Weekly Song Review: Sooner Than You Think

Originally posted by Spotnick This week's review is.. Sooner Than You Think

Hi Nicolas Do you recieve the video?

Best bit is the instrumentation on the intro. Nice build up. Worse bit is the line ending "seasonable" (pronounced seizable). Uttely lazy lyrics. I love this song as its one of my favourites off the brilliant Low-Life Album. Id give it 80%. Favourite beer is San Miguel.

1. the 2nd half where the layers are all going and active, the end is nice too
2. synth bit sounds a bit dated at the beginning but gets better as the song continues
3. i never used to listen to it, but it grew on me once i got past the first minute or so
4. 76%
5. i don't drink the stuff typically, but icehouse reminds me of my high school years (the extra 0.5% alcohol is where it's at!).

Best bit: "Hello everyone, it's nice to be here" Worst bit: The hotel party bit
Why I like it: It's OK Percentage rating: 70% Fave beer: I don't like beer

Best Bit- mad lyrics Worst bit- Bernard you cannot sing man rating 65%

1. The best bit: The guitar stabs right after "You know what I mean", the synth vs. guitar parts at the end
2. The worst bit: Album version recycled drum pattern
3. Why you love/hate it: One of the first LowLife proper songs that I've heard, not even knowing the name of it. (Assumed it was "Face Up" for weeks )
4. A percentage rating: 89%
5. What's your favorite brand of beer? Labatts, Heiniekin (sic), Corona w/ lime

part of a great album maybe not the best part ? ? on the wagon for now, however before Grolsch

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by Reg Bumswizle> England is a shit place to live

It is when you live in SOUTH London, Tim! :D

Its shit anywhere down south.

1. Hello everyone its nice to be here.
2. The fight in the hotel that followed.
3. its on Low-Life,so fookin love it.
4. 1 eighth of perfect.
5. ...?

1. The synth part at the beginning.
2. The very first part.
3. The story reminds me a situation I had "we had a party in our hotel last night, it ended up in an awful fight..." My story was not that terrible, but not too far away from it.
4. 78 %
5. I don't like beer that much, anyway I prefer light ones.

Best Bit: The instrumental break after Barney finishes singing the chorus for the last time, I just love the transition from slow even pacing to a gradually building, ripping bit of guitar playing. Also like the lyrics a lot (particularly the chorus, and the last few verses).

Worst Bit: Nothing, I like all of it.

Why I love it: Doesn't really sound like anything else they've done, to me, the drum pattern is really unusual, and the transition from the vocal section to the instrumental conclusion is really quite dynamic, particularly as it picks up speed. I also like the intro unlike others, it seems delicate, fragile and yet kind of warm.

Percentage Rating: 90%

Best Beer: I'm partial to Corona, Paulaner Hefeweizen, and Hoegarten.

I still remember the first time I heard this. BBC2 ran an all night music marathon back in the 1980s one Saturday/Sunday, which was reveloutionary at the time.

Neworder played a 30 minute set live from a recording studio and it has sadly never been repeated to the best of my knowledge. The first song they played was STYT. The album Low Life hadn't been released at the time and so it was pretty exciting to hear the new stuff.

I don't really get this worst part business. What can possibly be bad at any point in this song?

Shelly said she thought the "Hotel bit" was the worst. Early live versions had different lyrics. "My wife left me and my child too." Should have kepted it.

1. The best bit - nice synth and guitar. It comes after Elegia and before Subculture two of my all-time favorite NO songs.
2. The worst bit - kinda a sleeper song
3. Why you love/hate it - I have my Low-Life album on cassette tape, so it's a good transition song from Elegia to Subculture.
4. A percentage rating - B- (B minus)
5. What's your favorite brand of beer? - A&W Root Beer

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