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Post by matt on Oct 30, 2024 17:19:36 GMT -5
Dons still flying Gin & Tonic, unbelievable stuff at Pittodrie. What about Rangers Jim? Dunno what's happened with Clement. |
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Post by matt on Oct 28, 2024 17:31:00 GMT -5
Generally agree about Noel's lack of frontman ability. He's not got the voice, captivating presence and charisma to maintain a full album. Who Built The Moon works because, in addition to his vocals, there's rich textured soundscapes to dig your teeth into in addition to the songs sounding fresh and invigorating. All his other solo albums sadly suffer from a blandness and mid tempo plod in the production front. Liam's voice is always dynamite and there are a good number of gems scattered throughout his solo albums, albeit more inconsistent following As You Were.
---BRILLIANT TIER---
Who Built The Moon
---VERY GOOD TIER---
NGHFB/As You Were
Council Skies
--- DECENT TIER---
Cmon You Know
Why Me Why Not
---SHIT TIER---
Chasing Yesterday (barring Riverman & Song Remains)
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Post by matt on Oct 27, 2024 17:52:32 GMT -5
Flying On The Ground BBC Live hands down Mad that his BBC recordings are so much better sounding than his studio versions. |
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Post by matt on Oct 25, 2024 17:57:18 GMT -5
If there's one thing I was never keen on, it was double tracking vocals of John. I get it that he requested to George Martin to do that as he was always critical of his own voice, but man oh man, if he only knew how great his voice was. Case in point is the stripped back version of Double Fantasy. Presenting Lennon's vocals in its rawest form is the best way to enjoy it, often superior to the end product. I love the acoustic rough version of Watching The Wheels. It's so much better than the released verson It's certainly got that 80s sheen to it, but it's production that his voice didn't need. It's like spoiling a work of art. Quality of these songs makes you wonder what kind of decade he'd have had in the 80s, I think he was on top form songwriting wise with this album and Milk & Honey, by far his best work since Imagine in my opinion. For me, Lennon's voice in its purest form is easily the best male vocalist ever. |
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Post by matt on Oct 24, 2024 19:04:29 GMT -5
So much for Noel being a fan of The Beatles, he claims he never heard this song until 2010.
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Post by matt on Oct 24, 2024 18:58:56 GMT -5
Counting the number of credited song-writers like that is a cheap move, in my opinion, especially since the whole point of "We Pray" is to be as far-reaching a collaboration between rappers/singers as possible, and Coldplay always credit all four members of the band plus their producer for most of the songs despite Chris being the one doing the actual writing. It's like when people think there are sixty song-writers behind hip=hop songs when most of that is just the various sample credits. A lazy way to score points against modern songs you don't like. "We Pray" is a fine track, just not a Coldplay one. Rick Beato doesn't hold much appeal for me. Regardless, I think it's their worst collaboration, primarily because it's all quite tuneless. It's no Princess of China or My Universe. |
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Post by matt on Oct 24, 2024 15:42:33 GMT -5
Was watching Rick Beato like the old man I'm turning into, and sure enough, he had a lot to say about We Pray and it's 15 - yes fifteen - songwriters.
And you know what, it's by far my least favourite song on that album. It's all much of a muchness, a mish mash of committee driven songwriting like an algorithm cherry picking all the sounds of what makes a chart song these days. It's as if all the sounds are put in a blender, and the result is this beige mush. I don't think its a terrible song, but its uninspired in the extreme in its desperate attempt to be 'relevant'. Thankfully, it's the only song on that album that sounds like that.
You don't stay relevant trying to sound like everyone else, you stay relevant doing the thing that only you can do and can do well.
That aside, still really enjoying the album after a month.
