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Post by matt on Apr 28, 2024 17:12:38 GMT -5
I know I’ve said it before but Shaun Murphy is an insufferable bellend. Who the fuck at the BBC rates him? Glad Maguire stuffed him given there history. It's the age old dilemma though - keep him in the tournament for as long as possible so he stays out the commentary box or have the fun of watching him get knocked out. Tough one! Weird decision at the BBC to hire him when they planned to ditch Dennis Taylor. Was in Sheffield at the Crucible earlier this week taking in a few games, Ken Doherty is really nice guy in person, great with everyone.
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Post by matt on Apr 27, 2024 13:55:29 GMT -5
Did you hear any of it before it was taken down? Not aware of this circulating. Hi. I did. The video in question featured a kind of low-quality 30ish second snippet of an instrumental song. Long story short, the instrumental was later reused for the David Holmes remix of I'm Not Giving Up Tonight. Yesterday I read somewhere that supposedly a snippet of Daisies can be found in the Apple Music documentary of WBTM. But I don't have a subscription to that so I can't access it nor confirm that the taken-down video took the snippet from that documentary. If somebody with Apple Music access can locate it, I would appreciate it! Look out for a tune that sounds like the INGUT remix. Did Daisies turn into I'm Not Giving Up Tonight? Like the vibe from the original 'Daisies', sounds like something from R.E.M's Up album.
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Post by matt on Apr 27, 2024 5:57:15 GMT -5
Does anybody have a link to the "Daisies" demo? I think the only upload was taken down.. Did you hear any of it before it was taken down? Not aware of this circulating. News to me too. Wasn’t even aware Noel demoed tracks for Who Built The Moon.
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Post by matt on Apr 21, 2024 6:32:35 GMT -5
She’s not really challenging the negative stereotype that women can’t let things go, is she? TWO HOURS of grudge settling?! I’d like her to put her sizeable talents to use on a subject other than herself and her sadnesses sometimes. I like ‘Clara Bow’ because, although it’s still about her, she expands her vision out a bit by grappling with the cynical nature of the LA-based music business, her place in it, and what the future might bring for her and those who will follow her. Haven't listened to it, don't intend to, but read a Paste article that highlighted some awful lyrics: "“You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate, we declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist / I scratch your head, you fall asleep like a tattooed golden retriever”. I mean, really??! Sounds like Count Arthur Strong doing poetry! Hence the Be Here Now comparisons, critics falling over themselves but sooner or later they'll realise how deluded they were. At least I can laugh at "you see me, I've got my magic pie" for its 'can't be arsed' attitude to lyrics.
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Post by matt on Apr 20, 2024 18:34:31 GMT -5
P.S. And her boyfriend's playing the role of Patsy Kensit.
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Post by matt on Apr 20, 2024 18:10:10 GMT -5
This new album...she's Be Here Now'd it.
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Post by matt on Apr 20, 2024 10:15:54 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Apr 19, 2024 19:20:06 GMT -5
With The Verve, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Who knows what kind of career they'd have had post-Urban Hymns if (a) Ashcroft dropped his messianic complex and (b) realised he isn't a god given talent in songwriting. He had a purple patch of good tracks on Urban Hymns but his solo career is maudlin saccharine dreck. The rest of The Verve are top though. McCabe especially. Give Ashcroft an interesting backing track courtesy of these talented guys and he'll do fine. Give him an acoustic guitar, then run a mile. Richard as a "Feel Flows" lyricist is up there with Stipe and Bono for me. Give him a mic and sprawling flow of music and he'll condense it into something single worthy. Give him an acoustic and he'll leave a generic loaf. The difference in greatness is some kind of humility. Bono and Stipe had the humility and self awareness to step aside and allow the band to dictate where songs went. Hence why both of their bands have at least seven albums each that can be considered truly great. On the other hand, Ashcroft's ego destroyed his band not once, not twice but three times. The man is an a-grade weapon and reading stories about him makes me admire the rest of The Verve even more for having to put up with him.
