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Talking of references, the drummer is clearly a barely disguised copy of Ricky Gervais...

I like the song, but definitely recognise 'Heart Of Gold' as soon as it starts!

Hey Fraser , been waiting for you to review this song, I was gonna be quite cutting but after about 10 plays it has grown on me.
On the negative side , in my mind , Know your enemy was in the shadow of American idiot , and 21 Guns is in the shadow of Boulevard of broken dreams , and/or Wake me up when September ends.
Just to add to your list of songs this sounds like, the first time I heard 21 Guns , I thought the main chorus hook, was a rip-off of All the young dudes by Mott the Hoople , written by David Bowie. (Ask Thranjax )
This sounded like Green Day by numbers and has not progressed their sound.
On the positive side , the more I hear this song , the more I like it , and it is brimming with hooks , and I find myself singing along to it every time ! It flows really nicely, and Billie's voice sounds fantastic . This song will go down really well when I see them live in October. It will be acrowd pleaser.
I just wish this band really push themselves and move the excitement and adventure button up to 11 for their next album.
I hope there are even better things to come.

uuuummmmm???

Noel Gallagher's wrong about a lot of things? Not to be rude (but i will be anyway) but the guy has had how much success as a musician? What epic tracks have you recorded?

Well if you called it Six I would get it confused with Mansun's second album, so better be careful there with your epicness, your fraserness.

OK , two new singles that are set to polarize opinion.

Preston - Dressed to kill.... Using The Siouxsie and the Banshees sample of Happy house to an effective degree ! He looks great in the video and this will give him his first solo top 40 hit. Check it out on You tube.

Peter Andre - Behind closed doors.

Now the best advice that I would have given Peter , is for gods sake when you come back , make sure that no one will think it's a Peter Andre single ! (He is aware of the stigma that some of his previous releases still carry ! )
Well I liked Behind closed doors on first listen , it's got rocky guitars , a standout chorus and the lyrics will be fascinating to analyse.
It will be available as a download only single on August 10th , and should be a hit.
No video as yet , but in the forthcoming promo Pete is married to a robot !!! LOL

Go Team ANDRE !!!

21 Guns starts off with a bit of odd guitar atmospherics which reminds me of Another Green World as it happens. I don't however think the minimalist era Eno would approve of what happens next.

The verse is certainly reminiscent of Heart of Gold. And the way the bass and drums come in after the first stanza is so... obvious it makes you shake your head in disbelief.

The chorus sounds like a lot of things without being anything other than "generic rock chorus". I can hear Tears for Fears in their and David Bowie, all screaming to be let out. The guitar solo reminds me of something at the back of my mind as well.

Basically this isn't a bad song as such, I just don't see the point of compiling all these moments for us into one song.

Thranjax

there, not "their"

Also Mr Fraser, i already made the point about the Alarm beating Green Day in numbers of guns. See Alexander Rybak no.235!

ok, put your money where your mouth is then. where can i hear your music fraser?

Couldn't get a record contract? Easy to slate the more talented isn't it?
(That was rhetorical)

I can't help feeling that a Rhetorical Record Contract would be trying to persuade you to have it, rather than the other way round. Anyway, maybe Cicero had one.

Several, probably. A Rhetorical Question doesn't need answering, so I guess a Rhetorical Record doesn't need listening to.

e.g. U2's next album "Big Guitar Lines and Concern for the Planet", Radiohead's "Not Very Happy Today", Muse's "Even Buying this Record is buying into the Global Conspiracy" or Celine Dion's "Turgid Bucketslop".

btw I spent literally minutes trying to think of the name of a famous rhetorician which was also the name of a pop artist and Cicero is the only one I could come up with.

Ha ha !

And did you know that Cicero 's first name was.....

DAVE !

Yes, his name is Dave Cicero !

It ruined the illusion for me .

I think the most obvious unrhetorically named album , would be....

Eoghan Quigg - Greatest Hits !

I assume you mean the pop singer Cicero was called Dave...

I find it hard to imagine the Greek Scholar Dave Cicero holding forth in the forum with his mates Kevin Plato and Steve Socrates.

"So Kev, what you're saying is the universe is basically imaginary right?"

"Maybe, I dunno, your round isn't it? Dave, Dave, stop chatting that barista up. Fancy another?"

"Sure I'll have a rhetorical double with a dash of doubt and laced with incomprehension".

"Ice?"

Several rhetorical drinks later..

"So we are agreed, the world indeed is a sphere which revolves around the sun... propelled by a.. a DJ... which is a ...what is it again?"

"It's on a hook... something to do with a whale? I can't remember.. It was all so clear before.. maybe Aristotle wasn't too drunk..."

"Aristotle! Mr. Hammer! Get over here! It's time!".

Ha ha Jax , of course the singer Dave Cicero , we ARE on a chart blog after all... lol

I am just gonna go out and sign Alan Aristotle on a three- album deal record contract.

Have you seen the way this man has with lyrics ?

Sorry dudes, but we're mixing up our classical reference points here. Cicero was an Roman orator, not a Greek philosopher.

Not that the whole scenario was grounded in gritty realism in the first place, I know. But still. At the very least they would drink in different pubs.

Thank you Mr. Schama we will endeavour to be historically accurate from now on...

So after Bob Mozart comes over with his banjo, Neil Armstrong and Red Adair pull up in a motorcycle with sidecar. "Come quick, there's Injuns over the next ridge and Boney M are approaching in a hot air balloon with funk bombs!"

All recorded in Gibbons I think you will find.

Or by Gibbons, possibly.

I do like your idea of them drinking in different pubs Curtain, and then the Roman and Greek philosophers having a scrap at closing time.

This is all Greek to me ! lol