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The Official Take That thread
Topic Started: Oct 2 2010, 03:01 AM (6,091 Views)
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Oct 29 2010, 10:22 PM
:celebrate:

going to a tt concert with riv, COULD IT BE MAGIC?
Yes! If I show a little patience and you relight my fire, together we can shine and rule the world! :chuckle:
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OH GET A ROOM YOU TWO


(I guess you will wont you)
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I'm bringing the lube!
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Is that TOS meet ever gonna happen. I don't like TT
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engin
Oct 30 2010, 04:37 PM
Is that TOS meet ever gonna happen. I don't like TT
Engin, you should come over to London for that weekend in July! Me, Fuckbuddy and Mats are gonna be there!
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Yaay, are you all going to Take That?
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engin
Oct 30 2010, 04:41 PM
Yaay, are you all going to Take That?
Myself and FB are for sure. We bought our tickets yesterday! I don't think Mats is keen on TT, but he reckons he's gonna come over anyway. We could still all meet up sometime over that weekend!
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Ooh.. Sounds like a good plan. I'd have to wait a few more weeks to be sure though. There's a big possibility that I'm going to the States in the summer
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i'm pretty confident i'll manage turning riv to an alcoholic over the tt weekend. first the concert, then a pub, then a club - i'm gonna rip him up to pieces, i swear
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FuckBuddy
Oct 31 2010, 02:18 AM
i'm pretty confident i'll manage turning riv to an alcoholic over the tt weekend. first the concert, then a pub, then a club - i'm gonna rip him up to pieces, i swear
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good luck with that :chuckle:
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Mark Owen: 'I didn't recognise who I was'

Take That star Mark Owen has spoken about his spell in rehab earlier this year for the first time.

The singer entered a private clinic in March, shortly after he admitted that he had an addiction to alcohol and revealed that he had cheated on his wife with around ten other women.

"In rehab, I was able to look at my behaviour, at who I was and who I wasn't," the Radio Times quotes him as saying in the upcoming Take That documentary.. "I'd kind of become this person I didn't really recognise. How did that happen? You silly b*****d!"

Owen's bandmate Jason Orange admitted that the group were in a better position to help the 38-year-old deal with his problems.

"Before, if someone was suffering, there was no time to deal with it. You'd just keep grinding on for the sake of business and success," he said.

"This time, we have to put each other first. So there was no pressure on Mark to come back. Just when he was ready."

Robbie Williams, who has spent two stints in rehab, claimed that he would not have survived without the treatment he received.

"No-one's got the emotional tools to deal with being looked at by a million people. Live the dream? Live the nightmare," he said. "Without rehab I'd be dead, not to be drama queen-y."

Take That: Look Back, Don't Stare airs this Saturday at 9.30pm on ITV1.
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Oct 31 2010, 02:20 AM
FuckBuddy
Oct 31 2010, 02:18 AM
i'm pretty confident i'll manage turning riv to an alcoholic over the tt weekend. first the concert, then a pub, then a club - i'm gonna rip him up to pieces, i swear
:shock:

good luck with that :chuckle:
Yes, good luck with that! :drama:
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I wish this album would hurry up and LEAK!! It's out on friday! :drama:
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Another fantastic review of the album, this time from the BBC:

Enough has been written elsewhere about Take That's history (a humdrum tale of boys meet boys, exploitation and idolisation, dreams fulfilled and crushed, ruined friendships, success as vengeance, glorious pop and the furies of fame), so let's skip straight to the new chapter. If the title of Progress suggests the band's new sound will be a merging and evolving of Take That Mk.II and recent Robbie Williams fare, the reality is startlingly different. Progress is something entirely new – Take That Mk.III – and the strangest, most ambitious and most exciting record its creators have ever been involved in.

Taking in bombastic stadium rock, sleazy funk, up-tempo RnB, operatic techno, Bowie-esque whimsy and demented disco, Progress is most definitely not the sound of two wildly popular acts playing it safe and raking the millions in. Even the relatively conventional comeback single, The Flood, is unexpected: with its huge, widescreen production, booming drum rolls and faux-profound lyrics, it instantly makes the next U2 album redundant.

The Flood's enjoyable hokum is immediately bettered by SOS, a savage-of-bass, furiously paced disco romp with Mark Owen on gleeful lead vocals and Williams providing adrenaline-flecked back-ups. The latter sounds like he’s having a ball throughout, particularly on another Owen/Williams duet, Kidz, which exhilaratingly combines martial beats, glam guitars, Atari techno and the kind of absurd dystopian pomp ("Daggers of science evolving into violence / We're not sure where the fallout blows") usually found on Muse albums. On the space-funk of Underground Machine – the closest thing to a Williams’ solo track – he sounds more ruttingly, struttingly confident than he has in years.

Elsewhere, Progress is slightly more conventional. Pretty Things sees Williams' falsetto and Gary Barlow's hushed croon sonically merged into something uncannily like David Bowie, while its chiming keyboards, gorgeous harmonies and fluttering melodies make it an obvious single. Only one song falls flat on its face: even super-producer Stuart Price can't salvage much from Owen’s wobbly vocals and watery sentimentality on What Do You Want From Me.

What will happen next is predictable, for once: monster hit singles, eye-watering sales and a tour that will keep St John's Ambulances busier than they’ve been in years. After that? With this collection of erratic egos, who knows; but the ebullient, daring Progress sounds more like a fresh start than a final destination.
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So leakage has occurred. What are we thinking? One thing's for sure, this has Stuart Price all over it. He's at full pelt! I predict a LOT of head-scratching from the more conservative elements in their fanbase. They've never made an album even remotely like this before. I take my hat off to them for genuinely stretching themselves like this! :clap:

Early standouts apart from the single: SOS, Pretty Things, Kidz. Tis a shame about the dud Mark Owen and Howard Donald solo songs near the end.
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Take That are basically fucking brilliant. We already knew that, but they've gone and proved it all over again. Aint it nice when that happens?!!! :wink:

I can't pick a favourite track at the mo' as so many are SO good.

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I guess the only niggles I have with at the moment are that Gary doesn't have enough lead vocals, and the Mark and Howard solo songs towards the end aren't really at the same level as the stuff up to that point. The lyrics in Mark's one are excrutiating. Didn't he hurt his wife enough without writing this song? "I think I still love you". :lmao:
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after overcoming the shock of the first listen experience i realized this is definitely a landmark and the product of a pop band in the prime of their career. from start to finish, it's a set of solid pop gems that oozes creativity and reflects their confidence to neglect the safe route. to my ears this sounds as the follow-up to rudebox that robbie didn't dare to accomplish or the music the boys wanted to record when they reformed some years ago only it was considered far too risky of a direction in order to build a new generation of fans.

there couldn't have been a more suitable album title than progress. songwriting is equally brilliant and provoking, elevated by stuart's production - his most effective since confessions, but then a producer needs a bunch of great tunes able to stand on their own in order to deliver, a cannon that has not been a given throughout the projects he supervised over the past few years. this edgy orgasm of a pop album just goes out to prove why take that have always been so special. out of the numerous disposable or plain predictable pop groups that come and go over the years, they stand out because of their genuine charisma and quality. it took a while for them to make it to the next level, but it was well worth it. and i'm so glad it's this album they'll be showcasing on their first tour i'm attending.
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Awesome review! :clap:

I totally agree with the "Rudebox" comment. That's what I thought when I was listening to it this morning. It's more cohesive and concise than that album, but quite similar in many ways! I always thought Rudebox was very underrated anyway.
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