAG, TDOYAM, WAL, Broken Arrow are all top tier for Noel and that's half the album. There aren't any weak songs for me either, I quite like Dream On and Stop The Clocks. Chasing Yesterday might be the weakest for me, but only because of a few weaker tracks on there. The Mexican and X Ray Eyes are rubbish and I can't for the life of me hear what everyone seems to think is so great about The Right Stuff WBTM is by far the most interesting album and it has three of my top 10 solo songs from him on there in Holy Mountain, She Taught Me How To Fly and If Love Is The Law. It's a couple of tracks short though, it only has 9 complete tracks and I don't really care for Be Careful What You Wish For. I think if they could have finished the older version of This Is The Place and maybe allowed for one older song on there like Come On Outside (With Holmes producing it) it would probably be my favorite Council Skies is really strong from start to finish. I don't hear a single song that I would skip but for me it only has two absolute top tier songs in Dead To The World and Think Of A Number. I give it bonus points though for how eclectic it is and I know people have moaned about the production but I like the way it sounds. I would probably go HFB1 WBTM CS CY But there really isn't much between them, they're all an 8.something to me. The Right Stuff has to be the most overrated song of his solo career. It's fine but for a psychedelic song, it's far too tepid. Mexican, Girl With X Ray Eyes and Lock All The Doors are just downright embarrassing. The rest is fairly meh. Riverman and While The Song Remains are the only brilliant songs on the album. In terms of an eclectic, varied conventional Noel sounding record, Council Skies is the album Chasing Yesterday wishes it was. It's rooted firmly at the bottom as his worst. So with Moon in number one, I have an internal debate for second best album between Council Skies and the debut. The debut, for the clutch of diamonds on it and its peaks probably being higher, is far too one note and mid tempo. There is no variation on it, and does suffer from songs that are much worse than anything on Council Skies. At the moment, Council Skies is clearly his second best for consistency and maintaining high excellence throughout for the most part (if perhaps not classics in the vein of On The Run or Death of You & Me). |
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Post by glider on Jun 4, 2023 11:44:44 GMT -5
Hit After Hit Quality - HFB
Epic highs and rough lows - Chasing Yesterday
Retro pop detour - WBTM?
Mediocre "adventurism" - the 3 EPs
Balanced - Council Skies
Moon? is still currently my default choice. The Spector-esque 60s retro pop like Love Is The Law and Holy Mountain are the highlights of his career, very fun and exciting while testing new sounds. I do enjoy very much the highs of Chasing Yesterday but songs like Lock All The Doors pull it down. High Flying Birds is an album full of killers and if it wasn't for the uninspired Sardy mixing would be looked at as the greatest record post-BHN. The EPs were a feeble attempt at retaining that new sound he got with Holmes, and clearly showed he cannot get that sound without him, and reverted back to his worst qualities on songs like Wandering Star. Council Skies is a nice, balanced rebound from that but feels like a project that's stitched together from different pieces.
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Post by alanjwhite on Jun 4, 2023 12:11:06 GMT -5
Council Skies
Chasing Yesterday
Who Built the Moon
NGHFB
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Post by 4everlife on Jun 4, 2023 12:22:38 GMT -5
This may be a bold statement, but- Chasing Yesterday is not merely the best NGHFB album, it's the best Gallagher album besides the first two Oasis albums.
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Post by PepsiNebula on Jun 4, 2023 12:25:23 GMT -5
1. NGHFB. Still has the best songs and the fewest duds, for me. There's only two off the main release that I just never want to hear again. (Both with Dream in the title, oddly enough.) 2. CS. Nearly tied with CY; they both have about the same number of songs I really like, at least for now, but there's nothing on CS that I dislike as much as the combination of The Mexican, The Girl with X-Ray Eyes, The Riverman, and The Right Stuff. 3. CY 4. WBTM. I appreciate the attempt, but most of the results did not work for me. I've recently come around to TMWBTM (thanks to a comment by someone here, actually!), but other than that the only ones I still listen to are DitW, Fort Knox, and the instrumental interludes. Which is to say, a bunch of tracks that barely even count.
5. The EPs. Sail On is an all-time fave, and I like Rattling Rose well enough. Bin the rest.
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