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Post by matt on Apr 19, 2024 17:17:09 GMT -5
If I had a gun? The first time I heard If I Had A Gun, I wondered if Noel had lifted it from Roddy Woomble's solo album. Go to 1.52 for the same melody.
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Post by matt on Apr 17, 2024 15:33:09 GMT -5
With The Verve, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Who knows what kind of career they'd have had post-Urban Hymns if (a) Ashcroft dropped his messianic complex and (b) realised he isn't a god given talent in songwriting. He had a purple patch of good tracks on Urban Hymns but his solo career is maudlin saccharine dreck. The rest of The Verve are top though. McCabe especially. Give Ashcroft an interesting backing track courtesy of these talented guys and he'll do fine. Give him an acoustic guitar, then run a mile. I would hate Liam to work with Ashcroft on one of his solo albums. However, I've always liked A Song For The Lovers by Ashcroft but that's about it regarding his solo stuff. True, Liam is far too good for Richard Ashcroft.
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Post by matt on Apr 16, 2024 15:25:54 GMT -5
Ah please no Ashcroft the guy is really bad, he wrote one good song and got sued and never wrote a decent song again Most overrated guy from the britpop era. It’s fine as it is plus they’re hired excellent musicians With The Verve, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Who knows what kind of career they'd have had post-Urban Hymns if (a) Ashcroft dropped his messianic complex and (b) realised he isn't a god given talent in songwriting. He had a purple patch of good tracks on Urban Hymns but his solo career is maudlin saccharine dreck. The rest of The Verve are top though. McCabe especially. Give Ashcroft an interesting backing track courtesy of these talented guys and he'll do fine. Give him an acoustic guitar, then run a mile.
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Post by matt on Apr 14, 2024 16:54:05 GMT -5
Tomorrow I start a new short-term job while I keep looking for the next step in my career. 6 weeks into living in my car, but I have a few leads on sticks and bricks. Keeping the faith. Hope everyone here is doing well 🙏 Best of luck Marissa, let us know how you're getting on.
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Post by matt on Apr 13, 2024 19:31:49 GMT -5
What are the chances that these have been on YouTube and Limewire for the best part of two decades and gathering dust in cupboards on our old iPods? Knowing Ignition, I'd say 90%! It's hardly Ignition's fault if everything has been pilfered and already released online. They can't just make up stuff to release. I think people really need to temper expectations for this release. The general fan will probably find lots of new stuff on this but for people on here there's going to be little to nothing new. Even when we got a brand new previously unheard live version of Supersonic the other day people were moaning. 1993-1994 really has been picked clean by bootleggers. We can't then complain when there's nothing left for Ignition to give us. Ah it’s just tongue in cheek comment. But without anything of substance, it’s hard not to take the cynical view of record companies churning out negligible content for high prices. Preferably nothing if there isn’t anything in the vaults. As another famous Mancunian on this kind of thing - ‘reissue, repackage, re-evaluate the songs’ etc etc.
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Post by matt on Apr 13, 2024 18:37:50 GMT -5
I know this has probably been posted somewhere on here but someone posted this from another forum from an interview what Noel gave talking about the re issue and what it will include- In a new interview [Noel Gallagher] has elaborated on what the upcoming release will feature, and [sic]; According to the musician, the 30th anniversary reissue of ‘Definitely Maybe’ will include a host of previously lost songs — which were made during the recording sessions at the time. Telling [..] Corriere Sera how the tracks were uncovered, he said: “ In the Sony archives we’ve found tapes dating to those sessions. We thought they were lost, but they were mislabelled. They are wonderful versions of those songs, some acoustic versions.” He explained that the new tracks added to the re-release will include acoustic versions of fan-favourites, ‘Live Forever’, ‘Slide Away’ and ‘Supersonic’. He also reaffirmed that fans shouldn’t hope to see any live renditions of the new songs anytime soon. www.nme.com/news/music/noel-gallagher-confirms-definitely-maybe-30th-anniversary-reissue-for-2024-denies-oasis-reunion-tour-3436441What are the chances that these have been on YouTube and Limewire for the best part of two decades and gathering dust in cupboards on our old iPods? Knowing Ignition, I'd say 90%!
