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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Jan 12, 2015 12:55:06 GMT -5
Ha, you realize that is an American thing, specifically a NYC creation. Yeah, it's pretty common in the US. Saw shoes on cables all the time growing up in Vegas. I've seen shoes hanging around over here as well (in the Netherlands) Never knew what it meant, until now, lol. |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Jan 12, 2015 12:56:04 GMT -5
Question: what did they actually needed all the guys that "look a bit like Noel" for? Didn't see any of them back in the video. In my head I had an image of a hundred Noels walking around. Haha hundred of Noels, just like these agents in Matrix. I think they just thought this idea was stupid and filmed just one Noel walking around instead. Aaaw all those poor grumpy looking brown haired midgets, waiting for hours in the cold, only to have their dreams crushed. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 12:56:53 GMT -5
I think it's absolutely stunning. ITHOTM grew on me, but this was love at first listen. For anyone outside the UK - Shoes hung over cables above a road indicates that drugs are for sale there... Haha, really? I'm English and I had no idea! Brb, I'm off shoe-spotting....actually nah, I live in Yarmouth, any unattended trainers would be gone within seconds or set on fire...Back to being ripped the fuck off online  I thought it was a reference to the shoes in the famously bad EOTR video... |
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Post by mytwocents on Jan 12, 2015 12:58:12 GMT -5
I have to say, given that we listened to tree songs now, I really like the production on this one: fresh, crisp, far from Sardy's polished middle-of--the-road style.
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Post by ariananana on Jan 12, 2015 12:59:36 GMT -5
Obsessed with this song already. I didn't hear the radio edit and I read most of the comments on here before I was able to watch the video so I was expecting the worst. I got the best!
I'm in NYC so I walk to my subway stop and walk to the office quite some distance and let me tell you, this is THE best song to blast in your headphones and walk. Johnny Marr's bits are beautiful and they add rather than take away.
You end up keeping pace with the beat. Way better than the first two songs off the record and yes, I believe way better than majority of record 1.
It's different but it's still very Noel. Noel 2015....in red pants. So fucking excited for this record! |
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Post by defmaybe00 on Jan 12, 2015 12:59:36 GMT -5
Question: what did they actually needed all the guys that "look a bit like Noel" for? Didn't see any of them back in the video. In my head I had an image of a hundred Noels walking around. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Jan 12, 2015 13:00:28 GMT -5
Question: what did they actually needed all the guys that "look a bit like Noel" for? Didn't see any of them back in the video. In my head I had an image of a hundred Noels walking around. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Que? |
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Post by spaneli on Jan 12, 2015 13:00:59 GMT -5
Must admit when I heard this last night and I only listened once I shrugged my shoulders and was pretty disappointed. Couldn't remember a thing from it five minutes after I heard it. For me it was blah, average. Just didn't seem to go anywhere. Didn't seem to really build. Same way I felt about Flick of the Finger. However, just like FOTF, I woke up this morning still not really thinking about the song. It wasn't till I was at work for a couple minutes on break when I noticed that I was humming the chorus and then mumbling, "yes, I'll find you."
I usually don't believe in growers. Either a song grabs me from the beginning or it doesn't, but Ballad of the Might I really is a grower. It does everything I've been hoping from Noel. But this really is a step up for Noel. The production is good and clean. The song warrants its running time. The lyrics are damn good. Really echoes a lot of the themes Noel has used in his career. It's familiar and different. And it is different. I don't know what song people are listening to from Noel's catalog that sound like this, but there aren't many. Is it groundbreaking? No. But then again he's not Radiohead. But clearly for him, this is a large step in a different direction.
My one fear is that just like with Flick of the Finger, it's a good song, possibly great, but it just doesnt scream what I think of as a single. A single shouldn't be a grower. It shouldn't take the listener parsing through what's great. That's the difference between a great album track and a great single. This is a great album track. I don't know about it as a single. Even a band like Radiohead, their singles are clearly immediate. This isn't. For some it takes a bit of work to really hear what's great about this track. Which screams that this isn't really a single. But it does well to showcase the change in course Noel has taken. The fact that there isn't an identifiable chorus is something I don't think anyone would have thought Noel would do when he was singing DLBIA. The fact that this song is extremely dependent on lyrics and instrumentation rather than brute force or soaring melodies is him taking a RISK. Especially within his own fanbase as evident here. I like it a lot and I hope it continues growing on me. It will definitely keep me interested, that's for sure.
Lastly, the video is probably my favorite Gallagher related video since The Shock of the Lightning. Someone said it, it's very aware of itself.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 13:02:06 GMT -5
Noel wasn't in that video, he couldn't be arsed with them anymore. Those are all lookalikes in wigs! Noel doesn't wear red trousers ffs!
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Post by Greedy's Mighty Sigh on Jan 12, 2015 13:02:26 GMT -5
love it. everything about it. the lyrics, piano, the guitar solos, the strings at the end. those backing vocals are well and truly stuck in my head, probably my favourite bit. i like both the singles, they arent too dissimilar to what noel has been doing for 20 years but the sound is definitely fresh. the production and style is very much up my street. thats me done until the 2nd of march now. i wont listen to riverman or the album when its out early in japan. i will listen to it in full that morning
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Post by Praetorian on Jan 12, 2015 13:02:36 GMT -5
Yeah, it's pretty common in the US. Saw shoes on cables all the time growing up in Vegas. I've seen shoes hanging around over here as well (in the Netherlands) Never knew what it meant, until now, lol. I don't think it has the same meaning though. I always thought it was a fad. |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Jan 12, 2015 13:04:19 GMT -5
I've seen shoes hanging around over here as well (in the Netherlands) Never knew what it meant, until now, lol. I don't think it has the same meaning though. I always thought it was a fad. Well, if it's a reference to drugs it could well be. I mean, there are quite a bit of drugs around here. |
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Post by ariananana on Jan 12, 2015 13:07:41 GMT -5
I've seen shoes hanging around over here as well (in the Netherlands) Never knew what it meant, until now, lol. I don't think it has the same meaning though. I always thought it was a fad. Here in Brooklyn it means three things usually. One, that a crime or murder has happened (but that's more of an old wives tales) two, it's just a form of graffiti or self expression three, throwing your shoes up in your block or hood is a sign you run the neighborhood.
