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Post by batfink30 on Dec 19, 2017 9:53:45 GMT -5
2018, the year of nuclear war with NK. Good luck world!
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 17, 2017 15:31:03 GMT -5
I mean yeah, I hate Chrismas and spending it with the inlaws but Nöels a dick.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 16, 2017 17:38:42 GMT -5
Lights of Home sounds great on the BBC live clip with the full orchestra. Looking forward to this on Tuesday evening.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 12, 2017 20:16:42 GMT -5
It's the antithesis of what a good song is. Clichéd, plodding and trying to rip off a 90s Oasis ballad. It's dreadful. Save this in note pad mate, it will save you having to write the same thing slightly differently every few days. What a surprise! Anyway, there's no forum rules for hating on a song(also see my dislike for Dead In the Water) You're probably looking for my posts to confirm your bias that I only dislike Liam songs though. Seriously though, (to put it nicely) go away!
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 12, 2017 18:02:21 GMT -5
I love For What It's Worth, it's such a massive anthem. The sing-along in Glasgow last week was mind-blowing. It's the antithesis of what a good song is. Clichéd, plodding and trying to rip off a 90s Oasis ballad. It's dreadful.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 12, 2017 15:03:51 GMT -5
FWIW?! Understandable as the track is sub par Take That fodder. I think its a great track, not sure where the hate comes from really ....if Take That produced a track of that quality I'd have a lot more respect for them In all honesty, Gary Barlow has written much, much better songs than FWIW.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 12, 2017 11:37:27 GMT -5
FWIW?! Understandable as the track is sub par Take That fodder.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 11, 2017 14:57:37 GMT -5
Of course Wonderwall is a bigger/more famous song than DLBIA. How's this even up for discussion. In the UK? I'd say DLBIA is bigger these days.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 11, 2017 14:48:57 GMT -5
Into the third week, and this album just keeps getting better for me. Easily his best solo album. Fucking brilliant, Noel. On first listen it's avarage but on repetitive listens it gets better and better. The opposite of CY and the sign of a great album.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 8, 2017 18:51:35 GMT -5
It should be funny but all i see is Noel in Media setting 7.3 of his how to be to sell albums manual. He actually felt much more like his old self than usual. Lately he's been hitting certain talking points and it just feels like he's a customer service operator reading off a script: "It's almost revolutionary to make joyous music these days" "Liam didn't write his album" "FWIW sounds like Adele" "I have girls in my band, whoever heard of such a thing??" (Other than Garbage, Elastica, Portishead, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Lush, Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins, etc.....) This seemed much more off the cuff, specially his reaction to Jack Black saying "actually I meant Liam..." Noels banter has dried up.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 8, 2017 15:20:04 GMT -5
She fell, she fell right under my spell she fell , she fell right under my spell!
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 8, 2017 12:03:33 GMT -5
Give it up man, you're following people on here trying to get a reaction. I take it the irony of that statement hasn't been lost on you. Ive posted a few silly posts but you're on here everyday doing it and trying to rile up people. Really, who gives a f*** about Noel or Liam? In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter a bit.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 8, 2017 11:20:58 GMT -5
I don’t expect you to keep track of my posts on the forum. I only expect you to follow my “likes”. Thought you couldn't, strange how the memory goes as we get older eh. Although losing 48 hours is pretty worrying. Don't let it stop you using it as a vehicle to be snide though. Give it up man, you're following people on here trying to get a reaction.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 7, 2017 11:53:23 GMT -5
In 2017 is whether abortion should be legal even a thing?! It's absurd to even debate it. Are people wanting to go back to the days of back street abortions and women dying because of them?
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 7, 2017 11:11:06 GMT -5
He's milked the UK dry already. Too many shows in the past few years. Regardless, with new material to play you'd think demand would be at its highest right about now. If he hadnt played for 5 years people would be all over the shows, I've lost count of how many times he's played near me for example over the past few years, must be 4 or 5. Shelling out another couple of hundred quid on tickets for 2 people gets waring. He's milked the market dry.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 7, 2017 9:04:05 GMT -5
Well in all fairness, we all agree that the likes of Liam and Noel do not make money off album sales, Noel may get more on the return since he doesn’t have to pay a bunch of people per sale but you have to sell millions at this point to make a dollar. Where they do make money is the touring. Noel hasn’t sold out many of the venues yet which is a bit upsetting- even in the UK at this point which i find shocking. I think he thought since he was opening for a sold out U2 tour that the enthusiasm would cross over but that’s proven to be not true. Those VIP packages really messed him up for the US market too. The last two times Noel played NYC, it sold out within half hour - this time there are still seats available last time I checked (however that was two weeks ago) we will have to see what happens closer to the dates... maybe they lower ticket prices or move to smaller venue. Noel wouldn’t be happy about either I’m sure And just checked, loads of tickets available for nyc and many US dates. Also Ireland, UK and Europe still tickets available. :/ He's milked the UK dry already. Too many shows in the past few years.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 5, 2017 22:51:05 GMT -5
I hear you on that point but Noel's album isn't bombing. Its doing the same as Chasing Yesterday give or take. An album like "BE" flat out bombed. If Noel's album did that chart and tour performance then fine, have at it. Many of these anti-MOON, anti-Mountain posts about it "struggling" are unfounded. Just seems like sour grapes from a different year, band, album cycle. I didn't say it was. I don't even know how much its sold as of now but it seems dissenting voices are to be silenced! To imply that people who aren't as impressed are noobs or bots is pathetic ( also happening in the AYW Vs WBTM thread) People like batfink30 and matt worked really hard for this reaction from people over a number of years, they should enjoy it. At least 10 years or your opinion doesn't count! However, I'd prefer it if dissenting opinion posts were at least sentient!
