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Post by mimmihopps on Sept 16, 2018 4:17:34 GMT -5
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 17, 2018 14:59:34 GMT -5
Really? I’ve found it a bit harder going, meself. I really like the first half but am not sure about the second (barring Movin’ On). What are your favourite tunes? This is, IMO, one of the beauties of music, no two listeners feel the same when they listen to a song. What makes you find it harder going? So far I like soul searchers, Aspects, White Horses and Whishing well the most. This is bound to change with time though, if I know myself well enough 😋 I guess the album flows extremely well! I just found the run of tracks from Bowie to Books (the whole of the first side of the second vinyl) not particularly memorable. With repeated listens I’ve found something to like in each one—the wordless harmonies in Bowie, the lead guitar and keyboard bits in Wishing Well, the chanting of “chances” in Come Along, and the whole Indian influence in Books—so we’ll see how these tunes mature over more listens. I’d say I feel better about the album as a whole than I did on Friday, though, so that’s good. |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 17, 2018 15:21:05 GMT -5
Now I’ve just gotta wait for my dad to get home and then we’ll be giving it a spin. 👍🏻😎 Lucky man  that sounds pretty special. What did your dad think of it? The thought of father and son enjoying a new record for the first listen together is nicer and more heart warming than anything a store bought greeting card could ever capture. (Still waiting on my copy) Haha. Yeah, it’s pretty cool. We’ve looked forward to release days since Sonik Kicks time (before that I was sniffy about Weller, so I’d just nominally buy my dad the albums when I couldn’t think of anything better to get him for Father’s Day), but then we would listened separately, via our iTunes downloads. Then, last year, we got a record player. Saturns Pattern was the most recent one out at that time, so we brought a copy as one of the first pieces in our vinyl collection. It sounded so good we decided to pre-order the then-forthcoming A Kind Revolution for vinyl and listen to it first that way. It went down well, so here we are. And—touch wood—hopefully we will be again, a couple of years down the line, with whatever Weller’s got in store for us next! My dad likes to go walking on the fields round the back. He took True Meanings with him the other day to give it its first listen through headphones. He said he enjoyed it. I can imagine it would sound nice listened to in that sort of scenario. Whatever you think of the quality of the songs, the recordings are undeniably very pretty. |
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Post by bogaloo on Sept 17, 2018 15:50:04 GMT -5
This is, IMO, one of the beauties of music, no two listeners feel the same when they listen to a song. What makes you find it harder going? So far I like soul searchers, Aspects, White Horses and Whishing well the most. This is bound to change with time though, if I know myself well enough 😋 I guess the album flows extremely well! I just found the run of tracks from Bowie to Books (the whole of the first side of the second vinyl) not particularly memorable. With repeated listens I’ve found something to like in each one—the wordless harmonies in Bowie, the lead guitar and keyboard bits in Wishing Well, the chanting of “chances” in Come Along, and the whole Indian influence in Books—so we’ll see how these tunes mature over more listens. I’d say I feel better about the album as a whole than I did on Friday, though, so that’s good. It might be a grower for you, then. Sometimes those are the best. :-) As the portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa said: "first find it weird, then find it in your guts". |
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Post by mimmihopps on Sept 18, 2018 2:55:49 GMT -5
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 18, 2018 17:42:20 GMT -5
'Old Castles' is a fantastic track.
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Post by mimmihopps on Sept 19, 2018 3:58:24 GMT -5
White Horses is brilliant and a perfect song to close the album. Weller's daughter Leah is just married with a Japanese guy. Congratulations to Leah, her husband and Family Weller! www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000159877 |
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Post by seamiedev on Sept 19, 2018 14:07:16 GMT -5
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Post by mimmihopps on Sept 21, 2018 1:35:25 GMT -5
Support for Weller's upcoming special acoustic shows in The Netherlands has been announced: Yorick van Norden - Utrecht www.showcase.fm/yorickvannordenMax Meser - Rotterdam www.maxmeser.com/Max Meser supported Weller for 3 nights over here last year and Max's latest album was produced by Andy Croft (Weller's bass player/Front man of The Moons). Also Max and his band played at the after party of Liam's Amsterdam gig in March. Less than 2 weeks now. Can't wait! |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Sept 21, 2018 18:39:07 GMT -5
I wish Noel would pump out as much music as Weller does in a short time span. Dude is a machine.
