Just getting into them after being an Oasis fan throughout the 90s and wondering WHY THE FUCK HAVE I NOT LISTENED TO THEM BEFORE?
I blame everyone on here for that, and there is nothing you can say to stop me.
Just getting into them after being an Oasis fan throughout the 90s and wondering WHY THE FUCK HAVE I NOT LISTENED TO THEM BEFORE?
I blame everyone on here for that, and there is nothing you can say to stop me.
Apart fro Think Tank, some how I picked that up along the way....
Blur win
They do.
And it so surprising that I ever thought they didn't.
Beetlebum, Coffee and Tv and Think Tank.
Couldn't care less about anything else they did.
I listened to Parklife
for the first time ever about a year ago and couldn't believe how shit it was.
I don't think
parklife or the great escape stand up very well over ten years on, sound a bit dated, Modern Life Is Rubbish for me is still excellent and their output since 95' was pretty damn fine to be honest
parklife the song
or the album? the song is shit for sure, and somehow it's tarnished what's a decent album for me. I've not listened to it in about 10 years
Parklife as an album is great.
not so keen on the song, but the album has Tracy Jacks, End of a Century, Bad Head, This is a Low and many more good songs
yeah
their last 3 albums are the best, each one better than the one before. i just listened to think tank last night, actually.....
No Distance Left To Run
is one of the saddest, most heartbreaking things ever.
meh
End Of A Century
This Is A Low
Trouble In The Message Center
Tracy Jacks
Bank Holiday
Far Out
The Debt Collector
Jubilee
are all great songs
on youtube
some guys posted up demos of the whole album. s'pretty interesting stuff, if you think parklife is ace. which i still do.
13 is my fav
Its the one I have played most and the one I keep going back to, well that and Blur the S/T.
you're so great
is a lovely song
^^ so yeah
I love Chinese Bombs, I'm Just A Killer For Your Love and M.O.R. too, but Blur (the album) is a bit overrated in my opinion
that self-titled album
is easily one of the best albums of the 90s. they were basically being the British Pavement. It's stunning. I love MOR and Death Of A Party.
I think that Coffee & TV is lovely and Belle and Sebastian too.
And don't forget The Good, The Bad, and The Queen. Whatever anyone says, I love that album.
my fave is
Modern Life Is Rubbish, actually
Parklife
and The Great Escape have dated a little (The Universal is still brilliant though), or it might just be that horrendous video for Country House.
But the self-titled record, 13 and Think Tank are all fantastic. I love For Tomorrow as well.
mdern life
is rubbish, is brilliant. I got the star shaped early stuff dvd for three quid the other day and it's sort of amazing...
Incidentally, I went to Walthamstow dogs the other day and was pleased to see Damon Albarn (still) there. It was well Britpop.
Walthamstow
racetrack is closing down soon :(
PAT ON THE BACK
all 90s British Indie music sounds so dated no to me.
Apart from Elastica.
I bought an Elastica annual from a coffee shop on the Isle of Wight last year
They had this tiny miserable table of second hand things on sale to raise money for some hospice. It was the only book on there, and set me back 50p. It entertained me for literally seconds on the ferry ride back over to Portsmouth
i was preferred Blur to Oasis
Blur for me had it all. They had the tunes, the lyrics, the style and art to what they did. Not that I disliked Oasis, i liked their first two albums but for me Blur pipped them with the fact theu made more interesting music.
* i meant always
doh!
Their b-sides were also (at times) INCREDIBLE
Check out Young And Lovely and All Your Life for proof. Both should have been on respective albums (Modern Life Is Rubbish, and Blurbyblur).
the song Tame
was also an amazing bside.I do know Young and Lovely and agree it is good.
13
is an amazing album. musically it is awesome, the production is great and the lyrics take it to another level. trimm trabb.
modern life is rubbish is also awesome. In fact i love all of blur's work from this point. girls and boys is one of my favorite songs ever.
Oh and There's No Other Way is amazing.
Ha, brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YX1v3tSCkY
that clip is evil
it's the 90s at their worst!
*best
Well at least I'm not alone
I just started listening to them a few months back myself. 13 seems to be my favorite so far.
Oh yeah, and
they definitely beat Oasis any day for me.
Ive really got into Blur over the past 12 months.
Ive always been partial to them, but now I realise how brilliant they were. Its funny how Gallager consistently compares his mob to The Beatles, yet sticks to virtually the same template for almost everything they've ever recorded. Lennon & co adapted & changed their sound all the time and Blur are in exactly the same tradition.
Exactly
Oasis abided by the same formula and simply ended up getting worse.
Blur knew how to incorporate fresh sounds and progressed to become one of the best bands of the 90's.
b-siding
All your life, i remember that b-side, it was a tune!
All Your Life
is amazing, because it sounds like Pavement rewriting Hunky Dory-era Bowie, and is consequently perfect.
^ this ^
Craking tune! B-side to Beetlebum if i remember rightly.
<3 Blur
well done on your chosen path
Blur were my first favourite band
And set me down the musical path I have come to now. I owe them a lot, not least for their fantastic music
Same here....
they were the band i first really got into when i was 14-15 or something.
'13' is my fave record but i only have it on cassette. Will have to invest in a CD copy at some point.