bam23
(Berkeley) | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 21:08
I like the driving pulsing sound of many Doves pieces. Maybe not the finest music on the planet, but at times they seem to really be operating at a high level. Even when I can't figure out the lyrics (or have no interest in doing so), the music is compelling. Maybe that's as complicated as it needs to be?
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coding_to_music
(Beantown) | Posted: Jul 16, 2012 - 02:15
Not their best
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kingart
(Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 14:06
Pretty smokin'. Too short on that closing guitar drive, though. Crank it!
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(former member)
| Posted: Dec 25, 2010 - 15:51
Droidac wrote:
Dude, do you ever say anything positive?
Not fair. Defend the song but there's no reason to attack each other.
It's become too common to take this approach
"I don't like it."
"Then you're an idiot."
Let's talk about the music instead of turning it personal.
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | Posted: Jul 19, 2010 - 14:40
AdyMiles wrote:
please explain. it sounds like a load of overdubbed noise to me
It's like someone took Sonic Youth thru a slight pop filter and sprinkled a little Manchester vocal on top. What's to explain?
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EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee) | Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 04:32
Great band
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vit
| Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 11:39
AdyMiles wrote:
please explain. it sounds like a load of overdubbed noise to me
vit clears head. Thanks. I needed that.
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dggeek
| Posted: Oct 14, 2009 - 08:31
And only a smidge over 200 rated 4 or less...
AdyMiles wrote:
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Droidac
(4066 kms east of Paradise) | Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 13:55
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AdyMiles
(Wolverhampton, UK) | Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:49
vit wrote:Tears for Fears. That's who this guy's voice reminds me of. The music and arrangement are great though.
please explain. it sounds like a load of overdubbed noise to me
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AdyMiles
(Wolverhampton, UK) | Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:47
Droidac wrote:
Dude, do you ever say anything positive?
9 - Conjure One - Extraordinary Ways
9 - David Lindley and Wally Ingram - Pay Bo Diddley
9 - John Lennon - Imagine
9 - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
9 - R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (live acoustic)
9 - David Bowie - Space Oddity
9 - Blur - Song 2
9 - R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
8 - Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
8 - Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
8 - Sinéad O'Connor - Downpressor Man
8 - The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
8 - The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
8 - Seal - Crazy
8 - Eva Cassidy - Ain't No Sunshine
8 - The Beatles - Come Together
8 - Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
8 - They Might Be Giants - Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)
8 - John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over
8 - Nick Lowe - Breaking Glass
8 - Porcupine Tree - Cloud Zero
8 - The Beatles - Taxman
8 - Goldfrapp - Cologne Cerrone Houdini
8 - Neko Case - Buckets of Rain
8 - Cat Stevens - Bitterblue
8 - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (live)
8 - The Dandy Warhols - Love Song
8 - Air - La Femme D'Argent
8 - Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
8 - David Bowie - Starman
7 - Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
7 - Ray LaMontagne - Henry Nearly Killed Me (It's a shame)
7 - Sun Kil Moon - Glenn Tipton
7 - R.E.M. - Until The Day Is Done
7 - Snow Patrol - The Golden Floor
7 - Dire Straits - You And Your Friend
7 - Leo Kottke - World Turning
7 - Happy Mondays - Step On
7 - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
7 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
7 - The Beatles - Doctor Robert
7 - Johnny Cash - I'm Leaving Now
7 - Mike Oldfield - a) Secrets b) Far Above The Clouds
7 - Kasabian - Ovary Stripe
7 - Aimee Mann - The Scientist (Live)
7 - Kate Bush - And So Is Love
7 - Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
7 - Stephen Marley - You're Gonna Leave
7 - David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
7 - Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
7 - Blondie - One Way or Another
7 - Violent Femmes - Crazy
7 - Beck - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
7 - Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
7 - Oasis - Falling Down
7 - Chroma Key - Colorblind
7 - Counting Crows - Anna Begins
7 - Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
7 - The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
7 - Dusted - Always Remember to Respect and Honour Your Mother
7 - Blur - Out Of Time
7 - High Violets - Wheel
7 - Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
7 - Nitin Sawhney - Mausam
7 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live in Athens 1988)
7 - Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
7 - The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
7 - Paolo Nutini - Candy
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vit
| Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:43
Tears for Fears. That's who this guy's voice reminds me of. The music and arrangement are great though.
