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Post by dadrocker on Jan 10, 2023 13:40:07 GMT -5
I really like most of the EP/compilation tracks: the only one I don't listen to regularly is Wandering Star (dull, Noel on autopilot, no thanks). I think they sounded fresh and we got something for all tastes: traditional Noel-ish tunes like Sail On or We're On Our Way Now, and something more different like Blue Moon Rising or This Is The Place. Definitely not boring at all!
Personal list, from best to worst: Flying On The Ground
A Dream Is All I Need To Get ByWe're On Our Way Now
Blue Moon Rising
Sail OnCome On Outside
Rattling RoseThis Is The Place
Evil Flower
Black Star DancingWandering StarIts a real shame the way Wandering Star is produced. It sounds horrible. Not sure how it got let out of the studio sounding like that. I really think it could be a good tune if it was redone at some point. |
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Post by 2nz on Jan 11, 2023 5:12:04 GMT -5
Personally think there's something quite charming that gets under your skin with Wandering Star- the chorus mainly. The verse is a bit Little by little with the auto chord sequence but it does take off.
A few of these just don't go anywhere- Evil Flower has a decent enough idea in the music but needs something else to lift it- and it wouldn't have made an album.
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Post by defmaybe00 on Jan 11, 2023 7:33:20 GMT -5
Flying on The Ground
This Is The Place
Blue Moon Rising
A Dream Is All I Need To Get By
Black Star Dancing
We're On Our Way Now
Sail On
Rattling Rose
Come On Outside
Evil Flower
Wandering Star
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Post by norkbauer on Jan 11, 2023 8:26:05 GMT -5
Flying on the Ground
Blue Moon Rising
A Dream Is All I Need to Get By
Black Star Dancing
This Is the Place
We're On Our Way Now
Come On Outside
Rattling Rose
Sail On
Evil Flower
Wandering Star
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Post by supertronic on Jan 11, 2023 9:16:13 GMT -5
A Dream Is All I Need to Get By
Flying on the Ground
Sail On
Wandering Star
Evil Flower
Black Star Dancing
This Is the Place
Blue Moon Rising
We're On Our Way Now
Come On Outside
Rattling Rose
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on Jan 11, 2023 9:35:29 GMT -5
This Is The Place
Black Star Dancing
Blue Moon Rising
A Dream Is All I Need To Get By
Come On Outside
Sail On
Flying On The Ground
Rattling Rose
We're On Our Way Now
Evil Flower
Wandering Star
'This Is The Place' stands out as one of his best since he's gone solo but bottom two are very possibly the worst he's written and released ever. I've heard a few people saying on here that if the songs had been released as NGHFB LP4 it would've stood up perfectly well but I strongly disagree. 'Flying On The Ground' & 'We're On Our Way Now' are so average. No way did they deserve to feature on the Best Of.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jan 11, 2023 10:26:24 GMT -5
Noel’s best EP songs. Wish a bunch were on MOON to help round out the sound of that project. Always felt a track or two short.
This Is The Place
Black Star Dancing
Blue Moon Rising
Sail On
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Post by andymorris on Jan 11, 2023 10:51:56 GMT -5
Anyone with ears to hear will recognise much of quality on the Noelly G EPs. I don't like every track, can any one actually say they do like every track on each EP? I do like every track on each EP. Yes even Evil Flower, it's a nice breath between melodies and fits the project. The only problem i have is with Wandering Star, it's too compressed and cant be listened without a pain in the ear. It's just unlistenable the way it has been mastered. That and the two bonus tracks on his compilation make up one of Noel's finest record to date (solo)... And then he releases Pretty Boy  |
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Post by mossy on Jan 11, 2023 12:58:18 GMT -5
Noel’s best EP songs. Wish a bunch were on MOON to help round out the sound of that project. Always felt a track or two short. This Is The Place Black Star Dancing Blue Moon Rising Sail On It’s 43 mins long, so by removing the instrumentals you only have space for one of those. I vote for TITP. Sail On should’ve been a b-side during the Chasing Yesterday era instead of that dreadful birthday cake tune. X |
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Post by Firefly on Jan 11, 2023 13:12:19 GMT -5
Personally think there's something quite charming that gets under your skin with Wandering Star- the chorus mainly. The verse is a bit Little by little with the auto chord sequence but it does take off. A few of these just don't go anywhere- Evil Flower has a decent enough idea in the music but needs something else to lift it- and it wouldn't have made an album. Yeah I agree. Wandering Star is a good song. It's meant to be a Christmas song so does what it says on the tin. It's better than Careless Whisper and that Mariah Carey one, can't stand those but I play Noel's every year since it was released. Not keen on Evil Flower. Waste of time that one. Like everything else he released on the EPs but am partial to dance music. Glad he did them. Would like more. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jan 11, 2023 14:45:00 GMT -5
Noel’s best EP songs. Wish a bunch were on MOON to help round out the sound of that project. Always felt a track or two short. This Is The Place Black Star Dancing Blue Moon Rising Sail On It’s 43 mins long, so by removing the instrumentals you only have space for one of those. I vote for TITP. Sail On should’ve been a b-side during the Chasing Yesterday era instead of that dreadful birthday cake tune. X Space? It’s the digital age. Room for all if it merits it. |
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Post by modxxii on Jan 11, 2023 14:52:14 GMT -5
We're On Our Way Now
Flying On The Ground
This Is The Place
Black Star Dancing
Blue Moon Rising
Evil Flower
Rattling Rose
Pretty Boy 😎
Wandering Star
A Dream Is All I Need To Get By
Sail On
Come On Outside
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Post by fabulousbakers on Jan 11, 2023 15:40:10 GMT -5
Noel’s best EP songs. Wish a bunch were on MOON to help round out the sound of that project. Always felt a track or two short. This Is The Place Black Star Dancing Blue Moon Rising Sail On It’s 43 mins long, so by removing the instrumentals you only have space for one of those. No need to remove anything! 43 minutes means a CD would only be about half full and with digital albums there's no limit at all. |
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Post by mossy on Jan 11, 2023 16:25:13 GMT -5
It’s 43 mins long, so by removing the instrumentals you only have space for one of those. No need to remove anything! 43 minutes means a CD would only be about half full and with digital albums there's no limit at all. CDs are dead. Vinyl is the album format of the future. X |
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Post by mossy on Jan 11, 2023 16:26:15 GMT -5
It’s 43 mins long, so by removing the instrumentals you only have space for one of those. I vote for TITP. Sail On should’ve been a b-side during the Chasing Yesterday era instead of that dreadful birthday cake tune. X Space? It’s the digital age. Room for all if it merits it. You know this is Noel Gallagher we’re talking about right? X |
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Post by didthedamage on Jan 11, 2023 16:55:28 GMT -5
Sail On
A Dream…
Blue Moon Rising
Black Star Dancing
We're On Our Way Now
This Is the Place
Flying on the Ground
Rattling Rose
Come On Outside
Evil Flower
Wandering Star
Right now Pretty Boy would land between BMR and BSD.
