Band: Blur

by **mackro** on Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:59 pm

instead, damon handled it better by hiding behind a big white sheet with cartoons overlayed over it as well as incredibly bad music... insecure bald poncey fuckwit

Crap, negative waffles.

by **SecondEdition** on Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:42 pm

I like this band a lot, though I'm angry at Damon for being such a tool and driving away Graham, who was far and away the most talented member of the band, although Alex James is definitely an underrated bassist.

Not Crap for some really good albums.

by **a. james** on Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:00 pm

maybe at some point in the mid 90's they were worth a second thought.

at this point they are not.

before i read some of this thread i probably couldn't name one song, one album, one band member. and i owned one or two or three albums. (all second hand.)

for being so fucking blah i almost forgot they ever existed: crap.

by **Ernest** on Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:14 pm

This is one of the worst bands I've ever heard. CRAP. Even more crap when people try to explain it to me like don't understand, "Oh, they're being ironic". Fuck Blur.

by **John George Peppers** on Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:50 pm

SecondEdition wrote:I like this band a lot, though I'm angry at Damon for being such a tool and driving away Graham

Not Crap

by **SecondEdition** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:25 am

John George Peppers wrote:
SecondEdition wrote:I like this band a lot, though I'm angry at Damon for being such a tool and driving away Graham

Not Crap

Well, it's true...Damon Albarn is a fucking pretty boy twat dickhead. The guy thought the fucking Gorillaz was a good idea...(although even I have to give credit where credit is due and admit that "Clint Eastwood" was fucking great. Pretty much everything else snorted shit - yes, I actually listened to that album...I was in high school and I liked Blur.) He's also pretentious and lorded it over the other band members for years. I always saw these credits where it would say stuff like "Songs: Albarn" and "Music: Albarn/Coxon/James/Rowntree" and it was annoying - he was always telling everyone who was boss.

Of course, that did give us Parklife, but seriously if you've got Graham Coxon in the band you should start doing some of his songs every once in a while...

by **sparky** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:37 am

CRAP, but a high WF, because I love Tracy Jacks. The song justifies the band's otherwise unremarkable existence to me.

by **John George Peppers** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:54 am

SecondEdition wrote:
John George Peppers wrote:
SecondEdition wrote:I like this band a lot, though I'm angry at Damon for being such a tool and driving away Graham

Not Crap

Well, it's true......

I with you..Damon so much as told the other members of blur that they are lucky to have him in the band. He is a first class twat.

by **WoundedFoot** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:26 pm

Damon is a douchebag-ian tool. Not every record they've put out is gold, but I can't give Blur a CRAP vote.

NOT CRAP.

by **cjh** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:48 pm

Flipping through Saturday's newspaper I was somewhat bemused to see Alex James as the face of Aga cookers.

by **SecondEdition** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:54 pm

cjh wrote:Flipping through Saturday's newspaper I was somewhat bemused to see Alex James as the face of Aga cookers.

Good Christ, that's a little depressing...

...then again, it's not like I care too much about what Alex James happens to whore himself out for, he's always seemed like the kind of guy who would do that. I'd much rather a guy be honest about it than not...and at the end of the day, this is the guy who played the bassline for "Girls and Boys," so I can forgive him...

I found out today that Blur did get back together with Graham this year and they are going to try and record one more album with him in October. If it doesn't work, they're going to call it a day.

by **cjh** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:19 pm

SecondEdition wrote:he's always seemed like the kind of guy who would do that

In fairness, it is pretty consistent with his MO over the last few years, re-purposed as some kind of country gent, ensconced in a farmhouse in the Cotswolds (you can imagine the references to 'Country House' in profile pieces) where I belive he keeps a dairy herd. I ought to want him flogged but he strikes me as an intelligent and likeable guy who's all too aware of how ridiculous he might appear.

by **Champion Rabbit** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:21 pm

His kitchen doesn't look very cosy, does it? I thought the primary purpose of an Aga is to give your kitchen a delightful womb-like warmth, but his pad looks positively icy.

Blur were rubbish.

Agas are borderline, although I wouldn't mind one if somebody else had the job of tending it...

Blur - CRAP.

Aga - NOT CRAP, :WF: 7.5.

by **tarandfeathers** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:33 pm

Galaxy Chocolate should have wrote:Why have Blur when you can have Elastica?

by **John CIV** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:22 pm

tarandfeathers wrote:
Galaxy Chocolate should have wrote:Why have Blur when you can have Elastica?

Cos they were fucking shit as well.

by **2207** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:33 pm

MorphineCharley wrote:Everything they ever did: crap

How can you say such a thing?
Because it's true.

CRAP

by **SecondEdition** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:18 pm

cjh wrote:
SecondEdition wrote:he's always seemed like the kind of guy who would do that

In fairness, it is pretty consistent with his MO over the last few years, re-purposed as some kind of country gent, ensconced in a farmhouse in the Cotswolds (you can imagine the references to 'Country House' in profile pieces) where I belive he keeps a dairy herd. I ought to want him flogged but he strikes me as an intelligent and likeable guy who's all too aware of how ridiculous he might appear.

I know. Usually I'd loathe the guy, but I can't, really...I guess that, while he may be doing this and while I may think it's whoring to advertising companies, he really does not seem to be much of a twat at all, unlike certain bandmates of his. Plus, he's funny and self-aware.

by **sparky** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:26 pm

I recall that someone (possibly Noel Gallagher or himself) described Alex James as a champagne drinker with a bass habit. I like that, deprecatory, but fond.

I heard him on the radio a few months ago, and the impression I got was the same that I've always had of him: he's a nice guy, enthusiastic and unpretentious.

Edit: I failed to find the above quote, but instead found this:

wikipedia wrote:His children's names are: Geronimo, Artemis and Gallileo.

I might have to take back the unpretentious bit above. Or add a "stupidly loopy" caveat. You can take "A Boy Named Sue" too far.

by **SecondEdition** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:31 pm

sparky wrote:I recall that someone (possibly Noel Gallagher or himself) described Alex James as a champagne drinker with a bass habit. I like that, deprecatory, but fond.

I heard him on the radio a few months ago, and the impression I got was the same that I've always had of him: he's a nice guy, enthusiastic and unpretentious.

Edit: I failed to find the above quote, but instead found this:

wikipedia wrote:His children's names are: Geronimo, Artemis and Gallileo.

I might have to take back the unpretentious bit above. Or add a "stupidly loopy" caveat. You can take "A Boy Named Sue" too far.

I think naming your kids shit like that is a form of child abuse, so take off points from Mr. James for screwing up his kids.

However, you could give them all "standard" nicknames: Gerry, Art, and Leo, so that's not too terrible, in the end. Still, though, think of what they would have to go through in grade school...

by **John George Peppers** on Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:25 am

Blur are TEARING SHIT UP! They are playing most of their songs more uptempo and just more rockin. Also, the set lists they are pulling out are amazing! No bullshit in the set. Take a look for yourself...

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