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  Athlete / Alfie - Live In Manchester @ Designer Magazine
On the day that Athlete play their biggest headline show in Manchester to date the kids reel in shock that the Smash Hits and TOTP's Awards have been cancelled due to there being a lack of quality pop acts on the scene.
"Beautiful" and "El Salvador" are knocked off from the outset and you begin to think what other band in the world could throw away their 2 biggest hits to date and still carry on the show regardless.
They're just too pedestrian and while the latter seems to be one of those songs destined to truly establish them in the hearts of the nation I felt that I'd rather have seen them explore the more left field elements of their influences.
designermagazine.tripod.com /AthleteLIVEREV4.html   (607 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Vehicles & Animals [ECD] - Athlete at Epinions.com
Athlete, a newish band on the scene, is the perfect example of what good still exists in pop outside of the United States.
Athlete hails from South London and was formed in 2000 by a group of childhood friends—Joel Pott (vocals, guitar), Carey Willetts (guitar), Tim Wanstall (bass), and Steve Roberts (drums).
Athlete doesn’t attempt to fill every hole with unnecessary noise instead relying almost entirely on melody—and fortunately it is good melody.
www.epinions.com /content_147533172356   (843 words)

  
 Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up beautiful in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Beautiful (film) starring Minnie Driver and Kathleen Turner.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beautiful   (89 words)

  
 BBC - Rock & Alt Review - Athlete, Tourist
A beautiful and touching second album, and in stark contrast to their debut offering, which was bouncer, as I learnt at V in 2003.
Their original songs, Athlete are proving to be a 'quality' band and not just another Pop band.
Athlete are correctly regarded as a poor man's Keane who in turn are just a very poor man's Coldplay and Coldplay are just a poor band......
www.bbc.co.uk /music/rockandalt/reviews/athlete_tourist.shtml   (5207 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tourist (Limited Edition CD + Bonus DVD): Music: Athlete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After their first album brought Athlete both commercial and critical success in the U.K., it was always going to be a tough act to follow.
In Athlete's second album you begin to sense that they are a band not based on there accomplishments and monetary gain, instead they are a band which truly acknowledges the position they have luckily been place in, which obviously is making music for a living.
The songs are fantastic, the arrangements perfect, the electronic embellishments are interesting, the lyrics are moving, and the vocals are beautiful.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007N7YGI?v=glance   (1930 words)

  
 Interview - Athlete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After spending the past year establishing a reputation as one of the country’s most promising new acts, Athlete have embarked upon their first headline tour of these fair isles.
When we signed to Parlophone we would write a couple of songs, go out on tour, come back, write another few songs and repeat the process till the album was done.
Athlete’s album ‘Vehicles and Animals’ has been preceded by the release of the single ‘El Salvador’ which is available now.
www.atomicduster.com /interviews/athlete   (1232 words)

  
 BBC - Rock & Alt Review - Athlete, Vehicles & Animals
Athlete, however, are a rarity, they make music that I've never heard before and it sounds fantastic.
Parlophone gave Athlete plenty of time to refine their sound so that they could produce an album they were completely happy with.
I went to see Athlete at Academy 3 in Manchester a couple of weeks before this album came out, and was impressed with their new material, but they really didn't do it justice.
www.bbc.co.uk /music/rockandalt/reviews/athlete_animals.shtml   (4561 words)

  
 Sound-a-likes: Ringside's catchy pop is to Maroon5 as Athlete's Brit-pop is to Coldplay: Music Reviews : MW/ Metro ...
Athlete isn’t a new band, but it is a largely unknown British quartet.
With Tourist, Athlete has built grand, languid melodies to frame its quirky indie-pop sensibility, which still shines through in the music as well as in clever lyrics and slightly slack pronunciation from lead vocalist Joel Pott.
Every Athlete song here features rough patches, especially in the verses, and the more you pay attention, the more you begin to think that’s intentional, part of its playful nature.
www.metroweekly.com /arts_entertainment/music.php?ak=1586   (953 words)

  
 Sky Showbiz - Mr Blunt Wins Yet Again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Songs from James Blunt and KT Tunstall were the big winners at the song-writing and composing awards.
You're Beautiful was named international hit of the year and most performed work - no kidding.
Asked if he ever got sick of hearing You're Beautiful, he replied: "I don't have to listen to it, I'm the one who sings it.
www.sky.com /showbiz/article/0,,50001-1222870,00.html?f=rss   (260 words)

