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Post by Gary Hackett on Nov 14, 2020 1:25:50 GMT
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Post by Paul Spencer on Nov 14, 2020 4:30:18 GMT
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Post by Paul Spencer on Nov 14, 2020 4:38:07 GMT
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Post by Paul Spencer on Nov 14, 2020 4:52:34 GMT
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Post by GeneralFaye on Nov 14, 2020 7:28:07 GMT
One of my fave pop songs ever
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Post by felonious on Nov 14, 2020 18:08:33 GMT
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Post by felonious on Nov 14, 2020 19:00:01 GMT
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Post by felonious on Nov 14, 2020 19:06:06 GMT
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Post by felonious on Nov 14, 2020 19:18:05 GMT
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Post by felonious on Nov 14, 2020 19:34:07 GMT
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 14, 2020 19:36:24 GMT
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Post by felonious on Nov 14, 2020 19:36:31 GMT
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Nov 14, 2020 20:52:18 GMT
New Songhoy Blues album is ace.
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Post by The man from Utch on Nov 15, 2020 0:02:17 GMT
After this song my appreciation for the The Police went downhill.... kind of lost their feel for the whole new wave punk rock thing(not that there's anything wrong with that) for me.
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Post by The man from Utch on Nov 15, 2020 0:22:26 GMT
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Post by The man from Utch on Nov 15, 2020 0:24:49 GMT
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Post by spiderpuss on Nov 15, 2020 0:46:12 GMT
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Post by spiderpuss on Nov 15, 2020 0:55:47 GMT
Just what we need right now Germ Free adolescents.
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Post by spiderpuss on Nov 15, 2020 1:00:19 GMT
Whilst I'm stuck in the 70s. Plastic Bertand actually got very little money for this as it was his manager who wrote the lyrics AND did singing. Odd.
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Post by The man from Utch on Nov 15, 2020 1:52:45 GMT
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Post by The man from Utch on Nov 15, 2020 2:50:20 GMT
You don't get more punk than this
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 8:21:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 8:30:23 GMT
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Post by crowey on Nov 15, 2020 9:06:19 GMT
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Post by Clayton Wood on Nov 15, 2020 9:52:57 GMT
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Post by crowey on Nov 15, 2020 11:51:11 GMT
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Post by misterken on Nov 15, 2020 13:25:30 GMT
Yes indeed. I first dabbled with this thread a year or so ago and I remember being somewhat taken aback by the surely exaggerated claims being made about this album. The first track I played was The Greatest and having had my interest further stimulated by the lyrical reference within to The Beach Boys and Dennis Wilson, I gave the whole album a listen. I freely admit to struggling with much contemporary music, and was not familiar with her work at all, but I really enjoyed this album and the CD duly arrived from Santa in my Christmas stocking. I love the distinctive sound of the voice, there's some really lovely melodies in there, and the quality of the songwriting is excellent throughout. My only (minor) criticism would be that when I play the whole album I find it all a little low key and lacking in dynamics. Favourite tracks: NFR, Mariners Apartment Complex, The Greatest, Bartender. I love this thread because I've found so much music that ordinarily I would have missed, almost at times too much new music and it's great that the thread led you to finding NFR. The line in your post that I've highlighted, is in my opinion, the very reason NFR works so beautifully. Personally, I think all of her records prior to NFR have (to varying degrees) been (pretty badly) compromised by the producer attempting to add some dynamism into the songs, when they simply didn't need it in the first place, the songs ended up being smothered by layers of unnecessary studio guff that almost killed them off but somehow, those magical songs (just about) managed to surface for air. However when she teamed up with Jack Antonoff, he finally brought to the table, what so many of us had been previously crying out for ... less is more and now we could finally see and hear her incredible songwriting via the vehicle it was surely always meant to have been. I'd love her to go back and revisit so many of those incredible (over produced) tracks from her back catalogue and redo them with Antonoff as there is some legendary songwriting lost in there but of course it's obviously not going to happen. But had she been with him from the very start, I truly believe that she would be regarded today with the same reverence as (say) Joni Mitchell. She's still got plenty of time for that though of course, can't wait for the next album and I so hope she keeps it simple again ... Same here , this is a great thread I’ve followed for years and picked up some fantastic music. I’ can’t think of many albums over the last 20 years that I can play all the way through without skipping a track (maybe southeastern -jason isbell and REM’s reckoning) but an 11 minute track!! venice bitch and it never tires, NFR is some achievement.
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Post by felonious on Nov 15, 2020 14:09:33 GMT
Quite like listening to Paula White's Sunday show on Radio Stoke some excellent choices from the 60s, 70s and 80s great background listening.
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Post by felonious on Nov 15, 2020 14:10:36 GMT
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Post by felonious on Nov 15, 2020 14:11:09 GMT
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