Any Hooverphonic fans here?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by HotelYorba101, Mar 5, 2013.

  1. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

    Have any of their previous singers "taken off" or even recorded solo projects? I know that Geike made the one solo album, and then nothing since then.
     
  2. jamesc

    jamesc Senior Member

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    Dallas, TX
    That was (admittedly dumb) speculation on my part as I haven't followed them that well since The Magnificent Tree. It looks like they had at least four singers before Blue Wonder Power Milk was released.
     
  3. PanaPlasma

    PanaPlasma Forum Resident

    Location:
    Belgium, Europe
    Geike was also in the band Dorleac.
    Her sister is still singing in Tommigun (hit: Ride with Me). New album later this year.

    Kyoko was member of Lunascape (biggest hit: Tears from the Moon).
     
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  4. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

    Hooverphonic have a new album out ("In Wonderland"), with various singers filling the place of Noémie Wolfs, their last full-time singer. It's an interesting, if slight album (at under 35 minutes). None of the singers really have much character to their voices, and the songs just don't seem all the interesting.

    Here's one of the new songs with vocals by a singer listed as Bird (not Birdy) in the credits:

     
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  5. Hexwood

    Hexwood Forum Resident

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    UK
    Me :righton:

    I prefer their first three albums to their later ones. A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular is one of my all-time favourites. I love Liesje Sadonius' voice. It's a shame she only made one album with them.

    I recommend Hooverphonic fans check out a band called Flunk. They're similar in style.
     
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  6. HotelYorba101

    HotelYorba101 Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks for the heads up!!

    Looking back, I do feel like I am more into their first few albums, it seems that with each album they get less and less experimental and more commercial. Which isn't bad, just not as much my cup of tea as songs like Wardrobe
     
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  7. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

    It's interesting because I got into Hooverphonic via Sarah Brightman's cover of "Eden" (around 1998), so I really started to follow them when Geike Arnaert was their lead singer (even though that wasn't a song Geike sang on), so I prefer her albums with them. I sure wish Geike would rejoin them.
     
  8. PanaPlasma

    PanaPlasma Forum Resident

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    They changed direction completely since 2010. They're now a "top 50-radio band" (since The Night Before) and trying to get as much media-attention as they can (coach in reality shows as The Voice, culinary programs).

    Haven't heard Noémie Wolfs-solo album yet (titled "Hunt You"), but it's quite well received by the press (and radiostations), which isn't the case for the latest bunch of Hooverphonic-albums. To me the singles sound like Hooverphonic meets Balthazar (her boyfriend who is in Balthazar has produced the album).

    Tommigun is also working on a new album for more than a year now (the band including Geike's sister).
     
  9. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

    Thanks for the update on Noémie. Is there any word on what Geike is working on these days?
     
  10. Hexwood

    Hexwood Forum Resident

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    I've been listening to The Magnificent Tree a lot lately. The title track is beautiful.

     
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  11. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

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  13. Nathan Aaron

    Nathan Aaron Forum Resident

    And with today's RSD release, my Hooverphonic LP collection is complete! Anything else they may release on LP is just icing on the cake!

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  14. mestreech

    mestreech Forum Resident

    Do you also have the box of "a new stereophonic sound spectacular" with 3 cds and vinyl?
     
  15. Nathan Aaron

    Nathan Aaron Forum Resident

    - I don't! Sounds cool though!
     
  16. My fave "Techno" [the kids would call it "EDM" today] genre derivative "Trip Hop"; besides my madeup fave "Tribal Techo Trance" [closest real genre was "Goa Trance"].
    So, liked the early ' Hoover'* stuff!

    70's "Funk/R&B" & 60's "Soul/R&B" influence too!!

    * had a couple of the Maxi singles back-in-the-day.
     
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  17. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

    Did you get the new 3-LP Greatest Hits just released?
     
  18. Nathan Aaron

    Nathan Aaron Forum Resident

    - No. is it good? My connection to Hooverphonic has always been their first four albums. Their most classic, if you ask me. Though I think if they released the last two by Geike I'd pick those up as well, though I'm not as familiar with them. But beyond that they get a big pass. Though the greatest hits could be interesting! Any new songs? Or previously unreleased?
     
  19. pghmusiclover

    pghmusiclover Senior Member

    There's apparently one new song:

    Hooverphonic - The Best of Hooverphonic

    Their last few albums have been very disappointing...
     
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  20. Baidur

    Baidur Forum Resident

    Also got the first four from Music on Vinyl now. The last three all in their RSD coloured vinyl editions. All great pressings.
    Thinking about picking up that best of on CD. So I can play some favorite tracks in the car. It's a quite nice compilation.
     
  21. CharlieD

    CharlieD Forum Resident

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    Lancaster, NY
    I need clarafication of the CD releases of "The Magnificent Tree" on the European continent, as I believe Discogs has this one a little mixed up.

    I know the French release is on the S.M.A.L.L. label, but for the rest of the continent: I believe there was a standard "European" release for all of
    Europe, including Belgium, and the 2-disc Limited Edition as the only so-called "Belgian" release.

    Would I be correct in that assumption?
     
  22. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    Dallas, TX, USA
    I like their first couple of records. I lost touch with them after that.
     
  23. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

    Location:
    Central PA
    Big fan, especially No More Sweet Music. Clever to release a 2nd disc with remixes of the first (called, appropriately enough, More Sweet Music)...with 5.1 programs for both!
     
  24. walrus

    walrus Staring into nothing

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    Nashville
    Doesn't seem to be any discussion on it, but apparently they dropped a new album, Looking For Stars (with yet another new singer) last week.
     
  25. PanaPlasma

    PanaPlasma Forum Resident

    Location:
    Belgium, Europe
    Their songs get poorer with every album, but they got played by mainstream radio, have sold out shows and disc will probably do well with the masses.

    They wanted to make 3 albums, with one of them 'more old school alternative Hooverphonic', but the new singer (winner of Idols) just wanted 1 album with the best (more poppy-dance) songs from the 3 albums they had in mind.
     

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