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The remix rant :D

I was quite relieved that the single mix of Whispering Your Name got off relatively lightly. It will always be a favourite.
 
I really worry that it's only really going to be the last handful where she starts being happy with what she's done.
 
I really worry that it's only really going to be the last handful where she starts being happy with what she's done.

I guess that Hometime might be a respite from the complaints, she likes that doesn't she?
 
I guess that Hometime might be a respite from the complaints, she likes that doesn't she?
Yes, that's true, although I think I've heard production gripes. But I think from a label perspective she was a lot happier.
 
I’m interested to hear her take on Should I Feel That It’s Over.

I absolutely love it, but given she’s quite scathing of her ’big singing’ moments I wonder if it’s (yet) another one where she’ll complain about being pushed too far into powerballad territory.
 
I had to stop following the podcast as she's really started to grate. When she couldn't even be bothered to remind herself of the tracklisting to Essex before talking about it, I did wonder why I was bothering then :D

I've been quite amused at her going on about songs sitting in the wrong register for her to sing anymore. Now that is a fair comment, but she then gave a complete pass to Whispering Your Name which to me is one of her worst vocals on record. It's totally out of her range.

Don't get me started on the reasons why she can't sing certain songs for lyrical reasons any more ("I'll never be "invisible" to someone I love", etc.). If she doesn't like them and doesn't want to play them, just say that.
 
I’m interested to hear her take on Should I Feel That It’s Over.

I absolutely love it, but given she’s quite scathing of her ’big singing’ moments I wonder if it’s (yet) another one where she’ll complain about being pushed too far into powerballad territory.
I just checked to see what she said about it in the track by track for the Best of 25 Years Revisited album, and she said she thought it was lovely. And that The Turn and Hometime are her favourite albums. At around 8:30 here.

 
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An episode dedicated to Blue, Southend Utd and her love of football :)

And is it just for me that episode 24 seems to have disappeared? I wondered if that remix rant has been reconsidered?
 
Just looked again and it IS on mine - they just aren't all showing chronologically.
 
I knew it was a cover as at the time there was (unfortunately) some media conversation and “speculation” as to why she hadn’t changed the gender in the lyrics.

At least it falls into being a cover bringing a good, relatively unknown song to a wider audience rather than a lazy obvious cover.
 
The original artist of Whispering your name is the same one who did the original of Cyndi Lauper's All through the night - so that's 2 amazing songs they're responsible for!
 
The original artist of Whispering your name is the same one who did the original of Cyndi Lauper's All through the night - so that's 2 amazing songs they're responsible for!
And apparently 'If She Knew What She Wants' for The Bangles, although I wouldn't put that one in quite the same league.
 
Was there any talk of putting the Glenister versions of the Essex tracks on the two disc reissue of the album?
 
Was there any talk of putting the Glenister versions of the Essex tracks on the two disc reissue of the album?
I've no idea - I guess they had enough stuff that they didn't need to, but it would be really interesting to hear it, wouldn't it?

I wonder who would own it now? I assume a label wouldn't own something it refused to release.
 
I'm loving the new version of Love Resurrection. Although it's a hard song to mess up.
Yes, I'm enjoying it a lot as well.

So that's 5 tracks out of 18 we have now. The album is released in 4 weeks, so I wonder if we'll get one more? I did think we'd get one more, but was surprised to see it today. I thought it would be a week or two, and then that would be it.
 
The new Love Resurrection is fine but I can't imagine it replacing the original for me in the long term.

Her scoffing about the 'artistic graveyard' of constant compilations and rehashes in the latest podcast did make me wonder if she'd forgotten what it is that she's currently promoting, too. :D
 
Chicago and Hometime - that is two episodes with a predominantly positive tone back to back :o
 
I’m interested to hear her take on Should I Feel That It’s Over.

I absolutely love it, but given she’s quite scathing of her ’big singing’ moments I wonder if it’s (yet) another one where she’ll complain about being pushed too far into powerballad territory.

Turns out I needn’t have worried about this as during the 8 minutes or so she spent on Hometime she didn’t mention a single one of the tracks by name… :eyes:
 


No strong feeling about this one. Certainly prefer the drama on the production of the original.
 
The podcast frustrated me a little this week, with an episode for the My Robot Friend collaboration, after already having one near the start for other collaborations. Is it that significant, particularly after other single episodes cover whole albums she loves where no tracks are even mentioned?

