I really liked this album! It's very different from what we've all heard with The Cranberries, Noel works with Richard Walters, Soname Yangchen, Alexandra Hamnede, Kate Cobro-Havnevick, Fin Chambers, Nicolas Leroux & Angie Heart as guests in the voices because he doesn't sings in the album and this is why I love it, so many different voices and different songs is something fresh to hear! I'd have loved to see any of the live performances with some of these guys! If you can, buy the album via CDBaby, it's something worth for the collection, let wait for the 2nd one (Black Hair EP)! Good job Noel!

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I must agree, it's quite refreshing to have such a variety of styles on one album.  It's comparable to listening to compilations that I usually mix myself in order to keep myself from getting bored during my commute each day. 

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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.

Mono Band's first album I must admit was really impressive (especially Crazy and Waves) but what I've heard of the second one blows. I'm not alone in my thinking, I know one certain die-hard Noel fan who agrees with me.

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Where did you hear anything from the second?  I seem to be having some trouble finding any samples to see what you mean...

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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.

Not sure about it but I think that if you access http://www.monoband.co.uk you'll be able to listen to an .mp3 file with 3 clips from different songs

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Sigma has it. I've heard bits of it on MB's official site and on their myspace.

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Ouch...

Those 3 clips sounded like [bad] Cure covers...

 

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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.

And no one does the Cure better than the Cure.

But seriously yeah they're rather disappointing. I mean I'm *not* a huge fan of Noel's.... at all.... I find him rather dry, stuck-up and boring. But however I admit Mono Band 1 was rather fantastic. Definitely a pleasant surprise but MB2..... I dunno. I can't stand Richard's voice.

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Actually, I was taking a jab at The Cure with my statement... hence the "bad" in brackets, I guess it was phrased strangely...

No offense meant toward you, I just hate The Cure.

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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.

Well considering the fact that the Cure has influnced an incredible amount of bands everything from Korn to the Cranberries (Noel and Dolores have both said that after the Smiths the Cure was their favorite band as teens) and started a whole genre of music basically on their own I think it's hardly fair to compare that which are rock gods to Mono Band. 

This said each is entitled to their own opinion. And I think we'll have to agree to strongly disagree.

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Meg:

... each is entitled to their own opinion. And I think we'll have to agree to strongly disagree.

Of course not everyone's going to agree on what equates to great music.  In my own case, I love the work of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, despite how many people can't stand them.  There are specific qualities I look for in the performers which I choose to listen to and The Cure simply possess none of those qualities.  It's not like I never gave them a chance, I actually own several of their albums (a total of 109 tracks) — all gifts, mind you — as my friends have been trying to get me into them since around 1992.  The lyrics aren't half-bad, but the music and Robert Smith's voice ... *blech!* ...  In my personal experience, I've found that covers of The Cure (by artists such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Goldfinger, etc.) are often of better quality than the originals themselves.

Rocks gods?  I think you give them entirely too much credit.  Legends, at best, to those who enjoy that sort of thing.

But again, it's just one man's opinion, don't take it personally. 

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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.

Well they basically (okay so there were a few before them, very few of which people know about) started Goth music though they themselves won't own to it. Or maybe I should say they popularized it. That counts for quite a bit as for rock gods. I'm not saying that they did what Elvis did (even though I personally can't stand Elvis's stuff he *was* a god among rock), or the Beatles but they did do something. Though in all honesty the Cure takes a certain kind of taste to like. They tend to be extremely depressing at times and not all can take that. As for Robert's voice though I love it once again that takes really an extreme kind of taste to like. It does depend on which albums you have been given though as of 1. I'm not crazy about them all (The Top is worse than Bury the Hatchet and that's saying something considering I despise BTH, Faith and Seventeen Seconds are rather boring, and Pornography, considered by many as their best, is to bleak for me) and 2. sometimes they take a horribly long time to like. So perhaps you've been given the worst of the crop. 

 

Seeing as this is getting rather off-topic with my babble. I'd like to say that I like Breathe out of the newer songs.

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It's not the depressing sound.  If that bothered me, I'd have killed myself listening to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds or the Eels...

The Cure albums I've been subjected to are as follows: Disintegration, Wish, Staring At The Sea, Bloodflowers, Pornography, & 100 Tears (Cure Tribute Album).

Just not my cup of tea... 

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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.

Lol well if you don't like those albums than I can definitely see why you hate them. Those all took me a little bit of time to like (except Disintegration, I worship that album, not literally duh) but I did like most of them after a while. The only thing left is The Cure which is much different than most of their other albums. More rock/pop as opposed to Goth. But like I said it takes a certain kind of taste to like them.

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