Blur: Classic Or Dud

Setlist still a bit too straightforward for my tastes. We got Trimm Trabb, Oily Water and Death Of A Party but they were just about the ONLY concessions to avant-Blur.

Dream Blur setlist:

Battle
On Your Own
Slow Down
Best Days
Bugman
Ambulance
He Thought Of Cars
Blue Jeans
Chemical World
Beetlebum
I'm Just A Killer For Your Love
1992
Dan Abnormal
Birthday
Resigned

*encore 1*
Trouble In The Message Centre
Caramel
This Is A Low

*encore 2*
Clover Over Dover
Essex Dogs
Yuko & Hiro

Strongly doubt Dave Rowntree would be able to play Slow Down these days. Really strongly doubt it.

jesus for a second I thought that was the actual setlist

i dunno the crowd could take the excitement of the classic

I'm Just A Killer For Your Love
1992
Dan Abnormal

run. i mean god, give them a chance!

If Blur played that exact set I would be, shall we say, somewhat elated

Dud. However, I wanna fuck Damon Albarn if that counts.

So Dud: http://www.holymoly.com/news/random/couple-dry-hump-crowd-blur-gig18749.html

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That would be a great gig, Louis, but I'm not really a fan of 1992. Replace it with 'Mellow Song' and I'll be there.

:o

Mellow Song is great as well but we're talking Coxon's finest hour, Damon's descent into the abyss, my own personal 13 joint-favourite (along with Battle, Caramel and Bugman; the four songs together represent Blur reaching a level so heroically elevated from their expected standard that I boggle now as to how they did it)...

I mean I can see why some people think it's a tuneless dirge but for me it's transcendent. And surely Sing is the natural replacement? :P

Glad you like the rest of the gig mind. Always thought Blur were at their most exciting when playing around slightly, or allowing subtlety into their songwriting, as my choices attest. Blue Jeans for instance is a beautiful little song but doesn't have the 'pop chops' of the far inferior For Tomorrow. Occasionally, Blur managed to balance great musical values with a fucking massive, populist tune (Beetlebum, Chemical World, On Your Own, This Is A Low) but for me they suited sophistication. Or mentalism.

dream setlist: anything at all, played in Toronto! I saw them 6 times as a teen.. I need more..

Blur's album Blur: Classic.
In recording their follow-up, Blur (1997), the band underwent another reinvention, influenced by the lo-fi style of American indie rock bands such as Pavement. "Song 2", one of the album's singles, brought Blur brief mainstream success in the US. -wiki
prolly shoulda left of that essex dogs track tho

prolly shoulda left of that essex dogs track tho

My dear fellow.

best opener: ambulance >>> beetlebum >>> stereotypes >>> she's so high >>> for tomorrow >>> tender >>> girls & boys
best closer: essex dogs >>> yuko & hiro >>> resigned >>> wear me down >>> optigan 1 >>> battery in your leg >>> lot 105

Are we talking about this anywhere?

There are sooo many Blur threads.

if you need to dance you can go to the gay bar next door

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hahaha wow. wrong c+p. this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iYxdghpJZY

we can talk about either, really

okay that looks pretty great. weird how there's nothing pre-the great escape on the soundtrack to the trailer though.

While browsing a local record store, I came across this Playstation car game. Something about the design of that logo looks a bit familiar.....

http://img353.imageshack.us/i/blur.jpg/

http://i.clevver.com/fullphoto/216966/500/950/blur-game-poster-1.jpg

Yeah, must be new then, I saw it just last week.

I'm not a gamer so it might well be older.

There's a night of Blur/Britpop on BBC4 tonight, folks.

I like the newest song quite a bit... "Fools Day."

Celebrity chef and journalist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been confirmed as a special guest at Harvest, the new food and music festival hosted by Alex James.

Due to take place on the Blur bassist's Cotswolds estate, the event will run from Friday September 9th to Monday September 12th.

A statement on the festival website described Fearnley-Whittingstall as "one of our Harvest heroes" and "an inspiration to the Harvest story".

Further information on the precise nature of the 46-year-old's involvement will be released nearer the time.

The musical line-up for Harvest includes Scottish songwriter KT Tunstall and newcomer Benjamin Francis Leftwich, as well as DJ sets from Gilles Peterson and Jo Whiley.

Tickets for the festival are now available online, priced at £105 for the full weekend.

