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Post by DC on Jul 30, 2014 10:48:27 GMT
We've got a poll on your favourite song off the new album, another for the song that's you think is the best song so in the interest of balance (for not everything in the garden is rosy all the time) which is the song you like least on the album, one where you think it shouldn't have made the cut.
Don't just vote, please, tell us a bit about why you're not enamoured with this tune.
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Post by tomw on Jul 30, 2014 11:02:52 GMT
To be honest there are none on here that I skip (which I think is the only Embrace album I can say that about) but I've gone with SAM (though I could have chosen Devil). It's a little unfair perhaps, but I think I had high hopes for this one having read some comments from Danny ahead of the album about how it sounded. It's not the full-on, angry beast that I had anticipated.
And I don't know why, but the mention of 'bitter tears' in consecutive songs gets on my nerves.
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Post by DC on Jul 30, 2014 13:24:46 GMT
I Run. It's got nothing about it, it's what everyone thinks Embrace is all about, it plods, doesn't go anywhere and where the emotion on the other songs feels real this just feels plastic, artificial, pumped full of saccharine.
It annoys me that this song made it onto the album when DNA got bumped because DNA's the much superior song.
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Post by joshwood on Jul 30, 2014 16:16:09 GMT
I voted for Devil. And honestly, I don't have anything bad to say about it. It just doesn't grab me particularly. If anything, actually, I've grown to like it more. Has anyone else noticed that there are horns? Okay, they're synth horns probably, but they're still pretty cool, used well, etc. The song's a bit choppy, you can see the structural seams until you get to the "it's all for nothing" part.
I don't want to seem like I think the album's not got its flaws, but I guess I just think not every song can be a banger.
SAM's actually really grown on me, which surprised me. That guitar part is just fun to listen to.
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Post by joshwood on Jul 30, 2014 16:19:33 GMT
I Run. It's got nothing about it, it's what everyone thinks Embrace is all about, it plods, doesn't go anywhere and where the emotion on the other songs feels real this just feels plastic, artificial, pumped full of saccharine. It annoys me that this song made it onto the album when DNA got bumped because DNA's the much superior song. I waver between feeling like this (it doesn't encourage listening 'cause it starts too slowly, it's melodramatic, it describes an emotional state that I can't help but think is weak) and thinking that it's extremely sonically pleasing to listen to in the verse, it's honest, and it has that great Rik part at the end. But I also recognize that I will often find excuses for songs if they have a great guitar part squeezed in there, especially if it's Rik. Hard to be objective sometimes.
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Post by hooligan on Jul 30, 2014 17:00:06 GMT
Definitely Follow You Home. It's a blatant ripoff of U2 and Coldplay, only not as good as either. In addition, it was obviously written for airplay. It's also extremely annoying. FYH might be the worst thing Embrace has ever done. And why is everyone hating on SAM? It's not the best on the album, but it's still good.
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Post by tomw on Jul 30, 2014 20:11:21 GMT
I voted for Devil. And honestly, I don't have anything bad to say about it. It just doesn't grab me particularly. If anything, actually, I've grown to like it more. Has anyone else noticed that there are horns? Okay, they're synth horns probably, but they're still pretty cool, used well, etc. Yo Josh, I've just listened to this again and can't spot the horns - do they come in at a particular point? Cheers boss.
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Post by joshwood on Jul 30, 2014 20:31:06 GMT
I voted for Devil. And honestly, I don't have anything bad to say about it. It just doesn't grab me particularly. If anything, actually, I've grown to like it more. Has anyone else noticed that there are horns? Okay, they're synth horns probably, but they're still pretty cool, used well, etc. Yo Josh, I've just listened to this again and can't spot the horns - do they come in at a particular point? Cheers boss. It's more of a background horn, really, and like I said, it's almost definitely not actual brass. Oh, I dunno, I've just listened to the sound like six times in a row and it sounds pretty straight synth-y. Still, in my head it serves the same function as brass. Comes in at 0.36 for the first time. No, I'm gonna switch back and say it's definitely a synth horn, 'cause it punches like brass.
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Post by tomw on Jul 31, 2014 7:18:42 GMT
Cheers Josh, see what you mean now. I was going to make a crude gag about 'background horn' but decided against it. I love discovering new sounds like that, thanks.
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Post by Duncs on Jul 31, 2014 10:39:22 GMT
I run for me, I've never really got it, Danny is quoted as saying it's his favourite I just think it goes nowhere fast and bores me to tears, "blah blah bore"
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Post by wootoo on Aug 1, 2014 12:56:37 GMT
I Run, by a distance.
To me, its downright bad, and I'm surprised anyone likes it.
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Post by willow on Aug 1, 2014 14:18:51 GMT
So is this the opposite of favourite or the opposite of best?
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Post by firstcut on Aug 1, 2014 15:14:59 GMT
i would have voted for self attack mechanism, but follow you home is equally bad, and an obvious desperate attempt at writing a pop single.
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Post by DC on Aug 1, 2014 15:17:45 GMT
So is this the opposite of favourite or the opposite of best? I'm not keen to say worst... For me it's the one I like least.
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Post by joshwood on Aug 1, 2014 16:47:31 GMT
This is so typical of Embrace fans. Fourteen votes on this thread, ten on the best thread, seven on the favorite one.
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Post by richielumsdon on Aug 1, 2014 18:11:02 GMT
Thief for me. I think someone mentioned this on a previous thread but it sounds like paint-by-numbers last track on an Embrace album, like they've sat down with the express intention of trying to write a final "epic". To me it comes across as a bit of a cynical box ticking exercise, like they we're trying to capture some of the spirit of Out of Nothing (IMO one of Embrace's greatest songs) but instead they just end up sounding like a pale imitation of themselves. It could also have written in a key that suits Danny's voice, some of those higher notes sound painful...
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Post by tomw on Aug 1, 2014 20:42:47 GMT
This is so typical of Embrace fans. Fourteen votes on this thread, ten on the best thread, seven on the favorite one. Aye, i thought the same. But then the two positive ones probably split the vote a little (i haven't distinguished between best and favourite, for example).
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Post by joshwood on Aug 1, 2014 21:17:35 GMT
This is so typical of Embrace fans. Fourteen votes on this thread, ten on the best thread, seven on the favorite one. Aye, i thought the same. But then the two positive ones probably split the vote a little (i haven't distinguished between best and favourite, for example). Yeah, that's fair, that occurred to me. But still.
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Post by DC on Aug 2, 2014 0:04:01 GMT
Sorry, it's just there's songs that I think are the best on the album because they're innovative or different or they make me want to dance or burst out of my skin, and there's songs on there that I just love without thinking why. That's why I put 'best' and 'favourite' out there because to me they're different things.
I'd change the polls if a) I could be arsed and b) if my laptop and iphone weren't in full on just about to be slung through a window meltdown.
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Post by Tracy on Aug 2, 2014 14:59:40 GMT
I run for me. I'm really not a fan.
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