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The Official Take That thread
Topic Started: Oct 2 2010, 03:01 AM (6,083 Views)
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The band's new single 'Love Love' will also feature on the album. Read on below for the complete tracklisting:

Disc 1
When We Were Young
Man
Love Love
The Day The Work Is Done
Beautiful
Don't Say Goodbye
Aliens
Wonderful World
a brand new album?!? :shock: :drama:
More or less, yeah!
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The video for "Love Love"

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great song, great vid - bravo boys

CAN'T WAIT :drama:
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video not available in the US :angry:
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LOVE LOVE indeed :)
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Preview clips of "Progressed"!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Progressed/dp/B0053TL6DS
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Popjustice review of Progressed!


Take That: they just do what they do and anything else is a bonus disc

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Well, it's Tuesday so that means it's time to have a listen to the new Take That repackaged deluxe bonus edition mini-album thing to see whether any of the tracks on it should have been kept on the main 'Progress' 'LP'.

START THE MUSIC.

'WHEN WE WERE YOUNG'
Starts off like 'I Have A Dream', ends up like a Coldplay song, contains various lyrics about assumptions that "none of us would fail at this life", "when we were young the world seemed so old" and so on (YES WE GET THE IDEA YOU'RE A MANBAND), has a massive "whoah-oh-OH WHEN WE WERE YOUNG" chorus hook, is mid tempo, is not electronic.
Should it have been on the main album? YES

'MAN'
This sounds like most of the bangers on 'Progress', except it's no good.
Should it have been on the main album? NO

'LOVE LOVE'
This is obviously quite exciting but would be a lot better without Gary trying to sound manly in the opening lines.
Should it have been on the main album? YES

'THE DAY THE WORK IS DONE'
Sounds a bit like Bodies Without Organs in the intro with various Markowenisms along the lines of "manufacture for the human race", "start a riot in the streets my friend" and so on. Lots of clattering drums. All the lyrics are very serious-sounding but we've listened to this a few times now and have literally no grasp on what it's about. Is it about socialism? No idea.
Should it have been on the main album? NO

'BEAUTIFUL'
This song - another banger - is a ridiculous and brilliant romp with a massive Stuart Price moment at about the 3:15 mark. Again, the lyrics sound great - "it should have been so beautuful, should have been my proudest moment, how to have and lose you all, how to be a disappointment", "save your cheers and my applause, I never was worth fighting for" - but we're not certain what it's all about. We are presuming it is about Robbie leaving the band but a few bits don't add up. It upsets us and makes us nervous when pop music doesn't make sense.
Should it have been on the main album? YES

'DON'T SAY GOODBYE'
This is a spooky electroballad that starts off sounding a bit like something off 'Rudebox' so is therefore brilliant by default, except it also blossoms into a huge Barlowchorus THEN starts to sound a bit like 'No Regrets' and THEN starts sounding really sad and THEN sounds a bit like 'Pure Shores' so might actually be even better than something off 'Rudebox'. (Actually it's objectively not better than at least five songs off 'Rudebox' but it's still really good.) Chorus: "Don't say goodbye to the world until you've loved somebody, don't say goodbye to the world until you've lived like kings and queens, I'll be the first and last thing that you see, but don't say goodbye to me."
Should it have been on the main album? YES

'ALIENS'
Starts off with absurd, War Of The Worlds-referencing spoken word intro of "no-one would have believed in the first years of the 21st century that humans would be transformed into machines", then turns into Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' with a weird robot voice going "ALIEN ALIEN" over the top, and then spins off in a completely different direction again. "We are the aliens," the band sing. "We are we are we are." Hm...
Should it have been on the main album? NO.

'WONDERFUL WORLD'
A ballad - not a very good one, but a ballad nonetheless - to finish everything off. It is a song about time passing and you not being able to hold onto it and all that sort of jazz. Ends with a clock ticking, then a bell. Presumably this is the bell tolling and we are all now DEAD, anything after this point being a glimpse of the afterlife. Well readers, we are looking around the office and it seems pretty familiar. Perhaps we have been dead for some time. Perhaps you have too. Perhaps for the entire time we have known each other we have all been dead. Perhaps Popjustice.com actually came into existence when you died. What we are trying to say here, readers, and we don't think this is too far fetched a concept, is that perhaps Popjustice might be Heaven or, perhaps, Hell. Well that's the logical explanation anyway.
Should it have been on the main album? NO

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED
1. Take That left some good stuff off 'Progress'.
2. Take That also left some not-so-good stuff off 'Progress'.
3. Take That certainly have a way with a tune.
4. We prefer them when they're not doing the whole "ooh we're freedom fighters for a generation on the edge of a precipice of Armageddon" business.
5. The artwork looked better in yellow.

Read more: http://www.popjustice.com/#ixzz1Og2epdVs
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Aw, I like them so much better when they are doing the whole "ooh we're freedom fighters for a generation on the edge of a precipice of Armageddon" business.
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Me too. The "lighters in the air" stuff was great, but I absolutely love what they're doing now. Fair play to them for stretching themselves! Can't wait to hear this new mini-album. :clap:
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Agreed :D
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Another great "Progressed" review from the BBC!

BBC Review
"A fine Progress-complementing EP from the 10-legged national treasure."

Nick Levine 2011-06-08

Upon its November release, Take That's first Robster-assisted record since 1995 became the second-fastest-selling album in British chart history and garnered the one-time professional mop repositories the most positive critical notices of their career. Although it's since sold more than two million copies – a tally only Adele could legitimately wrinkle her schnozzle at – it's also become that most curious of beasts: the buzz-free blockbuster. When was the last time you heard anyone talk about Progress?