Alex James is 43.

Would go if Fearnley-Whittingstall was DJing and Whiley was doing the cooking.

yeah, I bet she does a mean barbecue

/sexism

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud1kkduWQ1qc1ge6o1_400.gif

AWESOME!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPKXPgMkbc

holy shit

i quite like that

Blur have accepted the invite to headline the Olympics' Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert in Hyde Park on 12th August #blur

Bah, should've been N-Dubz.

https://p.twimg.com/AmIq5hVCMAEDx8R.jpg

I mean I know but that's the poster and they're the supporting acts and it's 1995

Mmmmmmmmm

Wow, the amount of nostalgia for the very recent past expressed in that poster "It's still the 90s! Cool Britannia!" and just... no. I was going to say it makes an improvement on 60s nostalgia or "we won the war" 40s nostalgia but actually, no, it really doesn't.

The song (and I never thought I'd say this about a Blur song) bored me. I say this as a former Blur obsessive so I'm not just hating for the sake of hating. I'm just having to come to accept that even though much of their work holds a deep and special place in my life, I have to add Blur to the long list of bands I used to love, but can no longer bring myself to care much about any more.

It's like every few years, Damon has a bit of a nostalgic, melancholy kind of day, and writes a song about sitting in West London feeling nostalgic and melancholy and he reunites Blur to record it, but the magic is gone because there isn't everything else surrounding them to support those moods - so the song is just kind of... there.

but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

(£55.00 Ticket + £6.00 Fees)

Nice to see London 2012 attempting to make a profit.

WCC, yes I know what you mean. The thing with Blur is:

Back when they were extant, they were Damon's number one outlet for all his thoughts, tribulations and personal matters. Alongside the 'everyman' anthems, the private thoughts and personal doubts, bis brances into differnt musical styles, all squeezed out of that Blur nozzle.

Now he has as many outlets as he likes, the 'cartoony' stuff via Gorillaz, the 'srs' via GoodBadQueen, his affectations to 'world' music via his contact list. And the stuff that sounds a bit like Blur via, um, Blur.

I managed to 'obtain' all the Smiths' remasterd tracks, but was really unmoved by hearing them again.

Whereas hearing the J&MC stuff again sent me straight back to Reverie Street.

Yeah, I quite agree. Except all of that stuff was squeezed through the nozzle of those specific four people, some of whom often actively fought his worse tendencies and stamped their own personalities and aesthetics onto the music. And I think that I found that nozzle more interesting than anything inherent about ~Damon~.

The concert's free isn't it?

WCCC mostly OTM. Though I admit to shedding bit of a tear when the boys played To The End on their Glasto reunion, I'm a different person to the teenager who obsessed over their back catalogue and bought all their singles. It's all too easy to feel cynical about their music now I understand the many many points of reference in their music (whereas before I hadn't really heard much by the Kinks, the Specials, Syd Barrett, Pavement or Wire), whereas now it's fairly obvious they were the Harry Potters of Britpop - a carefully arranged conglomeration of past influences, all wrapped up in a nice neat package.

Haven't heard the new song yet, but as WCCC says, there's something unnatural about getting a band together to try and recreate the spirit of something they no longer have. That said, I'd be overjoyed to be able to see them with NO and the Specials at Hyde Park, so...

I haven't heard this new one, I did hear "Bad Day", it's OK as far as it goes. If it was the 'first track heard from the new album' then yes I'd be interested. But at the moment, it's like a series of 'square one on the snakes and ladder board's where what I really want is to be taken up to 63 and fall to 49 and so on.

I got the 'Monkey' Cd for a pound (I think, might have been three) in Fopp a while ago. We (royal we there) were quite interested in seeing the show, but couldn't get tickets. After hearing the album, she said "well, I guess you had to be there, really"...

What's the Monkey CD?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey:_Journey_to_the_West

and the album is pretty shite to be honest ..

for my 40th i got a litho of one of the artworks for the show which is fantastic, but still not been able to listen to the album in one sitting.

The concert's free isn't it?

Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert @ Hyde Park
•12 August, 5.30pm-midnight
•Featuring Blur, The Specials and New Order
•Tickets £55+booking fee
◦on sale to BT customers 9am, Wednesday 22 February
◦on general sale 9am Friday 24 Februaryhttp://www.londonlive.bt.com/