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My Way | 
| Artist: Ian Brown
Label: Polydor
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 265
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 43 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 602527160504
EAN: 0602527160504
ASIN: B002J9GCXY
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Stellify | | • | Crowning Of The Poor | | • | Just Like You | | • | In The Year 2525 | | • | Always Remember Me | | • | Vanity Kills | | • | For The Glory | | • | Marathon Man | | • | Own Brain | | • | Laugh Now | | • | By All Means Necessary | | • | So High |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Even at this point, over a decade and six albums into a firm and established solo career, the spectre of The Stone Roses never lies far from Ian Brownrsquo;s door (most recently reunion talk has gained traction and there was rumour that John Squire submitted a song for inclusion on emMy Way/em, which was ultimately rejected). While that might just speak strongly of the peerless Manchester grouprsquo;s lasting mythology it pays little heed to Brownrsquo;s consistent, spirited and increasingly large body of work. This being Ian Brown though, he squares straight up to the âRoses chatter, referencing his old band in "For The Glory" as if to take the subject off the table. So here he goes again; shamanic of tone, dispensing stubbly testament atop a free-willed melee of genres, dusting off a plinth built largely from minimalist funk, hypnotic reverb-heavy percussion and 80s synthesised pop. Due to the latter this could actually turn out to be his most fashionable set yet, with the experience and belief he carries in excess elevating him above much of 2009rsquo;s more fleeting swathe of electro-pop. In amongst numerous highlights, "Crowning Of The Poor" slinks with grime malevolence and pointed synth jabs, tempered as ever by his zen ruminations, "In the Year 2525" gallops forth with the authority of mariachi horns and marching beats and the glorious "Always Remember Me" tumbles forward like a warm psychedelic waterfall. Hersquo;s still coming up roses then, at least. --emJames Berry/em
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 All Killer, No Filler September 29, 2009
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Ian Brown wouldn't stand a chance without The Stone Roses. Culture is built on shallow, forgettable, appearance, not substance, on youth, pliability, sellability, the market. Ian Brown is an artist, not a commodity to be sold like baked beans, and were it not for his past, he'd be unjustly ignored by a heathen music industry that can't see beyond its next balance sheet. His fans are invisible, but many, his sales crossing demographics, a musical Kayser Soze : and just as potent.
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br /It's hard work reviewing Ian Brown. On paper, unheard, it sounds an unappealing prospect - former Stone Rose, a greying, scruffy, middle aged visionary that follows his own, suburban Kung Fu spirituality drawn from the age of liberation and Muhammed Ali, carving out his own destiny in a unique musical landscape, sounds like nothing so much as a haunted Madchester survivor, a natural successor to Julian Cope's wrecked throne. Once contemporaries : The Inspiral Carpets, The Happy Mondays, reformed and often their own tribute acts, degrade their past achievements by trading opportunity for drugs, money, and nostalgia.
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br /Refusing the easy lure of reforming The Stone Roses for quick money is simple. It's a space that Ian Brown no longer occupies. "My Way" - Browns sixth solo album in eleven years - has barely any live instruments on it (drums seem to be metronomic, precise, unstoppable), and for a man best known for the guitar-frenzies of his previous band, there's not one recognisable guitar line on it : the whole album is made of soaring melodies, thick, synthesised string sweeps, and other-worldly, eastern-tuned rhythms. On top of this sits Brown's perhaps somewhat strange vocals, lyrics that seem cut from simple metre and rhyming structure, but also form an immaculate internal logic.
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br /I could argue and win any debate that suggests that Brown has made any musical progression in the past decade - he hasn't. Like Iron Maiden, and Kraftwerk, at the end of the first decade, Brown had reached his limits of his prototype. Everything after that was mere refining of the image. Unlike some, who take their second and third decades as a case of blindly carrying on through habit, Brown is still exploring lyrically, still performing because he wants to and has to, not just because there's a mortgage to pay. In short, Brown has never made a rubbish record, because he hasn't had to. Parts of the One-Man-Alone-Against-The-World "Unfinished Monkey Business" were ropey as they were solo demo recordings. "My Way" is one of the rarest of albums, containing no filler, no dodgy mid-paced songs, no moments of a musician struggling to fill the space and tossing off quickly a stinker to pad out the record. It's a complete artistic statement with no one superfluous, useless note : in short, a complete achievement.
