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Keane — Playing Along
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mbriner
(So Cal)
Posted: Feb 07, 2011 - 14:11
 
Every time I hear this I can't help thinking it would make a good soundtrack for a shampoo commercial...

Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 07:01
 
 frecko wrote:
I'm gonna turn down the volume...
 
That's by far the least inspired comment for this song...

{#Snooty}


jonnydreaming
(Maryland)
Posted: Oct 25, 2010 - 17:52
 
This sounds very much like something Rufus Wainwright would write.  I like it.

goldenfiddle
Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 09:08
 
..."that" is priceless, RP is a stereophonic, symphophonic experience.

goldenfiddle
Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 09:04
 
RP helps me turn up the volume so I can focus on my science and ignore the occasional "numbnut".

Asmith
Posted: Sep 02, 2010 - 09:07
 
It is a little cheesy, but in a good way.

Nice song

frecko
(Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 02:01
 
I'm gonna turn down the volume...

davin
(Victoria, British Columbia)
Posted: Jul 16, 2010 - 12:25
 
This song is kind of cheesy..

But I like it and I bought it earlier this week. 


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 13:25
 
 jfulton wrote:
Clearly the desire of most is to log in and trash this song. Too bad. It's a great song on an even better album. To evoke such a strong, negative emotion leads me to wonder what other songs those critics would find worse than this. I like this song a lot, but I've heard some bad songs here. Bad for serious reasons. But to just make comments like "Drivel" and "Stop Playing this song" is about as uncreative and thoughtless as they think the song is. Express yourself. A drive by comment, does not a point make.

On a lesser note, I hear a good amount of comments about how Tom is like Freddy Mercury. Listen to Mika. That is Freddy Mercury reincarnated. His stuff is super queer, but he is Freddy.

Be more creative people. We aren't radio listeners. We are Radio Paradise listeners!!!!
 
I agree and disagree... {#Lol} I don't presume to know what other folks' desire is when they post that little barf-icon or say "Make it stop." I've had my moments, too - usually when I honestly don't have the words to describe why I like or don't like a song. But I do agree that a short post calling a song "drivel" without even a cursory explanation as to why the listener considers it drivel is pretty uncreative.

Personally, I like this song, and now that you've mentioned it, the lead singer does have echoes of Freddy Mercury.  Those precise, clipped "s" sounds and the tone of his voice, the snarl, the whisper, the plea...  Hmmm. Keane makes me wish Mercury hadn't died so soon... Imagine what kind of music Queen would be providing now...{#Bounce}

(former member)
(Idaho)
Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 13:09
 
jfulton wrote:
Clearly the desire of most is to log in and trash this song. Too bad. It's a great song on an even better album. To evoke such a strong, negative emotion leads me to wonder what other songs those critics would find worse than this. I like this song a lot, but I've heard some bad songs here. Bad for serious reasons. But to just make comments like "Drivel" and "Stop Playing this song" is about as uncreative and thoughtless as they think the song is. Express yourself. A drive by comment, does not a point make.

On a lesser note, I hear a good amount of comments about how Tom is like Freddy Mercury. Listen to Mika. That is Freddy Mercury reincarnated. His stuff is super queer, but he is Freddy.

Be more creative people. We aren't radio listeners. We are Radio Paradise listeners!!!!
 
Agreed!  {#Dancingbanana_2} {#Roflol}{#Flamed}

rtwingo
Posted: Jun 30, 2010 - 12:04
 
 jfulton wrote:
Clearly the desire of most is to log in and trash this song. Too bad. It's a great song on an even better album. To evoke such a strong, negative emotion leads me to wonder what other songs those critics would find worse than this. I like this song a lot, but I've heard some bad songs here. Bad for serious reasons. But to just make comments like "Drivel" and "Stop Playing this song" is about as uncreative and thoughtless as they think the song is. Express yourself. A drive by comment, does not a point make.

On a lesser note, I hear a good amount of comments about how Tom is like Freddy Mercury. Listen to Mika. That is Freddy Mercury reincarnated. His stuff is super queer, but he is Freddy.

Be more creative people. We aren't radio listeners. We are Radio Paradise listeners!!!!
 

Hear hear! {#High-five}

Marcuse
(Ouilmette)
Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 15:35
 
 jfulton wrote:
Clearly the desire of most is to log in and trash this song. Too bad. It's a great song on an even better album. To evoke such a strong, negative emotion leads me to wonder what other songs those critics would find worse than this. I like this song a lot, but I've heard some bad songs here. Bad for serious reasons. But to just make comments like "Drivel" and "Stop Playing this song" is about as uncreative and thoughtless as they think the song is. Express yourself. A drive by comment, does not a point make.

