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yeah
liked it.
aye
i thought it was good!
I liked it too
though it sounded a hell of a lot like Best Days. Still, I think it will grow on me. Really looking forward to hearing the other one now.
Agreed
on the similarity cunt to Best Days. Uncanny.
I was thinking that...
...Best Days head on collision with A Whiter Shade of Pale.
No bad thing, still a fan after nearly 20 years.
Is Alex James doing an Angus Young tribute?
loved the puritan!
Liked both tracks
pre ordered the 7"
Studio versions on Youtube btw
Under the Westway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5DlAZoEsfo
The Puritan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zDNv8HTecw
Under the Westway...
...sounds like 'Whatever' by Oasis.
crossed with 'Out of Time'
It's the classic Bach descent as in Air on a G string
Diatonic Elaboration Of Static Harmony, allegedly.
http://open.spotify.com/user/thewza/playlist/7FCeoZ4IlNUrJuqj2LmnzJ ...based on www.washedashore.com/music/desh.html
Liked Under the Westway
undecided about Puritan as of yet
under the westway
is a gorgeous piece of music
I CAN'T GET THE NA NA NA'S FROM THE PURITAN OUT OF MY HEAD
Westway is brilliant
Puritan might grow on me.
another album would be great right?
Not going to happen I heard
Damon gives a different version of events in every interview
You can't really trust a word he says about it now.
Okay, I suppose.
Nothing awful but nothing special. I like the sound of The Puritan more.
One would have needed to be like Beetlebum or This Is A Low to really blow me away but that was never going to happen, I suppose.
Under The Westway
i think is brilliant, a fantastic piece of music. Sounded like a very 'classic' Blur song, whereas The Puritan sounded like a classic Blur B side (which is a very good thing in my book).
these are both better than i was expecting.
Graham is one of my favourite guitarists and it's really nice to hear him doing something with blur again.
Whilst being pretty great up to the 'la la la' bit, there can be no denying that, at the precise moment that they hit, The Puritan does begin to sound like something Gruff Rhys shat out in 2003.
Sounds more like Bugman, which they 'shat out' in 1999.
I miss Blur
These tracks are enough to suggest they should continue.
Both of them are obviously infinitely better than the Fools Day debacle.
I actually possibly slightly prefer the Puritan. Under the Westway's pleasant but, whilst it might grow on me, at the moment it kind of feels like Blur knocking off a Blur ballad and they've obviously done similar things much better before (the Universal, Out of Time, To The End etc.).
The Puritan at least sounds like an attempt to do something new - it's not a classic but it's at least a small progression. I hope Blur don't do another album, to be honest, as there's nothing here that really suggests they'll do anything that's either sufficiently brilliant or sufficiently different compared to what they've done before that justifies it but it's quite nice to hear a couple of new Blur songs and actually enjoy them.