"Get Lucky" - Track by track

[El Macho]

Hi everyone

For your curiosity, Fieneke, I'm French!

Now, I've listened to GL a few more times and I like it more and more.
I woke up this morning with So Far From the Clyde in my head....
I really love the guitar parts of You Can't Beat The House !
Remembrance Day and Get Lucky are very melodic, just beautiful...
I still don't really like Monteleone and Hard Shoulder who seems a little too slow...
For me, since the first DS album untill now, there are only 3 MK songs that I finally don't like : Heavy Fuel, No Can Do, Coyote.

Fred

[Love Expresso]

  Cleaning My Gun would be a great opener as well.

Everytime I hear those three "drum" shots in dialogue with MK

[superval99]

I have a feeling that more songs from "Get Lucky" will be played on this tour than were played from KTGC on the last tour.  They just seem more suitable somehow!  

[kaleo74]

Hi,
I agree with you, this album is more "public" or "singable", imagine after a break :
So far from the clyde : imagine the chorus sung by the entire audience, and then... drum roll, and a Gibson solo !
it would be great !

[superval99]

Oh yes, I can hear it, Kaleo74!   I can't wait for the concerts now!   

[draad]

I tried and tried but in the end I couldn't wait.

Have literally just finished listening to Get Lucky for the first time. What can I say after one listen? Well nothing in great detail that's for sure - I just loved it from start to finish. I think us fans are the ones that Got Lucky!

Border Reiver is a brilliant opener and the Albion links in my family make it an even more special song. Can't wait for my dad to hear it - he worked at the Albion all his working life. A real foot tapper and I hope it gets played at the Hurlingham on Weds and on tour.

Mark's voice! It just keeps improving. Really good throughout but I think you hear it at it's best on Hard Shoulder.

Again brilliant lyrics/storytelling. When that Clyde built ship is just an "oily stain on the sand" don't you just wonder about the depth of feeling someone must have to write like this? Moving and beautiful.

Remembrance Day and Piper to the End - brilliant songs! The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal will hopefully see it's coffers full to overflowing as a result of Mark's charitable giving of the proceeds of these two songs to it.

Gonna top up my glass and listen again!

[Rollergirl]

I tried and tried but in the end I couldn't wait.

& another one gone & another one gone 

[draad]

you're a funny one Nat!

[Rollergirl]

 
thanks

 I think the wait is part of the fun, I even went as far as to order my copy from the official site, knowing that it will take a couple of weeks from the 14th to reach me...

[Best Brown Baggies]

The wait is nearly over. 8 days to go.

Cheers  BBB

[pjh3121]

Actually, if you've ordered it online you'll probably get it by the weekend. I ordered mine on Play.com and payment's been taken and its now being 'packed' for delivery according to the status of the order.

I've ordered albums in advance before and often received them on the Saturday before the official Monday release date.

[El Macho]

In France we're always late....
My deluxe box, ordered at amazon.fr will be dispatched monday and at home wednesday or thursday...
All the critics I read in France are negative, always comparing MK to DS, sayong it's not te same etc...
France loves DS and has no interest in MK. Only 4 shows for KTGC tour instead of 10 for Germany for example...
All they talk about is David Guetta and things like that, techno, house, rnb, ....
MK old fashioned.... for critics but not for many french people like me !

[Fletch]

Well after a couple of listens i can quickly comment.

Firstly Border Reiver sounds much better off a CD than it does on Youtube!!!

New albums are funny things and often the songs you love first, you get sick of quick and vice versa.
My highlight songs are Monteleone (Marks singing is really good in this one, with a pretty melody) and Hard Shoulder (which has a very similar feel to Stings Fields of Gold). You Can`t Beat The House is very new orleansy - love it!
My least favourite on first impressions is Gas & TV - singing is a bit warbly for me and those pipes just drag on at the end.

My wife and I both had a great laugh at the `truffle` lyric in Get Lucky. Overall its a pleasing album, i reckon! Well done Mark.

[ingridswing]

My favorites after listening a lot:
Number 7 to 11, the order changes every day  

[koobaa]

Remembrance Day is one of the most beautiful songs MK has ever written. I was blown away by it. I love the melody, really great chord progression there, and lyrics are very touching too. The children choir is icing on the cake. Brilliant song!

My other favourite tracks from the album are:
 - Before Gas and TV - another gem! I know some people don't like Mark singing that way but I think it's great. Very touching again. And I can relate to this fantastic lyric too.
- So Far From The Clyde - again, touching and absolutely amazing track.
- Piper to th End - as above
- Get Lucky and Border Reiver - loved them from the first moment I heard them.

Well it's almost the whole album. I think the strings took some songs to another level. I'm really liking The Car Was The One, it could easily fit on KTGC which I enjoy very much.
All in all - fantastic, atmospheric album with some of the best MK work so far. Just my two cents.