Actually, they apparently played MSG with Courtney Barnett in 2015 too - totally missed that.
― birdistheword, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
I'm miserable to have still never seen them but I can't really afford this
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 14 November 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
Playing their classic album The Magic Whip in full, no encores
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 14 November 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
Suede are finally touring America; wish that old rivalry would spur Blur to do the same. I’m generally wary of reunion shows but Pavement were so good that I’m open to taking chances. Well, that and my work discount on concert tickets means I’m only out $10 or so.
― blatherskite, Monday, 14 November 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
Holding on for tomorrow Never-before-seen, coming soon in technicolour#modernlifeisrubbish pic.twitter.com/cXjyR6xMaM— blur (@blurofficial) May 9, 2023
Some kind of MLIR 30th anniversary reissue fest? Maybe I can finally throw away my StarShaped VHS.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 20:07 (eleven months ago) link
The Starshaped DVD had the sound all fucked for the main feature. They never recalled it.
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:01 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, a terrible shame, all the music portions are distorted, EMI really fucked it up.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:30 (eleven months ago) link
surprise!
New album, The Ballad of Darren, out 21st July 2023.https://t.co/NYFL2LW7On pic.twitter.com/5uh5O5q5yl— blur (@blurofficial) May 18, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 May 2023 16:31 (eleven months ago) link
excited to hear if it's somehow even worse than the magic whip
― imago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 16:34 (eleven months ago) link
I'm so fuckin excited
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:02 (eleven months ago) link
The album cover is brilliant btw
post-13 i've only paid attention to anything Albarn-related via singles (mostly gorillaz) but that coachella performance is enough to have me looking forward to this one, and maybe i should check out magic whip
― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:05 (eleven months ago) link
the magic whip has its moments. a few.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:06 (eleven months ago) link
It wouldn’t take much for this record to be better than the last one, which was stunningly … I don’t even wanna say bad, it just didn’t register with me at all.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:08 (eleven months ago) link
don't believe i ever heard think tank either.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:08 (eleven months ago) link
think tank is nearly as good as 13 imo. ppl who hate "jets" be quiet
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
(I’ll defend TT any day of the week, but acknowledge that I’m very much in the minority there.)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:10 (eleven months ago) link
missed opportunity to make a concept album called Tory Cheese Twat
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:10 (eleven months ago) link
other post-13 albarn worth checking out: good bad queen
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:11 (eleven months ago) link
don't think I have ever listened to think tank all the way through, but I've listened to the magic whip at least twice. ama.(didn't bother with think tank because I couldn't stand 'tender' and the song titles looked stupid)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:13 (eleven months ago) link
Magic Whip & Think Tank are flippin great
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:13 (eleven months ago) link
oh tender was on 13. Well I haven't listened to that either.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:15 (eleven months ago) link
Interesting to hear them wholeheartedly embrace the full-throated anthemic Britpop sound they've studiously avoided since, like 1999!
― Davey D, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:16 (eleven months ago) link
correct
― Davey D, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:17 (eleven months ago) link
13 is a really good album!
― omar little, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:18 (eleven months ago) link
― Davey D, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:18 (eleven months ago) link
I mean Crazy Beat is kinda naff and the sax part of Jets is daft as a brush but otherwise it rules
Still impressed by the audacity of having Damon take over lead guitar duties and it somehow working
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:24 (eleven months ago) link
13 and Think Tank are phenomenal and two of my favourite albums ever.
Yeah Crazy Beat and that but even so.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:29 (eleven months ago) link
think tank is uneven but one of the better blur albums. 13 is still albarn's best work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gr8Z3rUeJM
this is thankfully much better than anything on the magic whip which was dreadful. the 2012 singles were pretty good though
― ufo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:30 (eleven months ago) link
I'm surprised the band still generates such enthusiasm tbh. I don't mean it as backhanded snark. I have'em stuck in their 1992-2003 peak and never meet anyone in the wild who mentions the '90s stuff. Hell, last week I downloaded the 2000 comp for walking purposes and ended up skipping way too many songs ("Charmless Man," ugh). My local bookstore plays "Coffee & TV" ad infinitum in this playlist I can tell is called "Eighties/Nineties UK Indie" (Smiths, the Sundays, etc.).
The eponymous album and the slow stuff on 13 ("Caramel") are just about all I need.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:31 (eleven months ago) link
That might be because, CB and File on You aside, it never rocks out - no matter how abrasive Damon's guitar can occasionally get elsewhere. Alex and Dave power the record.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:32 (eleven months ago) link
they were always pretty uneven really, a mostly great singles act but most of the albums are messes. 13 was just where they turned all the mess into brilliant noise. "caramel" is their best track
still kinda amazed how prolific albarn is, gorillaz just put out an album a few months ago (which i probably should get around to, the one before it was something of a return to form)
― ufo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:35 (eleven months ago) link
They've all been prolific this year sans Alex - this is the fourth Blur-related new album of the year.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:41 (eleven months ago) link
Great news! Can't understand people hating on the Magic Whip at all.
― Valentijn, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:53 (eleven months ago) link
Magic Whip just didn't have any of the playfulness or imagination of their other work. It sounded like "what people who don't really care one way or the other about Blur imagine when they think of Blur"
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:55 (eleven months ago) link
There are at least a dozen pages on the Hoffman board Blur featuring a certain banned member from here telling everyone else they don't like it
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
Magic Whip was/is good but in the light of day a lesser Blur record. No bad songs, some great ones, some okay ones. The glow of its 2015 rollout will make me think of it fondly forever though.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
It had pretty much nothing which sounded like a 'proper' single like they used to do, which might have been a harder sell for some
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:59 (eleven months ago) link
it was just tuneless and half-baked. some terrible synth sounds too.
no proper singles yeah, but also nowhere near as compelling as the experimentation of 13 and think tank.
― ufo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:06 (eleven months ago) link
it was limp schlock with a very unfortunate side-order of asian exoticism. only 'go out' and the opener bang. ffs
― imago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:08 (eleven months ago) link
'no bad song' my brother in britpop 'new world towers' is the second track
― imago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:09 (eleven months ago) link
some okay ones
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:28 (eleven months ago) link
my favourite classic-Britpop-band album-release news of the day is that there's a new Electric Soft Parade ftr :D
― imago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:53 (eleven months ago) link
A silver disc of their first album hangs in a pub not far from me and I cannot remember why.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:54 (eleven months ago) link
I'm not sure how excited I am about this, I'm a fan and own a bunch of singles but I don't think I actually liked them that much. They're good but overrated.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:03 (eleven months ago) link
i'm just pleasantly surprised that the single is decent enough
― ufo, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:20 (eleven months ago) link
Can't help feeling a bit excited about this, but mostly I'm just hoping they keep up their post-Think Tank two-good-songs-per-decade streak, at least. Looking forward to checking out the new song later - the comments here sound promising.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:22 (eleven months ago) link
One of the best songs on the record, wtf?
― Davey D, Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:34 (eleven months ago) link
this new single is absolute dreck imo, truly no songwriting detected
― imago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:29 (eleven months ago) link
new ESP single otoh is how you *do* a Britpop album preview track
― imago, Thursday, 18 May 2023 20:38 (eleven months ago) link