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Orion, Lac Bringuez (to whom we must attribute the undeniable merit of bringing this review ever closer to 4000 comments) hasn't written anything of his own; he just reposted comments already written by others. The first one, the one that got you most fired up, is actually one of the very first posted here :-)

Great Sanjuro! :-) Indeed, I really couldn't understand how a connoisseur of excellent Psycho/noise like you couldn't appreciate this record. Now it all makes sense ;-)

:-D ..I don't know anything about the new Pixies album Lux, and even if I did, I don't have high expectations. Anyway... it would be great to see them live again! Bye!

AH, I understand: my view of music is complete but Blur is music with a lowercase m and I don’t listen to them.. :-D well Dave, in the face of such contradictions, a bit embarrassing for someone who claims to have a "complete" view of music, I would finish the discussion here ;-) see you soon

Beat Ramone, you're a bit reckless but I'm starting to like you more and more.. I didn't know that about Britney Spears.. can you tell me which DT copies which of legendary Britney? That way I can have a good laugh :-D

this without considering the disputable a priori nature with which certain statements are made, statements like "there's really no comparison between the lowest point reached by Pink Floyd and the highest point reached by Blur," made explicitly without the slightest understanding of the subject. And still, we get back to it: it's not a matter of merit but of method. Regardless of whether a comparison can be made in terms of quality between Pink Floyd and Blur, if one doesn't know one of the two points of comparison, one should avoid descending into such ignorance... what a damn retrograde view of music... mah...

Exactly. It’s incredible, you even say it! For this reason, however, just out of politeness, I would keep quiet about things I don't know. This is one of the simplest conversational rules, learned around elementary school; it’s quite serious that you still haven’t taken it to heart.. essentially, it says: "if you don't know anything about a certain topic, don’t intervene and don’t bring it up in a discussion" ;-D

Ah shit, Tom Traubert, sorry, you’re right, let’s specify it properly, otherwise Tom Traubert might get stuck on yet another bullshit :-D until exactly 35 years ago, well, almost 36 since we’re in December, they didn’t have a damn thing for backing vocals: I’m referring to the "Meddle" tour, which until proven otherwise is the sixth studio album by the Floyd. Which means, if I’m not mistaken, that for six albums and at least four tours they had no need for backing vocalists. But that’s not even the important part; what matters is that you didn’t answer my second and third questions, I wonder why.. So I’ll repeat them: did they need an additional percussionist and various touring musicians? And what about the saxophonist? Had they produced crappy albums like Division Bell? But we both know that the tours they were doing 30 (oh right, no, 35) years ago were a whole different thing compared to the one in '94, you’re just clinging to bullshit to avoid really addressing the topic :-)

But have you ever heard 13th by Blur? And the self-titled one instead? This is just my opinion, but compared to Division Bell they are masterpieces, not to say :-D

Dear Dave, it’s clear that you lack such mental elasticity, but I, having listened to and still listening to everything, certainly don’t make superficial gender distinctions when judging an album: on the contrary, everything should be relativized to the context and the intent; otherwise, following your own rigid logic, to give a cinematic example, a comedy could never rise to the status of a masterpiece simply because it’s "lighter" than a dramatic film, but this is obviously patently absurd. This is why Blur, a pop group in every sense with MUCH, MUCH fewer pretensions than Pink Floyd ever had in thirty years of career, deserves a 4: because they have been able to evolve, because they have been able to deepen compared to where they started from and to the genre/environment they came from. Before bringing up this topic yet again, I suggest you do a chronological review of Blur's albums, and maybe I finally recommend that you listen to something, because your judgment seems to me the classic preconceived opinion of someone who takes something at face value rather than based on the actual merits... oh dear, but even a little lesson was needed :-)