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Post by World71R on Jan 11, 2023 22:45:19 GMT -5
Ranking these songs really made me realize how good and interesting/varied this era has been:
This Is The Place
Sail On
Black Star Dancing
Rattling Rose
A Dream Is All I Need To Get By
Blue Moon Rising
Come On Outside
Flying On The Ground
We're On Our Way Now
Evil Flower
Wandering Star
The top 5 have each spent different amounts of time as my go-to NGHFB song. This is the Place is by far the best, IMO. Noel hits on every experimental note just right and sounds deeply inspired. Sail On also hits on being Noel-like but also something new and fresh, and is such a sweet song.
Rattling Rose has, by far, been the biggest grower for me. I remember hating it first but now I really click with the tension building with every run through the chorus until it climaxes in the bridge and the final run through the chorus. Also the groove that carries this song is low-key addictive (A Dream... is similarly addictive)
I'd love to rank Blue Moon Rising higher but it just needs to be longer. When those bongos start coming in with about a minute left or so and then it falls after the chorus, I really, really want the song to launch into like an extended psychedelic soul-meets-Champagne Supernova breakdown before it goes back to the chorus one final time and then falls.
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Post by PepsiNebula on Jan 12, 2023 20:40:54 GMT -5
Sail On
Rattling Rose
Come On Outside
Flying on the Ground
This Is the Place
Blue Moon Rising
A Dream Is All I Need to Get By
We're On Our Way Now
Wandering Star
Evil Flower
Black Star Dancing
I'd put Pretty Boy and Trying To Find a World That's Been and Gone there at the top as well.
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Post by Let It🩸 on Jan 13, 2023 5:38:27 GMT -5
A Cat Is All I Need to Get By
Flying on the Ground
Black Cat Dancing
Pretty Boy
This Is the Place, Evil Flower, Rattling Rose, Come on Outside, Wandering Star, Blue Moon Rising, We’re On Our Way Now
Love the top 3, Pretty Boy’s ok, the rest are forgettable for me.
Thanks.
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Post by matt on Jan 13, 2023 19:49:51 GMT -5
Sail On A Dream… Blue Moon Rising Black Star Dancing We're On Our Way Now This Is the Place Flying on the Ground Rattling Rose Come On Outside Evil Flower Wandering Star Right now Pretty Boy would land between BMR and BSD. This is almost exactly my ranking too. Certainly the top three. Had a listen to Sail On recently which elevated it to the top, it's dripping in melancholy and a sense of yearning. Beautiful little song, somehow only Noel can reach those kinds of depths for me. And Pretty Boy has grown on me, it came up on an indie playlist and stood out amongst a lot of the beige tracks. It's not great, but I like it much better than most of his songs on his first two albums. |
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Post by andymorris on Jan 16, 2023 9:35:53 GMT -5
Well maybe the EP should have been an album. It would have been one of his best ever really. Instead it's escaping history as throwaway releases.
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Post by The Escapist on Jan 16, 2023 9:37:28 GMT -5
I think the EP's, even if aggregated to their best form, would still be comfortably his weakest album.
"A Dream" is the only track that's truly stayed with me, and even that is an inferior version of similar HFB tracks.
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Post by glider on Jan 16, 2023 9:50:39 GMT -5
I love when Noel does the Spector-esque songs like Love Is the Law or Motown-inspired like Flying On The Ground. His affinity for those musical eras has always been underrated.
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Post by andymorris on Jan 16, 2023 9:52:18 GMT -5
I love when Noel does the Spector-esque songs like Love Is the Law or Motown-inspired like Flying On The Ground. His affinity for those musical eras has always been underrated. Totally. Hoped the new album would be like those two songs. Maybe it will on a couple of tracks. |
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Post by The Escapist on Jan 17, 2023 11:54:59 GMT -5
Went back to Who Built the Moon and it really is a fantastic album. Hasn't lost a drop of bombastic power in the last five years. Fort Knox is a call to arms, Holy Mountain is a drunken blast, Beautiful World creeps and rattles like vintage Radiohead, If Love is the Law is the more underrated banger he's done, and The Man Who Built the Moon just runs the world. And then that lilting finish with Dead in the Water, the perfect post-credits scene.
What a time to be a Gallagher fan that was.
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