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 5, 2017 18:39:16 GMT -5
I've read this 5 times and still have trouble understanding what the fuck you're trying to say! I think he's saying that people are making excuses for Noel selling badly, which is weird because Noel didn't sell badly at all and no-one is making excuses for it because it didn't happen. Again, I'm reading some absolute shite from someone with less than 100 posts. Where are these posters coming from?! Russian bots? I guess they probably are because most of them can't speak English properly.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 5, 2017 17:15:37 GMT -5
Not sure posters in here can make their mind up - Great sales, Noel is 50 now, yeah mega Has a made up very specific record of 10 something's charting somewhere - hero! Didn't expect it to chart heavily Noel is after critical acclaim these days not sales (the single biggest load of bollocks ever posted about Noel) It's like a online Little Britain, Yeah but (insert excuse here and blindly carry on) I've read this 5 times and still have trouble understanding what the fuck you're trying to say!
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 5, 2017 11:47:48 GMT -5
Noel (7.1) beat U2’s Pitchfork score (5.3) “The pursuit of relevance seems above all what motivates them to create. What are they doing, really, when time and again they endeavor to reinvent themselves, if not trying to remain fashionable—or, more precisely, to stave off obsolescence?” pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/u2-songs-of-experience/amp/U2 are at their best when they're not trying to stave off obsolescence. See the singles from the new album Vs songs like "Little Things". On a side note GOOYOW has really grown on me, there's a really good guitar riff and solo in there.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 4, 2017 15:49:58 GMT -5
batfink30 I was reading this article today about the formation of a 1,000 strong SK special forces unit tasked with bringing down NK's war command and the establishing of an ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) partnership between SK and the USA for monitoring NK activities. Having spoken to you during the Trump election thread about this region I was curious as to your take on the situation? Are we inevitably looking at some form of conflict or is this more along the lines of the old Cold War/Iran days with a lot of Sabre rattling but no direct conflict (excluding perhaps proxies as in the Iran-Iraq War)? Newsweek- South Korea's "Decapitation Unit" will take down NK war leadership
Yeah, I follow the whole NK quite closely. It's a fairly dire situation IMHO. The US seem intent on provoking KJU and there's now apparently a real appetite in Washington for a pre-emptive strike on NK. According to the Asia wonks, this is fairly bad as they believe that NK have the capacity to reach the US with their ICBMs(nevermind ROK and Japan) . The question is, can NK be deterred from launching an attack on the US when they have perfected their nukes? Unless ROK, Japan and probably the US want to get nuked, they have to at least try and use diplomacy and detterence. Trumps idiotic tweets and insistence on crazy provocative drills(like the one underway this week) run a very real risk of miscalculation. At what point will KJU think he's about to be attacked so he may as well "use it or lose it" and launch everything he has?, then there's the whole Pacific atmosphere test that NK are threatening, a very real threat according to the wonks. NK can be contained IMO but the US atm is doing everything to poke a nuclear hornets nest. Real scary stuff.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 1, 2017 18:06:14 GMT -5
This album is flying! Well done Noel and it's a sad day for all those who said it was rubbish on here!
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 29, 2017 19:00:21 GMT -5
It's a strange album to me, some of it is awful (the singles) but some of it is great (Little Things, Lights of Home, Love Is Bigger, Love Is All We Have Left and a few others. Hard to tell this early where it ranks. I'm digging it and that is really surprising me. I've been really busy for days so not had a proper chance to listen to it so will need to listen and let it sink in.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 29, 2017 18:13:40 GMT -5
So is this album worth a listen guys? Where would you rank it post Pop? It's a strange album to me, some of it is awful (the singles) but some of it is great (Little Things, Lights of Home, Love Is Bigger, Love Is All We Have Left and a few others. Hard to tell this early where it ranks.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 28, 2017 2:41:43 GMT -5
Yep, definitely. Some dodgy tracks on there but some really good stuff. Surprised me as my expectations were zero. The singles are by far the worst tracks. I’ve heard folk saying the songs we’ve heard are the worst but I always take that with a pinch of salt (heck I remember when folk said Shock of the Lightning was only the sixth best song on Dig Out Your Soul - aside from Falling Down, I presume the other five are in the vaults...). I pray to god it is because I was (or still am) seriously bracing myself for the worst U2 album ever by far after hearing them. Is it more intimate than expected though? Apparently Bono’s brush with death last year (whatever it was but I’d say health scare considering he’s aged considerably in the last couple of years) starkly influences the lyrics? Not sure it's more intimate. Don't get me wrong, it's not the Joshua Tree or anywhere near it but it's not a total wipeout, there's some decent stuff. The singles are the worst but the production on "Little Things" is superb and it's a great song. They should still call it a day though, sad to see them producing stuff like American Soul and the singles.
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