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Post by usoasisfan on Sept 26, 2005 0:48:41 GMT -5
I posted this in the Reviews thread, but I thought it was worthy of a thread here  . It's from Penn State's Collegian. www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2005/06/06-30-05tdc/06-30-05darts-07.aspOasis resurrects brit rock in latest album,'Truth'Man, Coldplay is a buncha pansies. With the rest of the rock world still preoccupied with 1985 (we get it, The Smiths were good), Coldplay's somehow managed to sweep in like a storm of wieners to revive the once-dormant corpse of Bread-style soft rock. Chris Martin pounds the piano and yelps like a seal in heat, and voila, both you and your mom have something to listen to on the way to The Olive Garden. The stars were all yellow? Good observation, Galileo. Bless us, oh Lord, for the concurrent resurrection of Oasis. The sneering, snorting kings of mid-'90s guitar rock have returned at the perfect time to jerk the Zoloft generation out of its heavy-lidded Cure-quoting stupor. The band's sixth album, Don't Believe the Truth, is a sunburnt rock'n'roll reveille, pouring over with the kind of huge hooks and six-string blasts that haven't been around since, uh, back when Oasis used to call themselves the greatest band in the world. Close your eyes in the swell of Don't Believe the Truth and you might find yourself taking their word for it. The soaring and inhumanly tuneful songs of Don't Believe the Truth are the kind only a band as arrogant and bombastic as Oasis could pull off. "Mucky Fingers," the set's highlight, pits a chug-a-lug riff against Noel's rollicking Blonde on Blonde vocal, and in a different decade, Liam's shimmering "Love Like a Bomb" could've been a gigantic hit. The lyrics aren't all superb (and some are downright Up With People-ish) but Liam's such a cracking singer and the band's playing is so refreshingly lively you'll barely notice. And yeah, they still sound like The Stone Roses and Rubber Soul. Don't tell me you have a problem with that. Coldplay is well and good for high tea. But with Don't Believe the Truth, Oasis has made a record as perfectly suited for Saturday night as it is for Sunday morning. That's really something. -- by Paul Thompson |
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Post by goalniki on Sept 26, 2005 2:53:44 GMT -5
that's fuckin classic!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2005 7:35:14 GMT -5
that has been my problem with COLDPLAY...they dont get me fired up in studio or live,,they are a good band ..but they are lacking a ingredient that makes them" special"....glad to see i am not the only one who thinks this... |
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Post by Parko on Sept 26, 2005 8:15:24 GMT -5
fair play Paul Thompson...never a truer word has been spoken.... ;D
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Post by usoasisfan on Sept 26, 2005 9:10:39 GMT -5
fair play Paul Thompson...never a truer word has been spoken.... ;D Yeah, that was probably the best part of the review. Although I did like the Olive Garden quip, which goes along with kalas' reasoning. ;D |
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Post by slacks3 on Sept 26, 2005 12:24:30 GMT -5
Great Review...I can not think of a single person I know who owns a coldplay cd...not even my wife...Can't figure out who all their sales come from...I mean I'm a 25 year old male...all of my friends are 24-30...who buys them...is it a younger crowd?
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Post by LuckyJim on Sept 26, 2005 12:30:38 GMT -5
Well, we've gotten into some Coldplay bashing here…
But whatever. Chris is crying all the way to the bank. I always thought Coldplay was the band for aging U2 fans who thought "How to Dismantle…" was, like, too rockin' or something.
Don't get me wrong; I'm an aging music fan, so nothing against them, but Coldplay… well, I haven't bought "X & Y," lets just say that. Big ballads and beautiful melodies and all, yes, but I just don't need a whole album's worth of them.
Great review. Thanks for posting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2005 13:41:24 GMT -5
Well, we've gotten into some Coldplay bashing here… But whatever. Chris is crying all the way to the bank. I always thought Coldplay was the band for aging U2 fans who thought "How to Dismantle…" was, like, too rockin' or something. Don't get me wrong; I'm an aging music fan, so nothing against them, but Coldplay… well, I haven't bought "X & Y," lets just say that. Big ballads and beautiful melodies and all, yes, but I just don't need a whole album's worth of them. Great review. Thanks for posting. no bashing on my part , i like COLDPLAY ,JUST USING THEM AS A ANOLOGY MATE  |
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Post by Mogly on Sept 26, 2005 14:51:11 GMT -5
yeah fantastic review and another great one coming from America!! I think the bit where he says LLAB would've been a big hit in another decade (the 60's) says it all.. oasis doesn't really fit in today's musical scene. they have a different unique sound. that's one of the things that makes them great and in my opinion the best band in the world today.
about colplay, they are a top band. I don't enjoy X&Y as much and don't think it deserves all the hýpe it gets, but it's still a good album and probably one of the top 10 albums released in 2005
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