Thread 127445094

What does /mu/ think of Blur?

>>127445094 (OP)
Damon Albarn is actually a bad singer who's made the best of it. Not just one band, but two. I admire him. What all of us bad singers could hope for.

>>127445094 (OP)
fooken students

>>127445094 (OP)
Good until after the s/t album, then wank.

PARKLIFE

>>127445094 (OP)
Their earlier stuff reminds me of Cardiacs a little bit. Blur on really fucked up drugs was the first thing I thought of when I heard them. I think they supported the Essex lads once or twice.

>>127445152
13 is their best though

>>127445539
(you)

Blur were the mummy's boys – they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Blur, but they were never anywhere near Oasis – not for humor, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Damon Albarn dancing about. Fair enough, Blur made great records, but they were always shit on stage, whereas Oasis were the gear.

>>127446053
>when your main selling point isnt that you're good but that you're "more working class"

>>127445094 (OP)
gay

>>127445094 (OP)
unc you are too old for 4chan

Don't particularly care for them, but I like 'There's No Other Way' a lot for some reason. Maybe because it's reminiscent to those jingly advert tunes I used to hear a lot on TV as a kid

I was Oasis in my yoof, then got old and listen to more Blur now.

>>127446204
There are people in their 60s and 70s posting on /pol/. I really want them to leak out of there, so we can enjoy them too.

>>127445094 (OP)
Always liked both Blur and Oasis as a kid. Since the Oasis reunion had a little relisten to both.

Oasis are like a fast food chain. Simple but MEGA and hits the spot. Noel Gallagher had a great ear for melody and he hides his sensitive lyrics behind his Mancunian bravado. Liam's voice is unbelievable. Made 2 albums i can listen to no skips maybe 3

Blur are the better and more daring musicians. Damon's voice when he's doing punk/rock grates a bit but on tender stuff like No Distance Left To Run is so aching. Coxon is a very unique guitarist, James actually can play bass. Blur never made an album i can no skip.

Watching both Oasis and Blur docs, Oasis are way funnier, Blur are alcoholics you have to admire Damon and Noel's drive to succeed

Combined group
Drums: Alan White
Bass: James
Guitar: Coxon
Solo guitar: Noel
Singer: Liam
Songwriter: Damon+Noel

Their britpop albums are unlistenable now but they only became good with s/t anyway

the great escape is one of the greatest albums ever. so is the magic whip.

graham coxon is a great guitarist, alex james is a great bassist.

>>127447504
>graham coxon is a great guitarist

Yes.

Only their debut has merit

>>127446535
>Always liked both Blur and Oasis as a kid. Since the Oasis reunion had a little relisten to both.
>
>Oasis are like a fast food chain. Simple but MEGA and hits the spot. Noel Gallagher had a great ear for melody and he hides his sensitive lyrics behind his Mancunian bravado. Liam's voice is unbelievable. Made 2 albums i can listen to no skips maybe 3
>
>Blur are the better and more daring musicians. Damon's voice when he's doing punk/rock grates a bit but on tender stuff like No Distance Left To Run is so aching. Coxon is a very unique guitarist, James actually can play bass. Blur never made an album i can no skip.
>
>Watching both Oasis and Blur docs, Oasis are way funnier, Blur are alcoholics you have to admire Damon and Noel's drive to succeed
>
>Combined group
>Drums: Alan White
>Bass: James
>Guitar: Coxon
>Solo guitar: Noel
>Singer: Liam
>Songwriter: Damon+Noel

>>127447504
What's your combined Blur+Oasis group? Love Coxon's guitar playing

I used to like Blur better but I've come around to Oasis' superiority. Blur is good, There's No Other Way, Song 2, Girls & Boys and Beetlebum are classics, but sometimes I wished they embraced a harder rock sound instead of silly britpop fodder

>>127447698
with the whole oasis vs blur thing i'd say it's like comparing ac/dc to duran duran

>>127447723
Bank Holiday rocks harder than anything Noels managed to shit out

>>127449052
I am familiar with the song, and as good a song as it is, I do not perceive it to be on an equal footing to, nor in excess of, Headshrinker in terms of "hardness".

