Damon Albarn is musically in another class, Britpop was a moment before he really then diversified and then spread his wings. He is a genius and many of his pieces are timeless
As all true good bands, Blur always had the ability to craft truely timeless tunes. But yes, they were so far ahead. Especially their best album "13", which sounds lightyears ahead of 1999! Honestly, it holds up so fucking well. One of the best albums of all time.
Brit Pop? Always hated that 1996 media invented pigeon hole. I know Blur pre dated that fad by 7 or so years. Definitely leaped forward from the Leisure indy pop indy rock after Damon went back to music college. And spawned the Park life era. (they nearly blew it with TGE but shh let's not mention that) an amazing band fronted by someone who is a true musical heavyweight. So diverse so prolific. Put Damon on a par with Beck in that sense. Definitely puts Noel in a headlock and sleeps him out.
I love that damon is a fantastic pianist and a good guitar player, but all throughout blur, he just sang. He's the mastermind behind that band, and Graham was the perfect partner in crime. What a fucking great band. As an American... that Brit pop band changed my life. Literally. (and supergrass, Pulp, etc etc... that was a magical time).
I’ve seen playing piano and he is very good. We he improvises it’s even better because he lets fly on the keys. His guitar is not so great but accomplished piano player who never had a lesson and can’t read sheet music.
@@Ya-jr3ko well... mincing semantics now... decent/mediocre. He can play some fingerpicking stuff and some riffs. I'm not comparing him to Slash. I would say he's decent. Never said he was great.
As a fellow American who was born in the 00s it’s very hard to find someone who enjoys 90s britpop as much as I do. To add he might not be the so called ‘best player’ but he knows how to compose and collaborate extremely well.
@@samuelj.robinson783 Well, it is a true story about Damons depression sitting in his room in the early hours unable to sleep and listening to the shipping forecast on his radio ... so pretty sad really!!
Every few years England taps into Damon Albarn and lets out the pain in it's soul. Most recently in the song "Merrie Land" from his band 'The Good the Bad and the Queen' th-cam.com/video/6p1mq19htTc/w-d-xo.html
In times past, it was a common phenomenon, when insomnia would strike, to turn in the shipping forecast and be lulled to sleep by the calm, reassuring voices predicting time and tide and temperature. When your nation is a tiny northern island, such things are important.
Stunning arrangement. I feel so nostalgic for the mid-90s - even though I was in an unhappy relationship. I was in my mid 20s and had no idea who I really was.
This is one of the best songs in the world, which is underrated as hell and very good composed. Wish I lived in the 90s, Now there's pigs pretending to show us that they make music.
Ok, i never comment on these threads...but this is one of the most moving arrangements of a previous stand out song. The original version of This is a Low was so sweeping, but this is so simple and even more powerful....amazing
I love both but the album version is definitely quite special with Graham's fantastic guitar and Dave's reversed drumming - it has an eerie and beautiful effect
@@frusciantesplectrum7980 omg ya.... It's mindblowing good. I might not have thought of it had someone just asked me out of the blue, "what's the best solo ever"... but damn... I can't think of anything better off the top of my head. That might be my favorite solo of all time. Thanks for the reminder!!
@@MrLeeMJones UNTRUE! There best Album is #3 "Be Here Now", and to say they had a "couple catchy tunes on their first 2 albums", isn't even an understatement, it's a foolish lie created from years of ignorance and horrid taste! Who sold more Records? Who had more hits? Shall we compare Albarns post Blur career to Liam's or Brother SourPuss's first Album?
@@joegvoll6017 have you looked into Status Quo? You’ll be surprised by the similarity. They also sold a lot of records... David Hasselhof sold a load of records. “Horrid taste”? Give me a break man. Albarn has more talent in one finger than those two mouthy arrogant losers have got combined.
So just stop comparing them then. This comparison has never been fair to any of these two bands. Unfair to Blur, because they´ve always been way more creative, diverse in sound and genre and they will remain relevant for generations to come. Unfair to Oasis, because how could they, with their limited capacities as musicians, even stand this contest? And all their bigmouthing won´t change anything.
