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Post by matt on Jun 20, 2023 16:35:07 GMT -5
Captain Scarlet all the way.
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Post by matt on Jun 20, 2023 15:15:52 GMT -5
Listen to that Hampden roar... real fucking football!!
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Post by matt on Jun 18, 2023 16:57:35 GMT -5
I love Now & Then and Real Love in their raw demo form.
It's a point in time where Lennon was as a man, and it has that haunting sense of isolation and vulnerability to it. Partying, hangers on, famous friends, all that was a thing of the past at this point. He wasn't going out much and was very much a hermit around this time. It's rather more poignant that he wasn't around for much longer and versions made by the rest of The Beatles thereafter removes that.
The demos capture the loneliness and a sense of an ending. This version is my favourite (sadly not on YouTube anymore).
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Post by matt on Jun 18, 2023 7:28:13 GMT -5
It’s been a long time since I was this hyped for a new Final Fantasy Game. Looks super awesome. And in about a year we will get FF7 Rebirth too. Exciting times ahead Did they not remake FF7 recently? |
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Post by matt on Jun 17, 2023 8:04:29 GMT -5
What do you mean a hard follow? I'm not going to get into it but basically a lot of her views on covid were a bit interesting. If you're hanging around with right wing nutjobs like The Sun, then you're always going to be susceptible to idiocy. |
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Post by matt on Jun 17, 2023 7:58:16 GMT -5
One Love was the first time I heard him perform live as a solo act. Suddenly realised we were in for something special.
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Post by matt on Jun 13, 2023 14:51:45 GMT -5
Chuffed to hear about this. It's nice that Paul has got his wish to finish the tune off because technology has improved enough to make mixing it properly possible.
It probably won't happen, but I wish they'd have another go at 'Real Love'. 'Free As a Bird' came out sounding pretty good, I think, but the shortcomings of Lennon's demo recordings are very apparent on 'Real Love'. That bloody piano stuck to Lennon's vocal. Argh!
... By the way, is that true, folks, that 'Free As a Bird', 'Real Love', and 'Now and Then' were compiled by Lennon onto a cassette labelled "For Paul"? I hadn't heard about that before, but the prospect of it being true is absolutely thrilling to me.
I know people like to focus on their rivalry, like they do with Liam and Noel or the Davies brothers, but I much prefer to think about John and Paul being friends. Many people who came into contact with them have remarked on the special bond that seemed to exist between them, and it's one the things I love most about The Beatles: Get Back that at times we can see how alike they were, and how much they loved each other. From most accounts, it's John's handwriting that hastily scribbled 'for Paul'. It's profound if true, but part of me suspects it was Yoko who wrote it while compiling material to hand over for the Anthology sessions. Over the years, the story just grew legs to become a romanticised myth. I'd so want it to be true. While I'm sure the bond was there, it's little gestures like this that would indicate the depths of that bond and that they never went away in all those years. |
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Post by matt on Jun 12, 2023 15:15:26 GMT -5
mimmihopps The Escapist, Any other Sigur Ros fans? Here's their new single from their forthcoming album. New album also titled Blóðberg. First album in ten years and sees the return of Kjartan Sveinsson who left in 2012. 
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Post by matt on Jun 12, 2023 13:48:25 GMT -5
This is a belter from the Irish Times summing up Man City's 'success'. Sums up the Faustian pact that clubs make these days to a tee. www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2023/06/12/ken-early-manchester-citys-supremacy-has-made-the-rest-of-football-seem-small/"Imagine a reboot of Moby Dick in which Captain Ahab strikes a mysterious Faustian bargain that enables him to live into the age of industrial whaling. He fits the Pequod with a diesel engine, tracks down Moby Dick using sonar and kills him with an explosive harpoon. Years later, Ahab goes about in a white whaleskin suit and shoes and has opened a pub called Dick’s Place where all the furniture is made out of whalebone. The story of how he bested the white whale is still his favourite subject of conversation. If anyone is tactless enough to suggest that there was perhaps something unheroic about the explosive harpoon, he tells them to cry more. If anyone seems to be getting too interested in the question of how he continues to be fit as a fiddle at 150 years old, he hires the 50 best lawyers in Nantucket to sue them for the next 10 years." |
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Post by matt on Jun 12, 2023 8:00:28 GMT -5
Bob Dylan has only had 5 number 1 US albums. None of his 60’s work got there. The first was Planet Waves ffs. How many people talk about it? None. That's mad that. Had no idea. Just thinking of all the iconic albums prior to that from him. And begs the question, who remembers chart positions? Nobody. Do they matter? No. Above is the best example of that. |
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Post by matt on Jun 10, 2023 16:20:44 GMT -5
Such a non-event, nobody cares. Think most football fans are fed up with this farce now.
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Post by matt on Jun 9, 2023 18:49:40 GMT -5
Think of a Number is a distant cousin to Falling Down IMO. Some really cool syncopation in the drum beat here and there, especially in the middle 8 “why do we still play pretend..” Does anyone else get a U2 feel? I keep thinking of New Year’s Day? Bassline is definitely reminiscent of New Year's Day. |
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Post by matt on Jun 9, 2023 17:39:51 GMT -5
Jeez, I remember getting the U2 one from Mojo back in 2009. Though I'm sure they had an Oasis one a few years back?
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Post by matt on Jun 9, 2023 13:38:31 GMT -5
His streak should have ended with Who Built the Moon. Well considering Holy Mountain is one of his most successful singles, I guess not. |
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Post by matt on Jun 9, 2023 13:37:17 GMT -5
There She Blows blows.
But other than that, the rest is great. Still letting it settle, but for a conventional Noel album, it's incredibly enjoyable, moreso than I thought. Some times the sentiments hit you at the right time, and maybe that's just the case here.
