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Bell X1 - Bloodless Coup

  • 16-03-2011 04:50PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭


    It's out next month, the lead single from it is Velcro. I hope it's better than the last album. So far they've made 3 amazing albums and 1 average one. I hope Bloodless Coup falls into the amazing category.

    Velcro Video... EPIC.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYIKlcgf1I&


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    I'm cautiously excited. I really liked blue lights though so we're different.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    I'm a big fan, so far I've heard Hey Anna Lena and Velcro, really liking them both. Seem to be going down a more electronic/synth road going by those 2 songs, which is a welcome change...not that there's anything wrong with their more traditional sound.

    Cant wait for album release

    Edit: I think they start playing Johnny Cash "I walk the line" at the end of the Velcro video :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    eeeee can't wait for this to come out! Although, like InTheTrees, I really liked Blue Lights On The Runway.

    Not a bad thing at all if the songs are of an electronica flavour :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    Amsterdam Says, which is a fantastic song, has been left off the album surprisingly. Its now just a bonus track. Looking forward to the album still of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    Really looking forward to this album.

    I actually quite enjoyed Blue Lights on the Runway, didn't like it at the beginning but it grew on me.

    Velco is a great track, just have it on repeat on youtube for the past week!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Battleflag


    Love their first few albums, really liked Blue Lights on the Runaway the first few times I heard it but then started to dislike it. Especially since Irish radio raped "The Great Defector". Still looking forward to the new album though


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    I hate the chorus of velcro but the rest of it is damn good.

    Video is brilliant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭cunninstunt


    Anyone now if this is available for pre-order anywhere, apart from itunes that is?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,434 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Does no one else think they are one of the most derivative bands around?

    "The Great Defector" = Talking Heads.

    New stuff is so reminiscent of Radiohead, albeit Radiohead with terrible lyrics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,452 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Velcro sounds like a Killers track. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 redondo25


    The songs from this album that I have heard so far are going to add to the bands brilliant live performances. Has anyone in the UK ever paid any notice of Bell x1 in terms of regular radio play?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Sútalún


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Does no one else think they are one of the most derivative bands around?

    "The Great Defector" = Talking Heads.

    New stuff is so reminiscent of Radiohead, albeit Radiohead with terrible lyrics.

    Think that's unfair, Paul Noonan's lyrics are of the most originial around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Does no one else think they are one of the most derivative bands around?

    Hell no. Snow Patrol, Script, Travis etc....now THATS derivative.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 761 ✭✭✭dedon


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Does no one else think they are one of the most derivative bands around?

    "The Great Defector" = Talking Heads.

    New stuff is so reminiscent of Radiohead, albeit Radiohead with terrible lyrics.

    Radiohead :confused: Think Bell X1 are a fair bit different to Radiohead. Nowhere near their class.

    Dear god some Irish people talk rubbish about Bell Eleven


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    Paul Noonan could sing the alphabet on every track and I'd probably love it. I adore his voice, been a big fan of theirs for a long time.

    Have only heard two songs so far. Velcro (already getting played to death on the radio) and I like it but not head over heels with it. Loving Hey Anna Lena though, it's a beautiful song. More of that on Bloodless Coup please!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 jesso


    Bell X1, or bell end 1 as I prefer to refer to them as, give me a raging floppy. The opposite to what good music should do.
    Sorry, this is a pointless post. I don't usually do this kind of thing.
    I just find them so insipid that I have allowed myself to become enraged to the point of posting.
    Feel free to tell me to go and listen to my Lionel Richie albums in a cupbord somewhere in the dark for the next 3 months. Cos I'll happily do that. So long as I can avoid the next spate of Bell X1 singles.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    jesso wrote: »
    Bell X1, or bell end 1 as I prefer to refer to them as, give me a raging floppy. The opposite to what good music should do.
    Sorry, this is a pointless post. I don't usually do this kind of thing.
    I just find them so insipid that I have allowed myself to become enraged to the point of posting.
    Feel free to tell me to go and listen to my Lionel Richie albums in a cupbord somewhere in the dark for the next 3 months. Cos I'll happily do that. So long as I can avoid the next spate of Bell X1 singles.

    good to know...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭hada


    jesso wrote: »
    Bell X1, or bell end 1 as I prefer to refer to them as, give me a raging floppy. The opposite to what good music should do.
    Sorry, this is a pointless post. I don't usually do this kind of thing.
    I just find them so insipid that I have allowed myself to become enraged to the point of posting.
    Feel free to tell me to go and listen to my Lionel Richie albums in a cupbord somewhere in the dark for the next 3 months. Cos I'll happily do that. So long as I can avoid the next spate of Bell X1 singles.

