Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

new single is surprisingly fun it's like a cross between Plastic Bertrand/Slade/The Wombles/Ricky Martin and apparently it has pissed off a large part of his fanbase.
If you heard it on the radio you probably wouldnt even know it was Noel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE9BpwrRA1w

In the meantime, Liam's album is outselling the rest of the UK Top 20 combined.

I doubt that would be hard tbh

I'd like him to have one. Why not?

I'm listening to the LG album now and its dull

I really like 3 songs on it, which is 3 songs more than I was expecting to like on it.

that noel single is powerfully shit - it sounds like robbie williams

I've All I Need is pretty good , turrican.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXcxycv6Vg

I'm glad I had my turn-of-the-century Oasis fan experiences but I wish people would stop calling the Gallaghers brilliant/funny/intelligent interviewees.

“Our government are seemingly powerless to fucking stop this shit,” said Gallagher recent attacks. “I have children and they’re growing up in London and they take the tube, I take the tube – we all take public transport because I can’t drive.

“And there’s bombers roaming free around the whole fucking city and the government and the one before them and the one after that will be powerless to stop it because of some hippy ideal about people’s religious beliefs.”

[...]

Speaking of his emotional performance, Gallagher added: “‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ was already a fucking huge anthem before that fucking Islamic fucking goon put that bomb in the arena.

“When I was singing it at the Manchester concert a little part of you was like ‘fucking wow’, but then a bigger part of you was thinking I wish this had never happened in the first place and you’d prefer the song was just as it was.”

-- http://www.nme.com/news/music/noel-gallagher-slams-governments-hippy-ideals-fking-powerless-stop-terrorism-2151344

I take the tube – we all take public transport because I can’t drive.

*sighs*

I'm liking some of this new HFB album, which I haven't able to say about anything NG-related since Morning Glory. "Black & White Sunshine" is a highlight and has that lovely Kevin Shieldsy guitar bit in the chorus. "If Love is the Law" is a decent attempt to be Fleet Foxes. After further listening, I might be led to go so far as to say the album is good, but I'll remain tentative for now.

not a huge oasis fan myself, but did you not like any of these:

"D'You Know What I Mean?"
"Stand by Me"
"Go Let It Out"
"Fuckin' in the Bushes"
"Stop Crying Your Heart Out"
"Little by Little"

"Little by Little" is atrocious. "D'You Know What I Mean" and "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" are merely bad. "Go Let it Out" is passable. "Stand by Me" is almost good. FITB I don't remember. I don't actively like any of them. Apart from the plodding chorus, "All Around the World" off BHN is one of NG's better chord sequences/melodies, but that was also an old song by the time it was released.

"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" always sounded to me like someone saying "look, here's a tenner, now pissoff"

'Stand By Me' and 'Fuckin' in the Bushes' are both great, IMO.

Anyway, I've given the new High Flying Birds album a listen but the mastering is so hot it's borderline unlistenable - shame, sounds like the most "adventurous" thing he's done in ages.