/ This is a Low / And into the sea Goes pretty England and me Around the bay of Biscay And back for tea Hit traffic on the dogger bank Up the Thames to find a taxi rank Sail on by with the tide And go to sleep And the radio says This is a low But it won't hurt you When you're alone It will be there with you Finding ways to stay solo Up the Tyne, Forth and Cramity There's a low in the high forties Saturday's locked away on the pier Not fast enough, dear And on the malin head Blackpool looks blue and red And the queen, she's gone round the bend Jumped off Land's End And the radio says This is a low But it won't hurt you When you're alone It will be there with you Finding ways to stay solo This is a low But it won't hurt you When you're alone It will be there with you This is a low But it won't hurt you When you're alone It will be there with you Finding ways to stay solo
There's me thinking the solo how, then played so beautifully on the piano, it even almost threatened to fall to bits for a minute, like coxons guitar :)
For Blur lovers I invite you to listen to my piano cover of This is a Low, simpler than other versions around here, but I think it sounds good, simply because of the beauty of the song (melody and chords), not because I am a piano virtuoso.
I'll probably take some flack for sharing my honest opinion, but? To me Blurs music is like Jeckyl & Hyde. They have several brilliant songs, (this is definitely one of them) that leave me in awe of their brilliance. But then they also have quite a few tracks that are unlistenable and leave me wondering how such rubbish could come from such a talented song writer/band, and how could they ever believe that it was worthy of recording and releasing? I'm just glad that when I was introduced to Blur/Albarn, I bought "Modern Life is Rubbish" & "Park Life" and I listened to them in their entirety. So I discovered the Brilliant Tracks, along with the less than Brilliant, Unlistenable Tracks, to put it nicely, because I could conceive of someone without patience and a proper introduction to both tyoes, coming to a negative conclusion and never getting to experience Blur/Albarns Genius, and that would be quite unfortunate! It's my personal *opinion*, based upon what is an extremely subjective criteria....musical tastes...that Blur has 11 Tracks that I include upon my list of all-time favorite Tracks. That is a huge number, and they (Blur) are 1 of only 13 Artists/Bands that have a double digit [>9], number of Tracks upon this list. To me, it seems like Blurs body of work can be placed in 1 of only 2 types/grades of songs. Type 1 are the Amazingly Brilliant Tracks, and Type 2 are the antithesis of the Type 1 Tracks, the nearly unlistenable, complete assault on my hearing type of absolute rubbish sounding tracks. 2 extremes at both ends of the proverbial spectrum of sound, with nothing that I've yet heard, in between the two.
@@col7937 *Hello, Keep the dream alive, *Sunday Morning Call, *The Turning, *Morning Glory, She's Electric, *Cast No Shadow, Guess God thinks I'm Abel, Let's all make believe, *Don't look back in anger, *Live Forever, *D'you know what I mean, *Slide Away, All around the world, *Champagne Supernova, Part of the Queue, *Wonderwall, Waiting for the Rapture, *My big mouth, A bell will ring, *Don't go Away, Lyla, *Rock n Chair, *Talk Tonight, *Roll with it, Acquiesce, *Little by Little, Cigs & Alcohol, Keep the dream alive, The importance of being idle, She is love, *Where did it all go wrong, *GasPanic, Hung in a bad place, Angel Child, *Boy with the Blues, Turn up the sun, Columbia, *Hello, *Stop Crying your heart out, I hope I think I know, *Stop the Clocks, Mucky Fingers, Born on a different cloud, Force of Nature, *Stand By Me, *Falling Down, *Let there be Love, Half the world away, Little James, Digsys Diner, *Some might say, It's gettin better man, Be Here Now, A shock of lightning, Songbird, Sad Song, *Whatever, Supersonic, *Fade in/out, All around the world, Shakermaker, *I'm outta time, Go let it out, *The Masterplan, *Underneath the sky, *Magic Pie, The Girl in the dirty shirt, Stay Young, The Fame, Flashbax, Probably all in the mind, Rock n roll star, The Meaning of soul, *Falling Down, There's many more but this should sustain you for a bit. 😳
It was what they’re were being TOLD to do. Damon has mentioned it several times in interviews that he wished he would’ve had more creative authority but labels said to write brainless hits and so they did.
