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manatthetop


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Have to say this is one of if not the best solo song geldofs ever done



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I agree also a hole to fill is good the happy club was an excellent album I still play it now king Bob rules!

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manatthetop wrote:

Have to say this is one of if not the best solo song geldofs ever done

 I love My Hippy Angel and The Happy Club. First time I heard My Hippy Angel was on Rte radio. Dj Dave Fanning remarked' God it's a long way from Looking After No 1. The things you remember.



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noelindublin wrote:
manatthetop wrote:

Have to say this is one of if not the best solo song geldofs ever done

 I love My Hippy Angel and The Happy Club. First time I heard My Hippy Angel was on Rte radio. Dj Dave Fanning remarked' God it's a long way from Looking After No 1. The things you remember.

 Unfortunately its a very long way down from Looking After No 1 as far as I'm concerned. My Hippy Angel was my least favourite song on the album, a bit like Silly Pretty Thing on the last lp, I can see why they were chosen as singles but too poppy for my taste. Would have loved something more challenging/representative to be released as a single, and as both singles stiffed anyway it wouldn't have mattered.

Personal favourites on Happy Club were Soft Soil, Emergent Nationalist, Roads of Germany and House At Top of World, though it would be a brave record company to release any of these as singles.



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junkyard_smile wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
manatthetop wrote:

Have to say this is one of if not the best solo song geldofs ever done

 I love My Hippy Angel and The Happy Club. First time I heard My Hippy Angel was on Rte radio. Dj Dave Fanning remarked' God it's a long way from Looking After No 1. The things you remember.

 Unfortunately its a very long way down from Looking After No 1 as far as I'm concerned. My Hippy Angel was my least favourite song on the album, a bit like Silly Pretty Thing on the last lp, I can see why they were chosen as singles but too poppy for my taste. Would have loved something more challenging/representative to be released as a single, and as both singles stiffed anyway it wouldn't have mattered.

Personal favourites on Happy Club were Soft Soil, Emergent Nationalist, Roads of Germany and House At Top of World, though it would be a brave record company to release any of these as singles.

 I liked House At The Top of the World, it's personal about Geldof's adolescence and easy to relate to. The other songs you mention I find too clunky and political and slightly boring if I'm honest. Earnest but dull and not really too engaging.

My Hippy Angel has really great lyrics and maybe you are overlooking them. Bob paints a  bleak picture of modern life and then uses the line 'MY Hippy Angel says we all must chant' to really make the point that just passive 'hippydom'/resistance is really not enough. He sets the chorus about love being all round and juxtaposes it with the really unpleasant scenes of urban life in the song. I think it's quite clever and the lyrics are fantastic. Wonder was Paula his hippy angel and this might have been a    'conversation' between them?

I like Room 19 but overall I don't listen to it that often. The Happy Club song itself just paints a brief picture of someone who has nothing much to do, the idle rich maybe and it's kinda sad and ironic at the same time.  I like it.

 

Never really liked Silly Pretty Thing. There are lots of better songs on How To Compose Popular Songs. Mary Says being one of my favorites.



-- Edited by noelindublin on Friday 15th of May 2015 12:46:27 PM

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noelindublin wrote:
junkyard_smile wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
manatthetop wrote:

Have to say this is one of if not the best solo song geldofs ever done

 I love My Hippy Angel and The Happy Club. First time I heard My Hippy Angel was on Rte radio. Dj Dave Fanning remarked' God it's a long way from Looking After No 1. The things you remember.

 Unfortunately its a very long way down from Looking After No 1 as far as I'm concerned. My Hippy Angel was my least favourite song on the album, a bit like Silly Pretty Thing on the last lp, I can see why they were chosen as singles but too poppy for my taste. Would have loved something more challenging/representative to be released as a single, and as both singles stiffed anyway it wouldn't have mattered.

Personal favourites on Happy Club were Soft Soil, Emergent Nationalist, Roads of Germany and House At Top of World, though it would be a brave record company to release any of these as singles.

 I liked House At The Top of the World, it's personal about Geldof's adolescence and easy to relate to. The other songs you mention I find too clunky and political and slightly boring if I'm honest. Earnest but dull and not really too engaging.

My Hippy Angel has really great lyrics and maybe you are overlooking them. Bob paints a  bleak picture of modern life and then uses the line 'MY Hippy Angel says we all must chant' to really make the point that just passive 'hippydom'/resistance is really not enough. He sets the chorus about love being all round and juxtaposes it with the really unpleasant scenes of urban life in the song. I think it's quite clever and the lyrics are fantastic. Wonder was Paula his hippy angel and this might have been a    'conversation' between them?

I like Room 19 but overall I don't listen to it that often. The Happy Club song itself just paints a brief picture of someone who has nothing much to do, the idle rich maybe and it's kinda sad and ironic at the same time.  I like it.