    *facepalm*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    Their streaming the album from their Facebook now. Sounds good so far. Really like 4 Minute Mile and Nightwatchmen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    jesso wrote: »
    Bell X1, or bell end 1 as I prefer to refer to them as, give me a raging floppy. The opposite to what good music should do.
    Sorry, this is a pointless post. I don't usually do this kind of thing.
    I just find them so insipid that I have allowed myself to become enraged to the point of posting.
    Feel free to tell me to go and listen to my Lionel Richie albums in a cupbord somewhere in the dark for the next 3 months. Cos I'll happily do that. So long as I can avoid the next spate of Bell X1 singles.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    I shouldnt post this...

    ...except i'm a big fan.

    I didnt like velcro and as a result my enthusiasm level has dropped.

    I'll need to listen to the whole thing a few times before I buy now rather than just rush out and buy it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    There are some great tracks on that album, current favourites are Nightwatchmen, Sugar High and 4 minute mile! :)

    Can't wait for Vicar St. on wednesday :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    I'm listening to the stream now, until I can actually get out and buy it. Sounding good. :) I liked Velcro and listened obsessively for a few days (killed it though) so I expected to like it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Gave the album a full listen finally on that stream. Love Nightwatchmen too, 74 swans is good too. A good few of the tracks remind me of Radiohead around the time of their Kid A/Amnesiac albums.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭Framed10


    Not getting the new album all that much..yet anyway :(
    Although I'm sure it will be great energy when played live but on the headphones or around the house Im not warming to it.

    Im off to listen some 'Beautiful madness' one of their best songs imo...
    more of the early stuff please


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    I really like the new album - lots of electronica influences, which isn't a bad thing by any means! Sugar High is brilliant, one of those rare moments when I loved the song from the first time I heard it. Love Nightwatchmen too, even if it is a little US-drama-season-finalé-esque :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 sugarplumkin


    Gotta admit I'm not too keen on the electronica sort of vibe they've got going on atm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Released in the us today. I may buy a few songs.

    Itunes is saying Nightwatchman and Haloumi are the most popular...

    Edit: Its twenty minutes later, downloaded three songs then itunes suggested it would only cost me another $2 to complete the album so I went the whole way.

    I'll have to give it a few days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Sútalún


    After giving the album a few days have to say I love Nightwatchmen, Trailing Skirts of God, Haloumni and 74 Swans of the songs I hadn't heard before properly. I'd heard Velcro, Anna Lena and Sugar High beforehand and think they're very impressive.

    Built to Last, with Dave taking lead vocals, is a song which, without sounding obvious, sounds like such a typical Dave Geraghty song. Which isn't a bad thing, just not sure if it fits in with the Bell X1 sound.

    4 Minute Mile is slowly growing on me. More so than anything they've done this really sounds like a Talking Heads song. Never really bought the comparison before but it's obvious in this one. Can't help feeling there was a stronger track banging around that could have replaced this.

    With regards Safer Than Love, in my opinion the most ordinary song on the album. Again, surely there was a stronger track than this that could have gone on the album.

    But, the blip in the middle aside, enjoying most of the album so far. Not sure where it stands in comparison to their back catalogue. That'll take time. And still need to see a lot of the new stuff live.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    I listened to it a couple of times initially and then totally forgot about it until yesterday when i thought I should listen again.

    I like trailing skirts, Haloumi, 74 swans, amsterdam and sugar high.

    The others? Hmmm.

    One of the most noticable things for me has been the weak lyrics. Really cringe-able at times. "Misundertanding start" or whatever it was. And "safer than love"? God. Its like they were written by a 14 year old boy after his first crush. And 4 minute mile? Spare me. Even sugar high is just silly (not in a good way) but the strength of the tune overcomes my dislike.

    Musically meh though, I just dont think i've ever had such issues with a bands lyrics before.

    And dont get me wrong I really like the whole second half of the album.


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