#221

I think both them songs are kind of saved by having a great middle eight, Up in the Sky too.

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#222

I would say maybe No Surprises on OK Computer, it’s a good song but never really fit with the rest of the album.

#223

Think it sounds quite refreshing after climbing up the walls goes mental

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#224

I used to think this, until after years of owning and listening to AFTP, Everybody Hurts just clicked. Still don’t understand how or why, but it fits in pretty seamlessly now to me.

#225

Yeah that’s fair, will give it some more time. Pretty open minded.

#226

it’s supposed to be the Sparklehorse-aping lullaby after the storm of Climbing Up The Walls. On paper it shouldn’t work, but it does.

#227

Good shout…There’s an argument to say that about Blur in general…agree about Crazy Beat…awful and wasn’t it influenced by Norman Cook and that highly disposable scene Big Beat a few years too late…Moroccan peoples…annoying…We’ve got a file on you is harmless fun…Gene by Gene - annoying but I don’t mind it…disagree about Jets…the unfortunate big beat influence looms but I dig it nonetheless…especially the jazzy outro

#228

I’ve always liked Perfect Circle, fits fine in the album, but I can also see why it is a bit boring compared to the rest.

But, Revolver (Yellow Submarine…)

#229

Think Tank is great including most of the songs you mentioned. Jets is one of the best on there.

i’m not even the biggest Blur fan, only really like the later albums.

#230

ahem:

#231

I can see why Jets would divide opinion a bit, but it just feels like self indulgent dicking about to me. Like maybe they didn’t feel they album was long enough and were out of material, so decided to hit record and play for 6 about minutes.

The worst thing about the others like you say is that they’re incredibly irritating. On most of the other albums (barring Great Escape) I find them pretty consistent and any I don’t like are more down to over-exposure than outright dislike.

@Icarus-Smicarus - for me, they miss Graham massively on Think Tank. They can get away with it on the likes of Out of Time because they have such sweet melodies and feel a bit more like Gorillaz tracks anyway, but the noisier ones feel so roughly fleshed out and simplistic because there’s a big hole in the middle of their sound that none of the others are able to fill.

#232

My take is Ambulance is really great, Out Of Time is absolutely amazing, Crazy Beat is a bit daft, Good Song is really nice, then the album is just kind of boring until Battery In Your Leg.

#233

ha ha. I can hear the QI klaxon going off…

You’re probably right. ON songwriting terms GDS is pretty crap. But on sheer annoyingness YS wins hands down surely?

#234

I don’t mind it at all tbh. Quite like the little sound effects and stuff.

#235

I tend to find myself wanting to skip ‘Nothing Is’ on MBV.

I do kind of dig the effect that that repetition has in my noggin as I listen to it from time to time, but - whenever I listen to that album - I tend to think “fuck off, pal” when ‘Nothing Is’ starts. It’s like when you’re replaying a game, and you remember a certain level that’s slightly a bit of a nuisance.

#236

A quite weird suggestion because I love the track and I love the album it’s on, but I’ve never felt that ‘In Kind’ was a fitting closer to Braids’ ‘Flourish / Perish’. It sounds like the intro track to a different album and I think either of the two B-side tracks on the ‘In Kind / Amends’ EP would have fit better as a way of closing the album.

#237

I like how it slowly builds in intensity and then basically pulls the rug underneath the listener by completely pulling back at the last minute.

#238

Was Jazz Police mentioned?
Surely, the archetypal example of this. I think it was the only song from I’m Your Man that wasn’t played at some point after LC returned to touring.

#239

You’re thinking of D’Yer Maker

#240

(If This Isn’t Filler) Nothing Is

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