More like "Turd"!

Oasis >>> Anything Damon Albarn

>>127449135
Fucking U2 have numbers that rock harder than Headshrinker

>>127445094 (OP)
Blue are shite

I like Leisure. Good album.

>>127447504
>the great escape is one of the greatest albums ever. so is the magic whip.
Odd choices

>>127446053
Blur had way better lyrics than Oasis, not as witty as Pulp though

>>127447652
Dumbest contrarian opinion i háve ever seen, the debut is basically their Pablo Honey

>>127449363
Remember that tripfag who was obsessed with Hating them and spammed the board?

I genuinely do not understand the feud with Oasis. I do not consider them comparable or fungible in any way, except maybe being Bri'ish.

>>127449556
>I genuinely do not understand the feud with Oasis.
they were the two biggest bands in britain at the time, what's difficult to understand?

>>127449556
It was mainly pushed by the media

>>127449562
The second sentence I explain why.

>>127449573
Damon talked a good game and Blur's record company were quite happy to fuck around (and, as it were, find out). Oasis were oddly the most passive party in all this.

>>127449615
>Oasis were oddly the most passive party in all this.

>>127449622
A bit of well-earned knife-twisting.

>>127445830
He's right though. 13 is Blur's best.
13 > S/T > Porkloif > Think Tank > MLIR > The Great Escape > The Magic Whip > TBOD > Leisure

>>127445094 (OP)
XTC for normies

>>127447723
Damon's voice just isn't made for hard rock at all, as much as he wishes he was Liam he's not (and Noel for sure wishes he was as adventurous as Damon)
>>127447896
B v O was a defining moment in the 90s

>>127449711
Why does Leisure get shit on? She's So High, There's No Other Way & Bang are great songs. I just think people have never listened to it.

>>127450350
It's pretty uninspired besides the singles, Sing is the only other interesting track

I don't think anyone considers Bad Day, Fool, Come Together or Birthday their favorite Blur songs

>>127450350
Because most songs sound like knock off Stone Roses

>She'll suck your thumb
>She'll make you cum
Really? Why write lyrics such as these?

>>127445094 (OP)
S/T was my first rock album and got me into rock music (I got into them through Gorillaz when I was a kid). Huge influence growing up, but I only really cared for the later, alt-rock and Radioheadish stuff. The britpop never jived with me, probly because I'm not a brit.

Also The Magic Whip was a good comeback album.

>>127447652
very shit take

>>127450636
He wrote the song after doing heroin with the Elastica girl

recently been getting into 13, now trimm trabb is one of my favorite songs. i also like the guy on the cover

Albarn has managed to create great albums throughout three decades. I wonder if he will be able to pull it off in this decade

>>127447504
The Great Escape may no be its best album, but damn, their guitar work is excellent.

>>127452280
Well, we're in the middle of it. Let's see what he's got to offer.

This thread was unimaginably atupid

woo hoo

>>127447504
>>127452578
>the great escape
It has a bunch of their best songs imo

>he thought of cars
>the universal
>best days
>Fade away (hugely underrated)
>globe alone
>country house
>Yukon and hiro

I've only kept their Best Of, but what album tracks should i listen to? Let's say a top 3

>>127455807
Go with
>Tracy Jacks
>You're so Great
>Caramel

>>127456127
>>127456127
Really liked YSG and Caramel a lot, TJ not so much as i'm not fond of Damon's shouty punky voice. Thanks anon i'll have to delve in deeper see what i like

>>127452838
A lot of it yes, but that's what you get for browsing /mu/.

>>127456667
Cool. Then I'd recommend checking out their Blur, 13 (my personal favourite) and Think Tank albums. These are the ones you'll probably like the most.