Alemisso

beautiful this!

Masterpiece. If I were asked what my favorite Blur song is, I would also answer this, but with difficulty, because there are at least four others that are right there (essentially all of their output from '93 to '99 I would label as "my favorite by Blur"). p.s. that great piece "Song 2" included, of course. The new "The Magic Whip" is also fantastic, among my albums of 2015.

Without counting the wonderful B-sides they produced (there must be around a hundred) for which a separate discussion would be needed (in the '90s, in just 8 years, they achieved the impossible).

Great the blur!

Among my favorite groups.

Of course, all the 90s albums by Blur are at a very high level, just like this one. Song 2 makes it all even better, obviously.
Magic Whip is great.
Anyway, there are certain B-sides by Blur that really hit hard.

They have combined American and English styles on this album, as if it were a new debut, a debut that will become even more concrete with 13.

For me, it's the best of Blur... I see it as a real turning point; I prefer what comes after it to what they produced before, but that's just a personal inclination towards certain sounds and atmospheres, which from here on become more skewed, rarefied, and mature, without taking anything away from their earlier work, of course... great band nonetheless. This was recorded in Iceland if I'm not mistaken.

Yes the last, I think the influence of Iceland has been important for certain atmospheres that can be felt on this record, a bit like the importance of Morocco for "Think Tank" and Hong Kong for "The Magic Whip."

Think Tank another splendid album...even if Coxon was already elsewhere.

True, with Think Tank they managed to pull off a great album even when they momentarily (thankfully) lost a cornerstone like Coxon (who is present in the concluding "Battery in your leg" and in a few other tracks from that period, such as the b-side "Morricone"). As a Coxon fan, I had no great expectations when the album came out, and I was quite frustrated by the absence of Coxon (whose solo albums I had been following since 2000), but in the end it surprised me a lot, especially due to yet another radical change in sound and style, which was really remarkable.

madcat...I don't know Coxon's solo works...a title to start with?

The last "A+E" I'd say could be a nice punch to start with him: a crazy, wild mix of noise, post-punk, psychedelia, new wave, alternative, experimentation.

thank you : )

don't mention it, it's a pleasure :)

Wake Up Bread
I sneak into my own Bakery
It's four in the morning
I had too much to eat
Said I was out with the boys
I creep into my kitchen
I slip in the flour,
I know if I wake it,
I'll wake up bread
I wonder, will it find out,
About the other, other loaf.
Doughnut.

Wake up bread, you rise
Wake up bread, and baked.
Wake up bread, you rise
Wake up bread.