cptgaio

I've read it, I don't have much else to add other than to say that I don't agree with you but that's not a problem. Thanks for the chat. Take care, goodbye.

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But that’s what I want you to understand! Only you fans of the band say that. Others wouldn't even notice if it weren't for the huge media and journalistic hype that accompanies every Albarn project release. Anyway, it's not true that no one "gave a damn" about them until '94; I still have various "Q" magazines and the like at home, come on... I listened to them carefully, don't worry (my girlfriend back then was a fan... oh my god...) and their way of mixing things is not personal or original at all. Instead, you should look into bands like Talking Heads, the cosmic rock of the '70s, or the English new wave between the '70s and '80s, and you'll understand how "innovative" Blur really is. Regarding the "important" discussion, I see we don't understand each other, I’ve said it too that they had relevance, but it was purely about image and "style" and nothing musical, and that’s obvious: just look at it now, for what it's worth since they are generally quite mediocre bands, Oasis have been more influential on others than Blur, and the world sees that, not just me or you. Bye.

Ah, so I misunderstood, sorry: stated this way, I agree with you, but all in all, I don’t think it’s wrong to consider it a fundamental period (at least it has been for me... so far). No, "Tokyo Decadence" didn’t shape me, don’t worry ;-) but I liked it a lot (though I'm not very objective when it comes to the Japanese literary new wave!)

"Starship Troopers" is a good science fiction novel (I rate it). I don't know the others. Very nice review.

And anyway, since you insist on these "innovations" brought by Blur, start naming them (since you say they are objective but you've been careful not to delve deeper), I've already given you the example of a band they copied from.

Of course, if you continue to claim your point of view as the only objective one, we will never get anywhere. I know the history of Blur; I was there and I was already of age at that time: if they hadn’t been heavily supported by the English music magazines (just like they do today with bands like Franz Ferdinand, to be clear), Blur wouldn’t even have made it to their second or third album. Anyway, I can understand your position as a fan, but the fact is that for those who aren’t, Blur will remain (rightly so) just a cultural phenomenon that lasted 4-5 years and churned out 3-4 nice songs. That’s all.

Pleasant little disc...but she has done muuuch better.

It will be a sentence that speaks for itself but it's the plain truth: Blur, like Oasis, are just a "creation" of the British press: without all the buzz generated back then, we wouldn't even be talking about them now. On the topic of reworking, I would agree, but the fact is that Blur haven't reworked anything; they've just pieced together fragments copied here and there, and they continue to do so with their solo careers. The feeling of superiority arises not from the fact that you prefer Blur to RH (that's your subjective opinion) but from believing that the latter are overrated and not the former. I'm also quite convinced that some things about RH are overrated, but with Blur, it happens exponentially. I'll stop here. Good night.

Aside from the fact that even if it were true, I don’t see what the musical merit is in having started the Brit Pop season (“genre” so derivative that it seems pointless), the music of Albarn and Coxon is “listened to” a lot because the two enjoy a privileged sympathy from the British specialized press: if it weren’t for that, they would have already been forgotten for years. Not that it’s all that different for Oasis, eh... It’s not a question of recognizing their objective value (they’ve made some nice songs too) but of admitting that musically, they didn’t bring anything new: that’s objective. Then everyone is free to think what they want, but saying that Blur were the greatest English band of the '90s, that Radiohead are inferior to them, or not recognizing the importance of the Prodigy are three pretty big claims...