'battle' 'trailerpark' 'carmel' 'trimm trab'... fantastic tracks! very
true, the album really picks up the second half and has some amazing
electronic/guitary interactions. which i'm sure is half graham coxon and
half william orbit. 'tender' might be the worst song ever recorded though.
'Bustin and Dronin' their remix album is pretty f-kin sweet actually.
remixes of tracks off the album 'blur' ... not very IDM though. more like,
Jam and Spoon-ish, or something.
more off topic,.. Blur once kicked incredible ass. i don't care so much
where they are now, but 'Modern Life is Rubbish' is one of the greatest
things ever. if you're bored at the record shop, get this. it's their
sophmore release (when they started to discover acid apparently). they were
incredibly aggressive with their art/pop path. a very bold album. sold
poorly, but is their best. the best tracks combine shoegazer-mood, with
those amazingly crafted chord changes that only graham and few others can
pull off without too much pretention. 'chemical world' 'blue jeans' 'oily
water' 'star-shaped'... stunning album.
nat.
quoted 41 lines From: Gabriel J. Weinstock <gweinstock@citynet.net>
>From: Gabriel J. Weinstock <gweinstock@citynet.net>
>Reply-To: gweinstock@citynet.net
>To: "Jan!" <j.moesen@student.unimaas.nl>, idm-l <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] [1/2 OT] Blur - 13
>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:19:13 -0500
>
>weird, I've just been spending a lot of time with that album. after not
>listening to it at all for like 2 or 3 years.
>g.
>
>On Thursday 28 February 2002 01:06 pm, Jan! wrote:
> > In one of the many threads here that keep droning on and on and on,
> >
> > someone wrote:
> > >I fucking got tired of the same boring guitar + drums + some drugged
>up
> > >singer combo.
> >
> > I suppose most of you (at least those from Europe) know the brit-pop
> > band Blur. They've had a number of rather successful songs, and were
> > well-known for their neverending verbal battle with the boys from Oasis.
> > Anyway, my girlfriend introduced me to their album "13", which, quite
> > frankly, I find amazing. It's a few years old already, but has some of
> > the best songs ever made by a pop band (*please* don't start the "What
> > is POP?"-flames). First half of the CD is your plain old radio-friendly
> > stuff, pretty good in their own genre, but the second half is some weird
> > yet very melodic music. Definitely hear their drugged-uppiness, and I
> > might even say this could be called brit-pop-idm. :-) (Please don't take
> > that seriously, either. It's just a bunch of very decent tracks)
> >
> > --Jan!
> >
> >
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