GY!BE's album 'Yanqui U.X.O.' is one of the greatest instrumental records of all-time

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Really? I'm surprised. I think it's one of Blur's best tunes, easily.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, more emotions exist than faint existential ennui / paranoia.

Yes, obviously those are the only two things Radiohead do because it's so easy to say... *burp* scratch... can't be bothered anymore. You say subjective I say potato.

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a horrendous sense of schmaltz in Blur ballads that sets my teeth on end, and that's the worst culprit. I don't like To The End much for the same reason.

I don't actually like Blur very much at all but I find the ballads accentuate the things I hate about them more than the others. Bearing in mind I've listened to Blur more than pretty much any other band I dislike.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha! Well obviously I'm playing deliberately reductive devil's advocate. I do think though that Blur have a wider emotional palette than Radiohead - I don't think Radiohead could ever do something that moves me in the way that "Girls & Boys" or "Song 2" do, and I think those emotional directions are just as, if not more, profound and worthwhile than the kind of thing that Radiohead seem to get lauded for. I'm not saying I think Blur are better or anything - I'm not mad keen on either band, I just quite like them both - but I think rubbishing Blur's emotional resonance is silly.

x-post.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey I DON'T MIND BLUR (for the third time)

anyway for "emotional resonance" Coffee and TV >>>>>>>>>> To The End, Beetlebum and This Is A Low. NOT THAT THEY AREN'T ALSO QUITE NICE SONGS, And I totally hate The Universal too.

What was that lead single off "Think Tank" btw? If that wasn't Blur-doing-Radiohead (pretty damn well) I don't know what was.

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

'Out Of Time' wasn't as good as Radiohead tho. I'm still amazed it made the ILM 00s top 100 2 years back (and more amazed that i managed to think of something 'good' to say about it).

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"Out Of Time" sounds bog-all like radiohead to me?!

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Radiohead just don't do grating (sometimes in a good way, sometimes "Crazy Beat") pop songs... and aren't really a pop band.

Thom Yorke for all his faults (hell I was saying they rely on the same kind of song far too often myself before) annoys me a million times less that Damon Albarn, who pushes my "fuck off twat" button nearly every time he opens his mouth.

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

WANK TANK - CALL IT BY ITS NAME.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, you see I have much more time for damon than for Thom.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Blur, up to "Parklife" were pretty much unstoppable, after that, eh. There seems to be some kind of mental block w/britishes bands, post-eighties where as soon as it looks like they're really going to take off musically & in terms of greater "success" generally, they have to pull on the brakes in some way, it seems maybe? I have no idea what the fuck I'm on about obv. Radiohead are OK, but nothing I have by them I like as much as "Parklife" or "Modern Life is Rubbish". Then again, neither of those records I like as much as Dark Star's "20 20 Sound" or Levitation's "Need for Not" and "Coterie" from around the same time ish.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - I admire both of them fine and yeah Damon's probably stretched his imagination a lot further than Thom ever will if that makes you happy/vindicated? That alone doesn't make me warm to Blur anymore though. It's a bit apple & orangey this...

― Da Mystery of Sandboxin' (fandango), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

it's the enthusiasm of a 19-yr-old (which is great!), but not the frame of reference! i have said this before, but what i really don't get about louis is that the stuff he says these things about is the stuff people my age and a bit older would have eulogised when they were louis' age! i am pretty sure that most 19-yr-olds do not listen to mansun or blur or godspeed whatsit. people who are 25 did, when they were 19.

HAHA! This coming from you Lex is... is.. I dunno. I know you weren't being mean here but being baffled by Louis's taste baffles me since (as far as I'm concerned) your taste is more in line with that of a 14 year old girl than a 20 something bloke. ;-)

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

14 year old girls listen to Dominik Eulberg?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

14 year old Lex was listening to...Blur!

