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Name: ben
Subject: what a crap review
-- Apr 17, 2002 at 9:21AM
sorry but she's trying too hard to be ironic and 'above' everything and she just comes across as lost
Name: The Editors Respond
Subject: Re: i don't get it
-- Jun 20, 2000 at 3:16PM
Ain't likely to happen. Ms. Rosen is no longer with the magazine.
(If you're wondering why, just re-read the above.)
Name: Andrew
Subject: i don't get it
-- Jun 20, 2000 at 2:47PM
I'm sorry, but what does this mean?? Please...tell us if the album is good or not. Apparently my mind is not sharp enough to translate this into pure english. Please elaborate..
Name: Jeri S
Subject: Blur 13
-- Jul 26, 1999 at 1:32AM
Hey I thought I was the only
one who caught the nearly-buried
INXS riffs!!
I haven't heard much else Blur has done, so this is rather ignorant and probably unfair. But a first impression is still a valid one so here goes:
Overall, these guys can all really play and can clearly slurp up genres and spit them out like skanky beer, (the guitarist is particularly impressive in a "Crush, kill, destroy!" sort of way). Occasionally coming across as a clever, rather nasty twist on the old stuff, sometimes they hit too close to the 70's/ 80's era mark to convince me I'm hearing anything new.
First listen: Song #1, "Tender" is nice, but smacks of post-Beatles Lennon, while the second, "Bugman" is Spiders-era Bowie (put down that Skillsaw and play the GUITAR, boy!). "Coffee & TV" - White Album all the way. "Swamp Song", although carried off well, is shamelessly Diamond Dogs.
The fifth, "1992" is a good song, although by this time my ear is starting to resist the minor/diminished feel that pervades much of the CD. This is not a bad thing per se, but some CD's are best not played straight through from beginning to end. A lot of these songs sounded better to me later when I heard them singly and out of order. But I digress….
Back to first impressions: Next is "B.L.U.R.E.M.I.", an apparent jab at EMI Records, in classic Technopunk style and dead-on. I'm still a sucker for that stuff. Cool little mouth harp solo in the middle, too.
"Battle" - nice, more or less atmospheric piece. Another that was much improved by a second listen.
"Mellow Song" - yep.
"Trailerpark" through "Trimm Trabb" - retro-sounding filler. Music to take Quaaludes by, man.
"No Distance…" good song, original. Sweet backup vocals.
"Optigan 1" - anyone for a carnival ride with David Lynch? This is territory already exhaustively covered by The Residents, who do this sort of ice-cold creepiness better than anyone.
I plan to listen to more Blur to get a better sense of the band's work and direction. They are clearly talented and certainly hold my interest (and my fourteen bucks) so what the hell.
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