andyjean Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 Isn't it? I really liked the arwork to all this new album/singles/etc. I like the idea behind it too, not just a regular photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjean Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Richard Ashcroft radio sessions '00-'03 2000 bbc radio 1 evening session 5.6.00 1.bittersweet symphony 2.money to burn 3.you on my mind bbc radio 1 jo whiley 21.6.00 4.interview 5.money to burn 6.interview 7.a song for the lovers 8.interview Nulle part ailleurs c+ session france 4.9.00 9.a song for the lovers bbc radio 1 jo whiley show 8.9.00 10.c'mon people we're making it now 2001 detriot radio session usa 21.1.00 11.i get my beat 12.you on my mind in my sleep 13.interview the river radio session bolton usa 27.1.01 14.new york 15.interview 16.a song for the lovers 2002 oui fm radio paris france 5.10.02 17.check the meaning 18.buy it in bottles bbc radio 1 jo whiley 8.10.02 19.check the meaning 20.history bbc radio 1 madia vale session 9.10.02 21.check the meaning 22.buy it in bottles 23.science of silence 24.nature is the law 25.god in the numbers 26.bright lights 27.new york rtl2 radio session paris france '02 28.check the meaning 29.buy it in bottles 30.nature is the law 2003 bbc radio 1 on the road mark & lard show at the life bar café bolton 28.3.03 31.buy it in bottles 32.lucky man xfm radio session 10.4.03 33.buy it in bottles 34.check the meaning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixed Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Thank you for the upload :) 'free service at full cap.' but will try again later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plug_in_coldplaying Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 great upload i like whz no nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjean Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 5.12.2006. Hammersmith Apollo, London. Keys To The World http://www.sendspace.com/file/npzyq4 Sonnet http://www.sendspace.com/file/q0m454 Music Is Power http://www.sendspace.com/file/l2zz7b Song For The Lovers http://www.sendspace.com/file/3kxsfx Why Not Nothing http://www.sendspace.com/file/r4l3x6 Science Of Silence http://www.sendspace.com/file/1dzakw New York http://www.sendspace.com/file/nbw22k Sweet Brother Malcolm http://www.sendspace.com/file/w4u5d7 She's So Hot http://www.sendspace.com/file/86bwqd Bittersweet Symphony http://www.sendspace.com/file/rze34c The Drugs Don't Work http://www.sendspace.com/file/vz4jux History http://www.sendspace.com/file/0n2pqy Check The Meaning http://www.sendspace.com/file/wvpj5r Lonely Soul http://www.sendspace.com/file/g7rdub Lucky Man http://www.sendspace.com/file/j7l3e5 Break The Night With Colour http://www.sendspace.com/file/g8f3yu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Richard Ashcroft Keys to the World [Parlophone; 2006] Rating: 2.0 Anyone with ample knowledge of Jim Morrison and proper distance from adolescent fandom recognizes the Lizard King's gift for comedy. Forget poetry, dude brought the laffs, from quasi-poetically stringing together the words "mute nostril agony" to regaling us with tales of "Indians scattered on dawn's highway." Priceless! Our ex-hippie gym teachers were right: The Doors frontman died way too young. Because, had the Shaman of Shtick made it through the 1970s, he might have realized his now-obvious comedic ambitions as fully as Richard Ashcroft, who used to catch Mojo Risin' comparisons back when his former band, the Verve, were actually psychedelic. Now, I slapped an 8.3 rating on a compilation of the Verve's singles as recently as 2004, and didn't hate Ashcroft's last two solo albums as much you all did, so my expectations were wide-open approaching Keys to the World, which the man self-hyped with Gallagher-brother aplomb as "hot shit." Riffing on John Lennon, he clearly meant "flaming pile." See, Ashcroft's latest takes the over-seriousness of 2002's Human Conditions-- which he has personally likened to Marvin Gaye's best work-- and turns it still seriouser, into inimitable omg-wtf farce. Swept up in maudlin strings and chintzy brass, Ashcroft blurs his anguished syllables like Tom Petty doing Bob Dylan, embraces U2-jerkoff bombast, and follows his idiosyncratically generic muse into uncharted depths. Keys to the World is as hilariously indulgent as "Trapped in the Closet", if vastly less self-aware; it's also a more laughable satire of contemporary music than Bang Bang Rock 'n' Roll, though less durable and totally accidental. Before Keys to the World, I never knew Coldplay's "Fix You" was subtle. Then I heard "The Words Just Get in the Way" (inevitably inferior to the similarly titled Gloria Estefan power ballad), on which, over colorless midtempo acoustic guitars, Ashcroft offers Chris Martin-like assistance: "When your back's against the wall/ There's no one left to call/ Then call me." And right on cue come the handclaps, the twangy guitar licks, dripping strings, and endless "Hey Jude" ad libs. "Sing it to me now!" Ashcroft instructs to a chanting chorus that, appropriately, consists only of himself. Before Keys to the World, I never knew Bono was humble. The title track loops a C+C Music Factory-esque vocal sample amid canned MOR rhythms and melodramatic synths as Ashcroft jumps into a tragic, awkwardly worded tale: "Institutions, you went through them, ah/ From the age of five/ And no one loves you, cared/ If you lived or you died." But, like Africa's great white Time Person-of-the-Year hope with money-solves-everything ambitions, Ashcroft has another hubristic fix: "Perhaps I could make it better." How, Richard? "I've got the keys to the world, yeah, aw/ Mixed-up world/ I've got the keys to the world, yeah." For good measure, we also get an Everlast-style megaphone almost-rap. I promise. Before Keys to the World, I never knew our world's problems could be presented so laughably by anyone not named Stephen Colbert. On fast-paced opener "Why Not Nothing", Ashcroft takes shots at the religious right ("the god squad"). But his slurred barbs soon fizzle into non-sequiturs: "Who the fuck are you when you take that mask away?