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

14-yr-old lex was listening to tori amos, pj harvey, tricky, bjork, massive attack, portishead, moloko, madonna and lisa germano. certainly not blur, or at least only tangentially. i stand by them all :D

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah and fiona apple :D

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

You are incorrects. The greatest all times greatest instrumental album is Songs For Birds by Kenneth Gee, whose melodics, limpid flute artistry makes birds fly and was major influence on contemporary epic melodics Greenland rock band Sick Of Ross.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

perhaps my 10 suggestions upthread were inappropriate

― david saxilby (lexpretend), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

they seemed purposefully achingly obscure but i am sure they are all very excellent.

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread at some point suddenly became pretty damn enjoyable, once we got off the godspeed and the bach.

my final pronouncement on blur: the universal is a slightly sappy song with a GREAT lyrical theme, to the end is I agree one of their worst (musically uninteresting), this is a low is brilliant, as is beetlebum.

my best of blur, representative of what I like about them: 1) beetlebum 2) bugman 3) slow down 4) blue jeans 5) 1992 6) ambulance 7) he thought of cars 8) on your own 9) caravan 10) trouble in the message centre 11) battle 12) caramel 13) this is a low 14) resigned 15) essex dogs 16) yuko & hiro

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Unfortunately none of these does not qulify because they are not instrumentals.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

well, now we are back at blur once again and away from anything we don't already know i guess we can all go home and dribble down our chins

― david saxilby (lexpretend), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

heh! i don't know half of those blur songs myself

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

he made half of them up

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

DARK SIDE OF THE ALBARN

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

'Optigan #1' - so crap they had to launch it into space!

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

optigan #1 was the closing track on 13, the beagle one was a different song completely (that never got played due to rubbish mars landing) :-(

i like optigan one!

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread at some point suddenly became pretty damn enjoyable, once we got off the godspeed and the bach.

yeah, after you and lex turned this into some fucking teen magazine profile feature piece wankfest about how a british virgin -- SHOCKAH -- acquired unusual taste in music, yeah, it got a lot more "damn enjoyable."

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

mickey, how do you keep an idiot in suspense?

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

How's your legal case, Mickey?

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

pwn3d

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the suspense is killing me!

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the idea that there were going to be 283 posts about the merits of GYBE's last album on a thread started by *anyone* is a little fanciful

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

sick mouthy, over.

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Good. Now kindly explain what anyone's level of sexual experience has to do with anything.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the song the universal.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

virgins find other outlets to satisfy themselves (as do other people, but virgins especially). sometimes called hobbies. when this happens to somebody with music, they tend to acquire unusual tastes.

what a fucking shockah! now let's all gush like lex over how fantastic this is.

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

tevs asshole!

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"fantastic" is not the word i would have chosen. also i would've hazarded a guess that mickey was also a virgin but i guess jail or whatever would solve that

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Sexual experience precludes hobbies. Just in adolescence and early adulthood or throughout a whole life? What about married audiophiles with $200k hi-fis, or fishermen, or anything? Once you've had sex you can't be arsed with culture or interests anymore so you just watch bad evening TV when not having sex?

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the RIAA come round and bum you personally

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

my life's been downhill all the way since i got laid

― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

as if those questions need to be answered. go ahead and pretend there's no correlation between teenage virginity and passionate, time consuming hobbies. we were both teenage virgins once, nick.

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Speak for yourself. I'm from Devon and had several pet dogs as a child.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

ok truce

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

teenage virginity and passionate, time consuming hobbies

Which explains why I'm posting here a lot. Er.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

you incurable romantic

― sede vacante (blueski), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you incur~~abl~~e fan~~rom~~antic

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

even if i had popped my cherry in some sordid broom-cupboard tryst with some desperate, eyeliner-caked harridan that lasted about as long as it took me to realise that this was a fucking bad idea, i'd still listen to and emjoy all the wonderful music i've accumulated.

furthermore, my taste REALLY isn't that unusual. in the context of ILM it's actually quite mainstream! :-)

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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