"Get Lucky" - Track by track

[goldenheart96]

Listened to the download twice now. For the first time in over 30 years I am a little bit disappointed. Not an instant song which I go back to immediately. That happened with every CD of MK till now. For me no real surprises, too quiet, too predictable. Some nice songs like Monteleone and Get Lucky. Border Reiver is nice as well, but I think it is too Celtic for me to play it very often. But maybe it will grow on me.

I was dissappointed at first and couldn't hear much development from KTGC. Initially it sounded like more KTGC-esque folky and sleepy dirges occasionally broke up by a couple of mid-tempo plodders.

But it soon grew on me to the point that I prefer it to KTGC (those three folk songs I mentioned before aside).

It was the very same with me. I listened to the album REALLY LOUD in the car yesterday (the car I drive still has a cassette player BTW, LOL) and it literally blew me away. I love it, even though I share the mentioned weak points and I also can understand Ingrid's view. But, as someone told me after my first reaction, give the album time 

[ingridswing]

Anyway Dan, how did you manage to download teh album anyway, did you get one of your kids to do it for you?

the story goes that Ronnie Biggs,who has now been released from custody in Norwich,knew a few boys from Brazil,....BBB (Best Buddy Biggs) - Norwich, you get me?? 

If we're talking about you surely BBB means Big Baldy Bastard?

Hold on boy, you are talking about my friend here 

[Best Brown Baggies]

HEY, DUSTY & WM. STOP TEASING ME.!
YOU HAVE OFFENDED ME 'BIG TIME'

Pottel, please ban these two hooligans.

Anyway, BBB stands for 'Big Breasted Blonde' (my favourite type of lady)

Cheers   BBB

ps. Thanks to my friend Ingrid for sticking up for me.

[Waterline Man]

Anyway Dan, how did you manage to download teh album anyway, did you get one of your kids to do it for you?

the story goes that Ronnie Biggs,who has now been released from custody in Norwich,knew a few boys from Brazil,....BBB (Best Buddy Biggs) - Norwich, you get me?? 

If we're talking about you surely BBB means Big Baldy Bastard?

Hold on boy, you are talking about my friend here 

Nah Ingrid,
he's taking the mickey out of my hairstyle,not poor aul Nigel 8)Come to think of it Nigel & i have the same stylist

[localhero1986]

The DVD contains also a video of Remembrance day (according to bol.com this afternoon).

All I can say is that I'm very pleased with this new album. I was always a fan of GH but GL is really my favourite album now. For me, none of the DS records comes close to this one. So far from the clyde is a kind of better "version" of BIA in my opinion. Border reiver is just fantastic. It's really the first album without any skippers for me. Can't wait to hear the bonus songs, the REAL CD and vinyl (hope the sound is different just like KTGC). If this is Mark's new style, I'll look forward to his next records!

[dustyvalentino]

Nah Ingrid,
he's taking the mickey out of my hairstyle,not poor aul Nigel 8)Come to think of it Nigel & i have the same stylist

I have the same stylist too these days.  I guess we're all copying MK.

[dustyvalentino]

Forgot to mention, nice mandolin from MK on The Car Was the One driving the track along.

[dustyvalentino]

Still only listened a couple of times, but Hard Shoulder is my current favourite. Just beautiful.

I think MK's vocals are a bit half-arsed on You Can't Beat The House and Cleaning My Gun though, could do with more "oomph" on the rocky tracks.

[Banjo99uk]

Can't stand the beginning of The Car Was The One.  Always hated his love of copying Hank Marvin.  Im too young to appreciate The Shadows but for me the only decent thing to come from Hank Marvin is the cockney rhyming slang for being hungry.  Seriously if I ever met MK I would snap all his plectrums in half.  Best song so far for me is a toss up between Before Gas and TV and So Far From The Clyde.  Although I like the use of strings on Monteleone.  Very theatrical like Neil Hannon's stuff.  Must say though it's better as a whole album than SL and KTGC as both of them ran out of steam half way through and sent me to sleep.  A bit like this long rambling post........................

[Love Expresso]

Meanwhile, I must say I really love "The Car Was The One". (To be honest, I love the whole album, hard to name a failure or a bad song).
The lyrics are very nice I think, funny. He paints this naive picture of himself in 1963, and I remember an interview once where he said that the only things that were important in his youth were "girls and cars. And girls. And girls. And cars. And also cars and girls..."

The Hank twang isn

[Justme]

Tank you, I love those lyrics straightaway. He's painting a vivid picture here. I love racing and the old cars from the past when racing was adventurous and the tracks more beautiful than today's concrete jungle.
Now I'm really looking forward to hear this track!

[Fieneke2]

I haven't listened to anything yet and I don't think I will. I have read some of the reviews though.

Are you finding it as difficult as i am?

Like you, i love reading the reviews.

Cheers   BBB

When I came back from vacation and read that some people were able to listen to the whole album, I didn't want to wait and wanted to hear the songs also! Whaauww I felt so excited, BUT .......although I got a link, I haven't been listening yet to the new album!  

I could download, but Jans told me to be careful because the album isn't released yet. As always I am careful and don't want to get in trouble, so although it is hard to wait and I am very, very curious, I decided to wait till I have the CD+DVD in my hands in about .......26 days!  Be sure I will be counting the days!

Uuuhh of course just like everybody I listen to the beautiful songs Get Lucky and Border Reiver at Youtube and like to read all the lyrics!  

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Quote BBB : "Anyway, BBB stands for 'Big Breasted Blonde' (my favourite type of lady)"

*looking at my body, I see I am not very Big Breasted, I am not Blond, I even am not sexy but ......... hey Nigel, I thought you loved me too!!!

Fieneke

[dustyvalentino]

Interesting that The Car Was the One is splitting opinion. I can see why people are fed up of teh Hank sound, and if it had been the whole album like that again I would have been dismayed. But it does work well on this track I think. And regardless of the production it's a strong song overall I think, ie music and lyrics.

Not convinced it's a true story about MK as a youngster though, I saw it as MK singing as an American kid in the 60s (all the stuff about Corvettes and corn fields, you don't get them in Newcastle). Could be wrong though...

[Love Expresso]

Yes, Dusty, that

[pjh3121]

Still only listened a couple of times, but Hard Shoulder is my current favourite. Just beautiful.

I think MK's vocals are a bit half-arsed on You Can't Beat The House and Cleaning My Gun though, could do with more "oomph" on the rocky tracks.

I think Hard Shoulder is great as is Monteleone (even though it's essentially Heart Full of Holes part 2). The strings really compliment and expand his sound.

You Can't Beat The House is half arsed full stop. It sounds like the sort of thing that he would have thrown away on a B side ten years ago. I'd be interested to see what the 3 extra tracks on the deluxe set are like in the light of that.