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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Mar 31, 2020 14:05:15 GMT -5
The songs as a collection are strong enough to warrant a fourth album with highlights like Blue Moon Rising, and ADIAINTGB and Come On Outside.
So to me, yeah why the fuck not have combined them as a 4th album instead?
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Post by LlAM on Mar 31, 2020 14:52:38 GMT -5
No!
The releases were nicely understated and suit their purpose perfectly.
In the same sense his '90s b-sides were great.
Except for the shitty production (yes, I'm guilty of being an armchair producer 🖐️) on Wandering Star, the releases have been exciting, interesting and bloody marvelous and the journey wouldn't be the same if it was released as an album.
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Post by World71R on Mar 31, 2020 14:59:00 GMT -5
No. I liked the way the EPs were spread throughout 2019 (and early-2020) and for us fans got music throughout the year, instead of just one big drop. For Noel, having three EPs with release dates scattered throughout the span of a year meant there wasn't a need to tour and drum up interest. Instead, he could release an EP at one point in the year, do a few shows, and repeat that twice, then go on hiatus once it's all said and done. Not to mention, the three EPs idea and the songs on the EPs were something experimental for him and his hiatus will likely be shorter than usual without having to recouperate from a long tour. Plus, we fans have our faux-album tracklistings to come up with and discuss. And for those who are also Beta Band fans, we can also theorize that they were an inspiration for Noel doing this  |
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on Mar 31, 2020 16:12:36 GMT -5
Noel's LP's have been consistently very good since he's gone solo and for me the songs from these 3 EP's don't match what he's done before so no, I'm pleased they've not been presented in such a way. To be honest even calling them EP's is a little bit cheeky. I'd have simply presented them as 3 new singles ('BSD', 'TITP', 'BMR') with b-sides + remixes.
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Post by russiangenius on Apr 1, 2020 7:55:48 GMT -5
Before first EP release I thought that this type of release is absolutely shite. But throughout 2019 I waited new songs even more than full album releases before. We got one song per 1-2 months and it was ideal. i thought EP format is for newbies or rappers or pop stars. But this productivity by Noel is very suprising, even if songs are with different quality. I wish Liam would do stuff like that
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Post by modxxii on Apr 1, 2020 8:29:23 GMT -5
No.
It's a b-sides/EP material.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 10:14:11 GMT -5
If he wanted to make comfortably the worst album of a 25 year career, sure.
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Post by GlastoEls on Apr 1, 2020 16:30:11 GMT -5
And for those who are also Beta Band fans, we can also theorize that they were an inspiration for Noel doing this Yes! What a band they were - and Steve Mason still releasing excellent stuff. |
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Post by The Chief on Apr 2, 2020 6:21:44 GMT -5
No. They're different both in style and quality. It would have been an aweful incohesive thing...
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Post by morning_rain on Apr 2, 2020 6:53:15 GMT -5
No, I'm glad we got the songs as we did because it wouldn't be strong enough as an album.
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Post by Jessica on Apr 2, 2020 7:44:39 GMT -5
I think if this had been material for the album #4, Wandering Star, Come On Outside, Sail On, and Rattling Rose would have been the b-sides (ADIAINTGB the Japanese release bonus). Wandering Star would have just been the Do The Damage of the cycle. Probably wouldn't look good for him to come back with these as the main album tracks after WBTM.
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Post by draper on Apr 2, 2020 8:17:46 GMT -5
No. Not good enough as a whole album. Although the same can be said about Who Built The Moon in my opinion (4 strong tracks, too much filler).
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Post by popeyebonaparte on Apr 2, 2020 8:29:47 GMT -5
Not good enough really. I'm glad we got the tracks but after WBTM, arguably Noel's strongest and most consistent work apart from Definitely Maybe and Be Here Now, it would have been a massive let down. He should get straight back in the studio with David Holmes. All this "He's too busy doing Killing Eve" sounds like a typical Noel excuse. Give it a few years and we'll be reading in the NME that they had it out in a car park over how many points David would get on the next album.
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Post by GlastoEls on Apr 29, 2020 6:20:00 GMT -5
Can someone help me with a tech problem:
I have all the EPs bought from Qobuz and put into iTunes.
What I want now is to create a new ‘album’ (not a playlist) with the nine original songs as a hypothetical NGHFB album 4, with custom artwork etc.
However, iTunes is seeing the songs as dupes and not importing them.
Any ideas how I can achieve this?
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Post by The Boy Without the Blues on Apr 29, 2020 10:14:38 GMT -5
No. They pretty much leveled the expectations around it and I honestly believe they weren't material good enough for a fourth album.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on May 1, 2020 11:33:14 GMT -5
No, not strong enough.
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Post by The Escapist on May 1, 2020 20:25:52 GMT -5
Can someone help me with a tech problem: I have all the EPs bought from Qobuz and put into iTunes. What I want now is to create a new ‘album’ (not a playlist) with the nine original songs as a hypothetical NGHFB album 4, with custom artwork etc. However, iTunes is seeing the songs as dupes and not importing them. Any ideas how I can achieve this? Convert the YouTube videos to MP3's, download the MP3's, use a 7Zip File Manager to move the files to iTunes/Apple Music, then go to Song Info and fill out all the info (putting them all under the same album name, artist name, artwork etc...) |
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Post by GlastoEls on Jun 22, 2020 6:09:33 GMT -5
Listening to these beauties in the local park now, booked a random day off to do nothing at all. Sun shining.
Genuinely terrific. I might be fonder of these nine songs than any other solo NG stuff.
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Post by oasisserbia on Jun 22, 2020 19:07:32 GMT -5
No, two shit LP's in a row would be too much.