/ Friend, I don't know/ Oh, where do we go?" Again Ashcroft has a keen suggestion for our betterment: "Take my advice, don't let 'em treat you like a fool." Then he emits porcine grunts for the last 30 seconds. On brightly adorned showstopper "World Keeps Turning", he mentions the U.S. president in suddenly apolitical fashion, and informs us of the Earth's movements with all the self-destructive solemnity of Copernicus: "The world keeps turning/ Everybody's learning/ Keep your head up." Before Keys to the World, I agreed with the general consensus that music reviews should be relatively concise. But I still haven't told you about how "Cry to the Morning" reinterprets those three ominous "All Along the Watchtower" chords on music-box keyboard, how mechanically depressive single "Break the Night With Colours" bizarrely hints at Mr. Big's "To Be With You", or how the sprightly Cat Stevens folksiness that opens "Why Do Lovers?" transmogrifies into a fierce affirmation of a deity's existence, the stupefying one-liner, "The demons I've got they are amazing," and the stupefyinger, "Life is tough and life can be hard." On Jim Morrison's sprawling, nipple-eyed "Celebration of the Lizard", chronicled on the 1970 double-disc Absolutely Live album, he captured psychotropic absurdity Ashcroft hasn't matched in years. He does this on the neighbor-loving ("until his wife gets home") title track from 1969's The Soft Parade, too. And also on the posthumous An American Prayer poetry disc, with impossibly kitschy blues-funk overdubbed by his surviving bandmates, money-grubbers even then. The drugs really worked for Morrison. Ashcroft, too, could leave audiences howling with that record's finest rib-tickler: "I will always be a word man, better than a bird man." -Marc Hogan, January 31, 2006 http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15066/Richard_Ashcroft_Keys_to_the_World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexTHFC Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Really not a fan of either single or the album in general. Never liked his solo stuff too much, just not on the same level as The Verve, three genius albums. Nothing can beat listening to A Storm in Heaven on headphones in the dark!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Do I take it that Richard Ashcroft is currently locked up in a studio recording solo LP number 4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERVE Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Do I take it that Richard Ashcroft is currently locked up in a studio recording solo LP number 4? I hope so.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamposts Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Do I take it that Richard Ashcroft is currently locked up in a studio recording solo LP number 4? *holds breath* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winigwl Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 i only no a few of his songs from when he openedd for coldplay, what ar his good ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 From his solo catalogue: A Song for the lovers Break the Night With Colour Music Is Power Check the Meaning Nature Is The Law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamposts Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 From his solo catalogue: A Song for the lovers Break the Night With Colour Music Is Power Check the Meaning Nature Is The Law Yisser missing alot of good songs there Dave. New York I Get My Beat Science of Silence Lord I've Been Trying Buy It In Bottles Why Not Nothing Keys To The World Why Do Lovers Cry Til Morning His first two albums aren't that great but his third is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 I ain't an expert on the solo work on Richard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamposts Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Well luckly one of us is ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o_detta Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Do I take it that Richard Ashcroft is currently locked up in a studio recording solo LP number 4? oh, where did you hear that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winigwl Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 thanks, i'll check them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dejan Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 This is the biggest flop in Richard Aschroft's career This is one of the most boring and uninspired albums ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ainsley Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 :sad: Well, I must say it's WAY different from his previous work. and well.. I actually quite like this album :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corkus Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I've only listened to the two singles, "Are You Ready?" and "Born Again". Hated the former, thought the latter was okay. Very different, though not necessarily in a good way. Not really interested in listening to the rest of the album, and this is coming from someone who even liked some of Ashcroft's solo material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I'm intrigued. Off to Spotify... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Final Track Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Gave it one look and passed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 You've got a "Verve"!!:dozey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I would listen to it, if it wasn't for EMI sending me an email about the album every few days even when I have hit unsubscribe. If they continue I'm thinking of taking them to court under anti-spam laws Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I would listen to it, if it wasn't for EMI sending me an email about the album every few days even when I have hit unsubscribe. If they continue I'm thinking of taking them to court under anti-spam laws :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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