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I haven't listened to him in a long time, just as I haven't listened to anything from them or him in a while. But I heard him at the exit, and I liked it so much that I quickly went back to recover their earlier stuff: however, it remained by far my favorite of theirs. A perfect balance between what they had done before and what they would do later, incredibly inspiring from every point of view and capable of bringing people together, like me, who has never really liked prog or similar prog.
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The review didn't blow me away, but it was sufficient. The film is one of my favorite Kubrick's, along with those 3 classics, to say the least. So I've said it all.
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Hi Grant, welcome back! Let's start with The Magic Whip: the album actually comes from the documented sessions of all four members, then the material is picked up by Coxon and Street, presented to Albarn who, excited, returns to Hong Kong to write the lyrics to be recorded: in fact, that album has a very marked 'blurness' that reflects many periods of the band while also indicating new paths: paths that are revisited in this The Ballad of Darren: it's as if they took the most desolate part of The Magic Whip and pushed it to extremes, creating an album that I will probably rank among their best, as it truly hit me in the gut. A piece like The Heights, to name one, is something that emotionally devastates me, but in a positive way: for me, it's already a track to be included among their greatest of all time. And then that noise outro by Coxon is something indescribable to me.
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I liked it quite a bit, a 4 seems fair to me.
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Well, Midsommar is a great film, certainly disorienting. However, I don't know the first one, nor this one for that matter.
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You've made me want to dust off Kyuss, Sleep, and Monster Magnet.
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Very nice review and interesting proposal.
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Oh well, teenage comes back with a review on Tori (ti) Amos and I barely noticed it. I’ll make up for it with a nice 5.
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As a deep admirer of Blur, I have never really appreciated Gorillaz much; I prefer other work from Albarn not related to Blur, and of course, I have always chosen and followed Coxon over the non-Blur. I know the first three albums, as well as The Now Now. For me, the best is the second. I definitely won't be listening to this one.
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To read the comments! And since the only comment is mine, it all takes on a philosophical meaning 😆