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Summary: good, but no beautifal world.
Comment: I have now listened to this about 15 times and all the songs are very good. however there is no stand out song like patientce or shine. The lyrics, as ever are good, but without the big show stopper this is an album with out that special somthing.
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Summary: Better Than Beautiful World album
Comment: Take That's "Beautiful World" was really a great singles album, this is just a great album with a lot less obvious singles.
Beautiful world was by no means a bad album, but some tracks sounded pretty run of the mill (aint no sense in love, like we never loved at all). Tracks like Patience, Shine, Reach Out and Beautiful World were stellar songs of course.
This time, the guys have really out done themselves.
Lead single Greatest Day continues the big orchestral rock ballad sound that Rule The World offered and this sound influences this album mostly. Tracks like You, Here, The Garden, Said It All have that epic-big-ballad-with-sweeping-strings sound.
There are still Beatles-esque attempts like Shine this time too (Hello, Julie, Up All Night are similar in ways but not blatant rip offs of shine thankfully),
All in all, the guys deserve the success they are having..... this is a strong follow up to Beautiful World.....
Stand -outs for me:
Hello, You, Here, Greatest Day, How Did It Come To This, The Garden, and the gorgeous ballad The Circus.
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Summary: Wow - Take That at their finest.
Comment: Wow - I read all the reviews before buying this album and to be quite honest I was a little reluctant buying, as I read that the vocals were poor, the songs were over-hyped and that it was just too out of Take Thats comfort zone. Well I am glad I didn't listen to them. This is a spectacular album which I must agree does need a couple of plays before all the songs grow on you, however once you have listened you won't want to put it down. Songs like Up all Night, Julie, The Garden, Hello and Greatest Day all I am sure will be future no. 1's for this successful band. I can definately see why the album shot to the No1 spot in the album charts. I am sure you will not be disappointed, so go on buy your copy today.
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Summary: why knock a great album
Comment: I refused to listen to this album until xmas morning ( a requested present) when I unwrapped it, on first listening I thought, ok good, not quite as good as beautiful world, nothing grabbed me like patience or shine had and certainly nothing as splendid as rule the world, but boy is it a grower, and now I cant stop listening to it, in the car, on the pc, in bed, on my mp3 player, in the kitchen as I go about. the title track in particular is a beautiful song and gary does a outstanding job on vocals, as he does on all the tracks he takes lead on, mark has a long way to go to match him, I would do a track by track review but I think people should just listen to the album and give it the credit due, put it on, sit back and enjoy....
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Summary: Surprisingly good
Comment: Don't listen to reviews slating this album; I was very surprised. I really do enjoy all genres of music, and I am more than a bit critical even when I am a fan (the Killers recent album didn't set me on fire even though I am a fan!) and I gave this album a chance; I like it a lot.
I am not very keen on Marks' vocals, but for some tracks they work, and it is a change from Listening to Gary, good singer though he may be.
I can only assume they have some very talented producers/writers around them to produce something so completely different from the pap they made years ago - which I avoided. I am proud to say this is the only take that album I own or have ever listened to. The boys in this band should be proud of this, it is a fine album and definitely worth a chance. Listen to it four times and you might be surprised too.
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