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Post by Del Griffith on Jul 13, 2012 18:53:44 GMT -5
Neal: What's the BLUR situation?
Del: Simple. There's no way on earth BLUR's playing bonnaroo. We'd have more luck playing pickup sticks with our butt-cheeks than we will seeing BLUR on the farm in 2013.
Neal: I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Del: Yeah, but by the time the line up drops, which it will sooner or later, you'd have more of a chance to find a three-legged ballerina than you would seeing BLUR on the 2013 bonnaroo line up.
Post by thekingofcosmania on Jan 25, 2013 1:50:33 GMT -5
Bumped for the Coachella confirmation (doubt we see them on our side, though).
To reiterate what I said in the Coachella thread, all of these Coachella kids on Facebook saying "who's Blur?" makes me feel so damn old. I think that's why it bothers me that people are saying that. It never really dawned on me that there is now an entire generation of festival goers who were not of age for their period of relevance.
Bumped for the Coachella confirmation (doubt we see them on our side, though).
To reiterate what I said in the Coachella thread, all of these Coachella kids on Facebook saying "who's Blur?" makes me feel so damn old. I think that's why it bothers me that people are saying that. It never really dawned on me that there is now an entire generation of festival goers who were not of age for their period of relevance.
The fact that these festival goers aren't aware of Blur has little to do with being around for their period of relevance and everything to do with those people being lazy and having bad taste in music. There are dozens of bands I wasn't around for that I think are brilliant. Anyone with even a passing interest in alternative rock/Britpop should have zero excuse for not knowing who Blur is.
The fact that these festival goers aren't aware of Blur has little to do with being around for their period of relevance and everything to do with those people being lazy and having bad taste in music. There are dozens of bands I wasn't around for that I think are brilliant. Anyone with even a passing interest in alternative rock/Britpop should have zero excuse for not knowing who Blur is.
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.
I agree in the sense that Blur was one of the best bands of the 90s, and anyone who gives a damn at all about the history of rock/popular music should at least be familiar with their impact on British culture. I wouldn't hesitate to list Blur as one of the top 10 artists from the 1990's.
Thank you for mentioning that. It is consistently overlooked. That's the tour I saw them on, which coincided with the time that Graham Coxon was out of the band. I would love to see the full band years later.
this could be our shared headliner that we seem to usually have. Wont be RHCP, and we know Phoenix is out of the country. That leaves Stone Roses(who I would imagine would be a Which closer) and Blur. Blur -> Bjork sat night could be a possibility.
Macca - Blue - WSP - Bjork - Mumford and Sons - Wilco
Post by A$AP Rosko on Jan 25, 2013 14:32:30 GMT -5
No love for Parklife, Juggs? 13 has my favorite Blur song, "Coffee & TV."
No chance in hell SP/ACE books Blur for Bonnaroo. Waaaaaaaaaaaay too risky. Say what you will about this year's Coachella lineup, it shows (just as it does every year) that Coachella/Goldenvoice are much more willing to take risks than Bonnaroo/AC.
But I understand why. It's not because GV is cooler or has better music taste, it's because Coachella is way easier to sell out because of the population density of the area where it's held (and possibly because of the ideology of the west coast in general as well as opposed to the ideology of the south in general).
I love Parklife, but it's almost TOO Britpop-py for me. I think they got better as they branched out and become more open-ended and less defined by a genre.
I think "13" is probably their best. I'd then go with "Think Tank," then "Parklife," then "Blur," then "Great Escape," probably. "13" not only has Coffee & TV, it's got Tender, Swamp Song, BLUREMI, Trimm Tabb, and No Distance Left To Run, which is the best breakup song of all time.
I like all of these to some degree, but I'd argue Modern Life is Rubbish was the one where they tried to break free of a genre. It's cheeky and sarcastic, with all kinds of instruments not really heard on Britpop at the time. There is such a difference between Leisure and MLiR - and people who say MLiR was just a stepping stone to Parklife are flat out wrong.
Post by raddersons on Jan 25, 2013 14:51:22 GMT -5
I always figured 13 and Think Tank being the best was a given... A lot of the other stuff they have is super "alternative rock" for Britain. I didn't start listening to them until after they broke up, and I just naturally gravitated towards those two albums. Not to say the others aren't good... but like... The Great Escape? Ernold Same? REALLY?!