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Post by matt on Sept 22, 2018 15:23:38 GMT -5
What actually contributed to such a prolific and critically successful phase of his career since he turned 50 ten years ago? I’ve never seen it with an established artist whereby they have such a revival.
His love of music with a curiosity and eagerness to discover new influences and new music must have never waned.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 23, 2018 16:28:35 GMT -5
I'm into what you can be if you want to be.
It's a way of a living!
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Post by mimmihopps on Sept 30, 2018 7:12:13 GMT -5
Listening to Old Castles as I type. Really loving this album.
Probably one of his best albums in past 10 years next to 22 Dreams and As Is Now.
What's everyone's favourite songs from this album?
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 30, 2018 9:56:06 GMT -5
Listening to Old Castles as I type. Really loving this album. Probably one of his best albums in past 10 years next to 22 Dreams and As Is Now. What's everyone's favourite songs from this album? My favourite tunes are definitely Old Castles and What Would He Say?. It's great that those tunes are sequenced one after the other. After that, I really like Mayfly and Movin' On. By the way, did you hear about What Would He Say? being about his dad? That just makes me love the tune even more. I know they had a great relationship--more like best mates than father and son, really--so it's touching that Paul's decided to write a song about him now, ten years on from his passing. |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 30, 2018 10:24:36 GMT -5
What actually contributed to such a prolific and critically successful phase of his career since he turned 50 ten years ago? I’ve never seen it with an established artist whereby they have such a revival. His love of music with a curiosity and eagerness to discover new influences and new music must have never waned. Well, I think his faith in making music (and possibly his own ability as a songwriter) was shaken in the mid-00s, when he went 18 months without managing to write a single thing. But then his inspiration must have come back because he wrote all those songs for the 22 Dreams double album fairly quickly after that. The success that record enjoyed with the critics must have given him a shot in the arm. I think you can probably pin his continued creative streak post- 22 Dreams on two things: becoming more open to collaboration, and listening to more varied music. In the early 00s one of the music mags printed the list of songs that made up his tourbus mixtape at that time. Although his choices were more eclectic than you might expect from the average man on the street, say, there still wasn't much in the way of modern music; there were a lot of jazz and soul numbers from the 60s mostly. Ever since turning 50, though, he seems to have broadened his horizons a lot on that front. I mean, I've been turned onto most of the newer stuff I listen to from reading his interviews: Lucy Rose, Laura Marling, Syd Arthur, Villagers, to name but a few. He's even started letting out his studio for free to unsigned acts to record a single or whatever, so he's obviously got his ear to the ground. Quite a few of these acts have ended up on his records--whether just to lend a vocal or guitar part to a track, or to join in with the writing process--so I'm guessing this has helped keep things from growing stale, as they possibly did at times in the 00s, when he was (rightly or wrongly) often labelled as "Dadrock" by critics. |
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Post by matt on Sept 30, 2018 12:42:55 GMT -5
What actually contributed to such a prolific and critically successful phase of his career since he turned 50 ten years ago? I’ve never seen it with an established artist whereby they have such a revival. His love of music with a curiosity and eagerness to discover new influences and new music must have never waned. Well, I think his faith in making music (and possibly his own ability as a songwriter) was shaken in the mid-00s, when he went 18 months without managing to write a single thing. But then his inspiration must have come back because he wrote all those songs for the 22 Dreams double album fairly quickly after that. The success that record enjoyed with the critics must have given him a shot in the arm. I think you can probably pin his continued creative streak post- 22 Dreams on two things: becoming more open to collaboration, and listening to more varied music. In the early 00s one of the music mags printed the list of songs that made up his tourbus mixtape at that time. Although his choices were more eclectic than you might expect from the average man on the street, say, there still wasn't much in the way of modern music; there were a lot of jazz and soul numbers from the 60s mostly. Ever since turning 50, though, he seems to have broadened his horizons a lot on that front. I mean, I've been turned onto most of the newer stuff I listen to from reading his interviews: Lucy Rose, Laura Marling, Syd Arthur, Villagers, to name but a few. He's even started letting out his studio for free to unsigned acts to record a single or whatever, so he's obviously got his ear to the ground. Quite a few of these acts have ended up on his records--whether just to lend a vocal or guitar part to a track, or to join in with the writing process--so I'm guessing this has helped keep things from growing stale, as they possibly did at times in the 00s, when he was (rightly or wrongly) often labelled as "Dadrock" by critics. And I think Weller is the best example to give of an artist not growing stale and sticking rigidly to tried and tested influence. You have the likes of U2 now sticking to bland mainstream tropes and for sure, if Noel kept churning out the same kind of record like his first two solo albums, it would get to the point that nobody would give a fuck and he’d fade into obscurity. |
