madcat
madcat
9 apr 18

DeRank™: 5,19

Blur - Mellow Jam 1999: B-Side perfectly in line with the atmospheres of "13", I have always thought it was discarded at the last minute and added as the B-side of "Tender", given the already long duration of the studio album (70 minutes) #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
8 apr 18

DeRank™: 4,82

Blur - Down 1991: the strong shoegaze influences of the debut also flow into the B-Sides of the early EPs; this hypnotic 6-minute mantra is one of the B-sides of their first EP "She's so High" #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
7 apr 18

DeRank™: 5,91

Built to Spill - You Are "Everybody knows that you are..." and a spectacular outro begins: the guitar says it all, any other words would be superfluous. A spell. #builttorock
 
madcat
madcat
7 apr 18

DeRank™: 5,19

Blur - Berserk 1991: this psychedelic instrumental nearly 7 minutes long, hypnotic and obsessive, demonstrates once again that everything that was bubbling in the Blur kitchen that didn't make it into "Leisure" was pushed out as B-sides (this was included in the "Bang" EP), and with anger, I would say. As I always say, if there's one criticism I consistently have of them, it's that they've relegated way too much top-quality material to mere B-sides; personally, I don't know any other artists with a collection of B-sides like this #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
6 apr 18

DeRank™: 2,92

Get Out Of Cities - Blur 1997: the EP "Song 2" offers three gems, the first is the already posted "Bustin' + Dronin'", the second is this #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
5 apr 18

DeRank™: 3,22

Built to Spill - Broken Chairs I've always needed to catch my breath every time I finish listening to this piece #builttorock
 
madcat
madcat
5 apr 18

DeRank™: 0,00

Blur - Black Book (Later with Jools Holland) 2000: the "Best Of" is released with the iconic cover by Julian Opie. The only new track is "the noisy antimelody and the ordered chaos" (Mucchio Selvaggio) of "Music is My Radar": "a passkey for anarchy" (also Mucchio Selvaggio) which they decide to release as an EP with B-sides, including this "Black Book" which in the studio version (which I couldn’t find) lasts a full 8 minutes and a half, with a much longer and more hypnotic instrumental outro than this live version. #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
5 apr 18

DeRank™: 15,03

Porcupine Tree - Even Less (Stupid Dream - 1999) the album that #uscivadomani by Porcupine Tree has opened their phase that I appreciate the most (up to Fear of the Blank Planet, excluding Deadwing which was a big disappointment for me)
 
madcat
madcat
4 apr 18

DeRank™: 2,92

Blur - All your Life 1997: The Blur, with that masterpiece of the self-titled album, enter their third phase. As always, alongside the production that ends up on studio albums, they create countless undiscovered gems like this one, which, included as a B-side on the "Beetlebum" EP, would have been perfect as a single as well #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
3 apr 18

DeRank™: 5,92

Blur - French Song 1999: the melancholic and dark atmospheres of "13" give way, in this B-side of the EP "Tender", to a psychedelic jam/operetta lasting eight and a half minutes, in line with much of what they produced in '89/'90 when they were still called "Seymour" #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-sides)
 
madcat
madcat
2 apr 18

DeRank™: 2,92

Blur - Inertia BLUR (LUMINOUS) 1990/1991: the group stated that if they had included their B-sides from that period like "Inertia" or "Luminous" in "Leisure," their debut would have certainly been better, because as it stands, it awkwardly stitches together their different personalities without following a clear direction with the necessary conviction. I've always really liked the mix of Shoegaze and Madchester sound in Leisure, but if there's one thing that's always puzzled me, it's their tendency to relegate true gems to B-sides that deserved far more exposure #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-sides)
 
madcat
madcat
2 apr 18

DeRank™: 6,21

Awake - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Audio Only) The album that #comesouttomorrow is one of the ones from the early 2000s that I appreciated the most.
 
madcat
madcat
1 apr 18

DeRank™: 2,92

Blur - The Man Who Left Himself '95/'96: After "Parklife," "The Great Escape" is released, and the satire of the lyrics remains as fierce as in the previous two albums, while musically the record serves as a "bridge" between "Parklife" and "Blur," resulting in a fascinating hybrid. This is one of the B-sides from the "Stereotypes" EP, and it's one of the B-sides from Blur performed by Albarn and Coxon during the "Everyday Robots" solo tour of Albarn. #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
31 mar 18

DeRank™: 2,92

Blur - Popscene 1992: after the Madchester/Shoegaze crossover of "Leisure," this single arrives which theoretically, as "A-sides," shouldn’t be part of this review. The burning failure of the track, which not only represented a change and an evolution from their debut but also in some way predicted what would soon happen, musically, in the UK (two years later, there would be the explosion of "Parklife" and everything that followed), led the four to not include the song in either their new album of '93 or the Best Of of '00 (they re-released it, in a double collection, only in '09), because the idea was "you didn't want it before, you won't get it now," so great was the anger over the total flop of a track on which they had heavily invested at the time. Although it was, at least from '97 onwards, constantly present in the setlists of live performances, the song remained, in a sense, a sort of B-side along with the other B-sides included in the EP that bore its title. They would follow two terrible years that brought them to the brink of dissolution, before releasing the already mentioned "Parklife" of '94, which changed many things for them and for the English music scene #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-Sides)
 
madcat
madcat
30 mar 18

DeRank™: 8,07

BLUR - Bustin' + Dronin' Starting today, a series dedicated to the best and most representative B-sides of Blur begins: they produced roughly a hundred of them (most during the ’91-’00 period), scattered throughout the numerous Singles/EPs released. Since, as I’ve mentioned several times, the quality (as well as the quantity) is monstrous, I wanted to select a number of them to propose here. We begin with a sort of hyper-distorted and experimental mantra-drone-noise-psychadelic-shoe gaze piece lasting 6 and a half minutes, released among the unreleased tracks of the EP “Song 2” from ’97 #musicismyradar (Best of Blur B-sides)
 
madcat
madcat
28 mar 18

DeRank™: 24,37

11. Wolfpack - Syd Barrett The uncertain, wavering, suspended yet captivating flow of this piece is memorable. Probably my favorite track from Barrett's solo work.
 
madcat
madcat
27 mar 18

DeRank™: 10,60

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell - Poles Apart I have always deeply loved the album #uscivadomani by Pink Floyd; and it features stratospheric guitar solos, among other things.
 
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