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Low Down Low wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 8:08am
Intrigued by this, have been hoping for new Dexys material but this is the next best thing, I suppose. Tour dates announced for next year too.

https://store.universalmusic.com/dexys/ ... 4X90000000
Laxman has posted about this in the Manics thread.

I'm interested but if it's a remake I wish they hadn't had chosen period artwork.
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Marky Dread wrote:
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06 Sep 2021, 3:06am
I know this probably sounds like sacrilege, but Don’t Tell A Soul may very well be my favorite mats record. Especially with the new Dead Man’s Pop mix. Also, despite it being the archetypal messy Replacements record, Hootenanny isn’t very good with the exception of Color me Impressed. Even Within Your Reach is pretty meh.
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Hootenany just sounds like a fun knock off project. But I dig it.

"Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down" sound like a different band. The latter feeling more like a solo record for Paul. However they were a different band musically. I suppose it's like comparing "The Clash" with "Sandinista!" the band in 1977 would've been incapable of making "Sandinista!". That's only 3-4 years inbetween. From "Sorry Ma" to "All Shook Down" is 8-9 years that's a lot of time developing and losing a band member etc.
Same thing with Husker Dü. You would never listen to their early 9000 BPM hardcore and expect them to write something like Makes No Sense at All. The latter being pure power pop perfection. I suppose the Replacements were never a hardcore band in a pure sense. Weller always had a way with a killer hook.

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Marky Dread wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 11:59am
Low Down Low wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 8:08am
Intrigued by this, have been hoping for new Dexys material but this is the next best thing, I suppose. Tour dates announced for next year too.

https://store.universalmusic.com/dexys/ ... 4X90000000
Laxman has posted about this in the Manics thread.

I'm interested but if it's a remake I wish they hadn't had chosen period artwork.
Ah right, hadn't seen that :cool:

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RockNRollWhore wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 12:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 4:59am
RockNRollWhore wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 3:06am
I know this probably sounds like sacrilege, but Don’t Tell A Soul may very well be my favorite mats record. Especially with the new Dead Man’s Pop mix. Also, despite it being the archetypal messy Replacements record, Hootenanny isn’t very good with the exception of Color me Impressed. Even Within Your Reach is pretty meh.
That is all
Hootenany just sounds like a fun knock off project. But I dig it.

"Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down" sound like a different band. The latter feeling more like a solo record for Paul. However they were a different band musically. I suppose it's like comparing "The Clash" with "Sandinista!" the band in 1977 would've been incapable of making "Sandinista!". That's only 3-4 years inbetween. From "Sorry Ma" to "All Shook Down" is 8-9 years that's a lot of time developing and losing a band member etc.
Same thing with Husker Dü. You would never listen to their early 9000 BPM hardcore and expect them to write something like Makes No Sense at All. The latter being pure power pop perfection. I suppose the Replacements were never a hardcore band in a pure sense. Weller always had a way with a killer hook.
Paul Weller did indeed have a way with a killer hook. However I think you mean "Westerberg". ;)
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Marky Dread wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 12:48pm
RockNRollWhore wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 12:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 4:59am
RockNRollWhore wrote:
06 Sep 2021, 3:06am
I know this probably sounds like sacrilege, but Don’t Tell A Soul may very well be my favorite mats record. Especially with the new Dead Man’s Pop mix. Also, despite it being the archetypal messy Replacements record, Hootenanny isn’t very good with the exception of Color me Impressed. Even Within Your Reach is pretty meh.
That is all
Hootenany just sounds like a fun knock off project. But I dig it.

"Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down" sound like a different band. The latter feeling more like a solo record for Paul. However they were a different band musically. I suppose it's like comparing "The Clash" with "Sandinista!" the band in 1977 would've been incapable of making "Sandinista!". That's only 3-4 years inbetween. From "Sorry Ma" to "All Shook Down" is 8-9 years that's a lot of time developing and losing a band member etc.
Same thing with Husker Dü. You would never listen to their early 9000 BPM hardcore and expect them to write something like Makes No Sense at All. The latter being pure power pop perfection. I suppose the Replacements were never a hardcore band in a pure sense. Weller always had a way with a killer hook.
Paul Weller did indeed have a way with a killer hook. However I think you mean "Westerberg". ;)
Lol. Now the Jam. That's a hardcore band.

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I actually like AFI. They sound like Emo-y J rock despite not being from Japan.

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I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
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Heston wrote:
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I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
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Heston wrote:
08 Sep 2021, 7:22pm
I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
That's the problem. They have great ideas and some solid tunes. But after 3 - 4 mins the noodling does your nut in.
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Heston wrote:
08 Sep 2021, 7:22pm
I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
I was too cool and punk to like PF TW when it came out, but as I've grown (and saw the movie), I actually enjoy listening to it occasionally. I like Dark Side Of The Moon as well, but as others have said, overall to much noodling for me to really get too in to it.
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Don't mind admitting I'm a huge Dark Side of the Moon fan. One of those rare albums, like London Calling, I just feel is inspired opening groove to last. The mad laughter at the end just gets me every time. Haven't listened to The Wall in decades, never grabbed me quite as much.

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Dark Side bores me, but there's good stuff there. I'll have to check the Wall out.
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Silent Majority wrote:
09 Sep 2021, 9:52am
Dark Side bores me, but there's good stuff there. I'll have to check the Wall out.
The only thing I've ever disliked about DSotM is the female vocalist wailing. But I really am a big fan of "Piper" I love the Syd stuff.
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Marky Dread wrote:
09 Sep 2021, 9:58am
Silent Majority wrote:
09 Sep 2021, 9:52am
Dark Side bores me, but there's good stuff there. I'll have to check the Wall out.
The only thing I've ever disliked about DSotM is the female vocalist wailing. But I really am a big fan of "Piper" I love the Syd stuff.
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My grand Floyd thesis is slowly shaping more and more into "the worst album of their classic years is their most famous one and their post-waters era has damaged their legacy by trying to recreate the mood of their worst album over and over but without Rogers' cynicism"
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