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Idlewild: American English

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by Andy (quirk) Thomas
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 01/07/2002
  • Label: Parlophone
You cannot hate this record. From the earnest vocal to the slowly growing anthem of a tune it pulls in all that is important about emotional guitar music. It's not as fragile as Starsailor and it doesn't bawl it's eyes out like Hundred Reasons and the emo brigade. Lyrically there is definitely something 'meaningful' being said, but like all classic indie anthems you're never quite sure what. The strings that cut in towards the end actually fit rather than appearing like an Oasis bolt-on. Truly magnificent.
  • Idlewild 9 / 10

i fucking hate it ...

boring load of toss

Re: i fucking hate it ...

I think one of the reviewers on soundsxp.com got the review spot on. It is a load of tosh.


Re: i fucking hate it ...

It sounds like Big Country, which is never a good thing.

The chorus is just Shed Seven 'Chasing Rainbows'

...and it's a shame that the 'wild have gone that low. I don't think they've sold out, as it were, it's just they've got older and they have different things to say/moods to express.

Idlewild - American English

It's a terrible song, easily their worst single ever, they're slowly turning into Travis. That review is a joke.

Idlewild - American English

try listening to it more than once you dickheads, its a 5/5 song.
can't wait for the album, I do hope anyone who doesn't like it dies awkwardly in their sleep!

haha

i've listened to it lots of times, fuckface and it's absolutely disgusting. and i don't really mind idlewild that much

Re: haha

and he can't sing and his lyrics are terrible ("i think you're young without the youth")

Re: Idlewild - American English

I love Idlewild, and am therefore more upset than angry that they've decided to write a slow, turgid, tuneless song. Hence they are turning into Travis. Idlewild will be bigger than ever now...

Re: Idlewild - American English

and to think - the last single was ace

Re: Idlewild - American English

I thought you said above he can't sing and has terrible lyrics, now the last singl is ace. I think someone's made a prick of themselves.

Re: Idlewild - American English

If, as I have dreaded for a couple of years, iDLEWiLD are doing a travIs then I really hope the 'Wild sell a billion albums and usurp Cher or whoever it is on the top of the alltime best sellers list.

Re: Idlewild - American English

Thats true, but I just hate major label pressure, obviously Food have told Idlewild to forget about their old stuff and what they want to write, and write commercial crap so they can make money. I wish Idlewild all the success, but not Food Records.

Re: Idlewild - American English

Food is dead anyway.

Re: Idlewild - American English

Yeah. Someone ate it.

Re: Idlewild - American English

I think you're doing a gross disservice to the band here. Their music has quite clearly been getting mellower organically and through the band's own choice. If they want to be a large-scale crossover success with some less shouty songs then who could begrudge them this right ? They wrote some great angry punk-esque songs in the past, this is a great song in a very different vein. The album has both. Get off your high horse please.

Re: Idlewild - American English

Me, I like my bands to just keep producing the same song over and over again. Why do something different, why change? The world is static don't ya know.

Re: Idlewild - American English

Changing is all well and good, but not if it means becoming boring old men, like Idlewild.

Idlewild - American English

you're all stupid

Idlewild - American English

This song should get 5/5.

I love it.

It makes me cry.

I'm a girl, that's my excuse.

Re: Idlewild - American English

It makes me cry too. It's awful.

AN ALTERNATIVE REVIEW taken from somewhere else...

For anyone who prefers U2 to The Pixies, REM over Slint, then lap up this – the latest phase of Idlewild’s gradual mellowing metamorphosis from screaming art-punk caterpillars into AOR-sympathising butterflies. With former US underground influences all but banished, the ghost of fellow Scots The Proclaimers worryingly haunt the vocal high notes. Crikey.