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Droidac
(4066 kms east of Paradise) | Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:42
AdyMiles wrote:utter crap
Dude, do you ever say anything positive?
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Droidac
(4066 kms east of Paradise) | Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:41
I love it when my rating changes the average rating. My rating just took this from 7.2 to 7.3!
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AdyMiles
(Wolverhampton, UK) | Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 06:40
utter crap. loads of noise plus mediocre singing doesn't make for good music
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von_Hayek
(Fr-Su Duesseldorf, Mo-Th Magdeburg) | Posted: Sep 15, 2009 - 08:08
I gotta buy this album!!! Every single track sounds great!
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jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Sep 15, 2009 - 08:05
7 ==> 8
Freakin' great stuff once again from the Doves!
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jenntenn
(Indy) | Posted: Aug 14, 2009 - 20:11
Wow. Amazing mix! This is a great disc. Radio Paradise makes me weep with joy @ times.
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komainu
(Iowa City, IA) | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 08:48
Chinju wrote:Nice sudden transition from Elton John - Sixty Years On
Agreed. Really made me sit up and listen, and smile.
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spraehbuer
(London, UK) | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 08:47
Chinju wrote:Nice sudden transition from Elton John - Sixty Years On
I agree 
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Pyro
| Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 08:46
Chinju wrote:Nice sudden transition from Elton John - Sixty Years On
No kidding!!! Radio at it's BEST!!! (Thank you BillG!!!)
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rez
| Posted: Jul 16, 2009 - 19:58
Liking this one. Have always thought that the Doves have never really rescaled the heights of their
first album but this is really good.
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Chinju
| Posted: Jul 12, 2009 - 17:20
Nice sudden transition from Elton John - Sixty Years On
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peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: May 11, 2009 - 15:42
What a great segue and what a great rocking set!
Doves - the Outsiders
Cracker - Time Machine
Son Volt - Drown
All hail the Master - Bill G. 
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SledDawg
(High Bridge, NJ, USA) | Posted: May 05, 2009 - 10:39
I love this record. I think it's way better than "Coldplay with guitars", which some have said. It's much darker than that.
Anyway, a great record... hope it does well. How will they reproduce it live though? Much as I like it (maybe this is why I like it...) I have to say that this Doves album reminds me greatly of criminally-neglected 90s bandSwervedriver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swervedriver#2008_Reunion
This Doves album could practically be a long-lost unreleased Swervedriver LP.
Swervedriver just reunited at Coachella, and their long-out-of-print CDs are being reissued. "Raise" is one of the great records of the 90s.
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rcurrier
(San Juan Capistrano, CA) | Posted: Apr 12, 2009 - 12:36
What a concept: make sure the low-bitrate MP3 rips of your music sound just like the original by making the original sound like a low-bitrate MP3 rip.
The quality comes through—I do like it—but I tremble at the thought of hearing all the bands who will attempt to steal their sound.
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conglif
| Posted: Apr 08, 2009 - 14:48
Wow. This sounds really thick.
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Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina) | Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 12:25
Really looking foward to this CD.
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gabbadar
(40.475652,-75.265617 (Or in the field, by the playground, under the stars.. if dark)) | Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 12:19
Nice transition. A new Doves? Nice!
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jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 12:19
New Doves!
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djblitz
(Boston, MA) | Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 12:19
What, nothing to be said?
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DigitalJer
(Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) | Posted: Apr 01, 2009 - 12:19
It would seem the Doves can do little wrong - 7 from me :)
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