Kasabian - Empire

Rico,
I've got the first record on 10" vinyl and for all that it has very good moments I don't realy play it. It sounds very like the Stone Roses to me but just not as good.

I wasn't impressed with the singles off Empire so haven't bought it....the main riff from Shoot the Runner is very Slade and I just can't take it seriously.

Ryan

the first album is great - if you seen them at Glastonbury - they rocked it, with a lot of the tracks from the first album. It's better than their second effort IMHO. I'm sure you'd pick it up cheap from Amazon

Question 1: Yes, get it, it's way better than their second album.

Question 2: See my answer to question 1!

Rico,

You've got to get the first Kasabian album, it rocks. It works really well as a complete album - the singles are brilliant (Club Foot, Processed Beats, Reason is Treason, LSF) and the rest of the tracks just add to the whole laid back, dancey, experimental, keyboard noodling, new prog, spacey feel of it(!)

As for Employment. You need an album with the lines:

"I tried to get in my taxi,
man in a tracksuit attacks me".

If you like Ruby, you'll love it.

The first album is better but Empire is growing on me (it's now in the car and getting more of a listen).

thanks, Gents. divided opinions. No reserved/qualified recommendations so I'll look to pick them both up.

Sadly glasto is a little too far past the corner store for me, these days. I'll have to look for some vidjo footage instead!

"I tried to get in my taxi,
man in a tracksuit attacks me".
Pure class.

PS - yes indeed, that whole riff is very Slade - but hey, they're paying homage and sending it up in equal measures, I think.

Not so sure about that rico if you saw them bigging themselves up in the press befor the launch of the record. They made out that they were giving the world another SGT Pepper.

Ryan

Ryan

sadly, down here we're rather insulated from all of that hoopla, and just get to find the albums and play em. I kinda miss it.

cheers

kaiser chiefs are very good. seem them a couple of times live - very engaging.

an afterthought - the upside of the distance insulation is that it's handy for filtering out the 'but we're the most important band in the world - it's just nobody gets it' that appears in the press whenever there's another Manics album released, eh!

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Originally posted by Rico:
it's just nobody gets it' that appears in the press whenever there's another Manics album released, eh!

what papers are you reading!