Heartache By Numbers

jeanjean · **Joined:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:20 am **Posts:** 135

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LrPiMtXwlc

Sentimental Fool · **Joined:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 9:36 am **Posts:** 94

Sorry, don't like this children's-choir smoothie...

steve · **Joined:** Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:01 am **Posts:** 34

i like this song a lot. quite a grower. gets better with each listen.
excellent to the end.

but i prefer the first remix- version of "shameless" to the akbum version.

St.Learraine · **Joined:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:18 pm **Posts:** 137

I prefered the latter harder version. Minutes ago it seems removed by the owner :?:

Black Cat · **Joined:** Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:03 pm **Posts:** 24

I've played You Can Dance, Alphaville, Heartache By Numbers and Shameless repeatedly tonight and to me they go together well. If the rest of Olympia is as good I'll be more than happy.

DCJ · **Joined:** Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:58 pm **Posts:** 1031

I've lestened to Heartache/Numbers a few times and I like it better than You/Dance EXCEPT for the drum machine/BIG CLAP that shows up under the first two choruses. Ugh. A very predictable and boring percussion motif. The song deserves better.

Also, I presume that AndyM's oboe is somewhere on Heartache/Numbers (that's what the album credits say) but I sure had trouble hearing it. I guess it's somewhere in the last part of the song buried in the mix... No wonder Andy expressed ignorance about what role he had played in Olympia. His contribution to Heartache/Numebers is negligible as far as I can tell.

And finally, at the risk of being accused of Bryan-bashing, the lyrics to Heartache/Numbers seem to rework the same tired theme of You Can Dance. A bored old guy who can't sleep at night thinking that life revolves around soulless late late disco life. Yawn. I guess the well has run dry...

jeanjean · **Joined:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:20 am **Posts:** 135

I've heard You Can Dance, Alphaville, Heartache By Numbers and Shameless, and none of these songs seems to be at the same quality of anyone in Frantic :cry:

Hard Rain · **Joined:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:49 pm **Posts:** 50

Perhaps the best is yet to come :?:

According to Nile the whole thing is kick ass funky!

le freak · **Joined:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:12 pm **Posts:** 866

I just hope it doesn`t sound as lightweight as "Godess of Love".

robertoxy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:39 pm **Posts:** 36

I agree that I do not like Shameless on the album as much as the earlier version.

I also agree that just listening to the sweetners suggest that it may not be as good or as varied as Frantic. But as others have said - lets reserve full judgement.

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