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Post by matt on Jun 7, 2023 18:49:02 GMT -5
The Quietus is the Brewdog of music journalism. They think they’re cool, they are seen as cool by a small minority of sad sack middle class hipsters but the rest of society just see them as pish, just constantly churning out absolute shite.
Like Brewdog, they are insecure, middle class types who rage against the privilege of their relatively comfortable but dull upbringing with raging neurosis and pretension, attempting to be seen hip and cool in the process. Their desperation to be something only ends with them being further entrenched as the people they are - white, whiny, self pitying middle class losers. That review of Noel says more about the reviewer than the album.
Oh and they all wear Peaky Blinder caps. The biggest ends of bells imaginable!
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Post by matt on Jun 6, 2023 16:43:12 GMT -5
The Girl With the X-Ray Eyes doesn't get enough hate on here. Atrocious plodding mess. And it was a single! Hated it on first listen. Pray god if there's one good thing to come from Noel's divorce it's these types of songs (obviously I'm being facetious, but still...). |
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Post by matt on Jun 6, 2023 11:13:19 GMT -5
Why people take this guy seriously is anyone's guess.
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 17:26:52 GMT -5
It's six years ago today since Liam released Wall Of Glass. 2017. What a time to be an Oasis fan that was. Both brothers belted it out the park that year. |
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 17:19:18 GMT -5
Just came to mind that by playing Going Nowhere for the first time, it's not only Noel who revisits the original recording but Mike Rowe too, who played keyboards on the original version.
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 16:47:16 GMT -5
More muddy mixes and shit drums. Yay! Not to mention an album where we're plodded to death. Plod, plod, plod. |
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 16:33:37 GMT -5
If Sardy's producing it, let's hope it stays a mystery.
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 14:17:57 GMT -5
Fucking hell, if next up is a Dave Sardy produced Noel album then just imagine this place going into meltdown.
Pray to god it isn't.
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 6:47:59 GMT -5
There really isn't much between them for me and it'll likely change depending on my mood. All 4 are consistently good to great so it depends on taste. HFB1 has some really strong songs. EEOTR, IIHAG, TDOYAM, WAL, Broken Arrow are all top tier for Noel and that's half the album. There aren't any weak songs for me either, I quite like Dream On and Stop The Clocks. Chasing Yesterday might be the weakest for me, but only because of a few weaker tracks on there. The Mexican and X Ray Eyes are rubbish and I can't for the life of me hear what everyone seems to think is so great about The Right Stuff WBTM is by far the most interesting album and it has three of my top 10 solo songs from him on there in Holy Mountain, She Taught Me How To Fly and If Love Is The Law. It's a couple of tracks short though, it only has 9 complete tracks and I don't really care for Be Careful What You Wish For. I think if they could have finished the older version of This Is The Place and maybe allowed for one older song on there like Come On Outside (With Holmes producing it) it would probably be my favorite Council Skies is really strong from start to finish. I don't hear a single song that I would skip but for me it only has two absolute top tier songs in Dead To The World and Think Of A Number. I give it bonus points though for how eclectic it is and I know people have moaned about the production but I like the way it sounds. I would probably go HFB1 WBTM CS CY But there really isn't much between them, they're all an 8.something to me. The Right Stuff has to be the most overrated song of his solo career. It's fine but for a psychedelic song, it's far too tepid. Mexican, Girl With X Ray Eyes and Lock All The Doors are just downright embarrassing. The rest is fairly meh. Riverman and While The Song Remains are the only brilliant songs on the album. In terms of an eclectic, varied conventional Noel sounding record, Council Skies is the album Chasing Yesterday wishes it was. It's rooted firmly at the bottom as his worst. So with Moon in number one, I have an internal debate for second best album between Council Skies and the debut. The debut, for the clutch of diamonds on it and its peaks probably being higher, is far too one note and mid tempo. There is no variation on it, and does suffer from songs that are much worse than anything on Council Skies. At the moment, Council Skies is clearly his second best for consistency and maintaining high excellence throughout for the most part (if perhaps not classics in the vein of On The Run or Death of You & Me). |
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2023 6:27:50 GMT -5
I just can't seem to get into There She Blows! and Love Is a Rich Man. The former is a total rip-off of Homefront Cameo by Cotton Mather and the latter is a pastiche that doesn't quite work, it feels like three different songs put together. Thankfully though none of them is as bad as The Girl With the X-Ray Eyes... that one was a real dirge. Not a fan of of those songs either, everything else I really dig though - even Easy Now has wormed its way into being an unashamed heartfelt Noel song for me (I've fallen in love with that falsetto bit leading to the guitar chorus, a real epic production effort instead of the plodding dross he went with would have helped take the song and that moment to a level of ecstasy). But There She Blows is the dadrock I hate hearing from Noel - just that tired, lumpen flat as a pancake plodding chorus he can't help himself with at times. It's lazy and uninspired. Love Is A Rich Man is admirable in opting for a Motown vibe but feels like a far inferior cousin of If Love Is The Law (a song that really benefited from its kitchen sink production by David Holmes). Maybe unfair to compare it to a song I love, so it's merely passable at best, and at least doesn't commit the crimes of There She Blows. But moreso, I think they kill the vibe of the album. Up until then, it's a very sweet, charming and melancholic album, at times brooding, before he slaps on some ill fitting leather trousers and you think 'uh oh' but thankfully he redeems himself with Think Of A Number. I've said it countless times but he's a pop songwriter and that's where he excels, not lumpen rock. I'd have held back Sail On and A Dream Is All I Need To Get By to replace those two tail end tunes - I think they're consistent with the charm and melodic nature of this record and more in keeping with it. In fact, I'm going to create that playlist now! |
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