Blur: Classic Or Dud

If they were a proper news outlet

I don't think anyone could accuse NME.com of being that. It's poker-faced news aggregration, polls and listicles.

feel like the onus might be more on Q magazine to offer the second medical opinion here? which they might well do for all I know, I can't say I was planning to read the article

it's pretty irresponsible to run that story in a kids' comic tho

Q raises an eyebrow at the claim but I don't see why you would call in a medical expert to comment on the 90s drug habit of someone they've never met. Should there be medical testimony in interviews with Lemmy? Or a doctor in a Snoop article warning of the dangers of excessive marijuana consumption? It's an interview. It's not Damon's Official Guide to Kicking the Brown.

core demographic for the publisher is dim 12 year-olds tho

i mean yeah publish what you want but in context this is some "not so fast, Nick O'Teen" shit

don't really care just feel like a fight with any of the interested parties

Anyone stupid enough to assume from this that aspirin is a surefire way to quit heroin is beyond help imo.

Teenagers prob don't even know or care who Damon Albarn is anyway.

What I really dislike in these situations is when an interview subject goes all sanctimonious about FAMILEEEEEEE as if the journalist is causing more damage to the subject's relationships by asking about drug use than the subject's actual drug use caused to their family relationships. FYI Damon's parents/partner didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday and are not exactly naive when it comes to this stuff.

That report sounds like it's been written to make Albarn look like a tremendous cock. These sound like quotes taken from some wider ramble. Doesn't stop what he said being massively irresponsible and twattish though.

But Damon didn't have his current partner or any kids when he was doing heroin. That's the family he's referring to, specifically his daughter.

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN. *hurls*

(sorry, Dorian, he's still being sanctimonious)

That report sounds like it's been written to make Albarn look like a tremendous cock.

Many Blur interviews I've read and watched make Damon look like a tremendous cock, and I say that as a fan of his. He seems like a tremendous cock.

^

He's a weird combo of 'cock' and 'basically OK'.

I'll just never forget that footage of him blowing his gasket in a pitiful strop at some Icelandic orchestra in some old Blur doc from some years back. Justine seemed lovely when I did some work with her a few years back, though.

Watching the fluctuating and sometimes contradictory synthesis between rampant-ego popstar Damon and unashamedly enthusiastic music-nut Damon is most of the fun with him tbh. Gave Cardiacs their biggest support slot so can never hate him

Hmm, I didn't see it as sanctimonious. I read it as "oh shit maybe I shouldn't be talking about this in public because I have a teenage daughter". The NME piece makes it seem that he just came out and said it in one smooth monologue but I think it was drawn out of him by the interviewer.

I've met Damon three times and always found him unusually charmless but the countless musicians who have worked with him don't seem to have many complaints.

That strop in the South Bank Show always seemed like a put-upon anyway, one perhaps the other musicians weren't informed about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8UJ1JNYJR0

His mum gave him those though :(

I'll just never forget that footage of him blowing his gasket in a pitiful strop at some Icelandic orchestra

i need to see this

new album comin?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-MrB6WCcAEGSAC.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-M4GBuIgAAx9DN.jpg

Copping Mogwai's use of east Asian script on an album cover. Maybe that t-shirt hit home?

check their Facebook now

well, their Instagram has a photo of a countdown on it and says then to go their FB

Their fb says new album April 27th

Damon has been putting out shit for so long now, this will be corny bollocks won't it

http://pitchfork.com/news/58542-blur-announce-the-magic-whip-first-new-album-in-twelve-years/

I liked "Fool's Day" and "Under the Westway" alright, so maybe this won't be disappointing.

Closing track has the same title as an Elbow song, grats Damon

hope it's a cover of the entire neil young album of the same name

it's taken this long for me to realise your DN isn't 'bizarro gazza'(!)

lol

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Ben_Gazarra_-_still.jpg/220px-Ben_Gazarra_-_still.jpg
"Moaty... Moaty... I brought you some chicken, Moaty..."

hahaha

a+

Well fucking hell, here's something I wasn't quite expecting to happen!

first new track Go Out on Spotify

http://open.spotify.com/track/28fIO3usQYbMN2TkRoLGTC

And it's underwhelming.

sounds like Trim Trabb sped up. very album track-y.

also the fact that this was all rushed off in a week doesn't bode well IMO.

actually it's a bit like Music Is My Radar

what with this and the announcement re a new gorillaz album.

guess that solo album really did bomb.

ha yeah was gonna say..

I'll at least be giving the new record a listen, even though I wasn't too taken with Damon's solo album (I found it more than a bit lacklustre, to be honest). Plastic Beach I always thought was a bit patchy too, even though it's not without its highlights. In terms of the stuff that Blur have done since Think Tank, I like 'Under The Westway' quite a lot, but 'Fool's Day' was a bit of a lazy Cutting Crew rip-off IMO.

actually it's a bit like Music Is My Radar

o rly *bookmarks*

this is not nearly enough like "Music Is My Radar"!

the single is okay, but it's not really a single, is it?

My first impression is that I like how this is a guitar song, front and centre, with distortion and stuff. Some of the lyrics sound like they are trying too hard except for the chorus which is very fine.