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Post by matt on Apr 12, 2024 16:18:05 GMT -5
Liam and Squire on Jimmy Fallon - just wow. How does the guy's voice seem to improve in his 50s? As for Squire, no one aged 61 has the right to be writing songs as good as he's done on this album. Was listening to One Day At A Time today and wow I love that chorus. To me it's a pure Stone Roses melody and it got me thinking - a question for the Roses aficionados... How did the Stone Roses writing process work, as in the split between music, lyrics and melodies? Brown doesn't play an instrument (to my knowledge), and when I hear that sort of Roses melody, my guess would be Squire on music/melodies and Brown on lyrics, but does anyone know for sure? Thanks. For the “Sally cinnamon” era until “one love”, I think both Ian and John wrote together , though as you said, I assume it was mainly John doing the music, Ian on the lyrics.I remember it saying in John Robbs book on the roses that they could spend 6 months on getting a single line right in a song (I love that Strive for perfection. Apparently Cleese and Connie booth were the same whilst writing fäwlty towers). John though wrote most of “second coming”. I think the only sole credit for Ian was “straight to the man”. “begging you” was squire/brown off the top of my head and “daybreak” had credits for squire/brown/msni/reni. From reports, John became a real recluse in this period, constantly in his room by himself, watching natural born killers and obsessing over led zep. I think this contributed to the roses demise as they lost that band unity but at the same time John came out with some AMAZING songs such as breaking into heaven, ten storey love song, love spreads etc The bluesy hard rock of Second Coming isn't a personal preference but I genuinely don't think it served them well at all. Its reputation as a disappointing follow up is fair for the fact it just became The John Squire Show. Don't get me wrong, there is some brilliance. Breaking Into Heaven and Love Spreads maintains the swagger but they'd have been better placed to go all out on the Begging You sound. A heavy dance record in that vein would have felt like a natural progression from Fools Gold and One Love. The grooves would have benefited the rhythm section, bringing Reni and Mani to the forefront and unifying the bands sound. Technically they were such an amazing band, individually brilliant musicians yet I can't help but feel the album is a massive waste of Mani and Reni's talents.
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Post by matt on Apr 7, 2024 9:07:40 GMT -5
Do the damage is a great tune. I had it opening a playlist of my favourite solo songs from the chief The only bad thing about Do The Damage is that they repurposed the first heat of the moment video for it and it's crap. Must admit those Mike Bruce videos were awful. Really have to question Noel's film tastes here!
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Post by matt on Apr 6, 2024 9:03:51 GMT -5
Well I'd prefer a new album with David Holmes, something more technicolour and ambitious rather than rehashes of the same songs. Doesn't have to be electro influenced, I want a pop album (with the kitchen sink thrown at it), and some psychedelic soundscapes ala Man Who Built The Moon. Very melodic songs like Sail On, A Dream Is All I Need To Get By, If Love Is The Law.... play to his strengths. Noel can't rock, he needs Liam for that and to be 30 years younger, and an acoustic album would be too samey. A bit of ambition in the studio, with something more sonically interesting, is what I'm asking. Translation: Noel should be more like Coldplay! Yuck. Please tell me which psychedelic pop albums Coldplay have released because I must have missed them.
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Post by matt on Apr 5, 2024 15:43:53 GMT -5
Acoustic album wasn't fussed over but a rock album excites me even less. When you hear stuff like Lock All The Doors and You Know We Can't Go Back it's like..... what's the point? I can hear better, more raucous songs in that vein from 20 years previously and it's not serving any purpose aside from repeating old tricks but sounding a hell of a lot more tired. And clean. Too clean. Sure, if he turns the guitars up to 11, runs reckless with reverb and gets Liam to sing, then I'm on board. If you don't him doing acoustic stuff and you don't want him doing rock stuff, then what do you want? Well I'd prefer a new album with David Holmes, something more technicolour and ambitious rather than rehashes of the same songs. Doesn't have to be electro influenced, I want a pop album (with the kitchen sink thrown at it), and some psychedelic soundscapes ala Man Who Built The Moon. Very melodic songs like Sail On, A Dream Is All I Need To Get By, If Love Is The Law.... play to his strengths. Noel can't rock, he needs Liam for that and to be 30 years younger, and an acoustic album would be too samey. A bit of ambition in the studio, with something more sonically interesting, is what I'm asking.