On a lesser note, I hear a good amount of comments about how Tom is like Freddy Mercury. Listen to Mika. That is Freddy Mercury reincarnated. His stuff is super queer, but he is Freddy.

Be more creative people. We aren't radio listeners. We are Radio Paradise listeners!!!!
 
Well said, JF, but fat chance. The "barfo sucko make it stop I hate this and have to let everyone know" community here is determined to let us know how much they hate things. Because they can I guess. Beats me.

jfulton
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 10:30
 
Clearly the desire of most is to log in and trash this song. Too bad. It's a great song on an even better album. To evoke such a strong, negative emotion leads me to wonder what other songs those critics would find worse than this. I like this song a lot, but I've heard some bad songs here. Bad for serious reasons. But to just make comments like "Drivel" and "Stop Playing this song" is about as uncreative and thoughtless as they think the song is. Express yourself. A drive by comment, does not a point make.

On a lesser note, I hear a good amount of comments about how Tom is like Freddy Mercury. Listen to Mika. That is Freddy Mercury reincarnated. His stuff is super queer, but he is Freddy.

Be more creative people. We aren't radio listeners. We are Radio Paradise listeners!!!!

mauflex
(florence, italy)
Posted: May 10, 2010 - 03:06
 
 ZarSU wrote:
Wow, this is some very UNcreative and UNlikeable music Noise.?.
 
Agree. Seems like Post-Noideas-Radiohead-sound-alike stuff.


Jamunca
(Asheville, NC)
Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 15:32
 
 namp wrote:
Possibly their worst song...
 

Couldn't disagree more.

namp
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 02:42
 
Possibly their worst song...

stromdal
(Eurotrashville)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 02:41
 
The ending really lifts this song.

Derecho
(A Land Without Traffic Lights)
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 11:48
 
Good pop cotton candy, light and airy.  Nice to hear every once in a great while.

Agreeing with below statements, I'd love to hear this guy take on some Queen.

ezzyme
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Feb 07, 2010 - 23:16
 
I love it! Variety for variety's sake! More, Bill, more!

Leatherpoker
Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 06:58
 
Not so good as Keane's other material.  This one seems very uninspired and generic...  {#Confused}

weevilkinevil
(close to Paradise)
Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 12:19
 
Sounds like a hair band ballad. Think Scorpions.

ZarSU
(RI aka the arm pit of New England)
Posted: Jan 14, 2010 - 12:16
 
Wow, this is some very UNcreative and UNlikeable music Noise.?.

ambrebalte
(Beijing)
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 00:56
 
 fredriley wrote:

Erm, as a founder member of the SPES (Society for the Preservation of the English Subjunctive) I'd normally be all in favour of this, but there's a time and a place, mate, and this ain't it...

 

Qui suis-je? Ou vais-je? Ah quel etat j''erre (A quelle etagere)!
Thank you Fred
I like this song by Keane. Are the instruments at the end Lu Cheng? They very much sound like these traditional pipes/organ played during Spring Festival in the Guangxi mountains, south of China



fuh2
(salmon land)
Posted: Dec 22, 2009 - 22:07
 
blaster-piece

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Dec 11, 2009 - 03:14
 
 plaice3 wrote:
Oxford American Dictionary:
"The normal practice in modern English is to use who instead of whom ( | who do you think we should support?) and, where applicable, to put the preposition at the end of the sentence ( | who do you wish to speak to?). Such uses are today broadly accepted in standard English, but in formal writing it is best to maintain the distinction."
 
Erm, as a founder member of the SPES (Society for the Preservation of the English Subjunctive) I'd normally be all in favour of this, but there's a time and a place, mate, and this ain't it...


peter_james_bond
(The Burg)
Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 11:52
 
Very cool tune! Thanks Bill. {#Music}

nmcvaugh
(Austin, Texas)
Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 11:47
 
I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song. I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.I'm gonna turn off the volume 'till I can't hear this song.

admissiblecycle
Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 11:45
 
eeeeeeeeeeeenouggggghhhhhhhhhhhofffffthiiiiiiiiiisdrivellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Nov 30, 2009 - 08:12
 
 plaice3 wrote:
Oxford American Dictionary:
"The normal practice in modern English is to use who instead of whom ( | who do you think we should support?) and, where applicable, to put the preposition at the end of the sentence ( | who do you wish to speak to?). Such uses are today broadly accepted in standard English, but in formal writing it is best to maintain the distinction."

 mwstennis wrote:
of course, it's "whom I loathe"

grammar problems in invectives are all the worse

 AdyMiles wrote:
I usually like Keane, but I don't like this. Too much like Coldplay, who I loathe
 