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br /Opening with "Stellify", as strong a song as the awesome "F.E.A.R.", "My Way" is assured. If you think of the type of tosh McCartney was polluting our ears with when he was 46, then Ian Brown is better than The Beatles. "Just Like You" has a brilliant middle-eight, where an improbable collection of rising string motifs crest a wave of a military, tribal rhythm, and then, a sucker punch to the gut, Brown takes the music, and we life-off. It's the kind of stuff where words alone don't do this justice. Sure, you can describe the Mona Lisa, and a chorus is worth a thousand words.
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br /"In The Year 2525" takes a song I last heard covered in a gonzo thrash-prog carcrash by the Fields Of The Nephilim, and turns into a marachi-style town square romp. As a modern day Sinatra-styled musical autobiography, "My Way" may not be the album of his life, but is framed in the way of an emotional autobiography, the album of his life. And you won't miss the water until the well rungs dry.
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br /In an alternate universe, The Stone Roses never existed, and Ian Brown and Johnny Marr formed a band together and Morrissey remains an undiscovered, unknown no-one in a Manchester suburb. This universe, meanwhile, sees Ian Brown as the sole dogged survivor of The Stone Roses, whilst touted wonderkid John Squire pootles around his studio with a hammer bashing metal sculptures.
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br /"My Way" follows the same template as most of Brown's solo career - a mixture of ambitious synthesised string arrangements atop pounding rhythms, : a world away from The Stone Roses, yet also, of the same cloth, the same palette. "My Way" is a great record, and proof that talent endures over time.
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Stellar September 28, 2009
pehaw (Newcastle, England)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wowsers. The feel-good hit of the (late) summer. Feels like a greatest hits package - each track here could be a single no problem at all. Does what Ian has always done with his music, lifts you up, gives you a hug and sends you floating through the sky, ten-storeys high, with a big grin on your face. Disco beats - his way.
The best, and more to come? October 1, 2009
D. Rackham
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Forget the negative reviews by some of the national newspaper critics of one of our national treasure's best solo works to date. Forget the man was the singer for the Stone Roses. Forget some of those slightly dodgy tracks from some of his earlier albums and forget that he's four years off 50. Listen to this album. Not once. Twice. And then you'll want to hear it a third time. And then buy it. Support our music industry. Support what always makes you excited about music whether you're 16 years old, or 20 or 30 or 40. This is the freshest this Stone Rose has sounded for years. And I'm not one of the 'strange Ian Brown fans initiated into some weird sect' like the jealous and lazy Guardian reviewer suggests fans of decent music must be. This is a great little album. I wonder if those journos on our failing national newspapers have ever produced anything as good... or are they just as creatively bankrupt as their newspapers are financially? Support the music industry, it's products will make you happier than the news in our papers xxx
who need's the roses? October 2, 2009
M. black (scotland)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
this album is further proof that ian brown has no intention and really no need to reform the stone roses.his solo career has produced a strong body of work this past decade and my way is his masterpiece.it sounds miles away from the jangly guitar pop of his former band and instead goes for the hip hop inspired beats of kanye west and jay z.im no fan of that kind of music but brown nails it.it sounds fresh and modern.there's no duff tracks for me on this all are strong even the cover of in the year 2525 is inspired.among the bland samey dross of david gray and the talentless robbie williams,ian brown is our best male solo artist and in terms of talent miles away from the pack.
Wow browny back on form October 3, 2009
Bass boy (London)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great album. After the lukewarm but great in parts The World is Yours, IB is back with the man who helped create his other best LP Dave McCracken (Golden Greats) and the songwriting is massively improved, interesting melodies and key changes all over the shop.
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br /Hats off to Ian Brown, didn't honestly expect every track to be a winner, but they are with one exception, crowning of the poor.
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br /Not going to dwell on the negatives though, this is banging all the way. Never has a man pulled his career from the fire and maximised his talent so well. Some of the tracks here are as close to the quality of the Roses as he's ever been.
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