embrace.

c'mon. single written by chris martin. of course that is going to do well. the true test is the album. which is pretty bloody bad.

if that is the case i'll wait a few weeks and pick my copy up at fopp for three quid.

omg wtf this is embrace!

i've seen those teeth man. (shudder)

i just can't understand embrace. its like asking for the appeal in kula shaker or cast and beyond the comedic value i can't find nothing. nada. i gots nothing. truly mystified. i get why the single sold. single charts are weak as fuck and the fan base bought the single in droves plus added radio value being that it was written by chris martin. but the album? that's the test.

o.k. wasted five minutes of my life i'll never get back on this.

c'ya.

(Still haven't heard the new album though, and will reserve judgement. I thought the last one was crap.)

it would appear to be at no.1, unless this is a midweek chart or not-the-official-chart or something, in which case i have spoken too soon.

I heaped praise on Embrace's debut spouting something like the album was a grand opus likely to endure, whereas "Bring It On" ... "but only in moderation"... and was ..."heritage-listed in 1973" and that... "the Lynyrd Skynyrd revial wasn't funny first time 'round!".

Funny how things turn out innit?!

Personally, they say more to me than Coldplay. Why is it that they received worldwide critical kudos, when others of their ilk, had seriously made better efforts?

I think if you collated the best tracks from Embrace's first two albums, you'd certainly hace a classic on your hands.

Danny's voice is best suited on the grandiose ballads, but, his voice can come across a little too stylistically weepy in places. They deserve mass stadium, symphony'led ballad-rock hegemony like The Verve and Verve before them.

Incidentally, wasn't their third LP a greatest hits album of sorts: put out hurriedly by their record company?

Just remember, Starsailor have a lot to answer too, also!

Aloft candles at the ready then....

I'm talking about the songs too, with regards the Missy/J-Lo thing; is it not just as judgemental to dismiss Missy & J-Lo as indistinguishable due to them both being women doing hip-hop/pop/r'n'b hybrids? (And isn't J-Lo's message just as juch "you love me" as Missy's, although without the Twinky bit?)

Soul and mystique are very nebulous concepts when talking about a band as well, as is blandness. There's a certain facet to the ILM mindset that cannot deal with popular guitar music except from a straight ahead rockist direction, that is unless it actually likes it in the first place, whereas it will twist all sorts of tropes and memes around until it can justify liking anything vaguelly derived from pop or hip hop, and I'm finding this automatic and knee-jerk inverse rockism quite irritating lately.

now i went out to buy the record and realised that i accidently bought the keane one because i couldn't tell the difference.

ps. yeah i have time for doves and not embrace. weird.
pps. '100,000 embrace fans can be wrong'

bye!

And I do see that Keane wouldn't exist without Embrace, of course, likewise Northern Uproar wouldn't exist without Oasis, etcetera etcetera ad infinitum. You really are quite dull mentally, aren't you Paul?