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Post by jordan71421 on Sept 30, 2018 13:59:20 GMT -5
The Soul Searchers is my favorite Paul song in quite a while
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Post by mimmihopps on Oct 1, 2018 5:07:27 GMT -5
Listening to Old Castles as I type. Really loving this album. Probably one of his best albums in past 10 years next to 22 Dreams and As Is Now. What's everyone's favourite songs from this album? My favourite tunes are definitely Old Castles and What Would He Say?. It's great that those tunes are sequenced one after the other. After that, I really like Mayfly and Movin' On. By the way, did you hear about What Would He Say? being about his dad? That just makes me love the tune even more. I know they had a great relationship--more like best mates than father and son, really--so it's touching that Paul's decided to write a song about him now, ten years on from his passing. Old Castles and What Would He Say are absolute my favourites as well. My most favourite song from the album is Mayfly. I also love Aspects and White Horses. No, I didn't know that What Would He Say was about his dad, so thanks for letting me know that. I loved when he played this song when I saw him last year. Without his dad, Weller (including The Jam, Style Council and solo) wouldn't have been what he is now. I love to read yours and matt posts. Weller is "the changing man" himself. This man never bores me. He's been trying new things more than ever past 10 years. In 2007 he completely changed his band. Except Steve Cradock all of his band members are 30 years younger than him, all of them are talented musicians. 3 of them have own band, one has a solo project and not to forget Cradock with OCS, solo and The Specials. They're not just a band in background and they're all independent musicians who don't have to rely on Weller's name. I'm seeing him twice this week and really looking forward to hear all those new songs. |
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Post by mkoasis on Oct 1, 2018 20:40:51 GMT -5
My copy shipped on Thursday. Still hasn't been released in Canada. I've only heard Aspects and Moving On once each, so I'm very excited to hear it in full.
Watched one of my Jam DVDs this morning. Damn I love that band so much. I made a mental compilation of some lesser known favourites today:
1 - art school
2 - I've changed my address
3 - carnaby street
4 - London traffic
5 - life from a window
6 - the place I love
7 - fly
8 - Smithers jones (bside version)
9 - Girl on the phone
10 - little boy soldiers
11 - set the house ablaze
12 - scrape away
13 - running on the spot
14 - the gift
Shows what incredible songs they had, not a single or hit anywhere in this list but all amazing songs.
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Post by mimmihopps on Oct 3, 2018 7:34:40 GMT -5
My copy shipped on Thursday. Still hasn't been released in Canada. I've only heard Aspects and Moving On once each, so I'm very excited to hear it in full. Watched one of my Jam DVDs this morning. Damn I love that band so much. I made a mental compilation of some lesser known favourites today: 1 - art school 2 - I've changed my address 3 - carnaby street 4 - London traffic 5 - life from a window 6 - the place I love 7 - fly 8 - Smithers jones (bside version) 9 - Girl on the phone 10 - little boy soldiers 11 - set the house ablaze 12 - scrape away 13 - running on the spot 14 - the gift Shows what incredible songs they had, not a single or hit anywhere in this list but all amazing songs. My top 10 favourites: 1. Ghosts 2. Liza Radley 3. Thick As Thieves 4. In The Crowd 5. Mr. Clean 6. Man In The Cornershop 7. Circus 8. Way From The Numbers 9. Girl On The Phone 10. English Rose and what was the coolest thing they've done? Call it a day when they were on top of the world! |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Oct 3, 2018 8:12:21 GMT -5