Every wire practically has shoes hanging from them where I live and we don't get too many crimes hahah so, probably more of the other two explanations.
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Post by Tapir on Jan 12, 2015 13:07:42 GMT -5
Obsessed with this song already. I didn't hear the radio edit and I read most of the comments on here before I was able to watch the video so I was expecting the worst. I got the best!
I'm in NYC so I walk to my subway stop and walk to the office quite some distance and let me tell you, this is THE best song to blast in your headphones and walk. Johnny Marr's bits are beautiful and they add rather than take away.
You end up keeping pace with the beat. Way better than the first two songs off the record and yes, I believe way better than majority of record 1.
It's different but it's still very Noel. Noel 2015....in red pants. So fucking excited for this record! Exactly! couldn't say it better, had the same thing while walking, you just adjust your pace with the beat of the tune |
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Post by akara on Jan 12, 2015 13:10:52 GMT -5
Got to say this is really a grower.
When I first heard it I thought it was ok, but was surprised by the structure of the song and thought it didn't sound natural in a way with the key changes in place. But the chorus got me hooked so I had to listen to it 2-3 times more and now i Appreciate the whole song. Really can't stop listening to it, last time that happened was when I first heard "If I Had A Gun".
Really really good, I can see this becoming a big hit for Noely. 8,5 / 10 and much better than the first single.
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Post by mossy on Jan 12, 2015 13:11:10 GMT -5
When Noel goes completely grey he will be Father Ted. who's Dougal then? Gem would have been great for that role That makes Liam Father Jack. |
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Post by dennizz on Jan 12, 2015 13:13:45 GMT -5
should have stayed toothless when he had the chance
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Post by mossy on Jan 12, 2015 13:16:28 GMT -5
I don't think it has the same meaning though. I always thought it was a fad. Here in Brooklyn it means three things usually. One, that a crime or murder has happened (but that's more of an old wives tales) two, it's just a form of graffiti or self expression three, throwing your shoes up in your block or hood is a sign you run the neighborhood.
Every wire practically has shoes hanging from them where I live and we don't get too many crimes hahah so, probably more of the other two explanations.
In the UK school kids do this to each other just to be bastards. |
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Jan 12, 2015 13:20:25 GMT -5
The more people talk about Marr's quitar touches,the strings,the beat ,the atmosphere, the MORE OBVIOUS IT BECOMES THAT THE SONG IS COMPLETELLY WORTHLESS IN THE MELODY DEPARTMENT which matters the most. A good song doesn't need ethereal and atmospheric production to shine.It should sound good on an acoustic quitar or a simple piano. Anybody could have written this trash in 20 minutes,but they would' fail to release it,because they don't have Noel's fame. Seriously the sooner people realise that this is a shit tune,the less ridicule they will face from non fanboys ,who know a good tune when they hear one. Uninspired and forced are the key words.Massive ,complete dissapointment from a truly great songwriter. Shit tune? I'd hardly say it's in the same piss poor league The Nature of Reality. YOU'RE reality is twisted, and it's twisting my melon, man.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 13:22:45 GMT -5
Here in Brooklyn it means three things usually. One, that a crime or murder has happened (but that's more of an old wives tales) two, it's just a form of graffiti or self expression three, throwing your shoes up in your block or hood is a sign you run the neighborhood.
Every wire practically has shoes hanging from them where I live and we don't get too many crimes hahah so, probably more of the other two explanations.
In the UK school kids to this to each other just to be bastards. Aye, unfortunately |
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Post by The Invisible Sun on Jan 12, 2015 13:23:35 GMT -5
I love this song. This is a song that I won't ever get tired of.
Also, has anyone noticed that despite it's length, it doesn't seem very long when listening to it?
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Post by I Built The Moon on Jan 12, 2015 13:25:11 GMT -5
My cover, hope you like it guys  Not perfect by any means but fun to play Wow, that is brilliant, you've nailed it. what mic and software do you use? Shure sm58 mic, through a m-audio fast track (piece of crap, will be updating soon to a focusrite scarlett 6i6), recorded and edited in pro tools 10 |
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Post by headshrinker84 on Jan 12, 2015 13:27:34 GMT -5
I'm shocked no one has said they could see Liam singing it.
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Post by Praetorian on Jan 12, 2015 13:29:41 GMT -5
I'm shocked no one has said they could see Liam singing it. I could see Liam polishing Noel's shoes whilst on stage... |
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Post by ariananana on Jan 12, 2015 13:30:38 GMT -5
I love this song. This is a song that I won't ever get tired of. Also, has anyone noticed that despite it's length, it doesn't seem very long when listening to it? it's been on repeat all day long for me and haven't once gotten tired of it.
Also, definitely, despite it being longish song, I'm always surprised that Marr's bit at the end happens so quickly!
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