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Grant McDougall

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:01:31 +1300

Adele's not my cuppa either, but she's nowhere near as tedious, dull and over-rated as Oasis.

Tamara

Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:50:15 +1300

Spot on re Adele's remixability. Her originals leave me cold but work really well in other genres. Similar to Lana Del Rey actually. Yeah and I'm over songs about that guy.

Sacha

Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:04:50 +1300

Adele's a bawbag – I'm more of a umo flat Eric kinda guy

#teeworthy

Sacha

Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:03:43 +1300

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william blake

Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:21:39 +1300

Adele managed to score the contract for Skyfall but the whiney Mancunian only managed to rip off the James Bond score in some dire homage.

As a non sequitur; to avoid either clip of Adele or Oasis latest bug from Beruit and their scant take on Brian Wilsons’ Smile.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G8lOkgyPcaU

Kumara Republic

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:22:12 +1300

Adele's not my cup of tea, but her 'Jenny' impersonator stunt was amusing.

TracyMac

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:52:23 +1300

DnB Adele! Much better. I wish that more breakbeat and related genres had strong female vocal like hers than those wispy girl-like voices they often seem to go for. Love those other two mixes as well.

andrew r

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:29:31 +1300

Never take anything remotely seriously said by NG. He's good for a couple a lols sometimes. His musics done by done. That said Adele's a bawbag – I'm more of a umo flat Eric kinda guy.

Dismal Soyanz

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:55:31 +1300

This is a much better version of Hello.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yL7VP4-kP4

Graham Dunster

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:42:29 +1300

The best Chemical Brothers song is actually Speed Caravan's version of Galvanise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7GVsP3dsAE

nzlemming

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:40:50 +1300

At times I seem to be the only person who always thought Oasis were crap, and I wouldn't piss on Noel Gallagher to put out a fire. That said, I'm not rushing out to buy Adele either.

Clint Fern

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:11:03 +1300

They're so much better but the good bits are the Jamie xx ones, so I'd rather listen to his other stuff which to my ears is much better. What Adele herself is responsible for doesn't appeal.

"But they do both sound like mashups of an Oasis song with 'Tomorrow Never…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:42:35 +1300

The recent 'Adele at the BBC' show was good too. I like the way she doesn't worry about rough edges in her vocal performance. She's real.

As I think I said to you on Twitter at the time, 'Hello' isn't my musical cup of tea but I can see what…

Nick Russell

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:14:08 +1300

The Chemical Brothers already did that but they called it Let Forever Be instead. Probably for copyright reasons.

Nick Russell

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:11:41 +1300

Sorry y'all, Im with Noel. The way Adele responded to expectation was by doing a simple copy and paste as far as I can see. She's great, her voice is great, but we've heard it all before.

A bit like Oasis really, when you think of it – except she's…

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:11:20 +1300

And these two collaborations with the Chem Brothers are far more interesting than Adele.

Yeah, they're quite good. But they do both sound like mashups of an Oasis song with 'Tomorrow Never Knows' :-)

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:07:01 +1300

Rolling sounds like a Moby knock off

Well, apart from the fact that it’s a song she wrote and sings herself, rather than an old folk record someone burgled some samples off.

Perhaps you’d prefer the Jamie Xx take?

https://youtu.be/UjiswvTXdzA

Or the fully bashment style refix of that one?

https://youtu.be/LWTzSSfIrBE…

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:59:59 +1300

Her voice is at its best and the transition to her speaking voice is hilarious, she smiles, she kicks off her heels, she waves to people in the audience and she so very much communicates her sheer joy at being there. And the audience love her. You simply can’t watch…

Bart Janssen

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:52:04 +1300

I don't normally comment on the music post because, well officially my taste in music is crap. But what the hell.

Several years ago we ditched our living room TV and got a big screen (hanging from hooks in the ceiling) and a projector. It means we don't have to…

Clint Fern

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:43:48 +1300

Well your write up got me to try and get Adele, I played the two tracks and they do nothing at all for me.

Rolling sounds like a Moby knock off and the new one just is far too MOR to keep on with.

Gallagher doesn't often talk sense but…

Ken Double

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:45:15 +1300

I'm done in halfway through "Hello". I give you the incomparable Carly Rae Jepsen on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFT8FIPnumM

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:17:42 +1300

My library contains four remixes of ‘Someone Like You’ (at least two of which are really cheesy) but not the original.

Wait, there are “originals?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TzKm4Kqd4Q

I'd edit out the plain vocal – but loving da wobble.

Public Address

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:17:42 +1300

Discussion from blog post.