mansun 'six'.

anti-everything was my getting up for school anthem, if i got to the end of cancer it meant i was late.

Mew
http://www.mewsite.com/

MANSUN: Classic or Dud?

I love Mansun, and Six has some amazing moments ("Shotgun" and the title track being my faves), but there's an awful lot of what the fuck? moments.

"The nature of uncarved blocks......"

the british cover:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000I7B2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

i so much prefer the mad uk version of this one though ..

It just so happens, in this case, that they were right (though the album went largely ignored anyway).

a new best of including some non-singles is a-comin!

wisely they've added 'chad who loved me' to it,
unsurprsingly, nothing non-single-ish from 'six' is featured.

*restrains self with superhuman effort from 2000-word dissertation"

If Mew are ANYTHING like 'Six', I'm buying all their albums.

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unrestrain yourself sir! at all speed!

(lock thread? ;-D)

Why is the album weird (as many people insist)? I don't remember it well but I don't remember it being weird.

I'm up for writing more but here come the ILM old guard with their secateurs so mebbe not...

AND a spoken word segue by Dr Who.

The US cover of "Six" is actually very ordinary.

I love that cover. Never in the history of rock has an album cover so brilliantly evoked the spirit of 'Where's Wally?'. Spot-The-Reference has never been such vicarious fun...

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The thing is, my absolutist style depends upon the reader being aware that it's just my subjective and often deliberately exaggerated opinion. Not everything I say should be taken without a pinch of salt. And yes, the Americans ruined all the fun. No tardis = no joy.

Oh and Jagger- yeah, I am referring to those two. The intro to "Special" is fine, but the actual song is merely so-so... its the lack of hypermanic editing or fx abuse that bores me slightly about these songs in comparison with the rest of the album.

The problem isn't with the cover, it's with the sleeve booklet, which contains about 30 different (tacky) band photos. :S

time right for a mansun revival????

gutted I never saw them live, but Im sure the live show that they have in my head is better than anything in the real world.

How this has any bearing on my music taste, well, I'm stumped.

well it's been 18 months. let's talk about SIX.

Still love the title track.

Paul's unseen 'Making Of SIX' footage is here btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2YxH5pkHE

maybe I should listen to this again. But I have I given my copy to Oxfam?

Oh, I'd say something generally favourable and (this time) non-absolutist but there's no point really, it'll just get the same derisive reaction. Give it a listen, yeah, but don't enjoy it whatever you do, because people aren't supposed to make music like this, and any sort of connection to the Britpop 'scene' automatically equals irredeemable crap, unlike, say, any modern commercial R&B artist, whose completely unmeritous caterwaulings are (by dint of their very commercialisation) worthy of the most infinitesimal dissection and understanding apprailsal by the goodfolk of ILM. Mansun? A load of pretentious, flamboyant students? Give me a break. Root out the ridiculous music, throw it in the fire. We want our heroes to be controlled sophisticates, not self-deprecating jesters. OMG A HARPSICHORD-LADEN OPERA-SINGER-INFESTED INTERLUDE EMERGENCY EARWASH ARGH ARGH RID MY HEAD OF THIS ABSURDITY I CAN'T TAKE IT A BIT OF THEATRE IN MY MUSIC OH NO SIREE ARE YOU PUT OFF YET ARE YOU FUCKING PUT OFF YET

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM...IT WILL REPULSE YOU

settle down beavis

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

draper to reveal THE TRUTH about six; world NOT REALLY THAT BOTHERED. except some people on ILM.

not me, incidentally. i just spotted this on DiS and thought of louis.

I've spoken about it with Draper himself via Fbook chat. Way ahead of ya! :D

Not quite a hot girl in your bed but I can see how these things matter to you.

Although what with this and the 10th anniversary of Bring It On I can see how you must be excited. All we need now is for someone to commemorate the first Six By Seven album and it'll be like Brazil in 1970 round your house.

Well, you know, time and a place for all things...

I feel I have finally reached a balanced, reasonable perspective about this album, and can discuss it rationally. It dazzled me then and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. It dazzles me now and I merely regard it as brilliant. Its power is undeniable, and Draper's own explanations, although often rambling, endear it to me as a record whose making is scarcely credible, a succession of happy accidents and musical mania.

We were all in the car the other night. It was dark. Random shuffle on my brother's iPod. Being A Girl came on. Everyone fell silent. For eight minutes, Mansun were glorious, and we uttered not a word. It had been a while since I last put that song on, but even allowing for this, it was like hearing it for the first time, the 200 mph escalating bliss-out. These guys really fucking had something.

Love playing this album to non-brits so much.

god i love this album

not going to read thread, don't care, this rocks

When I (very, very infrequently) listen to (small parts, in isolation, of) this album, any sense of enjoyment (and some of it is very enjoyable) is tempered by the same sense of embarrassment that hits me every time I think about buying Misplaced Childhood by Marillion.

I like this album a lot. Then again, I also like 'Misplaced Childhood', which is the only Marillion album I ever liked. Some great music on both, and I'm not embarrassed about liking either of them at all.