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Post by jh on Jun 23, 2020 7:16:08 GMT -5
No, two shit LP's in a row would be too much. Very very true! |
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Post by fabulousbakers on Jun 23, 2020 17:01:04 GMT -5
Can someone help me with a tech problem: I have all the EPs bought from Qobuz and put into iTunes. What I want now is to create a new ‘album’ (not a playlist) with the nine original songs as a hypothetical NGHFB album 4, with custom artwork etc. However, iTunes is seeing the songs as dupes and not importing them. Any ideas how I can achieve this? Apologies if some of this sounds either too condescendingly simple or too hard - everybody has different computer skills these days (was it this forum a few months ago where I saw somebody didn't even know how to change the name of a file they had downloaded?) so what I thought was easy a ten years ago is hard for some people. Every time you try to add the songs you downloaded from Qobuz into itunes it correctly recognises them as dupes as they're exactly the same song file with the same information embedded in them. You can make as many different playlists using those songs as you like on itunes but it won't change the information embedded in the mp3 file like the album title and cover art. So you need a second copy of those mp3 song files in a new folder on your computer. I don't know what Qobuz is (an online music store I guess) so I don't know if you have easy access to the original mp3 files you downloaded. They will be on your computer somewhere but it may be be hard to find them. If you can find them then just copy and paste them to a second folder. If you can't find them then itunes may let you burn a CDr from those files. Burn all the tracks to a CDr then rip the CDr back as mp3 files on your hard drive and put them in a new folder. Option three is to get some free software like jdownloader. Simply find the tracks on youtube and copy the url into jdownloader. Jdownloader will ask you if you want an mp3 file of that video and where you want to download it to. Download all the mp3 files directly to your new folder. It takes seconds. Anyway once you have all the new mp3 files in a new folder (via whatever method) you can go into file manager and change all the album artwork and album title information on those new files just by right clicking on the mp3 files and changing any of the fields that come up. You can use free software like mp3tag to bulk (or individually) change all the artwork. Import the new files to itunes (it will recognise them as different files now) and make a new playlist. . |
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Post by Manualex on Jun 23, 2020 19:00:16 GMT -5
Can someone help me with a tech problem: I have all the EPs bought from Qobuz and put into iTunes. What I want now is to create a new ‘album’ (not a playlist) with the nine original songs as a hypothetical NGHFB album 4, with custom artwork etc. However, iTunes is seeing the songs as dupes and not importing them. Any ideas how I can achieve this? Apologies if some of this sounds either too condescendingly simple or too hard - everybody has different computer skills these days (was it this forum a few months ago where I saw somebody didn't even know how to change the name of a file they had downloaded?) so what I thought was easy a ten years ago is hard for some people. Every time you try to add the songs you downloaded from Qobuz into itunes it correctly recognises them as dupes as they're exactly the same song file with the same information embedded in them. You can make as many different playlists using those songs as you like on itunes but it won't change the information embedded in the mp3 file like the album title and cover art. So you need a second copy of those mp3 song files in a new folder on your computer. I don't know what Qobuz is (an online music store I guess) so I don't know if you have easy access to the original mp3 files you downloaded. They will be on your computer somewhere but it may be be hard to find them. If you can find them then just copy and paste them to a second folder. If you can't find them then itunes may let you burn a CDr from those files. Burn all the tracks to a CDr then rip the CDr back as mp3 files on your hard drive and put them in a new folder. Option three is to get some free software like jdownloader. Simply find the tracks on youtube and copy the url into jdownloader. Jdownloader will ask you if you want an mp3 file of that video and where you want to download it to. Download all the mp3 files directly to your new folder. It takes seconds. Anyway once you have all the new mp3 files in a new folder (via whatever method) you can go into file manager and change all the album artwork and album title information on those new files just by right clicking on the mp3 files and changing any of the fields that come up. You can use free software like mp3tag to bulk (or individually) change all the artwork. Import the new files to itunes (it will recognise them as different files now) and make a new playlist. . Wouldnt be more easier to Open the songs in vlc and to modify the metadata of the songs. Or iTunes wouldnt recognize that? |
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Post by fabulousbakers on Jun 23, 2020 20:38:57 GMT -5
Wouldnt be more easier to Open the songs in vlc and to modify the metadata of the songs. Or iTunes wouldnt recognize that? I'm not sure if you can change mp3 tags with VLC? Probably can but to me it seems easier to just right click on the new mp3 files and change most of the metadata that way. Why go the extra step of opening VLC? On my old computer from 10 years ago I could right click on an mp3 file and change the cover art but my new computer won't let me do that - that's why I suggested mp3tag as good software for batch (or individual) editing of mp3 tags. VLC may well do the same thing but I've never tried. iTunes may well allow you to do it as well. The original poster's main problem seemed to be working out that they needed two copies of the actual mp3 files if they wanted the songs to have different values (titles and cover art etc) under different itunes playlists. Once they actually have a second copy of the mp3 files then altering the tags is the easy part. |
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Post by yeayeayeah on Jun 24, 2020 1:26:55 GMT -5
It would have been his worst solo album if he did. I would like them to be released altogether as a completion for something like Record Store Day.
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Post by bt95 on Jun 24, 2020 3:41:14 GMT -5
Listening to these beauties in the local park now, booked a random day off to do nothing at all. Sun shining. Genuinely terrific. I might be fonder of these nine songs than any other solo NG stuff. I have my 9-song playlist and when I put it on it really works. Don't think it'd have worked as an actual abum but the songs do all flow nicely into each other. Glad we got them in the way we did. |
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