I love this show but no Netflix in Germany... Will have to find another way. That said I'm a little scared of reading this thread because of spoilers and stuff. For the rest of the discussion I will be like this:

Let him try new stuff. If we don't like it, we don't like it. But maybe we will. Let's see.

The thing is I don't think he actually does try new stuff. So the other band members have thrown in some riffs, maybe even melodies - so what? There's nothing extraordinarily new in Wonderful, Glorious's songwriting. Since the trilogy I feel like he's almost making the same album over and over again, only with different instruments (and maybe - if we're luck - a different mood).

Daisies Of The Galaxy is one of my favourite albums, and it was a collaboration with Peter Buck.

I think you're mistaken here. Buck is on maybe a few tracks, but Daisies is in no way an "E & Peter Buck" album. He has a songwriting credit only for one single track and that is Estate Sale. In fact, apart from that one and the bonus track, the whole album is written by E on his own. This is why I don't think the weaknesses of the trilogy were the result of a lack of collaboration. E has become too comfortable with what he's doing. He's not challenging himself anymore. Hence the lazy lyrics f.e.

I Am Building a Shrine is the only song on WG that keeps up with the weakest material on BLAOR. I can't even imagine how you could come to another conclusion than WG being much inferior to the rest of the Eels catalogue (including the trilogy!). But then again, I'm happy for anybody whose reaction to WG was a new found appreciation of Eels. I still can't understand how you could be able to find that in this one but I'm waiting for E to come up with an album like that too, and I'm afraid I'll be waiting for a long time. I just hope he won't stay too long in his new found comfort zone. That rarely results in great art.

Would've been a better title.

Extremely thin ice here. All he said is they are going to "record another record" while they "have one week in Hong Kong". One week is not enough for an album and it sounds like this is a spontaneous even altogether. A new record could also be a new single f.e. That Blur fanpage is way too certain about this. Even the NME is very reserved in its report, and that's saying something.

(Also, as a Blur fan, I'm not sure a new album would be a good thing in the first place. Blur's discography is great as it is, I don't want a bad comeback album in it. I always thought their "playing live and releasing a single every few years" approach to their reunion was a very appropriate and wise one.)

I'm pretty sure the only difference is that Noel is quite witty.

He also owns a brain and can write a tune.

I'm not too keen on either Beady Eye or Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds though. Oasis made (in order) a brilliant album, a great album, a good album and then many mediocre albums. I wouldn't expect anything from them anymore if they still were together, and I expect even less now that they split and do stuff on their own. Liam is a moron but a great singer and Noel has lost his edge - which is arguably the only thing besides his voice that Liam has. Liam is lucky though to have Andy Bell (formerly of Ride) in his band who is able to still throw in a decent tune once in a while.

The Korean word for "seal" is 물개 -- mool gay. The Chinese characters mean "water dog".

So nice picture there, sappy Sally.

(Didn't know the "sappy Sally" expression, had to google it. Still don't get the connection.)