Monday, June 06, 2005
New Albums
Today my copies of Oasis' and Coldplay's new albums arrived from CDWow. Bang on time for Coldplay, but a week late for Oasis (they had supply issues it seems). I've had no problem with them before so lets not dwell on that.
As for the albums themselves. Having listened to them both now I have to say I'm pretty impressed. Don't Believe the Truth is a cracking album and builds on Heathen Chemistry in the way I had hoped it would - the band is clearly working well together after the personnel changes of a few years ago. The fact that other members of the band are contributing songs takes the pressure of Noel and they're not forced to use everything he comes up with. X&Y is also excellent and demonstrates once again Chris Martin's great songwriting skills. They did a live gig on Radio One tonight which was pretty good, though a bit ragged at times.
Overall, two good purchases I'd say. As was the Kaiser Chiefs' album, Employment, that came last week.
UPDATE: It seems The Times article that I mentioned below was infact wrong when it talked about the size of the towns that were surveyed: 5000 to 150,000 rather than 5000 to 50,000. So that undermines one of my arguments. Ah well. Exeter's a successful shopping City. The High Street is an expensive place to rent because so many people use it. This is bound to mean the largest shops are there. While this is perhaps unfortunate, there are plenty of other places in town for the smaller stores. Furthermore, the fact that the same stores are on the High Street as are in other towns, doesn't mean the place looks the same as everywhere else. Exeter's High Street has the Guildhall on it for example.
As for the albums themselves. Having listened to them both now I have to say I'm pretty impressed. Don't Believe the Truth is a cracking album and builds on Heathen Chemistry in the way I had hoped it would - the band is clearly working well together after the personnel changes of a few years ago. The fact that other members of the band are contributing songs takes the pressure of Noel and they're not forced to use everything he comes up with. X&Y is also excellent and demonstrates once again Chris Martin's great songwriting skills. They did a live gig on Radio One tonight which was pretty good, though a bit ragged at times.
Overall, two good purchases I'd say. As was the Kaiser Chiefs' album, Employment, that came last week.
UPDATE: It seems The Times article that I mentioned below was infact wrong when it talked about the size of the towns that were surveyed: 5000 to 150,000 rather than 5000 to 50,000. So that undermines one of my arguments. Ah well. Exeter's a successful shopping City. The High Street is an expensive place to rent because so many people use it. This is bound to mean the largest shops are there. While this is perhaps unfortunate, there are plenty of other places in town for the smaller stores. Furthermore, the fact that the same stores are on the High Street as are in other towns, doesn't mean the place looks the same as everywhere else. Exeter's High Street has the Guildhall on it for example.
# posted by GrecianEd @ 11:17 pm 