 

Never really liked Silly Pretty Thing. There are lots of better songs on How To Compose Popular Songs. Mary Says being one of my favorites.



-- Edited by noelindublin on Friday 15th of May 2015 12:46:27 PM

 I gave it another spin Noel, but still can't warm to Hippy Angel (though I was a bit harsh comparing it to Silly Pretty Thing). Years of listening to the horrible rhyming of cardboard boxes with tower blockses can't be easily erased. Its the sort of rhyme Gollum would use in Lord of the Rings, truly awful. That and what for me is a very lightweight chorus.

I did like the 'She must be mad' line printed on the lyric sheet just after she has told him all about love been everywhere, but this line didn't make the cut.

Anyway, just as well we don't all like the same things...that would be boring.



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Both The Happy Club and How To Compose are both nearly albums for me.They both have some great songs on them but also some songs which just do not do it for me.As for Soft Soil,great tune.It is just to slow and long to be played live.

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Geldof has never hit the highs he did with the rats. But that's not to say that he did not done some great songs. I for one think some great songs has come out of the man in his solo life. So many to like, not many to dislike. Love. Mudslide, Birthday suit, Soft soil, When I was young, The original miss Jesus, Sighs and whispers. To name but a few. 



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junkyard_smile wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
junkyard_smile wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
manatthetop wrote:

Have to say this is one of if not the best solo song geldofs ever done

 I love My Hippy Angel and The Happy Club. First time I heard My Hippy Angel was on Rte radio. Dj Dave Fanning remarked' God it's a long way from Looking After No 1. The things you remember.

 Unfortunately its a very long way down from Looking After No 1 as far as I'm concerned. My Hippy Angel was my least favourite song on the album, a bit like Silly Pretty Thing on the last lp, I can see why they were chosen as singles but too poppy for my taste. Would have loved something more challenging/representative to be released as a single, and as both singles stiffed anyway it wouldn't have mattered.

Personal favourites on Happy Club were Soft Soil, Emergent Nationalist, Roads of Germany and House At Top of World, though it would be a brave record company to release any of these as singles.

 I liked House At The Top of the World, it's personal about Geldof's adolescence and easy to relate to. The other songs you mention I find too clunky and political and slightly boring if I'm honest. Earnest but dull and not really too engaging.

My Hippy Angel has really great lyrics and maybe you are overlooking them. Bob paints a  bleak picture of modern life and then uses the line 'MY Hippy Angel says we all must chant' to really make the point that just passive 'hippydom'/resistance is really not enough. He sets the chorus about love being all round and juxtaposes it with the really unpleasant scenes of urban life in the song. I think it's quite clever and the lyrics are fantastic. Wonder was Paula his hippy angel and this might have been a    'conversation' between them?

I like Room 19 but overall I don't listen to it that often. The Happy Club song itself just paints a brief picture of someone who has nothing much to do, the idle rich maybe and it's kinda sad and ironic at the same time.  I like it.

 

Never really liked Silly Pretty Thing. There are lots of better songs on How To Compose Popular Songs. Mary Says being one of my favorites.



-- Edited by noelindublin on Friday 15th of May 2015 12:46:27 PM

 I gave it another spin Noel, but still can't warm to Hippy Angel (though I was a bit harsh comparing it to Silly Pretty Thing). Years of listening to the horrible rhyming of cardboard boxes with tower blockses can't be easily erased. Its the sort of rhyme Gollum would use in Lord of the Rings, truly awful. That and what for me is a very lightweight chorus.

I did like the 'She must be mad' line printed on the lyric sheet just after she has told him all about love been everywhere, but this line didn't make the cut.

Anyway, just as well we don't all like the same things...that would be boring.

 Rock and roll is full of 'false rhyme', and very few artists are immune to it's use. Bob doesn't generally indulge in it so he can get away with it the odd time.

I find in music you either get it or you don't. I think My Hippy Angel is good rather  than brilliant or outstanding. For me The Happy Club album is not one of Geldof's best, though it has a handful of good tracks. How to Compose, Veggies and Sex, Age and Death are vastly superior. Some nice b sides too like Hotel 75, Out of Order and Dig a Ditch always hit the spot.



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soft soil haha i laughed when i read that. i know the song but i didnt know it was called that.

i laughed because it brought back memories from a couple of years back when we saw btr's in the back garden behind the pub before the IOW.

i laughed because the soil was really soft under my feet at that gig

and on my feet i wore clodhopper shoes that left huge deep imprints in the soil where i had been dancing LOL

i did feel a t-w-a-t





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JoanOfArc wrote:

soft soil haha i laughed when i read that. i know the song but i didnt know it was called that.

i laughed because it brought back memories from a couple of years back when we saw btr's in the back garden behind the pub before the IOW.

i laughed because the soil was really soft under my feet at that gig

and on my feet i wore clodhopper shoes that left huge deep imprints in the soil where i had been dancing LOL

i did feel a t-w-a-t



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