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Post by crisppacket on Aug 21, 2018 16:42:38 GMT -5
Which 90s power anthem reigns supreme?
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Post by andybellwillring on Aug 21, 2018 16:55:48 GMT -5
Bittersweet Symphony hasn't been ruined yet by awful blokes showing up with their acoustic guitars in the vicinity of campfires or afterparties.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Aug 21, 2018 17:05:52 GMT -5
As much as I love Wonderwall, I’ll probably go Bitter Sweet Symphony just for the lyric, “I need to hear some sounds that recognise the pain in me, [...] but the airwaves are clean and there’s nobody singing to me now.”
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Post by Binary Sunset on Aug 21, 2018 19:30:55 GMT -5
Bittersweet Symphony in a close one for me. Those strings. Best Rolling Stones song by far!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 14:47:12 GMT -5
Bitter Sweet Symphony.
I do like Wonderwall, and I think it's a perfectly written pop tune, but there's something in BSS that makes it one of my favourite songs ever. Although I gotta admit I often prefer other Verve tunes such as Lucky Man, Slide Away and Rolling People.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Aug 23, 2018 14:49:13 GMT -5
Hot damn! What a topic. So many angles to take. Both are stud tunes for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 14:50:47 GMT -5
Boneheads Wonderwall
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Post by carlober on Aug 23, 2018 15:05:32 GMT -5
Well... Bitter Sweet Symphony might be my favorite song ever...
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Post by matt on Aug 23, 2018 15:35:28 GMT -5
A scandal that The Verve didn’t receive a penny from Bittersweet Symphony (ach, I never did like The Rolling Stones anyway).
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Post by Lennon2217 on Aug 23, 2018 17:16:42 GMT -5
A scandal that The Verve didn’t receive a penny from Bittersweet Symphony (ach, I never did like The Rolling Stones anyway). The obviously blame is on Alan Klein and his absurd ruling with an iron fist. I also blame Mick and Keith because they knew better. They knew The Verve didn’t really copy them but an Andrew Oldham string sample that doesn’t even sound like The Stones “Last Time”. Totally bullshit ruling back in 1997. Everyone got richer but Richard. No pun intended. |
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Post by Headmaster on Aug 23, 2018 20:29:51 GMT -5
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Post by madferitusa2025 on Aug 23, 2018 20:44:42 GMT -5
Maybe it's just WW burn out, but probably not  |
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Post by oasisserbia on Aug 24, 2018 3:19:20 GMT -5
Imagine if Urban Hymns was third Oasis album and Bittersweet Symphony first single from it...
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Post by crisppacket on Aug 24, 2018 5:01:54 GMT -5
I don’t know which one I’d choose myself tbh, both have been instrumental in developing my music taste and blew me away like nothing else when I heard them for the first time.
Bittersweet Symphony may just edge it for me though based on the music video, thought it was real when I first watched it with Ashcroft walking into all them people, thought that was cool af because he didn’t give a fuck. Plus, the lyrics are pure poetry.
But then again, if I hadn’t stumbled upon a music video channel one day that happened to be playing wonderwall, I probs wouldn’t have been encouraged to explore music outside of the charts because it sounded like nothing I’d heard before. Essentially got me into Nirvana tbh
However, I didn’t proper get into Oasis until years after that so it’s not like it made me get into them. But it did make me watch and follow Noel and Liam’s interviews, which got me into NGHFB so it kinda laid the foundations I guess
To summarise: it’s tough to pick (man!!)
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Post by Lennon2217 on Aug 24, 2018 7:20:07 GMT -5
I think the lyric that has always resonated the most with me is this one.
“But I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no, no, no”
Because when in your mid 30s who hasn’t had these thoughts over and over.
Fuck. Great song.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 24, 2018 8:55:03 GMT -5
I voted for Wonderwall, but this live performance is fucking amazing:
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Post by The Escapist on Aug 24, 2018 9:40:25 GMT -5
I voted for Wonderwall, but this live performance is fucking amazing: I really wish the album version was more like this. The heavy bass and drums, McCabe's guitar, Richard's more emotional vocals... In the second half of the studio version he slips back into a sort of sweet voice and I never liked that. Feels like the song doesn't build as much as it could. All in all, although Bittersweet Symphony is the better song to all intents and purposes - more meaningful, more forward-thinking, even possessing a more instantly recognisable instrumental hook - I'm personally gonna go with Wonderwall. It's just too perfect. |
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Post by The-Ghost-Dancer on Aug 24, 2018 11:21:48 GMT -5
wonderwall is the bigger song BSS is the better song anyhoo thats imo
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Post by tiger40 on Sept 17, 2020 13:39:29 GMT -5
Wonderwall of course. But I do like BSS.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 8:46:25 GMT -5
Both classics. The instrumentation does a lot on both of those songs too. Imagine Wonderwall without those waves of mellotron during the chorus. Wouldn't feel the same.
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