Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid (blues, pop, albums, Coldplay)

jackhammer · 03-17-2008, 06:24 PM

1.Starlings
2.The Bones of You
3.Mirrorball
4.Grounds for Divorce
5.An Audience With the Pope
6.Weather to Fly
7.The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
8.The Fix
9.Some Riot
10.On a Day Like This
11.Friend of Ours

Molecules · 03-17-2008, 06:39 PM

i still haven't really gotten past 'New Born'. Or that song about not mixing your drinks, and how it will kill you someday. Elbow sound like a really nice melodic yawn, in a good way. I think they've played every ****ing festival I've ever been to aswell

jackhammer · 04-07-2008, 04:47 PM

I have heard a couple of tracks from previous releases and I was indifferent to them but I needed to get this album for someone, so I thought I would listen to it.

This album completely bewilders me. Opener Starlings is atmospheric, broody and replete with a hypnotic keyboard/ brass rhythmn. Next comes The Bones Of You and my expectation levels drop. This could easily be Coldplay, Embrace or any other average guitar pop band peddling MOR indifference. Then comes along Grounds For Divorce and while not exactly original it's faux blues melody is instantly likeable and The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver is a band that seems so desperately trying to climb out of the banal musical landscape where all emotional British guitar music sounds the same.

There are some great musical parts on here but the band seem desperately stuck in the past.

Rainard Jalen · 07-16-2008, 10:30 AM

It's a really good album and the sound is not all over the place in the least. All the songs fit together somehow, and with songs like The Fix, Elbow show that they are offering than your average run-of-the-mill British guitar do.

bsmix · 07-28-2008, 06:10 AM

I've been gettin down to this in the past week. 'Grounds For Divorce' is very attractive.

ipod junkie · 07-30-2008, 02:41 PM

I went to see Elbow a couple of months ago and just wish that I had been familiar with Seldom Seen Kid before I saw them! They did a memorable performance of A Day Like this which made me rush out and buy it. I tend to skip quite a lot of the tracks on the previous albums but this one is superb. I will be going to see them again in October. Can't wait!

Mirrorball95 · 05-22-2009, 07:35 AM

This is the album that brought Elbow to my attention.
I backtracked and now have all their albums (including this one).
The best album for me is 'Asleep In The Back' though.

I found this one a bit mediocre although the song 'One Day Like This' is gorgeous.

Mojo · 08-28-2009, 10:23 AM

Thats the video I was going to post. I think that performance is completely immaculate, that and the one they did with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

I cant get that song out of my head. I have listened to it a sickening amount of times today.

EDIT: Thats not actually the one I was going to post, its just from the same programme. My bad. This is it.

Dr.Seussicide · 08-28-2009, 05:48 PM

I love this band, although one of my favorite tracks from them isn't on this excellent album. It's actually from "Asleep In The Back," track title - "Red"

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03-17-2008, 06:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid 1.Starlings 2.The Bones of You 3.Mirrorball 4.Grounds for Divorce 5.An Audience With the Pope 6.Weather to Fly 7.The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver 8.The Fix 9.Some Riot 10.On a Day Like This 11.Friend of Ours __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

03-17-2008, 06:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	i still haven't really gotten past 'New Born'. Or that song about not mixing your drinks, and how it will kill you someday. Elbow sound like a really nice melodic yawn, in a good way. I think they've played every ****ing festival I've ever been to aswell __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

04-07-2008, 04:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I have heard a couple of tracks from previous releases and I was indifferent to them but I needed to get this album for someone, so I thought I would listen to it. This album completely bewilders me. Opener Starlings is atmospheric, broody and replete with a hypnotic keyboard/ brass rhythmn. Next comes The Bones Of You and my expectation levels drop. This could easily be Coldplay, Embrace or any other average guitar pop band peddling MOR indifference. Then comes along Grounds For Divorce and while not exactly original it's faux blues melody is instantly likeable and The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver is a band that seems so desperately trying to climb out of the banal musical landscape where all emotional British guitar music sounds the same. There are some great musical parts on here but the band seem desperately stuck in the past. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

07-28-2008, 06:10 AM	#5 (permalink)
bsmix Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: California Posts: 179	I've been gettin down to this in the past week. 'Grounds For Divorce' is very attractive. __________________ a music nazi....is still a nazi

07-16-2008, 10:30 AM	#4 (permalink)
Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,221	It's a really good album and the sound is not all over the place in the least. All the songs fit together somehow, and with songs like The Fix, Elbow show that they are offering than your average run-of-the-mill British guitar do.

07-30-2008, 02:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
ipod junkie Groupie Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: North East England Posts: 18	I went to see Elbow a couple of months ago and just wish that I had been familiar with Seldom Seen Kid before I saw them! They did a memorable performance of A Day Like this which made me rush out and buy it. I tend to skip quite a lot of the tracks on the previous albums but this one is superb. I will be going to see them again in October. Can't wait!

08-28-2009, 10:23 AM	#8 (permalink)
Mojo Melancholia Eternally Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 5,018	Thats the video I was going to post. I think that performance is completely immaculate, that and the one they did with the BBC Concert Orchestra. I cant get that song out of my head. I have listened to it a sickening amount of times today. EDIT: Thats not actually the one I was going to post, its just from the same programme. My bad. This is it. __________________ Last.FM \| Echoes and Dust

08-28-2009, 05:48 PM	#9 (permalink)
Dr.Seussicide FakingSuicideForApplause Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: I live in a van down by the river Posts: 1,365	I love this band, although one of my favorite tracks from them isn't on this excellent album. It's actually from "Asleep In The Back," track title - "Red" __________________ I'll stay if I ever could, and pick up your pieces babe, because there's never a perfect day. Don't fret, baby, we're simply growing And my darling, I wouldn't mind to die like this.