There is a new '4rum' up and running for you lot, ya knowchrissyboy wrote:I really wish you would just f*** off with your negative input.
Youve based your doubts on poor quality youtube clips. How sad.
Hang on, so it is ok to base a positive opinion on the youtube clips but not a negative one? Weird.
To me, Axis sounds PSB by numbers and The Last to Die is just ok - a bit dull. Still, hopefully there will be something exceptional on Electric.
"Electric" = a new "Very" ?
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Agreed. I mostly revisit the Very era for One and one make five, Go west, Too many people and of course Relentless.popfreak wrote:I hope not. Very is overrated in my opinion
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IMO, 'Very' is one of the finest pieces of work you will ever hear (and see). Everything about it is nigh on perfection. The song writing, the video's, the artwork. It's pop music at it's very best.
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Very is a wonderful album. It is flawed, I would remove two songs from it and replace one with Shameless, but it is certainly a contender for their most iconic album.
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Which two songs?Radiophonic wrote:Very is a wonderful album. It is flawed, I would remove two songs from it and replace one with Shameless, but it is certainly a contender for their most iconic album.
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Very is overrated and very one vibe , despite it featuring several amazing tracks. For diversity Bilingual kicks in to touch as does Actually and Elysium
Still waiting to hear the Adam Freeland, Manhattan Clique and Axwell mixes of Integral.
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One and one make five and One in a million. I'd add Shameless and Too many people.Palpatine wrote:Which two songs?Radiophonic wrote:Very is a wonderful album. It is flawed, I would remove two songs from it and replace one with Shameless, but it is certainly a contender for their most iconic album.
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I agree that Too Many People would be a great addition to the album.Radiophonic wrote:One and one make five and One in a million. I'd add Shameless and Too many people.Palpatine wrote:Which two songs?Radiophonic wrote:Very is a wonderful album. It is flawed, I would remove two songs from it and replace one with Shameless, but it is certainly a contender for their most iconic album.
It's interesting that what's known as their most POP album has so few potential singles. Or I guess it's got a few quite strong tracks and the rest is middle of the road.
To me anyways, but then I don't like Go West. It's one of a few PSB singles I don't care for. The early 90s is my least favourite PSB era. I like every PSB single except Go west, DJ Culture, and So hard. I don't dislike them, but they are as interesting as below average album tracks to me. Except Go west, I don't like it at all.
Anyways, that was a tangent. Ha ha.
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I disagree about Very not having lots of potential singles. In addition to the songs that were actually released as singles from Very, ADPOV, The Theater, and even One in a million (even though, like Radiophonic, I'd remove it from the album) would've made decent singles. That's eight songs out of twelve. Then you had Shameless and Too many people, which would've made great singles, plus Forever in Love and One thing leads to another from Relentless would've made excellent singles as well. The Very era was bursting with potential singles, IMHO.vincenzosz wrote: I agree that Too Many People would be a great addition to the album.
It's interesting that what's known as their most POP album has so few potential singles. Or I guess it's got a few quite strong tracks and the rest is middle of the road.
To me anyways, but then I don't like Go West. It's one of a few PSB singles I don't care for. The early 90s is my least favourite PSB era. I like every PSB single except Go west, DJ Culture, and So hard. I don't dislike them, but they are as interesting as below average album tracks to me. Except Go west, I don't like it at all.
Anyways, that was a tangent. Ha ha.
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Palpatine wrote:I disagree about Very not having lots of potential singles. In addition to the songs that were actually released as singles from Very, ADPOV, The Theater, and even One in a million (even though, like Radiophonic, I'd remove it from the album) would've made decent singles. That's eight songs out of twelve. Then you had Shameless and Too many people, which would've made great singles, plus Forever in Love and One thing leads to another from Relentless would've made excellent singles as well. The Very era was bursting with potential singles, IMHO.vincenzosz wrote: I agree that Too Many People would be a great addition to the album.
It's interesting that what's known as their most POP album has so few potential singles. Or I guess it's got a few quite strong tracks and the rest is middle of the road.
To me anyways, but then I don't like Go West. It's one of a few PSB singles I don't care for. The early 90s is my least favourite PSB era. I like every PSB single except Go west, DJ Culture, and So hard. I don't dislike them, but they are as interesting as below average album tracks to me. Except Go west, I don't like it at all.
Anyways, that was a tangent. Ha ha.
I guess it's just a matter or taste. I don't think any of those songs would make good singles, and I love Too Many People.
I think the reason I have a hard time looking at this album objectively is because it's probably PSB most dated work, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that (this time period was almost like a pop testing grounds for synth music), but this type of outdated synth to my ears doesn't work as well longevity-wise. Same reason I don't love Behaviour as much as others. It doesn't appeal to my ears musically like some of their others do. Interesting though.
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Yeah I'd agree, Very has a dated sound to it. Underproduced in places.
It's a part of it's charm, if you like the songs to begin with.
Behaviour has retro synth feel also, but this was done in a more eclectic way. It's Faltermeyer, after all.
It's a part of it's charm, if you like the songs to begin with.
Behaviour has retro synth feel also, but this was done in a more eclectic way. It's Faltermeyer, after all.
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Very should sound dated - it will be a 20 year old album on 27th September.
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Quite.Radiophonic wrote:Very should sound dated - it will be a 20 year old album on 27th September.
Since Nightlife is my favourite album, I'm hoping for something along those lines.
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It's funny (or not)- when I look back on Very, I don't just think of the singular album. I think too of all the CD-singles and remixes and videos that came with it to form my impressions (and of course, memories blur over time.) Relentless was kind of its own special thing, but part of that era too, obvs. I guess what I am trying to say that the "experience" of Very in 1993 went from first hearing "Can You Forgive Her" in the car radio with my friends driving back from a camping trip in Vermont that summer, til the very last single with remixes came out much later. I also bought Very the same week I got my first computer (Quadra 840av!) that fall, so listening to it on that machine maybe added to the novelty of it all. In memory, it all goes together, that album as a concept across forms and platforms, not just the songs on the official record proper. Pop music is song-based, but it's not just that; Very was so in opposition to what everyone else at the time was doing- in its proud cartoonish artifice- that is was really something special I think.
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SO well said! I, too, feel that 'Very' was more than just an album, but an experience, and I share your memories of first hearing "Can You Forgive Her" and then all the follow up. It was during this time that I started my first job in NYC and later that spring moved into the city, so it's extra special to me. And while I had it already, I would sometimes go into the Tower Records on Broadway in NoHo (my office is now a couple of blocks from there!) and just have joy in seeing the orange 'lego' covered CD's in the racks. Wow, the memories!Deschanel wrote:It's funny (or not)- when I look back on Very, I don't just think of the singular album. I think too of all the CD-singles and remixes and videos that came with it to form my impressions (and of course, memories blur over time.) Relentless was kind of its own special thing, but part of that era too, obvs. I guess what I am trying to say that the "experience" of Very in 1993 went from first hearing "Can You Forgive Her" in the car radio with my friends driving back from a camping trip in Vermont that summer, til the very last single with remixes came out much later. I also bought Very the same week I got my first computer (Quadra 840av!) that fall, so listening to it on that machine maybe added to the novelty of it all. In memory, it all goes together, that album as a concept across forms and platforms, not just the songs on the official record proper. Pop music is song-based, but it's not just that; Very was so in opposition to what everyone else at the time was doing- in its proud cartoonish artifice- that is was really something special I think.
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