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Candy

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Type: Single Release date: 01/10/2001
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tcarlin by Tom Carlin [Edit this content] ▾ 9 comments 20:16 September 30th, 2001

Ash are milking Free All Angels in the same way they did 1977 (A fifth single is planned). But who could blame them? If you've got an album where every track could be a single you may as well go for it (That doesn't apply to you Kelly 'Step on my old size nines' Jones).

The fourth release off that album is Candy. Based around the odd combination of Burt Bacarach (The string sample) and Dr Dre (The plinky plonky piano), it proves a winning formula and produces Ash's poppiest, and one of their best, songs to date.

It also seems that Tim Wheeler's voice has finally come into its own. Though he's no Thom Yorke, the sometimes flat tones found on earlier work are now no-where to be found, having been replaced with a more sweet, crisp voice.

Ash have produced another slice of pop perfection. It's been good having them around this year. Bar the whole Starsailor thing.....

Ash

Ash - Candy

Sorry but that song is so awful.I mean an out of keys voice can sometime work and sometimes sound good..but not here at first its cringe worthy..and then later on its in key...awful song
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 30 Sep '01, 21:47 | X | Reply

Re: Ash - Candy

candy is incredibly dire, even compared to other Ash stuff

Re: Ash - Candy

agreed. I can't bear to listen to candy when I listen to the album. Come to think of it, I can't bear to listen to the album anymore.

Re: Ash - Candy

But... they say it's gonna be a hit. So it must be good.

Re: Ash - Candy

lol! Yeah, but that makes Liberty, or Hearsay or Steps good then! The only reason I'd want it to be a hit so there is an "alternative" band high in the charts to counter-act the boy/girlband crap. It certainly doesn't deserve to be a hit though.

Ash - Candy

Up until recently Ash were Cliff Richard to the Foo
Fighters Elvis... But, evidently after watching the effect
that one Saccharine pop song had on Sugar Ray's career,
they've had a go to see whether it does the same for them.
Strange no-one else hasn't mentioned Sugar Ray.

I'm fed up with this country promoting poor copies of US
bands and validating them on the basis that they're from
these Isles (Eire in this case) or that they're young.

Strangely enough none of these bands make it in the US....

(I'm perhaps biased - I heard them jamming at Fortress
rehearsal rooms, a couple of years ago, after two albums
and PLENTY of press, and it was like listening to a dodgy
school band (but not the school band with the good musicians
in))

I beg that my ears be spared of such mediocrity


Old_Anonymous_Comments | 3 Oct '01, 22:34 | X | Reply

Re: Ash - Candy

you're missing the point. it deserves to be a hit because tim is just sooo cute

Ash - Candy

Time has moved on. This is a very old thread. Ash are due to return with a big loud rock beast and Charlottes solo album seems to have been shelved. Winter turns to Spring. People marry and die. and "Candy" is still an absolutely horrible squitty arse wipe of a non song as anybody ever heard.

pollydoodle | 25 Feb '04, 09:35 | X | Reply

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