Blur: Classic Or Dud

time to get a new haircut

Time to get new glasses!

What fancy dress will you wear? Something like this maybe?

http://www.manze.co.uk/images/people.jpg

theyd love that

i find this sweet:

http://www.nme.com/news/blur/41563

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 December 2008 09:29 (1 hour ago)

I saw a similar thing on Primrose Hill about a year and a half ago, someone had written half the lyrics to 'For Tomorrow' across the path on the way up.

yeah, i saw that too

"and the view's so nice"

That Primrose Hill graffiti has been there for at least 10 years now!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/blurdate.jpg

Oh fuck it, I was only like 19 or 20 years old or some shit:

Look how long Damon's hair is! LOLOLOL

I was in England when that was a hit. My friend and I traveled down from Manchester to see them in London. I remember a cab ride afterwards and that's about all. Damon used to climb on all the monitors and stuff. It was a great show.

Great song, great video, my first memory of Blur either

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/first-night-blur-rough-trade-east-1706909.html

I wanna know if they played anything from 13...(other than Tender, Coffee And TV or No Distance Left To Run)

they played a 13-song set that included all the hits plus a handful of rarely heard, firm fan favourites

...doesn't sound like it

Blur @ Rough Trade East, London.
Setlist for June 15th, 2009

She's So High
Girls And Boys
Advert
For Tomorrow
End Of A Century
Beetlebum
Coffee And TV
Tender
Out Of Time
Popscene
Song 2
Parklife
This Is A Low

Blur @ East Anglian Railway Museum
Setlist for June 13th, 2009

She's So High
Girls And Boys
Tracy Jacks
There's No Other Way
Jubilee
Badhead
Beetlebum
Trimm Trabb
Coffee & TV
Tender
Country House
Charmless Man
Colin Zeal
Oily Water
Chemical World
Sunday Sunday
Parklife
End Of A Century
To The End
This Is A Low
Popscene
Advert
Song 2
Out Of Time
Battery In Your Leg
Essex Dogs
For Tomorrow
The Universal

They were probably under orders for the Rough Trade one. Encouraging to see Essex Dogs and Trimm Trabb on the rota. Not encouraging to see Bugman, Swamp Song, 1992, Battle and Caramel all off it :(

Also a real and present lack of the good Great Escape material, of which there is much.

Given how fucked they were meant to be when making TGE, they may not look back in it with that much affection.

But they're playing all the boring big obvious singles like The Universal and Countryhouse and Charmless Man, and not the awesome melancholy stuff like Best Days, Fade Away, He Thought Of Cars, Entertain Me, Dan Abnormal or Yuko & Hiro!

They should do "Ernold Same," Ken L.'s got the time.

But they're playing all the boring big obvious singles like The Universal and Countryhouse and Charmless Man,

..and look! they're promoting a singles comp!

It needs promoting. I didn't even know it was out until I saw a microscopic ad for it in Saturday's Guardian Guide! Probably why it'll be lucky to sneak into the Top 30 if the midweeks are anything to go by. Still, "Popscene" is on there and it's good to have that back in UK CD circulation after 17 years' absence.

They should have re-released Popscene as a single to promote the concerts (or vice versa), since most casual fans would think it to be a new song.

Actually, that's not a bad idea:

CD Single:

a) Popscene
b) Don't bomb when yr the bomb
c) Wassail song

Not encouraging to see Bugman, Swamp Song, 1992, Battle and Caramel all off it :(

― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude, i know you'll take this the wrong way but... just no. no.

Oh, by the way, they really should do "Out of Time", it's damn good. Graham can have a rest if he feels strongly...

xpost Totally, Blur are a business now, not a band. Won't stop me foregoing PRodigy to see them at Glasto this year.

I also object to their compilation being called "MidLife" - ugh!

anybody see that video they did with david shrigley? funneh stuff!

Is there any band who isn't, by definition, a business?

yeah, was gonna say.

It's more about how back then, if Damon wrote something, it got shaped towards Blur or it wasn't done. Presumably, the temptation now would be to keep the 'Blurish' stuff for Blur, and the more experimental stuff for the other projects.

Could be wrong, of course...

I object to the "Midlife" title as well. It's just dumb.

Is that an assassination threat?

Goodness no, are you just making some kind of bad joke or something? No offense, but I don't get it.

If they'd had an album or song called "Young Life" or something earlier in their career, I'd have no problem with the title.

Oh, by the way, they really should do "Out of Time", it's damn good. Graham can have a rest if he feels strongly...

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:43 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm with you on this. One of his sweetest melodies

Judging from the gig yesterday at Brixton, they are doing it as part of their set, along with nearly every single apart from Bang and On Your Own.

ah good.

I see "Crazy Beat" is the only Thinktank single not on the comp.

yeah, it's rub.

those are two of their better singles xp

"on your own" anyway, love that song.

"bang" along with much of "leisure" is hella underrated

i mean it's their second-worst classic line-up album, but such is the quality of the others that it could hardly be anything else. parklife ftl.

PL>MLIR>BLUR>GE>13>LEISURE>TT

get rid of the last two and flip the arrows around imo

my go:

BLUR>MLIR>13>TT>PL>GE>LEISURE

MLIR > ... don't really like the others but i guess PL > BLUR = TGE > LEISURE > 13 > never heard THINK TANK, never going to

They meant a lot to me in the mid-1990s, but I think I'd find them hard to listen to now - except maybe 'she's so high' which I always adored.

I sorta understand, Pinefox - I loved them a lot more in the moment than afterwards. Like, Great Escape was a fantastic album, but I never felt the need to pull it out after that initial run with it.

I had a strange experience listening to Midlife where I couldn't tell if the stuff had been heavily remastered and how much it was just that I mostly listened to their first three records on cassette.

If they'd had an album or song called "Young Life" or something earlier in their career, I'd have no problem with the title.

― Subway to Idaho (Bimble), Friday, June 19, 2009 9:08 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Consolation: Parklife?

Once one of them dies they can release an "Afterlife" or maybe "Parklife II: Sitting on a bench, complaining about kids these days"