Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid (blues, pop, album, Coldplay)

**jackhammer** · 03-17-2008, 05:24 PM

1.Starlings
2.The Bones of You
3.Mirrorball
4.Grounds for Divorce
5.An Audience With the Pope
6.Weather to Fly
7.The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
8.The Fix
9.Some Riot
10.On a Day Like This
11.Friend of Ours

Molecules · 03-17-2008, 05:39 PM

i still haven't really gotten past 'New Born'. Or that song about not mixing your drinks, and how it will kill you someday. Elbow sound like a really nice melodic yawn, in a good way. I think they've played every ****ing festival I've ever been to aswell

**jackhammer** · 04-07-2008, 03:47 PM

I have heard a couple of tracks from previous releases and I was indifferent to them but I needed to get this album for someone, so I thought I would listen to it.

This album completely bewilders me. Opener Starlings is atmospheric, broody and replete with a hypnotic keyboard/ brass rhythmn. Next comes The Bones Of You and my expectation levels drop. This could easily be Coldplay, Embrace or any other average guitar pop band peddling MOR indifference. Then comes along Grounds For Divorce and while not exactly original it's faux blues melody is instantly likeable and The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver is a band that seems so desperately trying to climb out of the banal musical landscape where all emotional British guitar music sounds the same.

There are some great musical parts on here but the band seem desperately stuck in the past.

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03-17-2008, 05:24 PM
jackhammer A Cabled Discount Join Date: May 2007 Location: U.K Posts: 4,507	Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid 1.Starlings 2.The Bones of You 3.Mirrorball 4.Grounds for Divorce 5.An Audience With the Pope 6.Weather to Fly 7.The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver 8.The Fix 9.Some Riot 10.On a Day Like This 11.Friend of Ours __________________ My music collection.cough cough enjoy. Ha Ha charade you are. My dvd collection.

03-17-2008, 05:39 PM
Molecules 'soupy twist' Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 489	i still haven't really gotten past 'New Born'. Or that song about not mixing your drinks, and how it will kill you someday. Elbow sound like a really nice melodic yawn, in a good way. I think they've played every **ing festival I've ever been to aswell __________________ Substix blog** 'Institutionalised cruelty is one thing. But the twisted brainwrong of a one-off man-mental is quite another.'

04-07-2008, 03:47 PM
jackhammer A Cabled Discount Join Date: May 2007 Location: U.K Posts: 4,507	I have heard a couple of tracks from previous releases and I was indifferent to them but I needed to get this album for someone, so I thought I would listen to it. This album completely bewilders me. Opener Starlings is atmospheric, broody and replete with a hypnotic keyboard/ brass rhythmn. Next comes The Bones Of You and my expectation levels drop. This could easily be Coldplay, Embrace or any other average guitar pop band peddling MOR indifference. Then comes along Grounds For Divorce and while not exactly original it's faux blues melody is instantly likeable and The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver is a band that seems so desperately trying to climb out of the banal musical landscape where all emotional British guitar music sounds the same. There are some great musical parts on here but the band seem desperately stuck in the past. __________________ My music collection.cough cough enjoy. Ha Ha charade you are. My dvd collection.