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Post by matt on Oct 24, 2024 12:04:55 GMT -5
Who here is behind the James Hargreaves subreddit? Funny as fuck I always wonder why some people get so annoyed about this guy that they spend so much time making fun of him. Even the craziest videos like the one of "Dead in the water" are entertaining. And the thing about ridiculing someone's physical appearance who's simply making videos about Oasis, a band we all love, I just can't laugh at that, but I'm glad some people are having fun. I think it has less to do with his video analysis and more to do with his, erm, 'music' that he says will 'take back the charts'... |
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Post by matt on Oct 23, 2024 14:56:48 GMT -5
Still holding out hope for The Prodigy… I mean that would be spectacular given the dirge that is supporting them. At this rate, it'll be woman beater knobhead extraordinaire and failed solo artist Tom Meighan and James bloody Hargreaves added to the support list. |
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Post by matt on Oct 23, 2024 13:40:04 GMT -5
Xenophobic much from the daily fail with Tuchel? Saying that Sven Goran Ericson was a mercenary just weeks after his death is vile. who the fuck wrote that shit? They’re bringing all the world war 2 references out of the archive as we speak It's ironic, given the paper was actively pro-Hitler in the 1930s. Bunch of c***s. |
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Post by matt on Oct 23, 2024 10:57:50 GMT -5
Great read. Ironic its in The Guardian though, sadly that doesn't fit their hipster narrative that the band are just for window licking knuckle dragging homophobes. |
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Post by matt on Oct 22, 2024 17:34:30 GMT -5
Maybe it's an Oasis track featuring Goldie. Now that would be fun. |
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Post by matt on Oct 22, 2024 16:48:35 GMT -5
I'd have a mix of both personally. In the latter days they would play the main solo closer to Weller's solo on the album so, that plus the extended solo he played at the end of the song, that would be magic! just get squire in for the UK dates to do it properly, he’s a million times better then weller and noel put together He can go one much better than Squire and get Marr. |
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Post by matt on Oct 21, 2024 18:12:24 GMT -5
Not even sure why they didn't get Travis as support for UK/Ireland. They supported them on the BHN tour and are still a class A talent. Not as popular as they were 8 years ago but Fran has had a much wider and more impressive catalog of songs written in the last thirty years. Good shout, they're still so much better than Ashcroft, Courteeners, Kasabian, all that crap put together. |
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Post by matt on Oct 21, 2024 10:41:22 GMT -5
Depressingly dull and predictable support acts.
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Post by matt on Oct 21, 2024 8:40:59 GMT -5
Never really liked Don't Go Away.
Stop Crying by far.
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Post by matt on Oct 20, 2024 7:12:10 GMT -5
If folk actually think immigration is one of the main causes for societal disintegration, then my god, you've got to be next level stupid.
A convenient scapegoat for all the incel morons on here who are brainwashed by right wing media. File alongside the anti-vaxxer loons.
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Post by matt on Oct 19, 2024 18:56:46 GMT -5
Threads in iPlayer.
Holy shit...
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Post by matt on Oct 19, 2024 18:56:02 GMT -5
That's actually a brilliant little fact! I've crumbled already ...one of those facts might be a lie sorry.. just thought be in sync with the post...... as if his name is really Phil  Haha, well that's a realistic lie if ever there was one, very niche! |
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Post by matt on Oct 19, 2024 17:19:12 GMT -5
Your post reminds me of when I saw Tony Hopkins, well, you probably know him as Sir Anthony Hopkins, backstage at the Oscars several years ago - he leaned over to me and whispered, “They still haven’t found me out.”, then he winked at me….. God bless. fun fact but his name is actually Phil not Tony and this might his secret, he's the uncle of the 90's oasis press officer Johnny Hopkins That's actually a brilliant little fact! |
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Post by matt on Oct 19, 2024 7:25:00 GMT -5
Sadly it'll be more informed by The Stone Roses dire half assed reunion more than anything.
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Post by matt on Oct 18, 2024 13:17:18 GMT -5
Do they really care about enhancing their legacy? Or will it just be take the money and run with absolutely no content whatsoever. Now is the perfect time to change tack from the mediocrity that surrounded the band at the end of their original run in 2009 and do something brilliant again. Noel and co probably think 'ungrateful bastards' at such a stance, but being the self-proclaimed biggest thing ever, you need more than just some gigs. And for their scale, it demands something special.
Typical lack of ambition from the band and management, shouldn't have thought any different to be honest.
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Post by matt on Oct 17, 2024 6:15:10 GMT -5
Next video, "Is Noel secretly gay?", 28 minutes 48 seconds.
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Post by matt on Oct 16, 2024 17:57:55 GMT -5
Two remixes of Kisses were released today. The Grouper remix is gorgeous. Can't get enough of swirly, long reverb tails. I was listening to these today, very good. I need to dig deeper into Slowdive's stuff. |
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Post by matt on Oct 16, 2024 17:22:14 GMT -5
Yeah he should have stuck to the original plan of it being a double album. That wacky stuff he was doing doesn't really serve a single album given its lack of coherency, and I think madness and versatility is best served as a selection box of some sort. Maybe he just thought it would invite comparisons with The White Album though. Yes. McCartney 2 is a little disjoined but a genuine double album adding in those brilliant tracks from CD2 (Sway, Friend, Check) would have done the trick. Didn’t the record company nix it? I think both McCartney and the record company eventually agreed to keep it to a single LP, whether he was pressured or not to do so I'm not sure. |
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