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Idlewild: I Understand It
by Steve LMAO
When you're fighting all desire to enter the letters 'R' 'E' and 'M' into a review, you're left with phrases like 'nice chord change', 'top choral bit' and 'sounds a bit like something off 'Life's Rich Pageant'... bugger, failed.
We know it's meant to be lazy journalism to compare Idlewild to REM these days, but frankly... OH MY GOD! HAVE YOU LISTENED TO THIS SONG? Sorry, but it's a frankly taking the piss. There were desperate attempts to wrestle something exciting and new from this single, but Idlewild have made it so hard. So hard.
Decent song n' all, but really...
If I was Roddy at the Athens school of REM, I'd get a bollocking for lack of originality big time...
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wow Idlewilds stylist have done some makeover for them, they look totally different in that picture -
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This song is so boring. Why they haven't released El Capitan instead I have idea, or almost anything else of the album in fact cos I like most of it a lot! Oh the one which sounds IDENTICAL to a track on The Remote Part would have been the only worse choice (As If I Haven't Slept I think) -
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I think that's a picture of 'The Vessels'. -
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This is quite good, I might yet buy that album. It really really does sound like it could have been on Lifes Rich Pageant though, but that isn't a bad thing by any means. -
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The album's worth a punt if you liked the last one, it's certainly grown on me. My only complaint about it is Roddy's lyrics, the old faux-profound thing is worse than ever before. -
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Album's great. It's not a singles album though, apart from 'Love Steals Us From Loneliness'... -
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i agree, its a real grower actually...love too long awake -
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i like this album its a pleasant with pretty good songs.
el capitan would have been a better choice, nice and summery -
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I don't care if I don't have an idea track -
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the album's great, it's good that they're evolving -
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I like Idlewild and I like this song. I realise that probably makes me unfashionable in these parts, but so be it. -
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actually, loving the new oasis single makes you unfashionable in these parts. "i understand it" isn't half bad.
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your to busy moaning just listen to the song. -
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..there is no roseability. -
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