Living in the past (home demo)

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Re: Living in the past (home demo)

#31 Post by lucienchardon »

agrasso wrote: Sat 11 Feb 2023, 4:59 pm Can anyone please try to transcribe the lyrics?
The lyrics are included in both the Instagram and YouTube posts. Just click "Show more" below the video on YouTube.

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Somehow I feel that this is what Release should've been like. Release had good melodies but lacked great lyrics and was, surpringsly you might think, overproduced.
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agrasso wrote: Sat 11 Feb 2023, 4:59 pm Beautiful song!
Does this also mean they are recording a new album...? :)
Seeing how this song was recorded within a week, I doubt that's proof they're recording a new album.

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leesmapman wrote: Sat 11 Feb 2023, 9:44 pm
agrasso wrote: Sat 11 Feb 2023, 4:59 pm Beautiful song!
Does this also mean they are recording a new album...? :)
Seeing how this song was recorded within a week, I doubt that's proof they're recording a new album.
They have had time to record an album full of high level category songs but I don't expect too much.

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#35 Post by Andie »

Wow! I love it. Neil sings with great passion. 😎
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I don't like it at all. To me this falls under "they shouldn't have released this".
Neil should stop watching the news, he's falling for the propaganda and sensationalism.

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DopeFiend wrote: Sun 12 Feb 2023, 11:09 am I don't like it at all. To me this falls under "they shouldn't have released this".
Neil should stop watching the news, he's falling for the propaganda and sensationalism.
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DopeFiend wrote: Sun 12 Feb 2023, 11:09 am I don't like it at all. To me this falls under "they shouldn't have released this".
Neil should stop watching the news, he's falling for the propaganda and sensationalism.
I'm sure someone who helped MTV Russia and played in Moscow during Live8, oh and most importantly: who has a degree in history and an interest in Russian history in particular, knows something about Russia's past to make up his own mind on this matter.

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Greetings,

I've listened to it once and that will probably do me for now. Not sure whether I absorbed the intended message or not, but to me it communicates that although there is impermanence in all things, some things persist far longer than we would like, and that whilst they may be impermanent, if they last our lifetimes, then what different are they from that which is permanent? When that thing persisting over time is undesirable and imposes itself upon us, there's almost a sense of injustice about it. Yet, that has been the hierarchical order of Earthly life for a very long time*. "History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new." (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

* - Jordan Peterson's analysis of the hierarchy in lobsters seems pertinent to this point - https://theconversation.com/psychologis ... they-90489

Anyway, without reading the lyrics and getting immersed in lyrical literalism, that's what themes this song communicated to me. It's a somewhat uncomfortable feeling, which is perhaps why putting it on repeat is not high on my agenda.

Retro. :)
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DopeFiend wrote: Sun 12 Feb 2023, 11:09 amNeil should stop watching the news, he's falling for the propaganda and sensationalism.
Does your brain hurt when you type this drivel?

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retrofuturist wrote: Sun 12 Feb 2023, 8:09 pmJordan Peterson's analysis of the hierarchy in lobsters seems pertinent to this point
I think Neil just threw up in his mouth reading someone suggest Jordan Peterson might be pertinent to anything at all.

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#42 Post by retrofuturist »

Greetings,
NotInvisible wrote: Sun 12 Feb 2023, 8:21 pm
retrofuturist wrote: Sun 12 Feb 2023, 8:09 pmJordan Peterson's analysis of the hierarchy in lobsters seems pertinent to this point
I think Neil just threw up in his mouth reading someone suggest Jordan Peterson might be pertinent to anything at all.
Given that Neil wrote "Love Is A Bourgeois Construct", which juxtaposes the abstract notion of a "construct" against something more substantial, and by doing so illustrates that how someone relates to and holds a construct actually shapes their behaviours and lived experience, I'm sure Neil could manage to simultaneously hold and evaluate different notions without nausea.

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#43 Post by scousepsbfan »

Honestly, people. It's a song. A song about an issue which Neil is (correctly in my opinion) trying to highlight and trying to make people understand just how dangerous the situation is. There is very little we can do about it but without speaking up and objecting in whatever form that is, democracy doesn't stand a chance. At the end of the day, it's just a song and we should all be grateful that our favourite band are still making music after 40 years or so. Personally, when I turned the computer on and saw there was a new PSB track about, I still got the same rush of excitement I got when I first heard a new song on the radio when I was a kid. We are lucky they are still writing, still touring and still provoking controversy in a world of dumbed-down, force-fed ideas and values. Sermon over....
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#44 Post by jasonjohn »

Love it. Neil sounds... unshaven? :lol:

I love the fact they comment on the world, and hope Neil never stops watching the news. Might actually help the world if some younger artists stopped obsessing about themselves and read and observed more.

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Shades of Elton’s Song For Guy?


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