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Haven't been in to it for a while, and get more joy out of other things now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JinFyo_HbAs - How can you say that is no more inventive than It's Not War? |
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The band or the album?
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Both. I don't get the distinction.
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And they may have realised that they could head off and make an album that feels right for them, not one they feel they 'need' to make. My point is, there is no reason why Journals could not have done better, sales wise. Infact, done right, they could have picked up alot of new fans with it. The Holy Bible and Journals sound fantastic because they both sound very natural. I actually quite like the new album. Unlike Truth and Send Away The Tigers it does have substance and is a proper album. Barely any fillers. Don't be too quick to judge, it is a grower. What has been bugging me more than anything after listening to Postcards, is that they gave production duties back to Dave Eringa. After Steve Albini last time round, i thought they may have branched out again with this album. Even though i like the new album, i can see where people are coming from when they refer to it as sounding 'dated'. That comes down to the production more than anything. |
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Just wondering if you didn't like the album or had gone off the band in general, nothing more sinister than that.
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I can think of few poorer positive examples of JDB's creativity and inventiveness without going back to that album from 2007. And yes, It's Not War is just as feeble BUT I can fully appreciate that someone else can come along and say, you know what, fuck all of that, I just enjoy either or both of those tunes for what they are. |
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Finally posted in the correct place, confusing bastards!
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They are a rock band, this is what they do best, & post Lifeblood they have come to understand this. PFAYM might not be what I would do or particularly what I wanted to hear but that's not structural at all, whatsoever, I still appreciate it for what it is & for some of its sentiments for its slick style. Which is exactly as they told us to expect. What have the Manics ever been but button pushers, with calculated/contrived ideas to sound a certain way? I still find them an alternative to some alleged inventive wank & despite some lyrical pretension, I find them musically unpretentious in a way that no-one else is.
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I am not disappointed with the band. I am even prepared to give Future a proper listen when I do eventually get the album as I feel it would be unfair to write that song off after only hearing the first part of it!
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It's easy, I expected exactly what we got with PFAYM and I'm enjoying it, starting as I do from track two each and every time. On the other hand, I foolishly expected more from their self-styled 'art project with no singles' than the same old three minute songs, which is why I'm harsher on it. I can still enjoy JFPL as well when I allow myself. Let's not speak of the album that came before it.
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Allow yourself to enjoy SATT Kirb. There's a good chap!
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Still don't understand the 'tired' and 'bored' comments that have been made about Lifeblood in particular. Why does a slower pace suddenly make a song tired and boring?
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Not the slower pace, for me (this is a personal preference) the odd time change in Emily (although I believe Visconti was responsible for that) & the Taxi Driver/Bernard Herrmann reference on Cardiff Afterlife, do not sit well & needed more work. The same with Found That Soul, proved by how amazing it can be live, same goes for Underdogs, 'cept the live bit. An atmosphere of "that'll do" but just sometimes not all the time, 1985 for instance is a masterpiece.
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