Looks beautifully presented Alex. Have you listened to any of the songs ...

 

Not yet, Tess.

I even can't buy it now...)

But I bought some Spotify cards during my trip last week so can use Spotify again - waiting for tomorrow!

 

Anyway, you can remember I told you Rob has already sang one song during InstaLive on Covid time.

This:

https://vimeo.com/717989643

 

 

Not yet, Tess.

I even can't buy it now...)

But I bought some Spotify cards during my trip last week so can use Spotify again - waiting for tomorrow!

 

Anyway, you can remember I told you Rob has already sang one song during InstaLive on Covid time.

This:

https://vimeo.com/717989643

 

 

Good to hear you can listen vis Spotify. I like The World & Her Mother .

 

Looks like my album is held up by customs, will try & get it sorted at the weekend & pay the duty.

Just listening to some of the tracks on Spotify

 

Absolutely loving Nobody Someday & Sexed Up . Sexed Up send shivers up your spine :wub:

OMG so much better than i thought this was going to be!

 

Now im tempted to spend hundreds and go 02!!

 

No Regrets is my stand out so far !!!

Yes, it's rather good. Just making my way through it on Spotify . I sure hope we hear some of these versions live . Love Millennium

 

& Wow ! Tripping sure is surprising :heart: just gorgeous :music:

More Than This!!!

I have been rushing about all morning & have only just a chance to sit down & listen properly now. I do like Millennium .. I think overall this is rather a nice album, better than I expected , will make some nice Christmas listening ..

Tripping is just amazing, should be a single :dancing:

Gosh KIDS is a nice surprise, I was not expecting Kylie on board :o

 

 

She's The One is quite nice :wub:

It's hard to beat the original of Come Undone & Feel :)

Ozzy Osbourne, Robbie Williams, Jockstrap – the week’s best albums

 

Robbie Williams, XXV ★★★☆☆

 

Nice that The Telegraph picked out Nobody Someday as the stand-out track :) I totally agree ..

 

To mark his 25 years as a solo artist, Robbie Williams has re-recorded his greatest hits with Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest, the leading jazz-and-pop orchestra. With new orchestrations by hipster composer Jules Buckley, his old writing chum Guy Chambers and the Grammy-winning arranger Steve Sidwell, XXV includes six Number One songs and a further 10 Top 10 hits among its 19 tracks. Its sleeve features a naked Williams recreating the pose of Rodin’s The Thinker – a refreshing reminder that pop stars are still allowed to be bombastic and ridiculous. You couldn’t imagine Ed Sheeran or Lewis Capaldi doing such a thing.

 

Do these new orchestrations add anything? In many cases, yes. Williams’s 2000 hit Rock DJ is fantastically reimagined as a swooning soft-disco number by The Love Unlimited Orchestra, while Feel gains some gloriously ghostly operatic backing vocals.

 

Millennium, which was already based on John Barry’s theme to the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, gets even more Bond-y with added stabby horns. No Regrets also gets the full 007 treatment, with new, funky guitars. In fact, it may here be exposed as the greatest Bond theme that never was; Sheryl Crow’s Tomorrow Never Dies and Garbage’s The World is Not Enough were the forgettable themes either side of its release in 1998 – did producers miss a trick by overlooking Williams?

 

The standout track is the most pared-back, a song called Nobody Someday. Some of these re-recordings, however, add little. Let Me Entertain You sounds essentially the same, save perhaps for punchier horns and a choir at the breakdown. The Road to Mandalay loses its Divine Comedy-like jauntiness and becomes a dull cul-de-sac, while the song Bodies is stripped of the Trevor Horn production that made it interesting in the first place. She’s The One was already a cover of a World Party song. The new iteration is therefore a cover version of a cover version. I prefer the middle one.

 

At 48, Williams remains one of our greatest showmen and a fantastic live act. This doesn’t stop this self-covers album from feeling a bit like a stopgap. Still, XXV is a big, bold and brassy reminder of Williams’s stonking back catalogue. Fans will lap it up. Give him the Legends slot at Glastonbury immediately.

James Hall

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-l...iams-santigold/

More Than This :dancing:

Better Man , such a nice gentle version :heart:

Disco Symphony , not really doing nothing for me ,

 

 

Home thoughts From Abroad, this is an interesting one, Rob's voice sounds very different in parts . It's a lovely song . Wonderful lyrics.

The World & Her Mother :music:

Into The Silence . I prefer the original ,,

https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr2/musik/robbie...erview-100.html

 

thi is a six page interview called a King looks for a new kingdom and is very informative about all his plans, the whys and the music industry. It is in German and 6 pages long so google translater needed

https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr2/musik/robbie...erview-100.html

 

thi is a six page interview called a King looks for a new kingdom and is very informative about all his plans, the whys and the music industry. It is in German and 6 pages long so google translater needed

 

 

Thanks Elisabeth , I will try & translate , sometimes translator does not work for everyone, not sure why ..

 

 

Thanks for posting Elisabeth, great find , very interesting interview