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Richard Ashcroft — Brave New World
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linz_bobinz
(the city of the newly wed & the nearly dead)
Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 10:25
 
 lily34 wrote:

i'm with you. love his voice. miss the verve.
 
I second that.

bc
(It's everything. Location, Location, Location.)
Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 10:24
 

I'm hearing something vintage here... like it could be from now or the 70s.  Seals & Crofts, anyone?
(No, that's not a slam.)

linz_bobinz
(the city of the newly wed & the nearly dead)
Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 10:23
 
 ndad47 wrote:
you and your brave new world. come to my place and get a good gander at my little corner of this porta potty planet

 



Lol!

Rafter101
(Davis, California)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 15:05
 
 Frater_Kork wrote:
Before I looked I thought it was something by Turin Brakes.
 

Me too—immediately.

norvell
(North TJ)
Posted: Jan 31, 2013 - 15:05
 
More Richard Ashcroft, Please!!!!!

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 13:56
 
 coding_to_music wrote:
Dude can sing

Production & orchestration makes such a difference too
 
i'm with you. love his voice. miss the verve.

jhorton
(Trailer Park on Cape Cod)
Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 17:43
 
This song just keeps growing on me!

philbertr
(Roch New York)
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 17:22
 
 jagdriver wrote:
This is a lot better than some of the borderline tunes on RP (Gary Junes and Elliott Smith immediately come to mind), so I think it's a keeper for now. And yeah, it's derivative, but there are VERY few tunes out there anywhere that aren't in some way, shape or form. Who cares? If it sounds pleasant and there's some sort of instrumental hook somewhere, then it works for me!
 
I think I mighta said this before here on RP on someones post, but it's still true, I think:  Can you tell me ANYTHING in music, or any art, or any form of human expression, that is NOT derivative, in some way?



westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 - 17:17
 
 jagdriver wrote:
This is a lot better than some of the borderline tunes on RP (Gary Junes and Elliott Smith immediately come to mind), so I think it's a keeper for now. And yeah, it's derivative, but there are VERY few tunes out there anywhere that aren't in some way, shape or form. Who cares? If it sounds pleasant and there's some sort of instrumental hook somewhere, then it works for me!
 
Well put.   westslope from the home of BC Bud.  A mixed blessing if there ever was such a thing.


helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Jan 18, 2012 - 23:12
 
Nice!

coding_to_music
(Beantown)
Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 10:27
 
Dude can sing

Production & orchestration makes such a difference too

debbiedo-dah
(Texas)
Posted: May 11, 2011 - 09:54
 
 greyfin10 wrote:

I'm sensing a pattern here... I questioned the origin of your comment on the Bruce Cockburn song (Great Big Love) which originally preceded this... so this is an ongong meta-thread for you of some sort... stream of conciousness quasi comments?  I'm less intrigued than I was one song ago... let's see what sort of fun accompanies the next song shall we?

Im sensing a pattern too,  Above comment Feb 08, 2009.  BC's Great Big Love and then Richard Ashcroft's Brave New World played back to back May 11, 2011...hmmmm

Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden)
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 07:09
 
Before I looked I thought it was something by Turin Brakes.

roulleau
Posted: Jan 05, 2011 - 16:27
 
 jagdriver wrote:
This is a lot better than some of the borderline tunes on RP (Gary Junes and Elliott Smith immediately come to mind), so I think it's a keeper for now. And yeah, it's derivative, but there are VERY few tunes out there anywhere that aren't in some way, shape or form. Who cares? If it sounds pleasant and there's some sort of instrumental hook somewhere, then it works for me!
 

Elliott Smith "borderline"?

I really encourage you to listen to some more.

duchamp
(Hardwood Hammock)
Posted: Oct 02, 2010 - 17:51
 
sends chills up me.....

thaidirect
Posted: Jun 28, 2010 - 20:36
 
I love this entire album. It came out during one of the pivotal stages in my life. Too bad his subsequent albums were not nearly as good.

nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: May 28, 2010 - 00:43
 
Nicely crafted.

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Sep 17, 2009 - 21:18
 
This is a lot better than some of the borderline tunes on RP (Gary Junes and Elliott Smith immediately come to mind), so I think it's a keeper for now. And yeah, it's derivative, but there are VERY few tunes out there anywhere that aren't in some way, shape or form. Who cares? If it sounds pleasant and there's some sort of instrumental hook somewhere, then it works for me!

