BuzzJack Music Forum _ Robbie Williams and Take That _ Single. The Struts & RW - Strange Days (2020)
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 2 2020, 03:54 PM
Strange Days from The Struts with Robbie Williams is out at 5pm! They're one of my favourite bands so I can't wait to hear this
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 2 2020, 04:02 PM
Out now! Looking forward to listen in a minute
Posted by: Better Man Sep 2 2020, 04:21 PM
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 2 2020, 04:33 PM
Can't wait for the Soccer Aid performance! Just need Robbie to tweet about it now
Posted by: Better Man Sep 2 2020, 04:43 PM
Yeah! Should be a remarkable performance!
Always wanted that Rob used SA time for performance...well finally!
Posted by: Better Man Sep 2 2020, 04:57 PM
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British glam rockers The Struts have released their stunning new single ‘Strange Days’ which features the incomparable pop legend, Robbie Williams. It received its world exclusive first play this afternoon on BBC Radio 2 and is the title track from the band’s upcoming third album, out next month.
A magnificent, sprawling and string-laced duet, it’s a tender-hearted epic that offers incredible solace in the most chaotic of times. The song came about – along with the rest of the ten-track album – as a result of the band’s enforced lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic but started out as an idea lead singer Luke Spiller originally had on a tour bus last summer. It then took on a life of its own as a result of a chance encounter online.
“I was doing Quarantine Radio and Robbie hit me up out of the blue asking if we could talk,” explains Spiller, referring to the Instagram Live show launched by The Struts in the early days of lockdown. “We ended up Face-Timing for about two hours the first time we’d ever spoken, talking about life and music and UFOs and everything else you can think of. I asked if he’d like to work together at some point, and while we were making the album he graciously let us come over and record him singing on his front porch.”
Robbie Williams notes, “We did a vocal for a wonderful song that has been gifted my way. It’s been an absolute pleasure and a privilege to listen to this man sing. It’s great to be a fan of someone and then a part of this recording. It’s like having a hero here and I genuinely mean that.”
The Struts and Robbie Williams will be performing ‘Strange Days’ on Soccer Aid for Unicef live on ITV this coming Sunday – which is taking place at Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground. Soccer Aid for Unicef started in 2006 and is the world’s biggest charity football match. Since its launch, it has raised over £38million for Unicef, with 2019’s event raising a record-breaking £7.9million. Soccer Aid for Unicef airs on Sunday 6th September at 6.30 pm on ITV and STV.
The new single follows last week’s surprise release of the track ‘Another Hit of Showmanship’, which features Albert Hammond Jr of The Strokes and centres on another poignant vocal performance from Spiller, who deftly channels the tension between giving in to temptation and rising above your demons.
After laying down the initial version of the track, Spiller reached out to Hammond, for whom the band opened on a series of 2018 solo shows. “‘Another Hit of Showmanship’ reminds me of being at a club night called Ramshackle years ago at the O2 Academy in Bristol, where they’d play bands like The Libertines and Razorlight and Scissor Sisters, and of course The Strokes,” says Spiller. “I hit up Albert out of the blue and told him, ‘We’ve got this song, and I’m so excited to see what you would do with it.’ As soon as he got his hands on it, he took it to a whole different level—it really just shows why he’s so brilliant at what he does.”
And these two tracks are just some of the spectacular delights on offer on the Strange Days album. In an organic turn of events for a band massively embraced by some of rock-and-roll history’s greatest icons—a feat that’s included opening for The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Guns N’ Roses—Strange Days finds The Struts joining forces with not only Robbie Williams and Albert Hammond Jr, but also Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen on the hip-shaking stomper ‘I Hate How Much I Want You’.
And on the band’s heaviest track to date, the fierce and filthy anthem ‘Wild Child’, the four-piece of Spiller, guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott, and drummer Gethin Davies, are super-charged by the blistering guitar work of Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello.
Elsewhere the explosive ‘All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go)’ unfolds in snarling power chords and exquisitely cheeky lyrics while the beautifully weary ‘Burn It Down’, finds The Struts slipping into a bittersweet mood, serving up a slow-burning ballad that sounds straight from the sessions for Exile on Main St. The sole cover song on Strange Days, ‘Do You Love Me’ sees The Struts updating a fantastically sleazy track first recorded by KISS in 1976.