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Post by matt on Apr 4, 2024 16:48:57 GMT -5
Acoustic album wasn't fussed over but a rock album excites me even less. When you hear stuff like Lock All The Doors and You Know We Can't Go Back it's like..... what's the point? I can hear better, more raucous songs in that vein from 20 years previously and it's not serving any purpose aside from repeating old tricks but sounding a hell of a lot more tired. And clean. Too clean.
Sure, if he turns the guitars up to 11, runs reckless with reverb and gets Liam to sing, then I'm on board.
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Post by matt on Apr 1, 2024 16:47:53 GMT -5
Trump will be president again and fix Bidens mess Lol, deluded and idiotic.
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Post by matt on Apr 1, 2024 14:51:45 GMT -5
He's been great for Noel and he was great for Oasis in the 90s too. Some jazzy stuff going on with that MTV Unplugged gig.
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Post by matt on Apr 1, 2024 8:39:25 GMT -5
Sometimes the player plays a section and loops it when moving onto a different part, a bit like what Ed Sheeran does. If this is the case, that's fine but if your case it is basically a pre-recorded track playing then its a big no no. Yeah that definitely wasn't the case. I've seen Ed Sheeran once at a festival and even though I think his music is super generic and boring, I was really impressed with that whole one-man-band-looping-schtick! Not a fan at all, but I was also impressed how he was able to play Wembley stadium literally just by himself.
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Post by matt on Mar 31, 2024 11:23:22 GMT -5
It really bothers me when I go to a gig, the music is synth driven and there's not a keyboard player in sight so they use backing tracks. I've seen this various times now and it really takes away from the live experience. At this particular gig the bass player played a bit on a little synth that happened to be there, but you still heard the bass too, which made me wonder how much of it is actually live? Or was I just watching a glorified karaoke show? Just let the synths out, or, if they are an important piece of the music, HIRE A FECKING KEYBOARD PLAYER! Sometimes the player plays a section and loops it when moving onto a different part, a bit like what Ed Sheeran does. If this is the case, that's fine but if it is basically a pre-recorded track playing then its a big no no.
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Post by matt on Mar 30, 2024 17:27:09 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Mar 30, 2024 6:18:04 GMT -5
The archive is clearly all over the shop: “Tom: What’s the band’s archive like? Because obviously you started there and had complete co-operation. Is it in good shape? Mat: It’s utterly chaotic, as you’d imagine. It’s er… well, having said that it’s in better shape now, because there’s one of our researchers – a guy called Martyn James. He’d been brought in by Ignition a couple of years ago to update everything while they were doing the Chasing the Sun reissues. So he was starting to piece it together, and then we inherited him from there. Oasis’s management company Ignition recommended him and he was brilliant. He’s an absolute obsessive and loves the band.“ www.oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk/?page_id=1952We have so much from the DM era anyway that it’s hard for them to give us much new. I’d like proper releases of the Eden Studios version and whatever is there from Monnow Valley. Almost all the gigs were bootlegged so I doubt we’re going to get any amazing new performances but an official release of Nagoya would be nice. Might as well give us the Liam sung Sad Song as well. The Stones covers would be nice if they exist. Morning Glory could be a different story. There’s a Liam sung Step Out. But I would love a 2025 remix of that album as a bonus disc because sonically it’s a mess. Just curious why you think its a sonic mess? Personally, there's nothing I'd change about the sound of that album, even the ragged recordings (e.g. Some Might Say) are the better for it giving the album a raw edge compared to other mainstream contemporaries. It's the one thing I'm glad Noel wasn't producing by himself as he's often complained about the sound of Morning Glory. Hearing his UNKLE collaboration for the reworked Cast No Shadow from 2005, it's fairly lifeless, overproduced and lacks the freshness of the original version. No Liam vocal doesn't help but the drums weigh the song down and there's none of the acoustic guitar flourishes that light up the album version.
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