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Damon Albarn is musically in another class, Britpop was a moment before he really then diversified and then spread his wings. He is a genius and many of his pieces are timeless
I feel like Blur was ahead of their time during the Brit-pop era.
Right, Noel Gallagher never wrote a song like this...
Oh totally!! I never saw this! So great!
As all true good bands, Blur always had the ability to craft truely timeless tunes. But yes, they were so far ahead. Especially their best album "13", which sounds lightyears ahead of 1999! Honestly, it holds up so fucking well. One of the best albums of all time.
Brit Pop? Always hated that 1996 media invented pigeon hole. I know Blur pre dated that fad by 7 or so years. Definitely leaped forward from the Leisure indy pop indy rock after Damon went back to music college. And spawned the Park life era. (they nearly blew it with TGE but shh let's not mention that) an amazing band fronted by someone who is a true musical heavyweight. So diverse so prolific. Put Damon on a par with Beck in that sense. Definitely puts Noel in a headlock and sleeps him out.
Still ahead to this day!
I love that damon is a fantastic pianist and a good guitar player, but all throughout blur, he just sang. He's the mastermind behind that band, and Graham was the perfect partner in crime. What a fucking great band. As an American... that Brit pop band changed my life. Literally. (and supergrass, Pulp, etc etc... that was a magical time).
You mean you don't like shit "Harley Davidson" rock either?
I’ve seen playing piano and he is very good. We he improvises it’s even better because he lets fly on the keys. His guitar is not so great but accomplished piano player who never had a lesson and can’t read sheet music.
He is a mediocre guitar player lol
@@Ya-jr3ko well... mincing semantics now... decent/mediocre. He can play some fingerpicking stuff and some riffs. I'm not comparing him to Slash. I would say he's decent. Never said he was great.
As a fellow American who was born in the 00s it’s very hard to find someone who enjoys 90s britpop as much as I do. To add he might not be the so called ‘best player’ but he knows how to compose and collaborate extremely well.
Blur's magnus opus. A beautiful love letter to Britain.
this song was already pretty sad to me but now I’m balling my eyes out, such a beautiful version of this song, love you Damon!
Why does the shipping forecast make you sad?
@@samuelj.robinson783 Well, it is a true story about Damons depression sitting in his room in the early hours unable to sleep and listening to the shipping forecast on his radio ... so pretty sad really!!
Every few years England taps into Damon Albarn and lets out the pain in it's soul.
Most recently in the song "Merrie Land" from his band 'The Good the Bad and the Queen'
th-cam.com/video/6p1mq19htTc/w-d-xo.html
Aw. The piano solo.... the world stopped for 30 seconds right there
Almost forgot how beautiful this song is. Damon is no doubt the most underrated artiste of all time.
It ‘s gorgeous. I don’t think he is that underrated though.
@@komkommer22 at all, he's been on top for 3 decades now lol
One of the greatest songs ever written. Some kid.
In times past, it was a common phenomenon, when insomnia would strike, to turn in the shipping forecast and be lulled to sleep by the calm, reassuring voices predicting time and tide and temperature. When your nation is a tiny northern island, such things are important.
Stunning arrangement. I feel so nostalgic for the mid-90s - even though I was in an unhappy relationship. I was in my mid 20s and had no idea who I really was.
Best song about the shipping forecast ever!
This is one of the best songs in the world, which is underrated as hell and very good composed. Wish I lived in the 90s, Now there's pigs pretending to show us that they make music.
D4M0N 4LB4RN i found "that" comment lmao
r/lewronggeneration
I was a teenager in the 90s and it was awesome! Blur used to end their concerts with thiss curious song about the shipping forecast
You didn't live in the 90s?! How old tf are you?!
@@bridgallagher1290 why wouldn't I have lived in the 90s , I was born in '77 that makes me 41 cos i was born in November
goosebumps. he rarely disappoints.
Ok, i never comment on these threads...but this is one of the most moving arrangements of a previous stand out song. The original version of This is a Low was so sweeping, but this is so simple and even more powerful....amazing
God his voice is just so beautiful
Whoever puts a thumbs down to this is song has no soul. So beautiful.
