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Old 18-11-2009, 09:53
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What is your fave track on Robbie's new album? and how do you rate the album against his others?

My fave track is probably Morning Sun or You Know Me.

As for his albums, I like I've been Expecting You and Sing when you're winning best.
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Old 18-11-2009, 10:01
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"Difficult For Weirdos" and "Starstruck".

As for the albums, this one is weaker but not as bad as "Rudebox".

I prefered the earlier albums such as "The Ego Has Landed".
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Old 18-11-2009, 11:24
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Williams has come alive since he ditched the pub sing along tunes of Chambers & started working with people who know what they are doing. Rudebox is a good album let down by the wrong song being put out as lead single. She's Madonna is sheer brilliance. The 80's , 90's being hilarious . The cover of Lovelight was inpsired.

Last Days of Disco & Difficult for Weirdos are realy good. The album is good, but then its done with Trevor Horn with Anne Dudley so it stands to reason it should be half decent. Far better than those wretched pub song albums pre Tin Tin Duffy.

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Old 18-11-2009, 12:06
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Yes you see I totally agee about Rudebox - it was actually a really good album! I loved Lovelight - I wish it'd done better. I liked Kiss Me and Never Touch that Switch too. Its a shame he got so much stick for the it. Poor Robbie.

Its also a shame he didnt get to number 1 on his album or single becuase of x factor lol!
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Old 18-11-2009, 12:50
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I love Last Days of Disco, Difficult for Weirdos and You Know Me, also i think Bodies is great.
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Old 18-11-2009, 13:51
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Williams has entered the territory that U2 , PSB etc have reached, forever stuck with a back catalogue of 'classics' despite the fact that the newer 'less popular' material is at times far better yet people wont give the new stuff a fair chance.

You cant keep trying to remake Angels forever more , same as everybody expects another West End Girls from PSB , it aint going to happen.

I couldnt understand the derrision given to Rudebox , shock of the different / new perhaps? Take away Rudebox & bonus track at the end & you have a very good album brimming with ideas & some sublime production / melodies. I detest with a passion the Chamabers stuff , save for Feel which is about the hiatus for that partnership. Williams has come of age working with a variety of people , hence how his last three albums are all so different , yet compare with the first three & how they sound the same , mereley continuations of the 'if it aint broke , dont fix it' mentality. If you dont progress , make each album different then you become stale & eventualy you'll die.

Look at his former band mates at Take That whose last two albums are light years in front of the three that they made at the height of their 'boyband' days.

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Old 18-11-2009, 14:00
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I loved Rudebox album, only song i didnt care about was Rudebox, everything else was great
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Old 18-11-2009, 16:53
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Im loving em all..Bodies,, Starstruck,, and Difficult for weirdos are me favs..
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Old 18-11-2009, 17:37
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"Difficult For Weirdos" and "Starstruck".

As for the albums, this one is weaker but not as bad as "Rudebox".

I prefered the earlier albums such as "The Ego Has Landed".
Are you American? Isn't that album just the best tracks from 'Life Thru a Lens' and 'I've Been Expecting You' for the American market?
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Old 18-11-2009, 17:52
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I love him doing Starstruck on the Electric Proms show..He was shuffle danceing on stage and doing those bumpety bumps with that woman..Lucky..
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Old 18-11-2009, 18:02
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It seems i'm in the minority who really loves "Won't Do That". I think it's excellent.
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Old 18-11-2009, 21:47
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I got You Know Me on now,,Rob ya real sexy sounding,,well done
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Old 18-11-2009, 23:21
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Williams has come alive since he ditched the pub sing along tunes of Chambers & started working with people who know what they are doing.

I am no RW fan but you must be joking with that comment.

RW did his best stuff with chambers and is widely noted that his downfall started when he ditched him. Chambers also wrote "Blasphemy" for RW on RKTVS ( you must have missed that one and definitely not a pub sing along pop tune)

Chambers with RB scored 4 No. 1's and 16 top 10 hits. 3 BRITS, 3 Ivor Novello awards for his PUB SING ALONG pop tunes.

Maybe he has got his act together and is on the way up, time will tell.

From what I have heard "Morning Sun" is my fav of a very dreary bunch, while I edit this "Blasphemy" is playing and its quite catchy.

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Old 18-11-2009, 23:28
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You Know Me

Was Robbie fan in Take That days, went off him after his first couple of solo albums. (due to me thinking he had become a bit of a twit)
But heard You Know Me and loved it!, also laughed at the video.
Currently got his new album in the car and getting into him again.
Also thought he looked good and seemed in a better place on Jonathon Ross the other week.
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Old 18-11-2009, 23:33
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Deceptacon and Somewhere ( even though its just a clip really) are my faves followed by Starstruck and Bodies

The whole album is good and I don't skip past any tracks
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Old 19-11-2009, 00:14
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It's definitely his most consistent album. Every track is great, though Do You Mind? is probably the weakest, and Somewhere though that's just and interlude. I like the mix of sounds, from Pet Shop Boys one minute, to Elton John-style then George Michael on Starstruck, to rocking out (well, as 'rocking' as Robbie gets). Morning Sun is actually a very Take That-esque song. You can imagine Gary Barlow playing the piano on it!

I disagree that everything with Guy Chambers was fluff. No Regrets is a bloody amazing song (even if the studio version isn't the best, the best I've ever seen it done was Robbie on the Electric Proms) and Let Me Entertain You, Lazy Days from the first album. Millennium IS an inspired track. One of my favourite ones is By All Means Necessary off Sing When You're Winning. It's pure genius that one, and of course The Road To Manderlay. Me and My Monkey (ace track), Hot Fudge, Feel, Sexed Up, Something Beautiful, all great songs from Escapology.
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Old 19-11-2009, 01:34
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I am no RW fan but you must be joking with that comment.

RW did his best stuff with chambers and is widely noted that his downfall started when he ditched him. Chambers also wrote "Blasphemy" for RW on RKTVS ( you must have missed that one and definitely not a pub sing along pop tune)

Chambers with RB scored 4 No. 1's and 16 top 10 hits. 3 BRITS, 3 Ivor Novello awards for his PUB SING ALONG pop tunes.

Maybe he has got his act together and is on the way up, time will tell.

From what I have heard "Morning Sun" is my fav of a very dreary bunch, while I edit this "Blasphemy" is playing and its quite catchy.

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This is weird quoting myself, I dont know who RB is, its supposed to be RW.


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Old 19-11-2009, 01:50
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So far, You Know Me is my favourite followed by Bodies. The rest of the album still needs some listening to.
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