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 09:22
 
I love it!

crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Aug 17, 2009 - 09:19
 
 Tim_in_N_FL wrote:
Wild, Wild, Horses...
 
...couldn't rescue this from mediocrity.{#Eh}

Tim_in_N_FL
(Florida)
Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 12:16
 
Wild, Wild, Horses...

greyfin10
(Panama City, FL)
Posted: Feb 08, 2009 - 12:13
 

I'm sensing a pattern here... I questioned the origin of your comment on the Bruce Cockburn song (Great Big Love) which originally preceded this... so this is an ongong meta-thread for you of some sort... stream of conciousness quasi comments?  I'm less intrigued than I was one song ago... let's see what sort of fun accompanies the next song shall we?

Edit: Apparently Calexico didn't do anything for you... however, tracing back... The  Vines (Take Me Back) and Talking Heads (Psycho Killer) did.  So this is a hit or miss, as it occurs to you thing, as opposed to a project you have undertaken.  Somehow that's reassuring to me... actually something I could see myself doing on a lazy Saturday afternoon (lazy Sunday afternoon as I write this).  Cheers to you five months ago...

 ndad47 wrote:
you and your brave new world. come to my place and get a good gander at my little corner of this porta potty planet

 


i4niblind
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Nov 05, 2008 - 17:04
 
this album would have been much more widely accepted without comparisons to Urban Hymns..  I mean, not even another Verve album could live up to the enormous production of urban hymns..  speaking of which, anyone heard their new album yet?  The verve is back.. check them out..  definitely a few awesome songs on it.

ndad47
(the great state of maine)
Posted: Sep 09, 2008 - 14:40
 
you and your brave new world. come to my place and get a good gander at my little corner of this porta potty planet


jenseda
(Small Town Southwest)
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 10:12
 
TonyBear wrote:
I think he should form a duo with his brother Malcolm


A trio with John!
EssexTex
(Riding the range)
Posted: Feb 27, 2008 - 09:49
 
It's just not the same...
rbigelo
(Spanish Town)
Posted: Mar 18, 2007 - 20:21
 
Yeah, it's pretty mainstream urban. Not bad, though.

superfido
Posted: Feb 15, 2007 - 12:33
 
Well this is simply tedious.
Steven_G
Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 06:53
 
I am still sad The Verve broke apart just at the time when I first discovered their music. This Amazon.com reviewer puts it in good perspective though -
Everybody and their mother will compare Alone With Everybody with Urban Hymns. Why waste your time and energy? Just buy Alone... and listen with fresh open ears. Alone.. sounds like a continuation of Urban Hymns but better. Alone.. sounds more focused. Ashcroft is playing most of the instruments on this album, or at least he's credited with doing so, so it obviously sounds a lot more focused coming from one point of view. As good as Urban Hymns was though, I got really sick of it after a while. There was an air of pretentiousness I think, surrounding the songs on that album.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Urban Hymns. The album just dragged on and on for me. With Alone.., things flow a lot better. The album as a whole seems more humble and down to earth. And Ashcroft sounds like he really cares about how we listen to the songs. The production on the album is tremendous, the intense layering of sounds and vocals. The orchestral sounds, no doubt influenced by Ashcroft's Spiritualized wife, adds to the classic sounds of Alone.... When I say 'classic,' I mean Beatles classic. Here's a good way to look at it: the Verve's Urban Hymns was like the Beatles' Abbey Road. Ashcroft's Alone with Everybody is like Lennon's Imagine.

From Amazon.com

TonyBear
(London, England)
Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 06:38
 
I think he should form a duo with his brother Malcolm
Rickvee
(New Orleans)
Posted: Jan 08, 2006 - 07:46
 
Ashcroft needs Mr. McCabe.
kazuma
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Nov 14, 2005 - 17:02
 
fncll wrote:
I miss The Verve-- Ashcroft needs some balance...

Darlington wrote:


I agree. I listened to "Urban Hymns" on the way to work this morning and thought the same thing. On that CD it is easy to contrast Ashcroft's (for lack of a better word) "pop sensibilities" with the more dreamy, experimental stuff of the guitarist (McCabe?).

