November 25, 2024Nov 25 https://open.spotify.com/album/3U7g9bUNcfD4...8T366TqSpOod0_Q Thanks, was searching for Band Aid 40.
November 25, 2024Nov 25 Although the production is what should have been used for Band Aid 30. I will give them that, the production is bigger and more interesting than Band Aid 30. But the structure, use of some of the voices together, bad vocal cut and paste jobs into weird parts of the song, news report audio jumping in all over the place etc, makes it a bit of a jarring listen.
November 25, 2024Nov 25 I like the idea and the production but I don't really like the spoken word section (isnt that from Band Aid II?) as it makes it quite jarring. Weird that the end chorus section is pretty much gone which is a shame. To be honest I feel quite sad that it doesn't include anything artists from Band Aid II.
November 25, 2024Nov 25 Author They didn't bother with a video this time? Cant find it on Spotify... The video is coming on Friday, same director as The Beatles' Now and Then video.
November 25, 2024Nov 25 BUT SAY A PRAYER. Oh dear, this is all over the place! The sing-a-long factor has totally been removed as it was a struggle to understand what line was coming next. I understand wanting to capture significant vocals but just make a decision and not repeat the same lines over and over again :lol: Could've done without Dizzee thrown in there at the end lol
November 25, 2024Nov 25 Oh I waiting for the Dizzee part and I was not disappointed, although weird that it was put at the end rather than in the middle. This is definitely better than 30 but still below the other 3 versions.
November 25, 2024Nov 25 Quite the radio impact this had this morning though with all of the following stations playing it: Radio 1 Radio 2 Capital Heart Radio X Smooth Gold Absolute Radio (including all of the decades stations) Greatest Hits Radio Hits Radio Magic Radio Virgin Radio UK There's probably others too but these are the big hitters so pretty much every major station had it on.
November 25, 2024Nov 25 What a crock of cat shit. :puke: The same line being sung over and over again, some iconic moments of the original losing their effect (particularly George's "God say a prayer" part), the rap, the jumble of it all. They should just delete every version bar the original and re-release that on CD to fundraise. Honestly, why can't someone competent put together an original Christmas-themed song for charity with today's biggest stars mixed with legends? :lol: People only listen to the original version anyway, so what's the point of a fifth version?
November 25, 2024Nov 25 Well this is a complete mess! It feels like all the magic has been sucked out of the song. I hate the repeating lines. The worst of all released versions of the song by a country mile!!
November 25, 2024Nov 25 My oh my this is very poor Will be sticking to the original as I suppose most of us will Although it’ll probably get combined and be allowed a reset given the crediting situation so Xmas number one by default coming…
November 25, 2024Nov 25 Hmm... Parts of this I really liked on first listen. I was thrown when they repeated the first couple of lines, but when I got what they were doing it was okay for the rest of it and I actually quite liked hearing the same prominent lines echoed over and again. The backing track is good and at times it felt like it was building to something quite special... except... It didn't. It dropped near the start when it should have elevated The news reports were out of place The Dizzie rap sounded as bad on this as it ever did The whole point was that lots of pop stars came together to sing it and they all did the Feed the World bit at the end, but they cut that faaaarrrr too short This could have been something really good... but it kind of just isn't. Edited November 25, 2024Nov 25 by ChrisJK
November 25, 2024Nov 25 The biggest travesty is using the wrong version of Bono's line, it's the part the whole song hinges on neither he nor anyone else has ever bettered the delivery he gave it in 1984. Otherwise the production is fine, Dizzee's part is better separated from the main sections, so it doesn't break the flow so much. On the negative, some of the vocals are not the most memorable versions they could have picked, the repetition of lines is jarring the news clips don't help and it would have been better to use Bowie's lines from Live Aid than to use his spoken intro. They've tried to please everyone with throwing the names at it, when they should have cherrypicked better. It feels like it wouldn't be hard to improve this just by streamlining it a little. Edited November 25, 2024Nov 25 by Severin
November 25, 2024Nov 25 the speaking 'news' parts are annoying, but its better than expected Would be better with Kylie added... :)
November 25, 2024Nov 25 I'm surprised Dizzee was kept in, given he's practically a disgraced figure these days!
November 25, 2024Nov 25 The production is actually quite good, had that been used and some new names, it could've actually worked. The rest of it though, Jesus Christ...it feels like a mishmash that wasn't fully finished, the repeated lines and disjointed structure doesn't work, the power's been taken out of the most iconic lines, the rousing final chorus has been stripped down and has Dizzee's rap shoehorned in as well as the news reader which is a bit of a mask-off moment and a very cynical way to end the record. All of it just emphasises what I already thought - that it's a hollow 'tradition' turned ego trip with less creativity put in it with each passing edition, seriously they might as well have just re-released the original if they must do something. I'm still not convinced it will make number 1, the reaction's been pretty negative from all corners.
November 25, 2024Nov 25 I'm surprised Dizzee was kept in, given he's practically a disgraced figure these days! This was my first thought too - kinda expected them to give someone else the rap lines if they kept them!
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