Damon Albarn - Carp/not carp

[Roadkill]

Not crap. I don't particularly like everything he's done, but at least he's original and keeps on experimenting.

Tbh, at ten years' distance it seems remarkable that a band as unoriginal as Oasis were once compared to Blur...

 

[cliche guevara]

A mate of mine who now lives in LA used to throw rolled up balls of paper at him in math class at Colchester Grammar (the Purple Perverts as they were, and probably still are, known...)

Not heard that one. They were Ribena Berries when i was at school.

 

[cliche guevara]

Also, agreeing with youbeauty, I'm pretty sure he went to The Stanway School.

 

[idioteque]

A mate of mine who now lives in LA used to throw rolled up balls of paper at him in math class at Colchester Grammar (the Purple Perverts as they were, and probably still are, known...)

I was at the girls grammar, and my god I felt lucky I didn't end up in that awful purple uniform that the boys grammar did.

 

[Tort]

He's OK by me! Gorillaz broke new ground & African Express saved my Glastonbury.

 

[El Jefe]

A tremendously talented individual. You can't help thinking he falls victim to that english tendency to mistrust anyone " a bit arty" or "too clever for their own good".

 

[kyser_soze]

A tremendously talented individual. You can't help thinking he falls victim to that english tendency to mistrust anyone " a bit arty" or "too clever for their own good".

I dunno - I think he's gotten away with it because he hasn't done loads of interviews explaining how he combining Sefrati lute music with Ingigbin nakto rhythms into a Mozartian classical structure, he's gone out and made some cool, genuinely exciting and different music.

 

[g force]

Yeah that's my take on it too...he's just gone on with it and everyone so often pops up with something - Mali music, BGQ, Kano etc

 

[Mallard]

I actually like a lot of the stuff particularly later Blur. It's good that he does different stuff and his music has 'evolved'. I prefered Blur to Oasis myself and like his other stuff as well. He seems to need to push himself in different directions which means he's had more longevity than most. It's never been fashionable to like him or his music but so what?

 

[g force]

There was never any comparison - one was a lead band bereft of ideas but led by two gobby twats the media adorded as "being real", the other was perceived as beign more "arty" by mainstream media.

I was listening to Blur yesterday and the shift between stuff like Sing and Music is My Radar is just stunning. Although Blur did a good line in pop anthems the slower stuff has always struck me as the killer tunes.

 

[Mallard]

I was listening to Blur yesterday and the shift between stuff like Sing and Music is My Radar is just stunning. Although Blur did a good line in pop anthems the slower stuff has always struck me as the killer tunes.

Same here.13 onwards is their best stuff. I don't mind the jaunty earlier singles but they are not usually the best stuff on the Lp's.

 

[tommers]

I
Makes me laugh now to think that back in the early 90's he was compared and seen as a peer to the Gallaghers.......I think most people would agree that in terms of musical talent and longevity, he left them vomiting in the dust years ago.

funnily enough I was saying exactly the same thing the other day.

 

[El Sueno]

I really liked early Blur, back when they were all pissheads. And The Good, The Bad... is great too, as are some Gorrilaz tracks. So all in all, whilst I don't know if he's the most likeable chap out there, he's certainly adding a lot of finely honed quality to the popworld.

 

[Pie 1]

I also rate Think Tank as a fucking brilliant record.

( that slightly irritating Fat Boy Slim mixed track aside)

 

[Mallard]

I also rate Think Tank as a fucking brilliant record.

( that slightly irritating Fat Boy Slim mixed track aside)

With the jumping on the car bonnet? I like that!

 

[Nixon]

I personally hate him and think he's a right annoying twat...Everyone I seem to vocalise this opinion to,argues that he is god.My girl used to have a total obsession with him back in the brit pop days.He does have talent but there is something that really pisses me off about him.I can't even watch him on tv or listen to any blur.

So it's just one of those things..I hate Damon Alburn and I really fucking hate Blur.

 

[Mallard]

I personally hate him and think he's a right annoying twat...Everyone I seem to vocalise this opinion too argues that he is god.My girl used to have a total obsession with him back in the brit pop days.He does have talent but there is something that really pisses me off about him.I can't even watch him on tv or listen to any blur.

So it's just one of those things..I hate Damon Alburn and I really fucking hate Blur.

Fair enough. Conversely, I've rarely met people who like him. Thought he was the hated 'Jamie Oliver' of music myself

 

[Nixon]

Fair enough. Conversely, I've rarely met people who like him. Thought he was the hated 'Jamie Oliver' of music myself

Me too,but the polls obviously suggests otherwise

 

[Mallard]

Me too,but the polls obviously suggests otherwise

Perhaps he posts under 51 log-ins here

 

[Hollis]

Just got into 'The Good, the Bad, and the Queen' - its really rather good - up there with Blur's best.

 

[cliche guevara]

The record is okay, not great but not bad, but they were devastatingly boring live.

 

[Hollis]

The record is okay, not great but not bad, but they were devastatingly boring live.

I rather liked them live..

 

[cliche guevara]

Maybe I caught them off form or something, but it put me right off.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Was struck today how prescient "The Universal" seems right now.

Damon Albarn is one of the best songwriters, & I won't even qualify that within a timescale. Plus, major boy-crush.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I also rate Think Tank as a fucking brilliant record.

( that slightly irritating Fat Boy Slim mixed track aside)

^This. Holds together as an album better that anything else they've done IMO, even despite the ghastly 'Crazy Beat' which fits in about as well as a Jagerbomb at a wine tasting.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Here's a fucking lovely tune, horribly wasted on the b-side of the throwaway Music is my Radar.



...the middle eight makes up the last three quarters of the song. Brilliant.

 

[bi0boy]

Plus, major boy-crush.

I thought he was well fit when I was about 15, I think it was eyes.