Strange Days
The Strange Days album came to life over the course of a charmed and frenzied burst of creativity this spring. After getting tested for COVID-19, the band all moved into the Los Angeles home of Jon Levine, a producer who worked extensively on their acclaimed second album YOUNG & DANGEROUS. Within just ten days of couch-crashing at Levine’s house, The Struts had laid down nine original tracks alongside their masterful cover of the KISS B-side: a lean, mean body of work that amounts to their most glorious output to date.
“It was so much fun to make a record this way instead of getting everything done in between touring, working with multiple producers in multiple countries,” says Spiller. “We were all just burning to capture that excitement as much as we possibly could, and at times it felt like the songs were literally just falling from the sky. It was undoubtedly a magical ten days for us—and I hope when people hear the album, it gives them a taste of that magic too.”
Mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Panic! At the Disco, Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Marr), the result is a powerhouse album that lifts The Struts’ glammed-up breed of modern rock to entirely new and wildly thrilling heights.
Luke said “The song itself was pretty much a year in the making. We went into lock down as a band on the 24th of April in a residential studio, and started to work on what we thought was going to be two or three songs, and then it ended up being an entire album, so that was absolutely crazy but the lyric came it to me from talking just to people.
The word strange days and science fiction becoming reality was like this mantra that I just kept hearing. One thing I wanted to do was just capture this moment in time”.
Posted by: Better Man Sep 2 2020, 08:57 PM
Also there will be a music video! Seems they Robbie's house in LA as a location for that.
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 2 2020, 11:30 PM
I love it - great vocals from them all
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 3 2020, 05:33 AM
It's gorgeous , I love it
lovely lyrics, really suits the times we are living in...so looking forward to hearing it live ... voices sound great together, really nice duet
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 3 2020, 05:46 AM
The song should do well on the radio , I hope it gets lots of airplay ..
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 3 2020, 05:48 AM
Thinking back I wonder if all that dressing up from Ayda & Robbie some months back was a hint towards this, it had that glam rock vibe to it
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 3 2020, 09:39 PM
Lyrics video
The Struts & Robbie Williams - Strange Days (Lyrics)
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📝 Lyrics
[Verse: Luke Spiller] When you stumble and fall get yourself off the ground Play your favorite song and sing it out loud Take a deep breath and in time you'll begin to smile
[Verse: Robbie Williams] Listen to the wind, it's the sweetest of sounds Smilin' at the stranger on the Underground Every little thing that you do goes a long long way
[Pre-Chorus: Luke Spiller] But we don't' talk about it But isn't it good to be down here alive Something money could never buy It's worth more than a million roses
[Chorus: Luke Spiller] Oh these are strange days In many strange ways Science Fiction I believe Has become reality
[Chorus - Robbie Williams] Oh these are strange times Lost in our mi-minds We don't know, it's unclear Where we'll be this time next year
[Luke Spiller] Oh-oh-oh-oh, Strange Days Strange Days
[Verse - Robbie Williams] Girls and boys are rushing to be on show What's the hurry children you're forgetting to grow Make the best of where you begin in this crazy world
[Robbie Williams] So let's talk about it I know you sometimes hate the way that you feel
[Luke Spiller] Life's about this, what makes you real , uh-uh-uh It's worth more than a million roses
[Chorus - The Struts] Oh these are strange days In many strange ways A massive stew, out of space Send help cause we lost our way
Oh these are strange times Lost in our mi-minds We're standing by, we can't grow Inside of this TV show
[Luke Spiller] Oh-oh-oh-oh, Strange Days Strange Days
[Instrumental]
[Chorus - The Struts] Oh these are strange days In many strange ways Science Fiction I believe Has become reality
[Chorus - The Struts] Oh these are strange times Lost in our mi-minds We don't know, it's unclear Where we'll be this time next year
[Luke Spiller] Oh-oh-oh-oh, Strange Days Strange Days
Strange Days
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 3 2020, 10:07 PM
I can see why Robbie is a big fan of The Struts
This sounds so like Morrissey
Posted by: Better Man Sep 3 2020, 10:26 PM
Yes, they are good guys and should be more popular. Let's hope Rob will help them too.
They looks like Queen and Stones, sounds like best rock bands and do ...thanks God....very melodic music. And has a versality.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 4 2020, 07:14 PM
Robbie's finally posted it looking forward to tomorrow!