Still, at least we learned how she's too busy mending sofas or cleaning sideboards to make much more music :D
 
Was there any talk of putting the Glenister versions of the Essex tracks on the two disc reissue of the album?
And to come back to this, in the live feed, somebody asked about the original version, and she doesn't know if the masters still exist anywhere - she thinks she may have binned them when she moved, although they possibly may be on an old cassette she recently found (but don't get your expectations up). And Pete Glenister may possibly have a copy.
 
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I've listened just the once so far, and am about to go in for my second listen.

I think undoubtedly it's a success taken as a whole - in how quite disparate songs from over 40 years have been reimagined as if they were all created now.

As individual tracks my feelings are more mixed, although undoubtedly leaning positive.

Can't Say It Like I Mean It particularly is I think an absolute triumph, and All Signs Of Life and Tongue Tied are both great. This House will take some getting used to though - I'm not entirely convinced it's going to bed in for me or that the new production fits. I'd be foolish not to give it more time, though.

There are also two or three tracks I have little recall of, but I guess with an 18 track album that's unsurprising. Hopefully they will reveal their charms as I listen again. And I very much want to listen again.
 
The album is only available on Apple Music as a “Moyet Moments Edition” with “conversations” between each track :D
 
The album is only available on Apple Music as a “Moyet Moments Edition” with “conversations” between each track :D
I thought that was meant to be on Spotify as well, but I can't seem to find it.

I also thought they were meant to be two entirely separate things, so who knows?
 
My signed cd arrived. Not that I was requiring more but no surprise it’s just the name scribbled on there. Haven’t listened yet, feels like it should be the soundtrack to my bath tonight.
 
Amazon came through with my copy on release date as well, which makes a change for them lately. I'll give it a listen over the weekend.
 
It's all bedding in nicely now. I will say I'm slightly disappointed in My Best Day, because I feel it essentially just feel like a straightforward solo recreation of it, and the production doesn't go off like I want it to - and I guess crucially like I feel the original already does.
 
I enjoyed it on first listen. The hits are definitely more 'nice alts' rather than massive upgrades. It reminds me of Kate Bush's Director's Cut, in the sense that it feels like it's capturing on record the arrangements that now make sense for her in a live context, particularly on the older stuff.

The only one I really don't like is Filagree. It's just far too mannered.
 
I was slightly disappointed as well that the Is This Love version is essentially the same as the live version she's been doing for a fair while already. And which is already available as a live version on one of the expanded versions or compilations. Particularly in her case as the live vocals are very similar to the recorded versions.

In fact that's something about Key as a whole - the vocals sound live in their texture.
 
Incidentally, the 'Key Moments edition' that I thought was going to be on Spotify (but still can't find) is available as individual videos on YouTube - I haven't checked if they are all there yet, but it you search under 'Alison Moyet conversation' you'll find lots of them.

I decided to actually buy the digital album including it from webstore yesterday. Obviously this is focused very much on the individual tracks, and it's still with the same interviewer, but also includes the producer Sean McGhee, and I found it really quite interesting in places. Alison seems a lot more focused and less prone to some of the ramblings amd diversions in thr main podcast, as much as I'm still enjoying them.
 
I was slightly disappointed as well that the Is This Love version is essentially the same as the live version she's been doing for a fair while already. And which is already available as a live version on one of the expanded versions or compilations. Particularly in her case as the live vocals are very similar to the recorded versions.

In fact that's something about Key as a whole - the vocals sound live in their texture.

Yes I am only halfway in but I thought the vocals sound very as live.

I don't remember the original versions but I enjoyed Fire and Tongue Tied. And More, which I liked anyway, is the source of the podcast theme in its new form!

The Impervious Me is a bit brighter sounding on first listen than Such Small Ale but I'm not completely sold on it yet.
 
I enjoyed it on first listen. The hits are definitely more 'nice alts' rather than massive upgrades. It reminds me of Kate Bush's Director's Cut, in the sense that it feels like it's capturing on record the arrangements that now make sense for her in a live context, particularly on the older stuff.

The only one I really don't like is Filagree. It's just far too mannered.
Of the five old tracks released before the album, I think I'd take already So Am I (very definitely for this one) and All Cried Out all over their original versions. Love Resurrection I enjoy a lot and think I may also get to that point with it. Where Hides Sleep I'm less fond of generally and have no real preference.

It's only Filigree where I still feel a massive preference for the original. I'm not sure I'd necessarily describe it as mannered personally, but it just doesn't resonate with me lyrically in this version in the way the original did.
 
In fact i may try a playlist where I swap Filigree out for the original as I don't see it being so out of sync with the style of Key, add in both I Germinate and Other (which I also think would work well), and perhaps Changeling, and then chop out a few of this album when the dust has settled on it a little.
 

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