This thread is the first thing I look at every morning. I'm so very grateful.
Starshaped is almost anthemic. It's certainly bursting with colour. It's also one of the songs XTC nutters mention when they insist Albarn weaved references into his lyrics ("I've been making plans...").
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/20/285x214/8478_1.jpg
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
40. All Your Life(5 votes, 114 points)
I also love you putting the pic and song in separate posts because on first glance it looks like the pic is a response to the previous post.
All Your Life was one of my last-minute "oh I need 22 songs??" entries. Probably my favourite B side.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm having to restrain myself from just posting all of the tracks one after the other in about ten minutes.
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ahahaha I can imagine
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 May 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I always get confused between this and Til The Cows Come Home. As such I can't remember how this one goes.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Saturday, 28 May 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
A brief interlude:I'd just like to mention two high-placed songs on my ballot that have missed the cut (I don't think this is really much of a spoiler as nobody would have expected them to feature especially highly):Mellow Songand CaravanWhy no love, ILX?
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 28 May 2011 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Mellow Song? Is that the one with the pretty piano chords and starts "what am I to do..?" if so I thought I did vote for it.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Saturday, 28 May 2011 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a roundup
61. Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club60. Intermission59. Colin Zeal57. One Born Every Minute57. When The Cows Come Home55. Coping55. Magic America54. Globe Alone53. Inertia51. Miss America51. Country House50. Parklife49. Charmless Man48. Ambulance47. 199246. Essex Dogs45. Song 244. Country Sad Ballad Man43. No Distance Left To Run42. Strange News From Another Star41. Starshaped40. All Your Life
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 May 2011 09:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Mellow Song? Is that the one with the pretty piano chords and starts "what am I to do..?"
No, that's Sweet Song. Mellow Song is the one on 13 which goes "is this where I'm going to? we'll see" (except it sounds more like "we're sea").
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 28 May 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
On 13? I can't picture it but I know it's on the decent stretch of the album where I don't skip any tracks
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Saturday, 28 May 2011 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"I lift my string on the guillotine, pulling away in my machine,forget where I've been, I for - get you"(or something like that)Ring any bells?
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 28 May 2011 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.johnnyikon.com/data/articles/2009/04/3063/Picture7.png
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 28 May 2011 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
39. She's So High (7 votes, 115 points)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 28 May 2011 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc 'I Know' was on the flip of this. Prefer 'I Know' ever so slightly but love both really.
― pandemic, Saturday, 28 May 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
All Your Life is great. "on the way to heaven in a comedy car, the new stars of melancholia"
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Saturday, 28 May 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/07/article-0-096CDAA0000005DC-340_306x521.jpg
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
38. Entertain Me(6 votes, 117 points)
One of the best Blur basslines
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Love love love "Entertain Me", one of Damon's sharpest dissections of the end of civilization riding this beautiful Berlin-era-Iggy droney New Wave anti-riff. The weekend's here, hip. hip. hooray.
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 May 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
of all the pictures xp
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 29 May 2011 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I should have had Entertain Me on my list, love that bass line.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 29 May 2011 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.imagesfromhere.com/archives/Grate%20Work%206794.jpg
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
=36. You're So Great(6 votes, 120 points)
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh, I hate that.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
ahahahaha brilliant. So glad this song got a few votes. The last 30 seconds is sublime.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 29 May 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
You're so great I'm indifferent to, but yeah I like the little guitar solo towards the end. Other than that it represents a filler triumvirate (theme from retro/ysg/death of a party) towards the middle of the album where songwriting dips. Not that these are necessarily bad songs but taken together they make the album flabby, especially compared to the first few tracks on the record.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Sunday, 29 May 2011 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I might have to relisten to Entertain Me again. At the time I remember thinking it was a poor man's Girls an Boys and the Live It! Remix sounded like Take That, which was just about the worst thing imaginable in my book at the time
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Sunday, 29 May 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Always liked "Entertain Me", and I'm really glad to see it here - never knew anyone else rated the track.
I disagree about "Death of a Party" being part of any weak triumvirate - it's one the strongest Blur ST tracks in my book
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 29 May 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://iamzac.com/images/bugman_small.jpg
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
36. Bugman(5 votes, 120 points)
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I love this one. It shatters any illusions you might have had coming into 13 for the first time - Tender was the single ahead of the album and then the first track on it, this could scarcely be more different, right from the off with the jarringly unusual chords.
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Bugman!
― billstevejim, Sunday, 29 May 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://iceyboard.no-ip.org/images/whitenoise.gif
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
35. Me, White Noise(5 votes, 121 points)
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
YAY
(of course, if this is #35, I should give up on seeing "Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb" probably.)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, just realised this is the first track with a first place vote, so that should have read:(5 votes, 1 first place, 121 points)
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever
Pretty sure I only heard this the one time but remember thinking it was terrible, that was a long time ago though.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
It's more of a chant with a beat than an actual song, but I love it anyway (enough to place it #2 on my own ballot).
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I just listened to it again on Youtube, I don't love it but it's no way near as bad as I remember. It's a very odd song, it sounds more like a Gorillaz track really.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Country House" woz robbed (and my ballot I think never made it for some reason. Dunno, but I got a mail failure notice)
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
(My ballot did of course have "Country House" on top - one of the best songs ever made by anyone)
Is The Great Escape your favourite Blur album Geir?
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I consider that "The Great Escape" and "Parklife" rather equal in quality.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I do have a lot of time for The Great Escape but there's too much filler on there.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking at the track listing for The Great Escape if you took out Charmless Man, Top Man, Mr Robinson's Quango, Ernold Same and Dan Abnormal you would have a pretty great 10 track album. The only thing I would really change about Parklife is to have not heard the title track so many times so I could still bear to hear it.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
X-Post: The filler is the main problem about "The Great Escape", but the highlights are fantastic. And, as for the worst tracks, "Globe Alone" > "Bank Holiday". Although by a narrow margin (and "Chinese Bombs" is worse than both)
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 29 May 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://companiesresources.com/images/Thomas-Cook.gif
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
34. Advert(7 votes, 122 points)
― non voglio parlarne (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 29 May 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
That's the sixth song from MLIR, and we're not even in the top 30 yet. Surprising?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 29 May 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link