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Awesome 2 |
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07/09/05 (56 review reads) |
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Advantages: good melodies/never stay the same/some great songs
Disadvantages: Graham's gone:(
They have the critics. The ones that say they are a singles band and the album tracks don't live up to much or that some of the singles are not very good. But, I think that all the singles are good, the album tracks are better.
Blur have managed to survive the britpop label by constantly changing and evolving, yet still keeping a sound unique to them. You have Damon's lyrics and keyboards, Graham's guitar, Alex's basslines and Dave's drumming. This makes Blur what they are (ok so Graham has gone now sadly). The melodies are there and they make the songs. To me Popscene is one of the good songs but didn't make it onto an album. Movin' On, Trimm Trabb, Best Days and This Is A Low are among the best album tracks. These cover most of their albums, the weakest being their first Leisure. All Blur fans have their favourites.
The best to me however is seeing them live. One of the best performance I have seen was on television and showed their Glastonbury performance a few years ago - 1998 I think. They played a new song called Southpark as it was going to be on the Southpark album. This song changed for the album and its title was changed to Trailerpark. Yet the album version wasn't as good. Plus, you cannot beat the atmosphere of a crowd singing along to all your favourite songs.
The Best of Blur album has all the favourites single wise, but it is the album tracks which deserve a listening to. As for seeing them live, that is not possible at the moment. I suggest seeing an early video from 1994, called Showtime. This video shows Blur at their best, in Britpop era in front of lots of fans, with great audience interaction. It's filmed at Ally Pally (alexandria palace) in London.
Best albums -
Parklife/Modernlife is Rubbish for songs like Parklife
The Great Escape for a good album despite the annoying country house (yes Blur themselves think that) the beautiful The Universal and other good songs are on there
Blur for some good album tracks but a darker album
13 for some good album tracks but tinged with a broken heart
Think Tank for nice pretty songs without such a harsh edge, perhaps influenced by Damon's trip to Malawi
Summary: A constantly changing, great band.
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