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Old 17-07-2013, 16:57
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My main problem with PFAYM is it sounds fucking awful.
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Old 17-07-2013, 16:58
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My main problem with PFAYM is it sounds fucking awful.
Better change the record then!
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:00
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It sounds like a polished technically well recorded album - it lacks rawness and energy but the sound fits the songs and what the band were after - one more effort at mass communication or whatever wire said. It was rock music for BMW drivers and did what it needed to - it was never ment to appeal in isolation to students or thb fans
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:06
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Ironically, when Postcards came out, I found myself grumbling that two out of three collaborators where totally wasted and could not really be made out! Now it seems that the presence of three prominently presented guests as vocalists is what breaks the album for me. Just my luck!
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:14
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I don't understand the inherent dislike on here for postcards.

Is it the best album ever? No
Is it ground breaking? No
Is it the manics best work? No
Is it Choc full of great tunes? YES!

Surely that's what matters - be innovative if you want but at the end of the day an innovative tune which is rubbish is pointless. It's all about great sounding tunes - that's what makes the world go round
Except for me (and I suspect others who disliked it would agree), I don't think it's 'choc full of great tunes'. Musically it was a massive let down for me. I don't expect all their albums to be the best ever or ground breaking etc, but the absolute deal breaker for me is an album has to have decent songs on it. Sadly, I felt it fell down on that hurdle. That's the thing about music, it's entirely subjective.
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:15
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My main problem with PFAYM is it sounds fucking awful.
Agree totally.

Tzb you are my hero on here.

P.S. What is your fav Bruce album?
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:16
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Darkness on the Edge of Town, every time.
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:17
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Darkness on the Edge of Town, every time.
Well, at least we agree on that one!
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:20
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Darkness on the Edge of Town, every time.
Was so hoping you would say that.

My fav Bruce album by a million miles.

Impressed a guy on a flight recently by watching the 2009 gig of Darkness at the Paramount Theatre. Fucking magic. Gonna watch the doc tonight now after all this!
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:23
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That disc is really hard to beat, especially all nice and crisp as a bluray. I watched it after seeing him play the album in full at Wembley a month ago, absolutely unreal.
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:35
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No idea why people are so hostile & raging at Postcards From A Young Man, it me it just sounded like the sequel to Send Away The Tigers.

Postcards From A Young Man was another poor attempt at Pop, it worked with Lifeblood superbly but it did not need to carry on. Postcards was poorly produced & lyrically weak.

MSP are much softer in their lyrics for some reason, apart from JFPL, I'm sick of these poncey fucking love songs, when a band starts using 'Love' or talking about relationships/where I F'ing went wrong all the time you know some thing's wrong. Christ MSP could write great ballads in the early years but since EMG/TIMTTMY era it got worse around 2001.

(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love, god I can't stand that song or the another crappy Love single one on Send Away The Tigers. Golden Platitudes, good song but the bloody la la la la la la laaaaa la, what the hell is this??

MSP certainly 1 of the most important bands to me but I can't want to remember them for some woeful LP's/lyrics, it maybe in vogue to write pop songs but I want more aggression & directness if the 'I Don't Give A F*ck' in lyrics/music again, they can do it, I'm not trying to live in the past but we need a change to roots again not another boy band, I mean look at the cover of This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Boy Band style!!
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:51
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I'm not trying to live in the past
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Old 17-07-2013, 17:58
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Still think PFAYM is SATT done right. One of their lesser albums but still scoring comfortably in the positive sector.
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Old 17-07-2013, 18:49
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I don't understand the inherent dislike on here for postcards.

Is it the best album ever? No
Is it ground breaking? No
Is it the manics best work? No
Is it Choc full of great tunes? YES!

Surely that's what matters - be innovative if you want but at the end of the day an innovative tune which is rubbish is pointless. It's all about great sounding tunes - that's what makes the world go round
I like Postcards.. i don't love it, the tunes sound bloated and i get tired of them fairly quickly. Prefer the demos for most of the songs, especially Golden Platitudes
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Old 17-07-2013, 19:23
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Postcards sounded cheap. Too glossy, too much of a Simon Cowell feel to it. It felt like it was produced with The Script in mind.
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