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waterloosunset · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2024 1:53 am Post subject:

Annette has arrived and it got its first serious listen today. I love it. Completely. The "new" songs are addictive, especially Girls Love a Man Who Makes Them Laugh and (I Got a Lot in Common with) Dostoevsky. The latter is so much better than Adam Driver's never-ending stage show (I'm not a fan). Anyway, I'm sure that in a few months time they will release this digitally. I mean, why wouldn't they?
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Henry2nd · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 9:32 am Post subject:

so finally at least one song is available for streaming
(also on tidal), a song that is not part of the movie soundtrack

Girls Love A Man Who Makes Them Laugh

great song ...

and we are all ready for the a streaming version for
all of the original 2013 Annette

Brightonian · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:17 pm Post subject:

Anyone willing to share any digital rips of the Annette 2013 recordings with someone (...me) who bought the vinyl set but doesn't have a record player decent enough to play the vinyl, yet alone make his own digital copies?

(It's killing me not to be able to listen to these recordings!)

PM me if willing. (I have proof of purchase ... but can't see anyway of sharing images here unless online).

Thanks

Oscar · Power Groupie Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 428

Crabby · Groupie Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 180 Location: Belfast

I hope everyone who ordered this album has received it by now.... Please don't tell me some of you are still waiting, l do worry on your behalf..... It's a great piece of work, l absolutely love it!

waterloosunset · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:08 am Post subject:

Oscar · Power Groupie Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 428

Only listened to the album once so far, but the chorus of (I Got a Lot in Common with) Dostoevsky has been bouncing around in my head and my wife has been singing it to our cat since we heard it over the weekend. If they don't end up putting the whole album out digitally, I hope they at least put that out (both parts). I'm so glad they released "Too Operatic" to the masses. It's such a great climax to the whole thing. Baffling to me that it was left out of the movie.

Crabby · Groupie Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 180 Location: Belfast

I've listened a few times now and I think it's a profoundly beautiful piece of work..... I really loved the film so l'm not criticising it at all but the 2013 recordings are so different. It's such a pity they weren't performed live.... What a tour that would have been!
I don't understand why there is no CD release imminent (l daresay there may be technical reasons which escape me) but l really hope there will be soon because even though I have the vinyl everytime l play it my nerves are shattered, placing that stylus onto a work of genius with old trembling hands........

Brightonian · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 7:07 am Post subject:

A kind person here sent me digitised versions and I've been listening to it a lot. Great stuff.

I created a playlist on my iTunes, which plays the 2013 and then the 2021 version of each song, and it's a great experience comparing the original v. final versions back to back ...

Can't wait for CD and/or full digital release, though!

SteveBoyce · Sub-Deity Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Posts: 772

What I found very interesting and unexpected was just how much the underlying meaning was changed from the original in the film

Toughest Girl In Town · Sparks Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2022 Posts: 4696