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TallThinMan wrote: Sun 28 Jan 2024, 3:11 pm I don’t get the comparison between ‘Liberation’ and ‘Being Boring’, they sound nothing like each other.

TallThinMan wrote: Sun 28 Jan 2024, 3:11 pm I don’t get the comparison between ‘Liberation’ and ‘Being Boring’, they sound nothing like each other.

TallThinMan wrote: Sun 28 Jan 2024, 3:11 pm I don’t get the comparison between ‘Liberation’ and ‘Being Boring’, they sound nothing like each other.

telys wrote: Tue 30 Jan 2024, 7:44 am The intro and part of the first verse of Liberation is great, the rest is not singleworthy, a huge mistake to release as a 7", and with lousy remixes as well. A nail in the coffin. The video was dull as well.

Ghost within this house wrote: Thu 29 Feb 2024, 5:26 pm It might be nice to have a ballads thread. For me, their ballads include some of their strongest, as well as some of their weakest, moments....

Off the top of my head, the following are all treasured, indispensable Tennant/Lowe

- Later tonight
- It couldn't happen here
- Do I have to?
- Your funny uncle
- Only the wind
- Nervously
- I made my excuses and left
- King of Rome
- Invisible

I quite like a few ballads from Very to Release, but regard none as indispensable (It always comes as a surprise is probably closest to that status) - which rather fits with the Wilderness Years idea - and there are a lot of mid-tempo songs that I don't quite class as ballads which I absolutely love (e.g. Dreaming of the Queen, Drunk, Always, Luna Park, Everything Means Something, Hoping for a Miracle, Only the dark, Burning the Heather).

CompleteWeirdo wrote: Fri 01 Mar 2024, 9:50 am Snore. Wilderness years. What the devil are you ppl talking about?! Your opinion on these albums is purely that. All of those releases you suggest as 'wilderness' will differ from person to person (I rather like Elysium, Release, Super etc etc) and continue to listen to them all - arguing about which is the worst is like arguing if the colour white is 'good.' I find every one of their albums has highs and lows (with the possible exception of the godawful Disco 2), and that's how it'll likely remain. Songs like, say, Metamorphosis or Email or Monkey Business, I feel, are shocking and painful, whilst one of their most recent tracks, 'through you' is amongst the best stuff they've ever recorded along with totally different small masterpieces like King's Cross, Integral, It couldn't happen here, Willo the Wisp, I made my excuses... and Love is a b... . Some of you will agree. Some won't. Different tastes. Different feelings. Nobody is right. Or wrong. Indeed, one might say how we define the wilderness is deeply subjective.

CompleteWeirdo wrote: Fri 01 Mar 2024, 9:50 am Different tastes. Different feelings. Nobody is right. Or wrong. Indeed, one might say how we define the wilderness is deeply subjective.

CompleteWeirdo wrote: Fri 01 Mar 2024, 9:50 am Snore. Wilderness years. What the devil are you ppl talking about?! Your opinion on these albums is purely that. All of those releases you suggest as 'wilderness' will differ from person to person (I rather like Elysium, Release, Super etc etc) and continue to listen to them all - arguing about which is the worst is like arguing if the colour white is 'good.' I find every one of their albums has highs and lows (with the possible exception of the godawful Disco 2), and that's how it'll likely remain. Songs like, say, Metamorphosis or Email or Monkey Business, I feel, are shocking and painful, whilst one of their most recent tracks, 'through you' is amongst the best stuff they've ever recorded along with totally different small masterpieces like King's Cross, Integral, It couldn't happen here, Willo the Wisp, I made my excuses... and Love is a b... . Some of you will agree. Some won't. Different tastes. Different feelings. Nobody is right. Or wrong. Indeed, one might say how we define the wilderness is deeply subjective.