i concur

It's gonna be fresh. I hope that I like it. But I don't feel significantly different about the project than I did yeasterday. I am as cautiously optimistic as I ever was.

The B-side doesn't really prove a great deal to me. I like it...but I always knew that Andy and Gem could play their instruments well and that Liam could sing decently on record. The fact that they wouldn't be able to play something properly never entered my mind. What I worry about has been their songwriting.

I had issues with the writing of BTL...so all those misgivings are still there. A B-side that's a cover isn't going to change that

So true.

I can understand why they probably didn't make it an original. The majority of people won't heard it. Not only do most people not pay attention to B-sides but this one isn't available to buy physically or electronically. We'll hear it but most of the world won't. If they had to have a cover or 2 in the beginning the release was a good one to put it on. Save the new material for the proper singles.

I disagree. Where was that euphoria around BTL on here? That was missing and proves a giant flaw in your 'logic.'

It's a great cover, and knowing they are interested in this sound still is good to know. What we don't need is the true quality of their work - it's the song writing I'm most worried about.

Robbie William's first solo single was a cover of George Michael's 'Faith' and apparantly his career took off from there. The use of a cover for Beady Eye's first A-side is probably justified in order to grab the wider public's attention, but after that it is going to have to be original tunes of a decent calibre, guys....so far Beady Eye are 'winging it' but if they are shrewd enough, good enough players, they will be putting out decent new stuff before too long.

Faith was a way bigger song than Sons of the Stage.

It's not going to gain them massive attention because World of Twist aren't as well-remembered as George Michael...so how do you expect it to grab the worlds attention?

It's not like people can say...here is a cover of the well-known 80's pop song Sons of the Stage.

No biggie but it was 'freedom' and secondly robbies career was floundering until he released 'angels'

I said there wasn't an euphoria about BTL (hence me using the word DON'T). I just fail to see how people are suddenly getting excited now about BE when they were slagging them off when BTL first come out. After that come out majority (or maybe it's better to say half, I dunno) was commenting how much they do not like it. Now, the cover is avaliable and everyone is going crazy.

Personally, I ain't blown away. The fact everyone is comparing it to "early Oasis b-sides" doesn't make me get excited. I was, and am, more excited about BTL because it is different. It just comes down to choice in the end I supose. I would rather they did have an album that was different (aka Bring The Light) than similair to Oasis (aka Sons Of The Stage).

But the main point of this, for me, is that everyone needs to calm down over this and not get too excited over a cover. It is in NO WAY an indication of what the album is going to sound like. In fact, the only indication we have had on that score is Bring The Light.

I doubt he wrote that much. Didn't he suposedly steal it of an Irish fella who wrote it after his wife had an abortion?

Yeah, like I said it is own opinion. All I am saying is, people are getting too excited about SOTS as if that is definitely how the album is going to sound when, in reality, it being a cover it isn't an indication. A cover is a cover is a cover. It isn't how the album is going to sound. So far the only true indication of how the as-yet-untitled-debut album sounds is BTL. I just don't think we should all be getting carried away about how it sounds. Espically as some compare it to "eary Oasis b-sides".