 
 
wonder why the grammar problems must be discussed in this forum! Here are many people, whose mother language is not english.
But a lot of this members have not realized this. What a pitty!!
By the way, this is not Keanes Best!!



plaice3
(Cape Cod)
Posted: Nov 21, 2009 - 11:48
 
Oxford American Dictionary:
"The normal practice in modern English is to use who instead of whom ( | who do you think we should support?) and, where applicable, to put the preposition at the end of the sentence ( | who do you wish to speak to?). Such uses are today broadly accepted in standard English, but in formal writing it is best to maintain the distinction."

 mwstennis wrote:
of course, it's "whom I loathe"

grammar problems in invectives are all the worse

 AdyMiles wrote:
I usually like Keane, but I don't like this. Too much like Coldplay, who I loathe
 
 



peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 06:42
 
 rantnraver wrote:
wow....this slipped in from the periphery and i thought it was a track from a freddy mercury solo album i missed. you can do worse as someone to emulate. maybe brian and the boys should chat this kid up instead of touring with paul rodgers...not that i don't dig his voice...but he doesn;t really sound as much like the great FM as this does.
 
Listening to this on the headphones this morning, the singer, Tom Chaplin, sure did remind me of Freddie. I really think Queen should have packed it in after Freddie died, how can it be Queen without him?? But, if they insist on touring then I agree with you, Tom would be a better choice than Paul Rodgers (who I also like).


rantnraver
(Interzone)
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 - 18:35
 
wow....this slipped in from the periphery and i thought it was a track from a freddy mercury solo album i missed. you can do worse as someone to emulate. maybe brian and the boys should chat this kid up instead of touring with paul rodgers...not that i don't dig his voice...but he doesn;t really sound as much like the great FM as this does.


Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden)
Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 04:54
 
 AdyMiles wrote:
I usually like Keane, but I don't like this. Too much like Coldplay, who I loathe
 
Hm, kinda.
Keane used to sound good, but I agree with the coldplayish production here.
Also, the drummer going tits out mad in the end is completely breaking the song for me.

peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 12:49
 
 mrdak wrote:
Queen meets Coldplay.......... not bad at all
 
Interesting, I can hear the Freddy Mercury similarity, but no Brian May playing along. {#Sad}


rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 12:47
 
I haven't heard one Coldplay song today, but I've read at least a dozen "I hate Coldplay" posts. This is getting old, people.


EssexTex
(Gitche Gumee)
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 08:56
 
Elephant flatulence sounds better.

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Sep 10, 2009 - 16:03
 
{#Mrgreen}

AdyMiles
(Wolverhampton, UK)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 05:06
 
I usually like Keane, but I don't like this. Too much like Coldplay, who I loathe

mrdak
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 05:05
 
Queen meets Coldplay.......... not bad at all

musikalia
(Somewhere (over the rainbow))
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 - 04:28
 
 zaknafein wrote:
Turning DOWN the volume...
 
My thought exactly!!!!


zaknafein
(Kansas City, MO)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 11:12
 
Turning DOWN the volume...

mystercy
(Sacramento)
Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 11:12
 
I could have sworn I was listening to Muse. Great pop rhythm.

Derecho
(A Land Without Traffic Lights)
Posted: Aug 07, 2009 - 06:35
 
I am surprised at myself for liking this one.  Should be disposable, but somehow it's not quite that.

crockydile
(The swamps of Houston)
Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 11:46
 
 rtrudeau wrote:

That's one of the most fantastic compliments I can think of.

 
I can definitely hear the similarity...but I think this guy's voice is like a subset of Freddie's. Freddie's voice exceeds it in every direction.


WayUpNorth
(Down on the Farm)
Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 11:45
 
Love his voice.  Saw him sing on the Jools Holland show and he was as good as his recordings — surprising.

rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California)
Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 11:43
 
 gjeeg wrote:
Sounds like Freddie Mercury !!
 
That's one of the most fantastic compliments I can think of.


quesarah
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Jul 09, 2009 - 11:52
 
He can sing, but someone else needs to write him a song.

Dalebarely
Posted: Jul 09, 2009 - 11:51
 
for some reason this makes me want to try new improved Agree shampoo

Lupitadise
(Algarve, Portugal)
Posted: Jul 09, 2009 - 11:51
 
the "am going to turn on the volume ..." bit in the song sounds a lot like classic oasis stuff... no?  maybe? yes.

SparkyMarky
(Karlsruhe, Germany)
Posted: Jul 09, 2009 - 11:51
 
 gjeeg wrote:
Sounds like Freddie Mercury !!
Is this some Freddie Mercury we haven't heard of before?