blur

its been since 1998 and their tour with pulp. i saw them at the Palace in LA, about half the size of 930 club. Should be amazing. I haven't bought the new album, and felt uncomfortable watching the Crazy Time video, it didn't look like Damon strumming the geetar, he should banging on the ivories instead. Hope they bring a guitarist with them on the road.

I think I saw them that year. Without pulp in a venue 4 times the size of 930 club. It was good fun. But then Scottish shows always were.

I hate the new material. Someone forgot the melodies.

Buy Think Tank… Best album they've made… but then again I like Zooropa, Pablo Honey, Monster, etc… It really is the style you associate with a group (and consequently become attached to if you like it)… I for one thought Parklife was blah… and never really internalized it (and really passed Blur off).. but Think Tank caught my attention and I will certainly be there next month. Melodies? (I disagree) but who needs 'em?

Me,

I am just so sorry lately that I havent found the time to complete this inane rhyme or write any kind of tune, I wonder if there's room?

I'm hoping its at least half a golden-oldies tour: There's No Other Way, For Tomorrow, Popscene, This is a Low… And I bum out every day thinking I should have bought that B-side? album that featured the porcelein Blur plate as its cover. They're still out there, I know.

There are plenty of melodies in Think Tank. Just no commercial Pop appeal that will get the MTV types jumping.

I've finally bought a copy of the limited edition Think Tank and am pleasantly surprised. I hated the first single (still think it's one of the weakest tracks on the album), but like the album as a whole. As some kind of comparison, I'd say it's their Sandinista. It may not be their best but it fits in well with the entire Blur catalogue. I don't think anyone wants a band to put out the same sounding album year after year. Well, maybe Mankie does, but he's an old curmudgeon bastard. ;)

Originally posted by Yank:


I don't think anyone wants a band to put out the same sounding album year after year.

That policy seems to have worked well for GBV from what I'm told!

Actually, not too many artists can get away with changing musical direction every album and produce quality everytime….Bowie would be the exception.

Anyway, what's so wrong in finding your 'niche' and sticking with it?

i just realized that the clash debut record sounds exactly like sandinista..

and erasure still sounds as fresh today as they did when they first came out…

mankie finally admits to being a status quo fan.

Originally posted by bungle bud:
mankie finally admits to being a status quo fan.

huh! :(

finding your niche and sticking with it……plus your denim jacket with ROCKIN ALL OVER THE WORLD on it :D

Originally posted by kosmo:
i just realized that the clash debut record sounds exactly like sandinista..

and erasure still sounds as fresh today as they did when they first came out…

I assume that you're taking the piss!? My copy of Sandinista must be different than yours.

Originally posted by mankie:


Anyway, what's so wrong in finding your 'niche' and sticking with it?

How about that cd you've just bought, 'Universal Hall'? I think The Waterboys sound changes, which is a good thing. They aren't all just 'rock' nor all just 'Celtic folk'. The new Blur album isn't a 180 degree change in style. You're not going to play it and think it's Linkin Park!

Originally posted by myuman:
Buy Think Tank… Best album they've made… but then again I like Zooropa, Pablo Honey, Monster, etc… It really is the style you associate with a group (and consequently become attached to if you like it)… I for one thought Parklife was blah… and never really internalized it (and really passed Blur off).. but Think Tank caught my attention and I will certainly be there next month. Melodies? (I disagree) but who needs 'em?

I hate Pablo Honey like everyone else but Monster and Zooropa are pretty great. I think waiting 4 years has a very large effect on my appreciation of the album. If I were to get into Blur after they broke up, I wouldn't have expectations riding on Think Tank, and probably would have thought that it's alright. But how could they follow up the two best albums of their career with this mess? Oh, that's right, they fired their guitar player and decided to have Damon strum two chords and let pro tools take care of the rest.

Originally posted by bungle bud:
finding your niche and sticking with it……plus your denim jacket with ROCKIN ALL OVER THE WORLD on it :D

I know, I know…I was on 270 on the way home when I realized what you meant.

Yank….I never said change was a bad thing…but not changing isn't a bad thing either. As for Universal Hall, I think it's somewhat of a change back to his earlier stuff, especially his two solo albums. Have you heard it yet?

Hey Scientist – and you thought Sonic Youth was pretentious? I picked this up from the HFS website.

Crazy Instruments

Blur's Alex James reveals that the band's upcoming album, Think Tank (due Tuesday), finds the British rockers playing some unusual, self-crafted instruments – including ones made of potatoes and goatskin. "[We used] whatever was at hand, treated in weird ways and made nasty," the bassist says. "I'm amazed more bands don't explore more of the vast possibilities in making a record."

I think I just came.

It think I said yesterday. Most bands need to stop making more than three albums.

White Stripes
Blur
Radiohead
Placebo

have all gotten worse.

Blur always were really pretentions art school wankers. Now I just wish they would go away/or perpetually do the parklife tour.

Originally posted by the scientist:
I think I just came.

It think I said yesterday. Most bands need to stop making more than three albums.

White Stripes
Blur
Radiohead
Placebo

have all gotten worse.

Blur always were really pretentions art school wankers. Now I just wish they would go away/or perpetually do the parklife tour.

Well I think Blue tend to have a two brilliant albums then a crap one trend (if you ignore leisure). Great Escape and Think Tank are their "We've run out of steam, need to change our direction" albums.

Originally posted by mjnova:
Well I think Blur tend to have a two brilliant albums then a crap one trend (if you ignore leisure). Great Escape and Think Tank are their "We've run out of steam, need to change our direction" albums.

Well then you would be wrong


1991
Leisure [UK]
 
Food/SBK

1993
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Food/SBK

1994
Parklife
Food/SBK

1995
The Great Escape
Food/Virgin


1997
Blur
Food/Virgin

 


1999
13
Food/Virgin


2003
Think Tank

Blur have one masterpiece, their third album (2+1). The albums before were working up to that. The albums after were all a let downs. Having the guitarist leave means hopefully this will be the deaththrows of the band.

4 years to come up with Think tank…..Counldnt he have mananged some melodies in that time? Oh wait, he gave them all to Gorrillaz.