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I was so disappointed with the new Muse album when I first heard it, so much so that I put it on one side never to be listened to again; I then gave it one more go and couldn’t understand what I disliked about it. Quite a relief, because I love Muse and didn’t want them to have made a bad album. Do think the first half of it is better than the second, though.
Cecil Barfield….Blues singer.
Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes.
my username should explain…..I like Mississippi Delta Blues.Its generally the second half I prefer Moe. The first track uprising isnt bad. Really like track 4 -United States of Eurasia, the heavy arabic sounding chorus symphony on that is brilliant. Track six is also pretty good, the heavy guitar bit that comes in about 35 seconds in sounds brilliant. 7 and eight are pretty good, different from the rest of their stuff but i like them. The final 3 Exongenisis symphonies are awesome I think, track 9 is like a very dark symphony, and gets good about 1minute 17 secs in. Think track 10 will be used in some superhero type movie trailer or something. Track 11 is my favorite on the whole album, its just a beautiful piece of chilled out almost classical music and very well made.
I love it. Theres something on there for everyone i think.
Will dig it out again [still obsessively playing Hazel Winter at the moment]. My daughter who plays the piano pretty well has always loved Muse and plays a lot of their stuff when she can
Well I’ve had great fun spending a lot of the day going through this entire thread and watching all the YouTube vids and finding new tracks I like. Big thanks to Jeremy, especially for his list of 50 tracks. I gave up on your links by about Page 10 I think since I hated absolutely everything, but for some reason was drawn to your list and picked off a good 10-15 songs so thanks.
Probably my favourite 3 tracks off here have been the Ladyhawke cover of Womanizer, The Black Strobe song from Rocknrolla and dEUS – The Architect.
Should probably pitch in myself. The really great songs I’ve only heard for the first time recently;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTFi1_580iU (If you don’t like the start, please have faith. It really kicks in around the 1:55 mark and for my money, it’s absolutely stunning. Must have heard it about 50 times over the past fortnight and still doesn’t fail to make me smile everytime)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HnQ8veZKY (proper percussiony hit-the-piano-hard tune, but my god, what an effect)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL4mywCOJXA (if you’re a fan of Top Gear, you’ll probably have recognised a recurring theme by now…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-l_jW5CNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAbb0raXJ0 (Can’t find the Link Wray original, so sadly the effect is lessened quite dramatically)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFwD3vlyiM (without doubt my next have-to-learn-how-to-play-on-the-piano song, along with The Capulets and Montagues. I was planning on doing the Funeral March (Opus 35) by Chopin too, until I walked into a shop the other day and realised how stunningly easy it is…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY (surely the greatest 4-minutes of nothing-but-guitar ever?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSkyEyBczU (don’t need to say anything, but a killer acoustic version here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltc5EsuyBh4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEg2CIIB … re=related (a stunning arrangement to a stunning song)
Just watched The Decemberists on last night Jools Holland. a band I’ve always liked but kind of forgot about, so have dug out Picaresque to play. Bit of a poor mans Arcade Fire [what are they up to; making babies, perhaps?] but well worth a listen to. [also, Coope, Boyes and Simpson who sing ‘a capella’..saw them performing with Michael Morpurgo the other night…perform a lot with Cumbawamba who are on the same label; didn’t realise they had morphed into a folk band singing beautiful harmonies, or perhaps that’s what they always were but I didn’t realise it..]. Am going through a folky phase….
…perform a lot with Cumbawamba who are on the same label; didn’t realise they had morphed into a folk band singing beautiful harmonies, or perhaps that’s what they always were but I didn’t realise it..]. Am going through a folky phase….
Folk music has been an interest of Chumbawamba’s almost from the get-go, although not one they’ve practised on record continuously.
Their third studio album, 1988’s
English Rebel Songs 1381-1914
, was an a capella folk album, and this was re-recorded in 2003 as
English Rebel Songs 1381-1984
, as a) they regarded themselves as better singers by then, b) they wanted to update the album to include two extra tracks (including one on the Miners’ Strike).
Occasional album tracks in the interim upheld the style of
English Rebel Songs
. e.g. the original recording of the track "Homophobia" (before it was remixed as a Village People-tinged dance single guest-starring anarcho-queer party nun troupe The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence). However, a more sustained return to folk stylings came with the folk-and-beats hybrid
Readymades
in 2002, since when it’s all been pretty much folk and world stuff from them.
HTH,
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I’m a big Kate Bush fan,shame she doesn’t feel the need to put any new material out these days.Aerial was 05,the one before-‘The Red Shoes’ was 93…only another 8 years till her next album then
Here’s one of my faves from the lovely KT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVMfG8z490
You can expect lots more
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I was so disappointed with Arial [although may dig it out to re listen to it]. She was so ahead of her time. Army Dreamers is probably my favourite song of hers.
I was so disappointed with Arial [although may dig it out to re listen to it]. She was so ahead of her time. Army Dreamers is probably my favourite song of hers.
Stick with Aerial it will grow on you.I preffered disc 1 at first, A Sea Of Honey ,but A Sky Of Honey is quite beautiful
The Painter’s Link
I always feel that someone who creates work that is new and innovative will do so when they are in their late teens/early twenties. Trying to think of someone that came back years later with something fresh and original, but can’t.
I always feel that someone who creates work that is new and innovative will do so when they are in their late teens/early twenties. Trying to think of someone that came back years later with something fresh and original, but can’t.
You mean apart from KT of course
Bowie had his stale moments (Tin Machine
) but came back to Reality
Bowie-New Killer Star
Here’s Kate on Revolver…Them Heavy People
You may spot a ‘lazy’ punk/pop star in the crowd.
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