David Brent

Talking of music may I ask fellow members of BritMovie what their impressions are of the latest Coldplay album 'X & Y' ?
Before the album's release Chris Martin mentioned that the band wanted to make a truly great album.
Well to my ears this ain't it.
Seems very much of the same with nothing particularly striking on the album.
After a couple of listens I feel the album overall is a let down
What do you think?

Dave.

Jim

What can one say? Right on, ALL the way Rob!

Good morning boys.

Rob Compton

Why thank you Jim!

rgds
Rob

Marky B

Rob,
I bought a CD from HMV which had RVW's music. Only a fiver!
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

DB7

I wasn't expecting a great departure as their music is heavily reliant on Martin's (very) catchy piano chords and the rest of Coldplay appear to be nothing more than a backing band with little artistic input. Quite like "Talk" as the guitar riff reminds me of U2.

Yellow is still a fabulous track tho.


The new Oasis album was similarly unremarkable.

David Brent

I was really surprised to see Mojo recently spouting that the latest Oasis album was the saviour of British rock.
Oasis lost it for me some time ago

Dave.

Freddy

There's lies, damned lies and hype.

Let's call the whole thing off

"What I owe you Colonel Lawrence, is beyond evaluation."

ollie

I dont really listen to much music any more as it's too much like work,and filums are my hobby for want of a better word and how i relax but...

I just wanted to say "STEELY DAN" have got to be, over the years one of the few bands who have managed to maintain some semblance of artistic integrity.
Whithin the confines of the "popular "song format they seemlessly weave complex melody and harmony with sometimes abstract lyric's with all sorts of hidden meaning's that keep fans guessing,and are very illusive in revealing said meaning's,which i supose keeps the interest,i'm not really interested in their earlier stuff,more the royal scam,aja(a classic) gaucho era.
I have had the pleasure of performing their stuff live,it aint as easy as you think, quite sublime...

"they've got a name for the winners in the world, i want a name when i loose"

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

Freddy

When you were at school wasn't it ace to carry LP covers under your arm. Jethro Tull; Wishbone Ash; Deep Purple, Cat Stevens or the more obscure the better!

Sadly with the advent of the cd there is no cover art work anymore and I find little or no pleasure in looking at them although on the plus side it must be easier for independent artists to find markets these days and it is good to find different music to listen to care of Radio 3.

regards

Freddy

"What I owe you Colonel Lawrence, is beyond evaluation."

David Brent

Couldn't agree more about STEELY DAN , I have been a long time fan and have all their albums.
Apart from those mentioned by Ollie and Jonathan the "Pretzel Logic" album is also fabulous.
Of course Steely Dan have only ever been Donald Fagen, Walter Becker and a series of different studio muscians over the year's.
Timeless music that sounds great whenever you may listen to it.
Uplifting with Peg and Josie, sad reflections with Deacon Blues.
I think every "older" male can also relate to Hey Nineteen.

"Only a fool would say that"

Dave.

Hackett

I didn't like "All Around My Hat" and "The Day We Went To Bangor" but thier other stuffs OK, man.

mysteriesofedgarwallace

oopps!

"All Around My Hat" was SteeleyeSpan and "The Day We Went To Bangor" was "Daytrip to Bangor" by Fiddlers Dram.............

Or were you joking!

Gibbie

Of course, they are the children of U2.

Gibbie

A lot of the above chat reminds me of my teen era. My friends and I would go up to Chicago and go to a record shop called Wax Trax and buy the latest, usually from the UK, which no one else knew about, because the radio was either playing disco or pot smoking corporate rock.

Does anyone remember groups like The Records, Bram Tchaikovsky and their ilk?
Like many youth, I had early/mid 60s sentimentality with late 70s/early 80s Power Pop taste.

One of my buddies was more into OMD, Ultravox, Bauhaus - the darker side. I always remember at parties when they would play Ultravox, the big brother lyric of "Mister X". Another was into Adam and the Ants, etc. - New Romantics and the Talking Heads eccentric groups. Mike would play "Ant Music" quite loud.

This may interest you...
Music - Nostalgia Central

Marky B

Before the Live Aid concert of 1985,I had never heard of Drive by the Cars,or if I did,it didn't register until I saw the video with the song playing in the background,it has now become one of my favourite songs.
Likewise before Radio 2 published their songs of the century in 1999 (I taped the whole series presented by Paul Gambaccini),I had never heard of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. Now it's not only my favourite Marvin Gaye song,it is my favourite Motown song. For some reason it never got into the UK singles charts.
I have just bought a CD celebrating Sam Cooke,not only because he was a terrific singer,but it contains my favourite Cooke song A Change Is Gonna Come.
When it comes to decades,I think the sixties were my favourite. Although I liked the fifties and the eighties (mainly because I was in my twenties and chasing girls,now I am in my forties,I am still chasing them,but catching is not so easy),the sixties was the defining period because I was born in 1962 and my elder siblings were buying 45's.
My all time favourite single is the Righteous Bros. You've Lost That Loving Feeling,with the peerless Bobby Hatfield version of Unchained Melody on the B side.
Others:
Let's Go To San Francisco by The Woodentops;
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie;
If I Were A Carpenter (both Bobby Darin and The Four Tops)
California Dreaming,Monday Monday by the Mamas and the Papas;
Jesamine by the Casuals;
Everlasting Love,Rainbow Valley,Bringing On Back The Good Times by the Love Affair...
the list go on.
However,here is an unlauded gem from 1977 about the true story of a laker getting sunk in Lake Michigan,losing all hands - The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald by Candian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot. Superb lyrics and guitar work by Lightfoot,if you haven't heard it,you might find it deserves more praise than that other song about a sinking ship,My Heart Will Go On.
Sorry to meander a bit,but I could talk about music for a long time.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know