All You Good Good People

Best Embrace song IMHO

I disagree. This song is more Tears for Fears than it is Verve. The Verve meander around a bit more and do not have as concise melodies (and this is coming from a huge fan of the Verve). Eitherway... No other band could match the grandiose bombasity of this one... I remember the video, it was almost RIDICULOUS in how grandiose it was. It goes like this: The singer is on death row for, what we are lead to believe, a crime he did not commit. People are holding up candles and signs. The Governor doesn't pardon the execution, and then the singer is executed in the electric chair... BUT!!... as soon as they fry him, a BABY IS BORN!! It's so cheesy and over-the-top... but it works with the song and how BIG it is.

So Verve, so good.

This is the ultimate song. It builds and builds.

I'd disagree with both of you personally, in the early years was compared regularly to Oasis - with the gigantic buzz they created.

I would however agree with the symbolisation of the video being on the electric chair (that incidentally is only the American release).

As a sufferer of Asperger's Syndrome, not to mention a teenager I have always confided in it very well. People make the assumption that nearly all of McNamara's lyrics refer to the end of a relationship, but I argue that this in particular is much deeper than that.

The lyric 'All You Good Good People - listen to me', as well as 'I will make you glad if I am leaving first and crying' strongly suggests to me that it is possibly about feeling opressed as a child. At the school I was at I felt as if classmates and teachers tried to be better than me a lot of the time and it made me feel rather inadequate. A feeling a lot of people would share.

Incidentally also, it was the song I was about to sing at karaoke before I was barred from my local in Bristol for swearing. And the song really struck me then - feeling as if it was my fault when I knew it wasn't. That's what the song boils down to, methinks.

Shaun

This song is what Oasis's third album should have sounded like.

This song is amazing. Why Embrace did not get the success level of The Verve or Oasis is a 1990's mystery. They were prodigiously talented musically, and what is obvious from this song they wrote intelligent meaningful songs. If u kick back and really listen to it, you are listening to an orchestra , not a band. They could actually play instruments well . I believe they were music students from the country. I lived in London when this song crept, not crashed onto the music scene. Embrace never got the recognition they well deserved. I always found the lyric all you good good people very public spirited. I liked them cause they weren't arrogant like Blur or Oasis. And agree they were like The Verve.

Great band - epic song

Some could say not great LIVE though