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Track List
01) Suburban Knights
02) I Shall Overcome
03) Tonight
04) Watch Me Fall Apart
05) I Close My Eyes
06) Television
07) Help Me Please
08) Can't Get Along (Without You)
09) We Need Love
10) Little Angel
11) The King
12) Tonight (acoustic version)
13) Suburban Knights (acoustic version)
14) Suburban Knights (Steve Angello & Sebastian
01) Suburban Knights
02) I Shall Overcome
03) Tonight
04) Watch Me Fall Apart
05) I Close My Eyes
06) Television
07) Help Me Please
08) Can't Get Along (Without You)
09) We Need Love
10) Little Angel
11) The King
12) Tonight (acoustic version)
13) Suburban Knights (acoustic version)
14) Suburban Knights (Steve Angello & Sebastian
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3:57
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2:29
3:43
3:15
3:00
4:04
2:54
3:17
4:18
3:34
8:48
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First Released
2007
Indie
Excitable
Rock/Pop
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Once Upon a Time in the West is the second studio album by English indie rock band Hard-Fi. It was released on 3 September 2007 on Necessary/Atlantic and Warner Music UK. It reached #1 in the UK Album Chart in the first week of its release, unlike its predecessor Stars of CCTV, which took around five months to do so. It also reached #5 in the European Top Albums.
The first single from the album, "Suburban Knights", was released on 20 August 2007, reaching #7 in UK charts and a download only release on August 13, 2007. This was followed by "Can't Get Along (Without You)" on November 12, 2007 charting at #45. It reached #1 in Peru, one week after being released and staying there for two weeks. On the March 10, 2008. 'I Shall Overcome' became the third single to be released from Once Upon a Time in the West, again the single showed to be a success. Reaching #4 in South America and hitting #35 in the UK singles chart
The album's cover artwork has received some mixed publicity for being different. The band's frontman, Richard Archer, stated the band wanted "to break the rules". and it was labelled as "The white album of the digital culture" by Peter Saville.
User Album Review
Attitudes to maturity vary for obvious reasons. We expect it from our colleagues, hope to see it in our children and ourselves (on some emotional level, at least) but don’t always want it seeping from our speakers.
Neil Young, Nick Cave and Bob Dylan have achieved greatness with their own grown-up perspectives but most great pop and rock acts should stay young and vital.
All of which makes Hard-Fi’s second album something of a mixed blessing. What made Hard-Fi such an exciting prospect to so many to begin with, was their vitality. Their debut, Stars Of CCTV, was filled with urgent sucker punches of high street angst like “Tied Up Too Tight” and “Cash Machine”, but here there is plenty of depth and poignancy, perhaps resulting, at least partly from the death of frontman Richard Archer’s mother between LPs.
From the start of the record it’s clear the same themes occupy the Staines trio, with “Suburban Knights”’ lyrics encapsulating the stifling net curtain twitch as well as anything on Stars..., with the key line, ‘Suburban dreams/just out of reach’. The angst and claustrophobic nature of the ‘burbs is laid on thickly throughout, but particularly neatly executed on “Watch Me Fall Apart”. Archer sings, ‘Every Smiling Face brings me down’, while the music grandly sweeps past like incidental music in a Moscow-set spy movie. Mixing such a big sound with the small concerns of the provinces works well.
Elsewhere, the band have clearly taken a leaf out of Kasabian’s book. The lairy Leicester band clearly share some indie DNA with Staines mob Hard-Fi as it is. Both are ace live bands, write anthems and retain a punky yet clearly dance-influenced sound, though while Kasabian want to be the new Oasis, HF would love to be The Clash of the noughties.
The newest similarity has to be the wordless singalong moment that Kasabian had made their own. Five of the eleven tracks on Once”¦ include such chants, with the best being “We Need Love”, a pumped-up glam swagger of the sort that gobs out its chewing gum into the gutter before addressing you. Top stuff.
West London’s punkiest dub disciples have delivered the goods with their songwriting, stepped up a notch on the production front and crammed memorable hooks on their sophomore LP. Yet though Hard-Fi’s outlaw spirit remains intact, as the Sergio Leone movie title and occasional melodica bursts may suggest, anyone wishing for a riot may be disappointed.
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Once Upon a Time in the West is the second studio album by English indie rock band Hard-Fi. It was released on 3 September 2007 on Necessary/Atlantic and Warner Music UK. It reached #1 in the UK Album Chart in the first week of its release, unlike its predecessor Stars of CCTV, which took around five months to do so. It also reached #5 in the European Top Albums.
The first single from the album, "Suburban Knights", was released on 20 August 2007, reaching #7 in UK charts and a download only release on August 13, 2007. This was followed by "Can't Get Along (Without You)" on November 12, 2007 charting at #45. It reached #1 in Peru, one week after being released and staying there for two weeks. On the March 10, 2008. 'I Shall Overcome' became the third single to be released from Once Upon a Time in the West, again the single showed to be a success. Reaching #4 in South America and hitting #35 in the UK singles chart
The album's cover artwork has received some mixed publicity for being different. The band's frontman, Richard Archer, stated the band wanted "to break the rules". and it was labelled as "The white album of the digital culture" by Peter Saville.
User Album Review
Attitudes to maturity vary for obvious reasons. We expect it from our colleagues, hope to see it in our children and ourselves (on some emotional level, at least) but don’t always want it seeping from our speakers.
Neil Young, Nick Cave and Bob Dylan have achieved greatness with their own grown-up perspectives but most great pop and rock acts should stay young and vital.
All of which makes Hard-Fi’s second album something of a mixed blessing. What made Hard-Fi such an exciting prospect to so many to begin with, was their vitality. Their debut, Stars Of CCTV, was filled with urgent sucker punches of high street angst like “Tied Up Too Tight” and “Cash Machine”, but here there is plenty of depth and poignancy, perhaps resulting, at least partly from the death of frontman Richard Archer’s mother between LPs.
From the start of the record it’s clear the same themes occupy the Staines trio, with “Suburban Knights”’ lyrics encapsulating the stifling net curtain twitch as well as anything on Stars..., with the key line, ‘Suburban dreams/just out of reach’. The angst and claustrophobic nature of the ‘burbs is laid on thickly throughout, but particularly neatly executed on “Watch Me Fall Apart”. Archer sings, ‘Every Smiling Face brings me down’, while the music grandly sweeps past like incidental music in a Moscow-set spy movie. Mixing such a big sound with the small concerns of the provinces works well.
Elsewhere, the band have clearly taken a leaf out of Kasabian’s book. The lairy Leicester band clearly share some indie DNA with Staines mob Hard-Fi as it is. Both are ace live bands, write anthems and retain a punky yet clearly dance-influenced sound, though while Kasabian want to be the new Oasis, HF would love to be The Clash of the noughties.
The newest similarity has to be the wordless singalong moment that Kasabian had made their own. Five of the eleven tracks on Once”¦ include such chants, with the best being “We Need Love”, a pumped-up glam swagger of the sort that gobs out its chewing gum into the gutter before addressing you. Top stuff.
West London’s punkiest dub disciples have delivered the goods with their songwriting, stepped up a notch on the production front and crammed memorable hooks on their sophomore LP. Yet though Hard-Fi’s outlaw spirit remains intact, as the Sergio Leone movie title and occasional melodica bursts may suggest, anyone wishing for a riot may be disappointed.
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