Track listing Dreamers are Waiting

Really looking forward to cover of Peter Frampton’s Show Me The Way, hopefully with Neil on Vocoder/Talk Box (ala Saturday Sun)!

I feel ya.

@mikelm posted:

Really looking forward to cover of Peter Frampton’s Show Me The Way, hopefully with Neil on Vocoder/Talk Box (ala Saturday Sun)!

Also looking forward to their cover of Wilco's "Deeper Down".  That song was recorded at Neil's Roundhead studios when Wilco were in Auckland in 2007 for the 7 Worlds Collide project. So guess there's some synergy there. ;-)

The new album has two covers?! Where have I been... is it just me, or is that unexpected?

@Bean posted:

The new album has two covers?! Where have I been... is it just me, or is that unexpected?

This was a joke.  They are almost certainly original songs that just happen to have the same title as earlier songs by other artists.  Neil has a bit of a history of this - see Saturday Sun, the same title as one of Nick Drake's better known songs from the late 60s.

What are your hopes for this record?

If there are a couple of songs really I love (ie. not the first two singles) I’ll be pretty happy. I mean, my Apple Music subscription price won’t change regardless.

@Byrds Talk to Me posted:

What are your hopes for this record?

If there are a couple of songs really I love (ie. not the first two singles) I’ll be pretty happy. I mean, my Apple Music subscription price won’t change regardless.

First off, I like "To the Island" much better than "Whatever You Want", so it gives me some hope at least that it isn't Lightsleeper Vol. II.

Also like the fact that it has twelve songs, seems like the last three (at least) Neil projects have been stuck on ten.

Hope that at least a few of these will have staying power, songs Neil & CH will include in concert for years to come (and hoping they stay together for years to come!).

@Steve Shealy posted:

First off, I like "To the Island" much better than "Whatever You Want", so it gives me some hope at least that it isn't Lightsleeper Vol. II.

Also like the fact that it has twelve songs, seems like the last three (at least) Neil projects have been stuck on ten.

Hope that at least a few of these will have staying power, songs Neil & CH will include in concert for years to come (and hoping they stay together for years to come!).

I also much prefer TTI to WYW.

I do miss the way each CH release used to be a milestone. The first four records were soundtracks to my life in a way.

And the other two certainly had their moments.

I wonder if Dreamers will also have some emotionally intense tracks or if it will continue in this breezier, more light-hearted mode.

I don't know that comfort and security are good for pop-rock. Makes me think of those lines from Don't Stop Now: "Give me something I can write about / Give me something I can cry about".

@Byrds Talk to Me posted:

I also much prefer TTI to WYW.

I do miss the way each CH release used to be a milestone. The first four records were soundtracks to my life in a way.

And the other two certainly had their moments.

I wonder if Dreamers will also have some emotionally intense tracks or if it will continue in this breezier, more light-hearted mode.

@In Love With It All posted:

This was a joke.  They are almost certainly original songs that just happen to have the same title as earlier songs by other artists.  Neil has a bit of a history of this - see Saturday Sun, the same title as one of Nick Drake's better known songs from the late 60s.

Thank goodness. I thought so, but was slightly worried. 🤣

Neil promises a full album of feel good feel hope feel love. I prefer the odd melancholy song thrown in but I'm hoping this album will be promoted and distributed as it should.  Shame his last two weren't given the proper audience they deserved nor published and promoted the way I feel aught to have been.  But then they're his so who am I to say.  Just get shirty when I hear his last two weren't great.  Too rushed in releasing perhaps.  FM got first priority?? I don't know.  But I feel we've been handed such a bounty of treats it's getting harder to sift through the lollies if you get my drift? In saying this I'm still happy to be in this candy store we call life So am waiting patiently till June       (( am happy it's being delayed so as to sift through a little more with the extra time )) 

@Byrds Talk to Me posted:

I also much prefer TTI to WYW.

I do miss the way each CH release used to be a milestone. The first four records were soundtracks to my life in a way.

Well, that may of course be due to the fact that in younger years music imprints on you differently. But I see what you mean -- I do wish that I could show this album to friends in June and say "man, this really kicks ***, both contemporary or visionary as well as what could be seen as true to the spirit of the band".

For some reason I think about the posthumous single by George Michael, "This is how". The song is pretty typical GM musically, but the lyrics struck me as poignant and relevant because they are an honest look at addiction and how it is "programmed" through the generations.

Something like that is easier, of course, if you write your lyrics rather in a straightforward form. Neil is not really known for that, and that's part of what I have always liked about his writing. The closest I've seen him come to a painful honesty like that in recent years has been (for me) "In my blood".

Part of this may be the name of the band and the legacy it carries; but that could have prompted Neil to write a "Woodface II". Thank the heavens it didn't. I love complex harmonies in songs like "Amsterdam", but ever since CH reunited in 2007 I've been waiting for a moment that would make me perk up and go "oh man!".

@Dorthonion posted:

Well, that may of course be due to the fact that in younger years music imprints on you differently. But I see what you mean -- I do wish that I could show this album to friends in June and say "man, this really kicks ***, both contemporary or visionary as well as what could be seen as true to the spirit of the band".

For some reason I think about the posthumous single by George Michael, "This is how". The song is pretty typical GM musically, but the lyrics struck me as poignant and relevant because they are an honest look at addiction and how it is "programmed" through the generations.

Something like that is easier, of course, if you write your lyrics rather in a straightforward form. Neil is not really known for that, and that's part of what I have always liked about his writing. The closest I've seen him come to a painful honesty like that in recent years has been (for me) "In my blood".

Part of this may be the name of the band and the legacy it carries; but that could have prompted Neil to write a "Woodface II". Thank the heavens it didn't. I love complex harmonies in songs like "Amsterdam", but ever since CH reunited in 2007 I've been waiting for a moment that would make me perk up and go "oh man!".

True, although Out of Silence was a milestone album for me, and I was already in my forties on release. I Know Different is quite painfully honest I think.

I’ve more or less stopped trying to share music I love with others. People have Spotify for that.