6- The Meaning Of Soul (1.43 minutes)
Well, not much to say about this one if you already head the Glastonbury-version. The only difference is that it's played with an acoustic guitar. I'm not to sure if there even was a bass during the verses. It sounded like they were only acoustic guitar and drums. The rest sounded almost exactly like the live-version, only in better sound quality. Vocals not too great if i remember well.
6 out of 10
7- Guess God Thinks I'm Able (3:25 minutes)
Starts off with an intro of a few acoustic chords (played on higher frets, not the usual G C Am D). Then Liam starts singing and immediatly it made me say: John Lennon.
If i remember well there's no bridge. Just verses and a chorus. The chorus goes something like this:
'Let's get along, there's nothing we can do
let's go find a rainbow
la la la la................
guess god thinks i'm able'
In the verses there's lines like:'
'I could be your lover
you could be you're mine'
'you could be my railroad (i'm serious...)
la la la la.............'
I think this was the structure:
two verses, chorus, one verse, chorus, xxx
xxx is a part where Liam sings in falsetto again. He sings:
'No (<--falsetto) one could break us
No (<--falsetto) one could take us
if they try'
O the background Noel or a little choire is doing 'aaaahhh' 'aaaahh'. Sounds very sweet and nice. Best part of the song, and also the first line of the chorus is a nice melody change.
At the end eveything is quiet, then all of a sudden there's drums and electric guitars coming in and liam sings one sentence like 'Let's go and make it tonight'. Just that one sentence, and then the song's over. A weird ending of a very good acoustic song. Nice melody's and good vocals, especialy the falsetto parts.
8 out of 10
8- Part of the Queue (3.50 minutes)
I'll have dissapoint you regarding this one, cause didn't write down any lyrics and i can't remember much of the song. Don't ask me my, but i noticed when i was looking through my notes.
I do remember that the song had a real atmosphere around is. A weird acoustic guitar rhytm and nice drums. Noel did a good job singing and listening to the song you could just picture yourself walking through a busy, rainy city. I do remember finding it a good song, very different and not comparable to anything else.
I can't realy give it a grade, but if i had to judged on what i felt listening to it twice i would say 8 out of 10
9- Keep The Dream Alive (5.47 minutes)
Congrats to Andy cause he wrote a killer of a song. The verses (accompanied by electric guitar chords) annoyed me bit especially the way Liam sang it (through the nose again), but when the chorus kicked in it send shivers down the spine. Majestic, fantastic melody and a magic feeling to it. The lyrics of the chorus went something like this:
'I'm no stranger to this place
where rèè-al life and dreams collide
even now i fall from grace
i will keep the dream alive'
The verses had a line like this:
'Every night i hear you scream
but you don't say what you mean'
There's a little guitar solo in it, but very easy and no real killer. But the chorus made eveything up for me and made this one of of the best 3 tracks on the album, along with TIOBI and LTBL.
8,5 out of 10
Btw, on the promo-disc i heard there was NO secret/hidden track. I searched for it, but after LTBL the cd just stops. But maybe it's just the promo...
10- A Bell Will Ring (3:09 minutes)
Well this is where i was quite dissapointed. I head the live-version a few times already and didn't like that one that much, but had the feeling that it had lots of potention to make it an epic, Champagne Supernova-like song with good production and the adding of some guitars and na na na's. But as is said: i was dissapointed. The song was exactly the same as the live version, the production of it was boring. They could have added lots of cool stuff, background vocals, guitar parts, piano, whatever but it was just the electric guitar like at Glastonbury (same intro also, same moment where the drums kick in). And just like at Glastonbury, i felt that at some moments the timing and rhytm was a bit weird.
This song could have been so much better and should have been at least 2 minutes longer...
6 out of 10
11- Let There Be Love (5.29 minutes)
The album closer is a classic for me. Forget that crappy demo we once heard called It's A Crime, the lines 'it's a crime' aren't even in this song. The lyrics are totaly different, apart from the Let There Be love bit.
It starts off very calm with an acoustic guitar and a piano. It's played and sung very slow, even slower than the demo of it's a crime. When the singing started i thought: hey, that's Noel. But the second half of the first line i thought: hey, it's Liam. An after the first few lines i started thinking: i think it's Noel and Liam, bothing singing parts of one sentence, but not at the same time. Mixed through one another on a weird but fantastic way. Liam's best vocal on the album that's for sure.
After the first verses and 'let there be love' bit there's Noel singing the part which in It's A Crime had the lryics 'and i never knew' etc. The lyrics here are different, like for instance (picture that part of the song in your head)
'Come on baby blue, shake up your eyes, the world is waiting for you'.
The part where Noel went falsetto in the demo is different in this song, it's not one falsetto (and it 'makes' me feel etc...), but three falsetto-lines after one another. Also different lyrics again. When the part is over the song seems to stop. It gets very quiet and then Liam's there again with the verse melody:
'Who keeps a whole in the sky, so the heavens come down on me' or something like that.
For the second time the 'Let There Be Love' (sung by Liam and Noel) kicks in and it's being sung more often than after the first verses. Drums kick in like they did and sounded in Imagine, an extra guitar kicks in. It's magic, pure magic.
I said at the beginning there's wasn't a real singalong and that's true, but only because this song is being played and sung so slowly. It doesn't make you wanna sing along, just whisper along maybe. It's absolutely beautiful and sweet. A classic song about love with tearjerking vocals and melodys and good lyrics. I loved it.
9,5 out of 10
Phew, finally done. There's probably loads of things i've forgot to say. Loads or lyrics may just pop in my mind later. Like this morning i was wistling Part of the Queue when i sat in the train. But this afternoon, i completely forgot about the melody cause TIOBI was in my head.
The overall thought i had was, at first, that i was slightly dissapointed. But at this moment, i hate that i can't listen to the album again. I have to wait too now and i can't wait to hear it again. I think that's a good sign.
Also, the weaker tracks ons this album (Bell Will Ring, Meaning Of Soul, Mucky Fingers) are much better than HC-tracks like She Is Love, A Quick Peep and All In The mind. The stronger tracks are better than the good ones on HC (Let There Be Love, Turn Up The Sun, Keep the Dream Alive, Gues God Thinks I'm Abel and The Importance Of Being Idle compared to Born On A Different Cloud, Songbird, SCYHO, Hindu Times).
It's a good record. No classis like WTSMG, but still a very very good pop/rpck album. 8 out of 10. But i got the feeling this gets better after listening to it more often, which is the exact opposite of HC.
the link?
www.thedvdforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=356764&page=5Not sure wot I make of it tho...genuine or not
It was posted on the 25th March, before lyla was leaked and it has the correct lyrics and track length - so we know he aint bullshitting on lyla. If he'd heard lyla before the rest of us, its hard to believe he's lying about the whole thing.
He also provides the track lengths as well. why would anyone do that unless he was for real?
This leads me to conclude that this is a genuine review.
DBTT should be pretty good then ;D
Nov 4, 2024 5:04:30 GMT -5
Nov 4, 2024 5:04:30 GMT -5