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Old 02-11-2010, 19:19
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Now that would have improved the video 100%!
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Old 02-11-2010, 19:22
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It's not a classic, is it? Reminds me of Coldplay's Yellow, only without the satisfaction of seeing Chris Martin looking wet and miserable.
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Old 02-11-2010, 19:24
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is it me, or does the concept for this video "borrow" rather heavily from the one Ian Brown & Noel Gallagher did for Keep What Ya Got, where the two of them cross Manchester to meet?
Doesn't anyone think Ian looks like Liam Gallagher in this video(when he's just behind James on the steps, just after they've met)?

Anyway, I actually find the video quite decent, considering I was expecting something much cheesier! And it features Cardiff Bay, one of my favourite places in the UK
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Old 02-11-2010, 19:41
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I think this would have been massively improved if it was simply cut with some performance footage. I don't know, just cut some parts out of the YLAINE video and edit them in to break it up a bit...right now it's "here's a grey street, here's a grey street, here's Ian McCulloch but he's got his hood up and his sunglasses on so it might as well just be anyone, oh look, here's another grey street"

Not a terrible video, just a bit meh
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Old 02-11-2010, 19:44
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considering they are releasing it in December, would it have been too much to fucking ask of them to do some intelligent marketing, like "re-create" the Fairytale Of New York video or something?

surprised Sony didn't make them stick Sean in a fucking Santa outfit in it somewhere......

...yes, Nicky could have been an elf.
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Old 02-11-2010, 19:48
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Lame!

But I fear I only vaguely like the song through familiarity anyway.
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Old 02-11-2010, 19:49
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i liked it. It didnt distract from the song. It won't pull in the young-uns who'll just look at it and shrug probably but who cares really? If its going to flop it won't be the video's fault. My favourite bit was when they met up on the steps and looked like they were off to do a drug deal or something lol

oh ok i liked it cos James gets lots of screen time...there i said it
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Old 02-11-2010, 20:04
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If they'd done something totally off the wall you'd all still be bloody moaning! 'It's boooooooooooooooooorrrrrriiiinnngggggg!!!'. Like taking a bunch of seven year olds to a museum or something!
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Old 02-11-2010, 20:09
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I don't normally moan. But there's no way you can say that video was not boring, unimaginative and simply... ... boring.
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OK lets find some positive things about the video.

Nice building 'beauty doing nothing at all' I loved the idea that it was like an ancient Rome ruin of which I visited in 2008.

But for me 'Advertising Space' by Robbie Williams gets the message home better.
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Old 02-11-2010, 20:12
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If they'd done something totally off the wall you'd all still be bloody moaning! 'It's boooooooooooooooooorrrrrriiiinnngggggg!!!'. Like taking a bunch of seven year olds to a museum or something!
yep, that's us. wear it like a badge of honour, we do
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Old 02-11-2010, 20:13
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I don't normally moan. But there's no way you can say that video was not boring, unimaginative and simply... ... boring.
Kids! Well I've added my piece to all the comments on The Guardians page. I love scenery, moody melancholia etc. It's what drew me to Truth when I first became a fan!
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Old 02-11-2010, 20:15
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yep, that's us. wear it like a badge of honour, we do
He! He!
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Old 02-11-2010, 20:16
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If they'd done something totally off the wall you'd all still be bloody moaning! 'It's boooooooooooooooooorrrrrriiiinnngggggg!!!'. Like taking a bunch of seven year olds to a museum or something!
No.
It's just shite.
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Old 02-11-2010, 20:21
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Well I shall be watching it over and over again obsessively!
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