  
 Athlete on 'Tourist'
When Athlete emerged onto the Rock Scene in 2002, they were a group of fresh-faced young optimists armed with a bunch of uplifting, infectious tunes like 'El Salvador', 'Westside' and 'Beautiful'.
"It's probably the most self-explanatory song on the album but it was a really enjoyable song to make, partly because it has the strings on it which we really enjoyed." [listen]
"The whole thing is a really beautiful song but it needed an edge to almost allow it to be that beautiful, you need an element of dirt or something that's off-kilter somewhere." [listen]
www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=63524   (509 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Vehicles & Animals: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The work of an East London quartet with a wry observational eye and a sound planted somewhere between Squeeze, XTC and Blur from the time of Modern Life Is Rubbish, Vehicles and Animals is a success of subtle experimentalism, box-twiddling electronic trickery and brightly optimistic pop nous.
Sure, Athlete specialise in big, neon sing-along choruses--see the glimmering "El Salvador", the sprawling wonder of "Beautiful"--but their approach is tempered with a very pretty vulnerability.
I hope on Athlete's 3rd album they return to this formula which is so uplifting and a million times better than their just-a-tiny-bit-dreary-and-boring new style.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008IHVF   (1039 words)

  
 Tsui Design & Research Inc. | In The Media
It is the birthright of every human being to live in a world of beauty; a world that is concordant with the needs and aspirations of the innermost and highest elemental powers in humankind and is expressive of the supreme intelligence and spiritual powers manifest in nature.
It is my hope, that in the not too distant future people will look back at these times and say, there lived a people that were not afraid to turn their backs on the edicts of society, who were not afraid to turn away from the violent consequences of symbolism, nationalism and profiteering.
By introducing the beauty and functional benefit of buildings with moving parts architecture is forever liberated from the heavy-handed and monolithic constraints that have characterized it from the beginning of time.
www.tdrinc.com /media.html   (7924 words)

  
 NME.COM - Reviews - Athlete : London Camden Dingwalls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Humility is an underrated virtue, but one that South London's Athlete have in spades.
With a chorus bursting with wistful brilliance, 'Beautiful' will be song of the year when it's released in September, no contest.
We strongly advise that you learn these words now: "Oh, this is beautiful..." Athlete are, and that's all you need to know.
www.nme.com /reviews/athlete/6606   (230 words)

  
 beautiful - OneLook Dictionary Search
Beautiful : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
Phrases that include beautiful: a beautiful mind, america the beautiful, bad and the beautiful, beautiful and damned, beautiful circle, more...
Words similar to beautiful: beautifully, beautifulness, fine, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=beautiful   (225 words)

  
 Film Fest Journal
Khalo Matabane expounds on the cross-cultural interrogations of post-apartheid society in his previous film, Story of a Beautiful Country with Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, a thoughtful, insightful, and articulate melding of fiction and documentary on the changing landscape of new South African society as a result of continental (and international) immigration, refugeeism, and exile.
It is, therefore, not surprising that the specter of Marguerite Duras' India Song would enter into the discussion of Trinh's own film, A Tale of Love, both films evoking a profound resonance of loss, separation, rootlessness, and longing through cumulative (and assimilative) sensorial repetition rather than narrative explication.
In this respect, India Song serves as a paradigm for the articulation of the postcolonial experience where elusive notions of home, nationality, and identity are expressed through equally ephemeral, non-narrative devices of textures, rhythms, and montage.
www.filmref.com /journal   (1812 words)

  
 Get Jealous.com
Aqualung were their support act but we arrived late so only caught their last song.
Fiji is a really beautiful country and it was pretty different to what we had done before that.
It was a beautiful little island and all we did was laze and swim and kayak and snorkel.
www.getjealous.com /printdiary.php?username=priyaandbina   (7761 words)

  
 UKMIX - Forums - View topic - Twixy's Top 100 Singles Of 2005
It's by no means a bad song, and deserved higher than #15 on my chart, but at the time I hated it, and as a result was only on the chart for a week.
This song was the opener of thier gig back in October, which was the best of the year for me, and yes, they are the best new band, and one of the best overall of the whole year.
Athlete's third song on the chart is thier recent single Twenty Four Hours.
www.ukmix.org /forums/viewtopic.php?topic=29668&forum=15   (3259 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Vehicles & Animals: Music: Athlete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Athlete are not groundbreaking by any means, rather, they are quite downtown, having fallen into the kind of lyrics one would suspect Blur or The Beautiful South to leave on a C-sides greatest hits CD.
Athlete dodges that pitfall and makes an album that's highly listenable and one I expect will continue to wear well on my ears.
"Beautiful" is a nice melody but it looks as though they couldn't be bothered to write more than 2 short verses and a somewhat weak hook (which is repeated ad infinitum).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00022XE22?v=glance   (1478 words)