Consequently, you can't blame this ten-legged national treasure for trying to remind us that it's more than just the summer's biggest live draw – especially when, for a band playing the album repackage game, Take That are feeling pretty generous. Following a template that Lady Gaga looked to with her Fame Monster reissue, Progressed couples the original 10-track album with a second disc boasting eight brand-new songs.

Aside from nostalgic opener When We Were Young, which harks back to the group's pair of Robbie-free reunion albums, everything here sits comfortably alongside the original Progress chestnuts. Producer Stuart Price supplies the same electro-pop gloss and bombast; Messrs Barlow, Owen and Williams take a fair and square approach towards lead vocals; and the lyrics are frequently as cryptic as they are (unspecifically) apocalyptic. "We're waiting for the universe to end…" goes the hook to Man.

Also present and correct is the sonic spunk that earned Progress its enviable school reports. Love Love stomps like a petulant teenager in platform wedges, Man dips its toes in industrial waters, and Aliens is almost big and barmy enough to fit onto Gaga's Born This Way LP. However, Gary and the lads haven't forgotten about the lump-in-the-throat stuff. Towards the end come Don't Say Goodbye and Wonderful World, Pet Shop Boys-esque electro-ballads with sentiments sufficiently heartfelt and all-encompassing to appeal to anyone from Louis Walsh to Tulisa Contostavlos.

None of the new tracks is as quite as undeniable as Kidz or Happy Now, but neither does Progressed come off like a hodgepodge of offcuts from the original album sessions. Besides, it's hard not to be won over by the band's intentions here. For while Take That do need to sound this big – after all, they've got the movements of a 60ft mechanical man to soundtrack – they don't need to sound this interesting. Whatever the boys are doing to cool Robbie's itchy feet, let's hope they know how to make it last.
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Heat magazine loves it too!

When We Were Young kicks things off in a mid-tempo way, with a very catchy intro. It comes with a big chorus and is a bubbling mix of TT old and new. We think you’ll like it. The fabulous Love Love from the X-Men: First Class soundtrack comes next and still sounds as fabulous as the first time we heard it. In fact, because we know you love it so much, we've attached the video from the National Movie Awards above for you to enjoy.

Our other favourites includes the brilliant Beautiful (in which Gary Barlow takes the vocal reigns with some help from Mark Owen. In fact, we think this one’s our favourite, it’s pretty fantastic to lose yourself to.

Then comes Don’t Say Goodbye which again sees Gazza B leading the track. The chorus, again, is big, bold and the perfect electro-ballad. In fact, some fans felt Gary didn’t get enough lead vocal time on the original Progress LP, and this definitely remedies that. While Wonderful World is a perfectly dreamy second ballad.

Finally, we have to give Aliens a mention. Because it’s totally random (but fun). Mark’s on the vocals but we have to wonder if Robbie had a lot to do with it. Probably, eh?

All in all, we have to say this album utterly weird and wonderful and the perfect extension to their defiant Progress album of 2010. Progressed is a winner in our book.
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Leakage has occurred! :drama:

On first listen, most of the new songs really whiff of "leftover" to me. I loved almost everything on "Progress" straight away. These sound really weak in comparison. Maybe they're growers though.
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:lmao:

100 women hospitalised after Take That concerts

A number of Take That fans were sent to Manchester Royal Infirmary following the group's recent record-breaking concerts in the city.

Over the eight dates last week - part of the 'Love Love' group's 'Progress' jaunt - approximately 160 fans were treated in the hospital, averaging at 27 per day.

Stewards working at the City of Manchester Stadium had to ask 65 women to leave the venue, believing they had drunk too much, while 35 men were also ushered off the premises, reports The Daily Telegraph.

The majority of patients who suffered alcohol-related injuries were women aged in their 30s and 40s. The most common cases of injury were sprained ankles, but more serious instances included broken wrists and alcohol poisoning.

"We saw an increase from people who'd been at the Take That concerts," explained Dr Steve Jones, the MRI's clinical director of emergency services.

A steward at the stadium added: "I have worked at lots of concerts and some of the drunkenness was unbelievable. Some women were slumped in their seats barely able to walk. It was way worse than a football match."

Aside from the medical emergencies, local police authorities also reported a rise in crime, with most cases involving public disorder and assault.

One instance included a report of sexual assault by a female member of security staff who was groped by a concertgoer, while another was of an assault on a woman who got beaten around the head by a male after queue-jumping the men's toilets.

"A small minority of fans were able to drink to excess to the extent that they spoiled the evening for other fans attending the concert," Inspector Mike Coombes stated.

"I would expect a small minority to behave poorly and to have to deal with that. But I would say that overall the number of incidents and arrests are what we would have anticipated for a pop concert of this size."

Take That's £1.5 million stage robot also broke down halfway through their set during one of the shows.
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:grin:

they better not be spilling beer on my clothes, though. i detest that. but then if it's only gin or vodka they get wasted with, i don't mind, as they hardly leave any marks.
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I don't know what they're complaining about. I'm hoping to be sexually assaulted by security staff! :alexz:
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I don't know what they're complaining about. I'm hoping to be sexually assaulted by security staff! :alexz:
no need to worry. there's no way u won't get to meet a bunch of them at their attempt to stop me from stripping off my clothes during pray
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"Progressed" really clicked with me tonight! I hadn't listened to it since a few days after the leak, but I gave it another spin tonight and really, really like the songs now.

Roll on the 2nd of July! :alexz:
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Croke Park on Sat night was EPIC! Not quite up there with the Circus show, but bloody hell they tore the place apart. The Progress material sounded excellent live. And i'm actually loving the bonus tracks!
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are they playing any of the progressed tracks on tour? if so, love love, aliens and beautiful better be among them.
i'm SO ready for the show. i expect to be blown away, thus compensated for spending a weekend off the beach
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