Guillemots, Annie, Let's Not Wait Review
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written by PixieOfDoom on 22/01/2007
The Guillemots as a band are an energetic and happy creation. So far the singles have all capitvated me, with "Trains to Brazil" being one of the best songs released in 2006 (several times, and once in 2005 as well, I believe). Strangely, however, this song has passed me by so much that I hadn't even realised it was on the album until I heard it on the radio a few times and then played the album. Not that it's a bad song, far from it, it's pretty standard for a faster Guillemots number containing all the uplifting melodies, the romantic yearning and the tone of hope. The problem is that next to the brighter moments of their output, beside the likes of "Trains to Brazil," "Sao Paulo" and "Made Up Love Song #43," this song is entirely unremarkable. Next to the rest of the top 40, however, it's the best thing you'll hear this month.
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252776_Anonymous101's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 21/02/2007
A tedious song from a unremarkable band. I must disagree!
Wsd's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 14/03/2007
Way to back down to a girl there Mickey.
252776_Anonymous101's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 14/03/2007
Kell, I appreciate that Fyfe Dangerfield is far more talented singer/songwriter than that lad in the pub who to be fair wasn't using his own material, he did however have the courage to perform "live" in front of a audience, I simply to acknowledge his vocal performance as the music system in my local isn't the best and his voice for me was the star performer that evening.
242912_Big Kelly's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 14/03/2007
Dear, dear Micky, I have already discovered you can't handle your drink and now you are comparing some guy in your local pub to a world renowned artist? Come on! I think it is time you wised up.
252776_Anonymous101's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 14/03/2007
At the end of the day he is a "professional" performer and should be very confident when singing songs he knows very well in front of people who have paid for the privilege of seeing him perform. I once saw this lad I have never seen before or since sing "Firestarter" by the Prodigy on the karaoke in my local, he recieved a standing ovation from each and every patron that night, a truly awesome display, he recieved no financial gain for his efforts as he finished second and there was only a first prize of 8 beer tickets that night. For me his performance and choice of track in many ways was just as brave.
Pixieofdoom's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 14/03/2007
It's not that the keyboard was difficult to use; what I meant is he played the song with a quiet, sparse plink plink as the only accompaniment, it may as well have been a capella, no microphone, to a room of 500 people and he reached the back of the crowd. It was raw, and had nothing to disguise cracks and breaks in his voice and I've never seen anything like it in a live setting - and I see, on average, about 2 gigs a week and have done for years. It was completely naked. Standing about 10 feet from him, you could see every emotion across his face as he did it and that's openness and honesty expressed in a way that most singers would be scared to show because they'd be letting down their rock star armour and would be too frightened of not looking the part for even a second. I can't abide that falseness for very long when it's not done self-consciously so it was really refreshing to see a front-man willing to drop the pretension to convey his song in as heartfelt a manner as it was intended.
252776_Anonymous101's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 14/03/2007
If he can play piano then Fyfe should encounter little difficulty with any keyboard, however small or large, I don't understant how being able to play a child's keyboard is relative. I do agree with your comment about the Kaiser Chief's, in my opinion they have recieved an awful lot of plaudits for a band who only have 3 or 4 songs.
Pixieofdoom's Response to PixieOfDoom's Review
Written on: 14/03/2007
Unremarkable?
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<br/>Watch Fyfe Dangerfield perform "Blue Would Still Be Blue" to a room full of punters using no microphone and only a child's keyboard for sparse accompaniment and then tell me they're unremarkable. You'd never get the likes of Razorlight or the Kaiser Chiefs doing something so raw and so vulnerable and so brave because they're too concerned with their image to risk looking a fool. When a musician is willing to risk himself and expose himself emotionally like Fyfe, it doesn't get any more real or any more remarkable than that.