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 4 2020, 07:18 PM
How lucky are The Struts to get the opportunity to perform on live tv especially when there is nothing happening music wise at the moment in terms of live performance
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 4 2020, 11:29 PM
QUOTE(Sydney11 @ Sep 4 2020, 08:18 PM)
How lucky are The Struts to get the opportunity to perform on live tv especially when there is nothing happening music wise at the moment in terms of live performance
I think normally @ 5 million people watch Soccer Aid - so that's a big audience.
I wonder if they'll pre record it before the match starts rather than actually do it live with all that it entails?
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 5 2020, 11:48 AM
Can't wait!
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 5 2020, 03:26 PM
You can vote for Strange Days in Track of the Week here! - http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=238113
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 5 2020, 11:12 PM
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Sep 5 2020, 04:26 PM)
You can vote for Strange Days in Track of the Week here! - http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=238113
and I have
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 6 2020, 09:16 PM
Up to #9 on iTunes!
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 6 2020, 09:31 PM
It was all a bit odd , a hologram of Robbie pretending to be in studio , it was very funny
Lovely song though , hope folk like it
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 6 2020, 11:06 PM
QUOTE(Sydney11 @ Sep 6 2020, 10:31 PM)
It was all a bit odd , a hologram of Robbie pretending to be in studio , it was very funny
Lovely song though , hope folk like it
It's a great song I really like it - but what a strange performance.
Some of the tweets after it made me laugh out loud.
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 6 2020, 11:10 PM
But bless him - at least he did explain it to Dermot beforehand
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 7 2020, 05:41 AM
I would love to have seen this live, I doubt it will ever happen now ..
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Sep 7 2020, 08:22 AM
I must be too old for reading twitter. There is an incredible amount of hate there for Robbie Williams and reading some of the tweets it is not because of his music or because they have heard his music it is simply because he must be bad because he is him. I am again and again speechless about this. Far more negative tweets than positive. I wonder if those who downloaded the song and made it no 9 in itunes for the night simply are not on twitter
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 7 2020, 11:56 AM
QUOTE(elisabeth1973 @ Sep 7 2020, 09:22 AM)
I must be too old for reading twitter. There is an incredible amount of hate there for Robbie Williams and reading some of the tweets it is not because of his music or because they have heard his music it is simply because he must be bad because he is him. I am again and again speechless about this. Far more negative tweets than positive. I wonder if those who downloaded the song and made it no 9 in itunes for the night simply are not on twitter
The haters in general post more that most people Elisabeth & that is the same for every artist out there, they do it because they know they can upset the person concerned . I just ignore it , nobody would have a life if they were to take too much notice of what is being said on twitter or elsewhere
I still cannot believe how much money was raised in a few hours last might
Piece below from the Sun newspaper
How much money was raised? All of the money raised at Soccer Aid goes to Unicef and every £1 pledged will be turned into £3 thanks to support from the Government and Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance.
At full time, it was announced that £11,552,577 had been raised throughout the match.
That makes this Soccer Aid the most successful in history.
you are right, Syd. I am still baffled about this....though and happy about the amazing money made.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 7 2020, 04:53 PM
QUOTE(elisabeth1973 @ Sep 7 2020, 09:22 AM)
I must be too old for reading twitter. There is an incredible amount of hate there for Robbie Williams and reading some of the tweets it is not because of his music or because they have heard his music it is simply because he must be bad because he is him. I am again and again speechless about this. Far more negative tweets than positive. I wonder if those who downloaded the song and made it no 9 in itunes for the night simply are not on twitter
Twitter is usually negative about anything like that, so I wouldn't worry. People are far more likely to tweet hate than praise in general!
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 7 2020, 11:02 PM
Take Twitter with a pinch of salt Elisabeth. I saw some very funny tweets not malicious.
The song is great. I bought it today. I love it
Far more important is the amount of money raised. Bloody amazing.
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 7 2020, 11:04 PM
QUOTE(Sydney11 @ Sep 7 2020, 06:41 AM)
I would love to have seen this live, I doubt it will ever happen now ..
I wouldn't be so sure Tess.
They could well be accompanying him on his next tour.
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 8 2020, 05:22 AM
I think in general we might have a bit of a wait for the next tour
The Struts, Robbie Williams Roam Southern California in ‘Strange Days’ Video
British glam rockers the Struts have teamed upwith Robbie Williams for a new video for their power ballad, “Strange Days.”
