#419

Good b-sides band.

This is all the b-sides from the first 6 albums that aren’t remixes or live tracks, which are on spotify, for those that care

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#420

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing Theo :grinning:

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#421

This is amazing. I lived in Glasgow and would have thought that was too far.

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#422

i like for tomorrow, especially the la la la bit, great song. i like coffee and tv, song 2, and end of a century. very good. they have an amazing number of absolute tunes.

obviously we all seem agreed that gorillaz are the better act, but blur combined great pop songwriting with legit technical craft, thus reaping profit.

the pulp thread is where it’s gonna be at, and i for one am awaiting with anticipation their storming the top spot.

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#423

3/5

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#424

I love a lot of their stuff.

If only Dave Rowntree hadn’t been such a bully to Nardwuar they’d get a 5.

#425

Was the launch party this show where they played 13 in full? I was there too. Think “Tender” had got it’s debut play on the Evening Session the night before, but I’d missed it. I met some guy there who’d taped it and had been listening to it constantly on his Walkman all day. He let me have a listen before they came on. Then Alex was stood there with a ruddy double bass and the whole thing was amazing.

Incidentally, if this set-list is from the same show I was at, I don’t agree with the encore as they DEFINITELY played Popscene as I remember going mental as I’d never heard it live before.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blur/1999/finchley-arts-depot-london-england-53d44b71.html

#426

Ban request!

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#427

A highlight of any blur show, if they play it.

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#428

Loved the live John Peel session version of it on Bustin and Dronin

#429

Right, just caught up with the thread. 5/5 band for me every day of the week. For me, even their lesser material (e.g. the Great Escape singles other than The Universal) has a degree of merit. Take Country House, for example, it’s a bit of a stinker, but then the “blow, blow me out” refrain hits and you’re drawn back in to their incredible ability to summon up fantastic melodies.

I was kind of there from the start, loving the Leisure and Modern Life singles (I was too broke to buy albums at the time), but then kind of disowning them as I struggled to find an identity and went all “grunger”. But thankfully that window was short lived and I’ve loved them ever since. Every little bit of Blur news is exciting for me. That Leytonstone reunion a few weeks back was lovely.

They are also a tremendous live band. Can transform lesser songs into transcendental moments of pure joy. I mean, I really don’t like “Girls And Boys” but it absolutely BANGS live.

Favourite album: 13
Favourite single: Popscene
Favourite song: Trimm Trabb

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#430

Just goes to show even labour councillors can be tories

#431

i heard beetlebum on mtv2 one night in like 2001 and i’d just been dumped by my first gf, was the perfect song for sad stoned 13 year old me

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#432

No it was this one

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blur/1999/golders-green-hippodrome-london-england-53d44b59.html

it was a Radio 1 thing for the Lamacq show and was on the release day, the one you posted was a fan club show. Maybe you were at this Golders Green show? They played Popscene in the encore

#433

Reasonable apology at least I guess

But yeah as a band they’ve all behaved really badly a lot during their time in the spotlight.

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#434

See that looks more like it, but it was definitely a fan club show because I got the ticket from a mate. He was a member but couldn’t attend and let me have it.

I also don’t remember the gospel choir being there and looking at pics of the Hippodrome, there were certainly no seats. My word those years of my life are horribly hazy!

#435

same really

20 years ago though, we’re old men now

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#436

So now I’m wondering if it was this one:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blur/1999/the-depot-london-england-43d44b5b.html

#437

i’d never seen that before, it’s made even worse by the rest of the band laughing along with it, properly grim stuff

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#438

smash that ‘I was there’ button

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