Immensely irritating band members but a few good tunes over the years. Have a soft spot for the deep cuts on the great escape.
Despite liking coffee and TV their pavement thievery was otherwise fairly cringe. Would probably turn over if any of their big songs from parklife came on the radio.
Was nice when they played Chappel railway museum when they reformed. Loved them as a young kid but was probably too young to âget itâ properly. Think a lot of it doesnât stand up brilliantly now (see: all britpop) and Alex James is a proper tosser but their music is still better than oasisâ and theyâve got some good stuff. Might listen to park life for the first time in ages today
Obviously in giving them a 5 I am pretending a lot of stuff didnât really happen: Great Escape, 13, the one without Graham that therefore wasnât a Blur album, the Magic Whip.
There are great songs from Great Escape and 13 mindâŠ
hated them when i heard them initially as i was 12 and fully bought into the media narrative that you had to choose between them and oasis, i quickly grew out of it when i actually listened to parklife
coxon is an incredible inventive guitarist and this is still glorious
4 from me. The Great Escape was brilliant fun when it came out, when I was 11, but I fucking hated it in later years, I quite like it now though, same with Parklife. 13 is a great record in part, and The Magic Whip wasnât bad. Some absolute bilge in there too but very few bands havenât got that after 30 years.
Saw them in Hyde Park in 2012 and they were brilliant. The main set closed with a run of Tender, NDLTR and This Is A Low then the encore of End Of A Century, For Tomorrow and The Universal was fucking perfect.
Also, Damon Albarn has a house near here, and used to go in my parentsâ fishmongers quite a lot. Fucking loves smoked salmon that man. His mum also casually offered my mum his old hammond organ for sale during conversation once, still havenât forgiven her for not buying it.
Also saw them in the 00s at the Brighton centre on what was supposed to be their last tour. I donât think Iâve ever seen a band so clearly off their faces play so well.
