Read the Damon Albarn interview in Q today. Blur did have a fairly long and successful career. I quite dig them. How would you rank their catalogue? For me, it's: 1. 13 2. Blur 3. Parklife 4. Leisure 5. The Great Escape 6. Modern Life Is Rubbish 7. Think Tank I'm not all that familiar with Modern Life now I think about it. Pretty sure it's better than Think Tank though
you know what's really sad, all i have is Parklife i do love Blur though .. but i can't answer your question.
I was quite into them at one stage, but they're a band I feel I left behind a long time ago. If I were to listen to anything by Blur these days I think it'd be "Song 2" or possibly "She's So High" off of Leisure for purely nostalgic reasons! I have a few of the albums but they haven't been listened to for a very long time! Graham Coxon was the talent in the band and I've followed his solo career with interest Albarn Schmalbarn:tongue:
Haven't heard any of Coxon's solo efforts. I caught him doing a live show for Channel 4 a while back...Seemed canny enough (and 'Freakin' Out' is a great tune), but he doesn't seem like an artist I'd pop on, just sitting about the house. Personally I wouldn't say he was the talent in Blur :tongue: I think I'd take both Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad and The Queen over Graham Coxon - Putting Albarn well in the lead! I like Blur a lot more these days than when they were active. At the time I suppose I found them a bit weirder than their poppyish singles let on. Like, I heard 'Song 2' and thought, wow, Blur are going very rock and roll. Sounds good. And then would hear something like 'Death of a Party' on the same album and think, what's this nonsense? Complete switch nowadays though, what I thought was too weird at 15 or whatever, sounds really quite impressive now.
I used to be a huge fan of blur until i couldn't even look at Damon or Alex anymore. I just can't seem to stand their personalities. But Damon, as has been said, really does shite lyrics, and Graham seems happy off doing his own thing. What a cute man Gra is I can't really say my fav album because i like different songs scattered from each cd. I liked the feel of Think Tank but i think they were to torn up from Gra leaving to have a real good album. It seemed really odd to me. Like an early unorganized gorillaz p: But blur is a great band.