My favourite tunes are definitely Old Castles and What Would He Say?. It's great that those tunes are sequenced one after the other. After that, I really like Mayfly and Movin' On. By the way, did you hear about What Would He Say? being about his dad? That just makes me love the tune even more. I know they had a great relationship--more like best mates than father and son, really--so it's touching that Paul's decided to write a song about him now, ten years on from his passing. Old Castles and What Would He Say are absolute my favourites as well. My most favourite song from the album is Mayfly. I also love Aspects and White Horses. No, I didn't know that What Would He Say was about his dad, so thanks for letting me know that. I loved when he played this song when I saw him last year. Without his dad, Weller (including The Jam, Style Council and solo) wouldn't have been what he is now. I love to read yours and matt posts. Weller is "the changing man" himself. This man never bores me. He's been trying new things more than ever past 10 years. In 2007 he completely changed his band. Except Steve Cradock all of his band members are 30 years younger than him, all of them are talented musicians. 3 of them have own band, one has a solo project and not to forget Cradock with OCS, solo and The Specials. They're not just a band in background and they're all independent musicians who don't have to rely on Weller's name. I'm seeing him twice this week and really looking forward to hear all those new songs. Yeah, I think that's been important as well. Good point. I definitely think that's helped keep things fresh. By the way, here's him talking about What Would He Say?: |
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Post by mimmihopps on Oct 5, 2018 6:17:40 GMT -5
What a beautiful acoustic gig was that last night. Unlikely his acoustic gig with Cradock in Paradiso 11 years ago, this time was with full band. One of 3 European acoustic gigs. Weller and his band opened with "A Bright Star" with Weller on keyboard, a very unique start and they played "Boy About Town" and "Private Hell" acoustic! "Man Of The Great Promise" by Style Council was a great surprise as well. Before they came on stage, there was an announcement not to take any pictures/videos and not to record the performance as it was the request from Weller and his band. We were kindly asked to switch our phones off, so I switched my phone off. It was his and his band's request, then there's no way that I won't respect it. However there were some annoying people who didn't care to take pictures with flash light and those kept going to bar and the restroom during performance. Brilliant performance of 1 hour and 40 minutes with one encore (You Do Something To Me). If he plays "Ghosts" tomorrow, my eyes won't stay dry. Thank you Mr. Weller and his fantastic band. See you tomorrow again! theyknowwhatimean, I really hope you'll catch him with this True Meanings tour! |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Oct 5, 2018 7:18:27 GMT -5
“If he plays “Ghosts” tomorrow my eyes won’t stay dry.” mimmihopps, I love that. 😃👍 Have a good one tonight. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 11:12:15 GMT -5
Lucky man that sounds pretty special. What did your dad think of it? The thought of father and son enjoying a new record for the first listen together is nicer and more heart warming than anything a store bought greeting card could ever capture. (Still waiting on my copy) Haha. Yeah, it’s pretty cool. We’ve looked forward to release days since Sonik Kicks time (before that I was sniffy about Weller, so I’d just nominally buy my dad the albums when I couldn’t think of anything better to get him for Father’s Day), but then we would listened separately, via our iTunes downloads. Then, last year, we got a record player. Saturns Pattern was the most recent one out at that time, so we brought a copy as one of the first pieces in our vinyl collection. It sounded so good we decided to pre-order the then-forthcoming A Kind Revolution for vinyl and listen to it first that way. It went down well, so here we are. And—touch wood—hopefully we will be again, a couple of years down the line, with whatever Weller’s got in store for us next! My dad likes to go walking on the fields round the back. He took True Meanings with him the other day to give it its first listen through headphones. He said he enjoyed it. I can imagine it would sound nice listened to in that sort of scenario. Whatever you think of the quality of the songs, the recordings are undeniably very pretty. I have Saturn's Pattern on vinyl as well, sounds so good on wax! 👍😎 |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Oct 5, 2018 11:41:47 GMT -5
Haha. Yeah, it’s pretty cool. We’ve looked forward to release days since Sonik Kicks time (before that I was sniffy about Weller, so I’d just nominally buy my dad the albums when I couldn’t think of anything better to get him for Father’s Day), but then we would listened separately, via our iTunes downloads. Then, last year, we got a record player. Saturns Pattern was the most recent one out at that time, so we brought a copy as one of the first pieces in our vinyl collection. It sounded so good we decided to pre-order the then-forthcoming A Kind Revolution for vinyl and listen to it first that way. It went down well, so here we are. And—touch wood—hopefully we will be again, a couple of years down the line, with whatever Weller’s got in store for us next! My dad likes to go walking on the fields round the back. He took True Meanings with him the other day to give it its first listen through headphones. He said he enjoyed it. I can imagine it would sound nice listened to in that sort of scenario. Whatever you think of the quality of the songs, the recordings are undeniably very pretty. I have Saturn's Pattern on vinyl as well, sounds so good on wax! 👍😎 It’s those big drums, man. I know Weller is a fan of how that record sounds as well, so I’m hoping he’s got plans for another, similarly impactful sounding, record for next time. ‘Pick It Up’ is an ocean of sonic delights to swim in. |
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