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Apprentice Guru |
Seems that Elbow with their fourth release "The Seldom Seen Kid" offered us one of the greatest albums of the year.
From the opener “Starlings” with the cinematic weird orchestration to the heartbreaking closer “Friend Of Ours”( in memory of a friend) , from the twistin blues with the Zeppelin-like guitars of the first single “Grounds For Divorce” to the simplicity of “The Bones Of You” , the (quite) flamenco sounding “An Audience With The Pope” to the lovable surprise of “The Fix” in which Garvey sharing vocals with Richard Hawley , from the atmospheric masterpiece “The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver” to the epic “One Day Like This” with its gospel elements , the fragile and dark “Some Riot” , the relaxed n sensitive "Weather To Fly" to the ethereal “Mirrorball” , every song here fits perfect n gives you a stunning result . It’s the songwriting , ideas and the undeniable talent of the band that makes “The Seldom Seen Kid” so special and brilliant and not the technics of a studio or a computer.Elbow produced the album themselves and that s something you can feel , makin' that record soundin' like the result of a real band in the peak of their forces. Its an album with excellent tunes from start to finish , with great , majestic melodies and marvelous lyrics , full of true emotion , depth and beauty, their most completed , mellow and mature work to date , that sounds epic and so personal together , music that could easily fill a stadium but its predestinated only to fill your heart. I'm Simple, I'm Dumb, I'm The Pilot |
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Looking forward to this one. Little confused about the release date, though. Amazon shows original release date of March 17th, and a CD release date of April 22nd. So my question is, is it available as a download somewhere?
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I've listened to this almost ceasely since I've bought it, and have been humming it in the times inbetween. The record has further convinced me of Elbows' status as the most criminally underated and underappreicated band in the country.
Guy Garvey's lyrics in particluar are better than ever. Cases in point; 'So I guess I'm asking you to back a horse that's good for glue' from Starlings and 'I've got and audience with the pope/ I'm saving the world at eight/ but if she says she needs me/ Everythings gonna have to wait.' from Audience with The Pope 10 out of 10. The voices in my head tell me I'm not crazy |
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Apprentice Guru |
i'm sorry but that might be the cheesiest review i have ever read. nonetheless, i will check it out. |
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Apprentice Guru |
i'm sorry but that might be the cheesiest comment i could ever read in that thread , unless you have somethin more to say... I'm Simple, I'm Dumb, I'm The Pilot |
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Enthusiast |
You can't really blame him for commenting on the cheese aspect of your review. Your overusage of commas and hyperbolic descriptors are quite annoying and come off as pretentious and unexperienced. I don't have much interest in this record, but I thought I'd might say this. It pays to kill anyone who has information. |
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Apprentice Guru |
Dear friend , sayin that:
you are (basically) right , but i think you are missing something. I didnt ask if you like the way i m writin , if you like that “review”(!!!) , if I can get the job or something. I was only tryin to share with you ,in a few lines , some of my feelings n thoughts about elbow’s new album .nothing else. Krugulitis could do the same like JGlass , musicfanatic n Eccles did in the previous posts and not turn it to a personal attack , don’t you think?
back to "The Seldom Seen Kid"... I'm Simple, I'm Dumb, I'm The Pilot |
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Apprentice Guru |
i am sorry if i hurt your feelings. i really am not trying to be a jackass. however, lines like...
...just make my ears bleed. as far as elbow...meh. nothing great. |
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Guru |
Well, I'm just listening to this for the first time. Two months since the last comment? I guess there's not much love. I like it. So there.
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Sorry.
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Apprentice Guru |
Once again, sorry... if you're just reading this, it was mean-spirited and no-good.
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Apprentice Guru |
That was a damn epic flame....
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Apprentice Guru |
Heil CleverName84, First of all , thank you for your friendly advice: http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/4/4a/Grammar1.gif in return , i suggest you to visit that place (no Elbow.i promise!): http://community.livejournal.com/grammar_nazis/ enjoy... but be careful cause : http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Sex_and_Grammar_Nazis.png#filelinks Now , let me tell you a story..."As a young boy, Adolf Hitler had a dream: a dream of a world free of the stain of dangling participles and the mongrel menace of misplaced modifiers. It was a good dream..." continue : http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Grammar_Nazi http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Grammar_nazi cheers! (P.S. to everyone else : English is not my native language) I'm Simple, I'm Dumb, I'm The Pilot |
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Apprentice Guru |
I just felt like doing that to entertain myself actually. I didn't major in English to let shit like that slide. I'm an arrogant grammar-freak, a snob with nothing better to do than mimic your English. For that i apologize.
I actually don't understand your response. Am I a grammatical nazi? That seems to be the point; however, you stated to everyone else that English is not your native language (why would you exclude me in that statement?). Were you schooling me on grammar because of your mistaking my spoof of you as terribly constructed prose? You confuse me. |
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Guru |
Do you (nastily) correct someone's English if you know it is not their native language? I don't. Did you realize before his last post that sk is not a native English speaker? I doubt it. ********************** Metal-Archives POTD
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Apprentice Guru |
You do when they have bad taste in music
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Participant |
actually I think he got your "spoof" pretty well... so you're saying that you didn't know that he wasn't a native speaker of English? well now you do. and yet you refer to youself as a grammar snob, meaning you assume you are better than he is. well guess what? there's a whole wide world just across the USA borders and surely here on the internet. and I'll tell you another thing - the world is round. America is not in the centre of it! (thats right - centre! sue me!) I read what you said in another thread about brits (or Europeans, they're all the same anyway...)not liking you because of you being American. that's exactly this kind of ethnocentric attitude that causes the antagonism. as you guessed for sure, being such a snob - English is not my first language either. it is actually my third. people like SK and myself access most of the database on the internet, read online magazines, write in these forums and do all the things you do in your native tongue, in what is a foreign language to us. no way this makes us inferior. even if we make mistakes. on the contrary. you said you majored in English. well I took some University courses in English lit. as well and I'll tell you this: when you can read the equivalent to Shakespeare and Chaucer, watch movies and TV shows, read a p4k review (  ) and express yourself in a reasonably intelligible manner in your third language, then you can be an elitist snob as you wish.This message has been edited. Last edited by: CandyFlossGirl, |
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Guru |
You go girl!
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