I agree as well, although I do like this one.
trekhead
(Just Missed Me.)
Posted: Oct 27, 2005 - 11:13
 
OUCH!
My Winamp is goin' all goofy...
Anyone else?
paloeguevo
(Utrecht)
Posted: Oct 04, 2005 - 08:09
 
If you haven't seeing "A song for the lovers" video,
go do it. You can do it in his website.

Cheers
tomcool
(Miami, Florida)
Posted: Oct 01, 2005 - 18:09
 
Mangoman wrote:
His last name creeps me out. I know. Makes no sense, it's not fair. But there it is.

Imagine me, a Kate Bush fan.
thewiseking
(New York, New York)
Posted: Sep 19, 2005 - 14:16
 
derivative as can be,
but sounds ok.
Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: Sep 13, 2005 - 07:56
 
fncll wrote:
I miss The Verve-- Ashcroft needs some balance...


I agree. I listened to "Urban Hymns" on the way to work this morning and thought the same thing. On that CD it is easy to contrast Ashcroft's (for lack of a better word) "pop sensibilities" with the more dreamy, experimental stuff of the guitarist (McCabe?). Its very easy to pinpoint the songs on that disc written by Ashcroft and those written by McCabe (0r credited to The Verve) without having to look at the CD booklet.

There are numerous highs on both of the Ashcroft solo CD's I have, but I don't listen to them nearly as much as I listen to my Verve discs.
fncll
(Fairbanks, Alaska)
Posted: Sep 04, 2005 - 17:48
 
I miss The Verve-- Ashcroft needs some balance...
Mangoman
(Portland Metro Oregon)
Posted: Sep 02, 2005 - 04:15
 
His last name creeps me out. I know. Makes no sense, it's not fair. But there it is.
Laniel
Posted: Aug 29, 2005 - 11:17
 
An excellent song from an excellent album. His albums have a solid vibe, one song floats into the next. Perfect for daydreaming away when you're in a particular kind of mood...the kind of mood I'm in right now.
veegez
(Minnesoter)
Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 07:14
 
physicsgenius wrote:


“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Good men going to their happy place and letting it go have the same effect.


Fine. Now please go to your unhappy place.
Filofox
(Nowhere important)
Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 07:09
 
edechewe wrote:
gosh, I really like this song. Nice and dreamy.


Dreamy is right...

<- falls asleep
(former member)
(St. George, Utah)
Posted: Aug 14, 2005 - 14:46
 
physicsgenius wrote:


“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Good men going to their happy place and letting it go have the same effect.


Soryy, no, not sorry, that's such bullshit.
physicsgenius
Posted: Aug 03, 2005 - 10:43
 
UncleSlayton wrote:
Just breath slowly … go to your happy place … and let it go.

:D



“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Good men going to their happy place and letting it go have the same effect.
rascal420
(Truckee, CA - 5000 feet above Paradise)
Posted: Aug 03, 2005 - 10:40
 
This will never get old for me:

Dead governor wins Missouri Senate seat
Associated Press
Last Updated: Nov. 8, 2000

Election 2000


St. Louis - Missourians elected a dead man to the Senate on Tuesday, choosing Gov. Mel Carnahan - who perished three weeks ago in a plane crash - over Republican incumbent John Ashcroft. Carnahan's widow had agreed to take her husband's place.


shakitten
Posted: Jul 30, 2005 - 18:51
 
edechewe wrote:
gosh, I really like this song. Nice and dreamy.




Yeah...I think so, too!
edechewe
(Chapin Wetherill)
Posted: Jul 19, 2005 - 16:07
 
gosh, I really like this song. Nice and dreamy.
ryuujin23
(The Desert just north of the purple sage)
Posted: Jul 19, 2005 - 16:02
 
As long as I don't have to hear this on the otherside.
:puke:
DisplacedNorthrnr
(Btwn the Golden Armpit and the butthole of Ontario)
Posted: Jul 07, 2005 - 11:43
 
stepped out for a coffee with "nya-nya-nya-nyaaaa...." fading into the background - just got back, coffee in hand hearing "nya-nya-nya-nyaaaaaa"
Shutitupjustshutupshutup!
Veritas
(Pacific Northwest)
Posted: Jul 07, 2005 - 11:41