The video was shot by Chris Applebaum around Southern California. It starts in black-and-white with shots of Struts frontman Luke Spiller walking down an empty desert highway, performing the song alongside Williams, who twirls an umbrella above him to keep out the sun. By the end of the video, the Struts are performing in full, vivid color, bashing through the grand finale of “Strange Days” against a gorgeous backdrop of mountains.
“Strange Days” will serve as the title track for the Struts’ upcoming album, out October 16th via Interscope/Polydor. The song marks the second offering off Strange Days, following “Another Hit of Showmanship,” which features the Strokes’ Albert Hammond, Jr. Strange Days will also boast guest appearances from Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, as well as Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello.
The Struts recorded Strange Days this spring, relocating from the U.K. to Los Angeles to work with producer Jon Levine after getting tested for Covid-19. Levine also produced the Struts’ 2018 album, Young and Dangerous.
I like the video and this song, really great collaboration and what's more important nobody wait for this single I like such surprises from Rob.
On radio in Italy since tomorrow.
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 10 2020, 08:05 PM
I like ti also, great depth to Robs voice , no messing about ...
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 10 2020, 11:08 PM
I've had it on repeat walking my dog tonight - love it.
It's good to have acknowledgement of the times we're living through.
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 10 2020, 11:08 PM
QUOTE(Sydney11 @ Sep 10 2020, 09:05 PM)
, no messing about ...
Yes!
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 11 2020, 08:34 AM
The version on Itunes sounds even better than YT
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 11 2020, 11:41 PM
QUOTE(Sydney11 @ Sep 11 2020, 09:34 AM)
The version on Itunes sounds even better than YT
I bought it from Itunes - their voices sound great don't they?
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Sep 16 2020, 05:36 AM
Anyone an idea how the song is doing? I really like it and also the video.
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 16 2020, 11:08 PM
QUOTE(elisabeth1973 @ Sep 16 2020, 06:36 AM)
Anyone an idea how the song is doing? I really like it and also the video.
No I don't and I don't really know where to look.
I think I read they had never had a top 100 song before.
I don't understand the charts anymore. There are too many of them. In my day there was only one.
I love the song and am listening to it daily at the moment.
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Sep 17 2020, 05:47 AM
This is my problem, too, Laura. Yesterday there was a small piece about it in German television 'glam rock meets superstar'.
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 17 2020, 11:09 PM
QUOTE(elisabeth1973 @ Sep 17 2020, 06:47 AM)
This is my problem, too, Laura. Yesterday there was a small piece about it in German television 'glam rock meets superstar'.
I think it's one of the best pieces of music he has been involved in for ages.
This kind of music is how I like my popstar.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 17 2020, 11:12 PM
I'd recommend giving their new album a listen when it comes out in a few weeks, I'm sure it'll be great!
This is the other single released so far:
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Sep 18 2020, 07:16 AM
Also a good one, thank you, whoOddyssee (what an interesting name :-) )
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 18 2020, 11:56 PM
I did listen to a couple of the teasers for their other tracks and I liked them too.
I'm old enough to remember Albert Hammond senior.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 20 2020, 01:32 AM
I'm young enough to have only just found out that his father was also a musician
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 20 2020, 11:22 PM
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Sep 20 2020, 02:32 AM)
I'm young enough to have only just found out that his father was also a musician
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 20 2020, 11:24 PM
Love this song.
Posted by: Lundi Sep 21 2020, 11:28 AM
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Sep 20 2020, 01:32 AM)
I'm young enough to have only just found out that his father was also a musician
And I thought, oh, his son is singing too .
Posted by: Laura130262 Sep 21 2020, 11:26 PM
QUOTE(Lundi @ Sep 21 2020, 12:28 PM)
And I thought, oh, his son is singing too .
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Sep 29 2020, 05:54 AM
I read that the song had 1 million streams on Spotify. Is this a lot?
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 29 2020, 06:31 AM
It's pretty good for The Struts' so far!
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Sep 29 2020, 07:42 AM
Do you have any ideas about what is good or average on Spotify? I assume it will also depend on the artist? Taylor Swift might be good if she has 20 million streams and groups like the Struts are good with 1 million? Oh I feel old :-)
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 29 2020, 08:23 AM
Well it depends how it does over time I suppose, The Struts' two highest songs there have 50m and 25m. So if it has around those numbers in a year's time that will be fantastic
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Sep 29 2020, 11:16 AM
thank you
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Sep 30 2020, 06:36 PM
Added to the Radio 2 B-list!
