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The very concept of "Greatest Hits," "Best of," or "Collection" for a band that has only one album in its discography is already quite a "Rock n roll swindle."
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It's hard to choose just one piece from that masterpiece of Warehouse: Songs and Stories (as you know, it's my favorite from the band, and also the first one I listened to).
Blur Parklife
28 jan 17
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"They cite Kinks, Beatles, Buzzcocks, Jam, Bowie, Smiths [...] A strange crossover of Devo and Talking Heads and something else that continues to elude, that something else is today the true hallmark of Blur, it is the surplus of lucid madness that sets them apart from the vast mass of genre bands, placing them in a position of privileged brilliance [...] that sense of impulsive anarchy that seems to run through every groove [...] a series of undulating and often derailing delicacies in dadaist forms of Central European cabaret" (Mucchio Selvaggio, I believe Guglielmi was the reviewer) from the review of Parklife, included among the top 20 albums of the '90s by Mucchio Selvaggio. I thought it would be interesting to post some parts of it.
Blur Parklife
27 jan 17
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A record packed not only with creativity (an eclectic and versatile group like few others) and great tracks, but also with anger and truly fierce satire, as Lao rightly wrote in a definition of this album (the lyrics of this one, the previous one, and the next one are truly full of it), behind the apparent "positivity." "A milestone and a band with balls," yes, and their evolution across the various albums is exemplary.
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Very nice review. I don't know them as well as others from the Britrock scene of the '90s (especially Blur, Kula Shaker, Pulp), basically just Urban Hymns and a bit more; I should try listening to the first two.
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"superlative writing"
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Well, Ligabue didn’t interest me even during his peak hype ('90s/early '00s), not out of snobbery (an attitude I despise), I simply listened to completely different stuff. However, the review is based on a totally wrong assumption, namely relegating pop as "entertainment music from which you expect nothing more than a more or less pleasant background." Pop, more than a genre, is a (precious) sensitivity and added value that some artists have (from any genre and decade), and you really can’t place Nek, Modà, and Lady Gaga among the representatives of pop, and I completely agree with @[Pinhead] when he states that they have nothing to do with pop.
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Contact is truly a great film, beautiful review for a movie that I'm adding to my list at this point.
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I know (almost) everything about the Flaming Lips (my favorites are still Embryonic, The Soft Bulletin, and Transmission for the Satellite Heart); from your description, I’m not really feeling like diving into this new one, not right away at least.