  
 Athlete @ Islington
As they rapidly develop into a sublime, mature rock outfit, Athlete step up and take the headlining slot for our latest exclusive Xfm session.
Now - with the release of album number 2, the altogether darker 'Tourist' - Athlete have grown in practically every direction as their exclusive show for Xfm at the Carling Academy, Islington proves.
Blending their dark and light sides perfectly, Athlete kick off with the subdued anthemics of 'Half-Light' from 'Tourist' before easing effortlessly into the more upbeat 'Westside' and 'El Salvador', injecting these early signature tunes with a touch of melancholy.
www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?b=multimedia&id=68740   (232 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tourist: Music: Athlete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Combining both ballads and tranquil upbeat songs, this CD is perfect and the band shows itself to be incredibly talented.
Athlete is the new brit-pop, December 28, 2005
Athlete is pop music with emotion filled with style and class.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0008ENJB0?v=glance   (1191 words)

  
 ThenTry:Athlete
After their first album brought Athlete both commercial and critical success (including a Mercury Prize nomination), it was always going to be a tough act to follow.
Great music from a band to watch - Athlete are one of the bands to keep an eye on this year.
Beautiful - I listened to the song for the first time on Top of the Pops, and it never really affected me. I listened to it again a few weeks later, and this time it seemed to me to be a nice slow, catchy indie tune.
www.thentry.com /artist.php?artist=Athlete   (1209 words)

  
 Video Static: Music Video News: Black Dog
Basically, the song is about how Skinner stole a microphone while appearing as a guest on BBC Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley's show.
Yes, the band looks great in their performance footage and, yes, the narrative elements are so compelling that you would be forgiven if you thought they were pulled from a feature film.
This epic mini-movie adds a whole new layer of meaning to the song's lyrics as it tells the story of a young couple that gets split apart when the boyfriend unexpectedly enlists in the armed forces and gets shipped off to Iraq.
www.videostatic.com /vs/black_dog   (3117 words)

  
 Daily updated Musics news!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Not only does it house some great songs, but Ringleader Of The Tormentors also stinks of sex throughout, and, frankly, we never thought he had it in him (as it were).
The last song ever written Johnny Cash will be included on the album ‘American V: A Hundred Highways’, to be released in July.
Hilton will also do a remake of the Rod Stewart song "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?," she was quoted as saying in the June issue of Hong Kong magazine Prestige.
www.musicsnews.com   (2583 words)

  
 Beautiful Lyrics - by ATHLETE from album VEHICLES & ANIMALS : Lyrics And Songs
You are viewing lyrics of Beautiful by ATHLETE from the album VEHICLES & ANIMALS at LyricsAndSongs.COM
The Lyrics above are to Beautiful and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Beautiful But they are (Wrong)
www.lyricsandsongs.com /song/70906.html   (280 words)

  
 Video Static: Music Video News: Oil Factory
Well, have no pity for Arctic Monkeys drummer Matthew "The Cat" Helders, who is [not] the star of this beautiful bandw video.
By that point, however, the song is in full crescendo and the massive sing-a-long performance sequence serves as a great emotional release.
Performance is mixed with shots of the band and their fans standing behind a giant dot of various colors.
www.videostatic.com /vs/oil_factory   (2828 words)

  
 new noise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It’s a song that cries out to be called anthemic, building to the bridge with soaring this and throbbing that.
It’s vintage Athlete, but the reaction is beyond crazy.
It’s an easy gig to enjoy, the large print of Athlete’s Ladybird book approach to music translating well live, but it was the bonhomie of the crowd that really accelerated this gig beyond the pedestrian.
www.new-noise.net /see_157.html   (551 words)

  
 Lyrics forum :: Athlete lyrics and songs forum
Vehicles and animals (the song) is brilliant,apart from
But 'wires' is my favourite - for those that don't know, the lead singers baby was born still and its about the emotions he went through when he was in the hospital waiting to see if his baby could be revived.
For anyone thats had someone go through a near death experience the song is very touching.
forum.lyred.com /athlete-vt3209.html   (848 words)

  
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Song: FUCK ME Artist: I went to the store yesterday and thats him no and i found this great Cd and its called shit cunt fuck piss motha fuck
www.supyo.com /home/projects/relax_song_poll/names.htm   (317 words)

  
 ohnotheydidnt: More British Band Dramaaaaz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
COLDPLAY are in shock after failing to pick up one honour at last night's (24MAY06) prestigious Ivor Novello Awards (given by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters), despite being hotly-tipped to win in three categories.
The CHRIS MARTIN-fronted band had been nominated for Best Song Musically And Lyrically for FIX YOU, and International Hit Of The Year and Most Performed Work for SPEED OF SOUND.
Singer/songwriter KT TUNSTALL picked up the coveted Best Song trophy for her smash hit SUDDENLY I SEE, while DAMON ALBARN and JAMIE HEWLETT of GORILLAZ were named Songwriters Of The Year.
community.livejournal.com /ohnotheydidnt/6979756.html   (735 words)

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