Posted by: Better Man Sep 30 2020, 06:52 PM
Thank you for news. Finally!
Posted by: Sydney11 Sep 30 2020, 08:01 PM
About time,, why it took so long !!
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Oct 7 2020, 03:41 PM
The Struts have another new single out tomorrow with Joe Elliot and Phil Collen of Def Leppard - I'd definitely recommend giving it a listen!
Posted by: Laura130262 Oct 7 2020, 11:35 PM
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Oct 7 2020, 04:41 PM)
The Struts have another new single out tomorrow with Joe Elliot and Phil Collen of Def Leppard - I'd definitely recommend giving it a listen!
I'll definitely give it a listen.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Oct 8 2020, 07:04 AM
The chorus is infectious!
Posted by: Laura130262 Oct 8 2020, 11:32 PM
I really am liking them the more I hear of them.
They sound proper old school to me
Posted by: Better Man Oct 14 2020, 06:21 PM
About writing and recording of this song.
Posted by: GhoulOdyssey Oct 15 2020, 11:52 PM
The Struts' new album "Strange Days" is out now!
Posted by: Sydney11 Oct 16 2020, 04:45 AM
ROBBIE Williams reveals he felt blessed to record with rockers The Struts in a behind the scenes look at their new track Strange Days.
I'd say I like a new The Struts album. Great rock LP.
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Oct 16 2020, 02:58 PM
They are a very interesting group. Like what I heard until now.
Posted by: Sydney11 Oct 17 2020, 10:37 AM
Oh, these are strange days, in many strange ways,’ sings The Struts’ vocalist Luke Spiller on the opening title-track to the Derby quartet’s third LP. The fact that pop supremo Robbie Williams is crooning along beside him, with his band – guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliot, and drummer Gethin Davies – deploying the kind of airy stadium-rock that characterises Coldplay at their most tolerable, should be taken as confirmation that those Strange Days aren’t just referring to 2020’s COVID-enforced stasis. For sure, this is the sound of one of Britain’s most promising guitar bands leaving grubby backrooms behind and crossing the rock Rubicon to stake their claim as our next global superstars.
The Struts – ‘Strange Days’; Exactly What We Needed In times when optimism is hard to find, The Struts and Robbie Williams deliver it perfectly. The blend from Spiller’s voice to Williams’ is seamless and is a collaboration I did not expect to enjoy as much as I did.
It is the perfect song for the times we're living through. It's a good walking the dog accompaniment.
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Oct 18 2020, 06:34 AM
I love the song. Sad, that songs like this do not chart
Posted by: Laura130262 Oct 18 2020, 11:29 PM
Posted by: elisabeth1973 Oct 23 2020, 05:15 AM
I see that the album is top10 and even no 1 on apple and iTunes streaming the last days. Well done
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Apr 13 2021, 06:21 PM
The Struts have a new single out on Friday! Worth checking out if you enjoy this (I still do!)
Posted by: Laura130262 Apr 13 2021, 11:50 PM
QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Apr 13 2021, 07:21 PM)
The Struts have a new single out on Friday! Worth checking out if you enjoy this (I still do!)
Is Paris Jackson a singer in her own right now? I didn't know that
Posted by: Sydney11 Apr 15 2021, 07:32 AM
QUOTE(Laura130262 @ Apr 14 2021, 12:50 AM)
Is Paris Jackson a singer in her own right now? I didn't know that
I did not know that either , she is an actress, singer & model it would seem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Jackson
Posted by: Laura130262 Apr 15 2021, 11:47 PM
QUOTE(Sydney11 @ Apr 15 2021, 08:32 AM)
I did not know that either , she is an actress, singer & model it would seem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Jackson
She's a beautiful looking girl.
Posted by: Sydney11 May 27 2021, 12:14 PM
70 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2020 ( nice to see The Struts getting a mention )
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Posted by: Better Man Mar 28 2022, 09:38 PM
Would be f***ing amazing if The Struts will be a special guest for Minich Rob's gig. What do you think about it?
Posted by: Sydney11 Mar 28 2022, 10:39 PM
It would actually. Are they touring right now.
Actually I just checked & they are in Japan in August so Germany is a no-go
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