So cute how he looks up to Jimmy in the beginning.
Imagine Damon Alburn and Thom yorke collaborating.
They are both so naturally connected to music. What a nice collaboration would be...
worlds collide...
They’re both great. Thom Yorke feels so much colder though.
This is good version, so emotional 👏
Man, this is something else! 😦
That sentence also works if the words "man" and "this" switch places
It's a good test of a song - how it stands up to different treatments. And this one stands up very well indeed.
This is one of my favorite tunes of all times.
This version is simply inspiring.
Brilliant! Definitely my favorite Blur tune, well most days.
Probably my favourite blur song, it brings me such a nostalgic rush 💚😢
How can someone make such a moving song about the weather forecast… ❤
Beautiful, so beautiful... my favourite version.
(This man is a genius).
Best Blur song, beautiful
The song is not the same without Grahams brilliant guitar work. Probably one of his best guitar solos. It captures so much emotion.
I agree, it's still good but it's not the same. Damon/Graham together are what make that song so remarkable.
So glad you said that.
Wow.. never heard this song. It’s amazing 😍 and emotional
It's a blur song
Tomorrow is now..a beautifully haunting song, the piano break is sublime and other worldly ❤
Like this but prefer album version with Graham Coxons guitaring
I love both but the album version is definitely quite special with Graham's fantastic guitar and Dave's reversed drumming - it has an eerie and beautiful effect
well ya... that's not the point of this. It's Damon doing a piano cover with some strings and a bad ass bassist of a song he wrote 20 years ago. LOL
Coxon is a very underrated guitarist. One of the best solos I’ve ever heard yet so simplistic.
@@frusciantesplectrum7980 omg ya.... It's mindblowing good. I might not have thought of it had someone just asked me out of the blue, "what's the best solo ever"... but damn... I can't think of anything better off the top of my head. That might be my favorite solo of all time. Thanks for the reminder!!
I think both versions are incredible! I do love the guitar in the album version, but I love this one as well.
beautiful beautiful beautiful.
Blurs best song by a mile
Magically haunting and beautiful .
Beautiful
Awesome!
Stunning ❤
Goosebumps
Just beautiful.
Love this song so much 🥺🥰
Wow... that was so beautiful.
me encanta este tema grande Albarn
his masterpiece. an english sonnet.
Can someone put this on spotify please, it's beautiful
I'm crying currently
Una canción hermosamente triste
Que sensação de PAZ maravilhosa. Voz espectacular. I love you Damon. 😘🙏🏻
Qué linda versión. :')
si muy buenos recuerdos es preciosa la cancion
Que hermoso Damon❤ lo amo 😢
Cette chanson me rend dingue...
Whilst Oasis morphed into Status Quo, the class of Blur has stood the test of time.
Oasis...status quo? You've lost your f#©king mind! Oasis Albums are great from start to finish. Blur Albums are 30% Brilliant, and 70% Unlistenable Garbage!
@@joegvoll6017 personal preference... Sure Oasis had a few catchy numbers in their first two albums but arguably so did status quo.
@@MrLeeMJones UNTRUE! There best Album is #3 "Be Here Now", and to say they had a "couple catchy tunes on their first 2 albums", isn't even an understatement, it's a foolish lie created from years of ignorance and horrid taste! Who sold more Records? Who had more hits? Shall we compare Albarns post Blur career to Liam's or Brother SourPuss's first Album?
@@joegvoll6017 have you looked into Status Quo? You’ll be surprised by the similarity. They also sold a lot of records... David Hasselhof sold a load of records. “Horrid taste”? Give me a break man. Albarn has more talent in one finger than those two mouthy arrogant losers have got combined.
So just stop comparing them then. This comparison has never been fair to any of these two bands. Unfair to Blur, because they´ve always been way more creative, diverse in sound and genre and they will remain relevant for generations to come. Unfair to Oasis, because how could they, with their limited capacities as musicians, even stand this contest? And all their bigmouthing won´t change anything.
Damon :'333 ❤️
Perfection exists
/ This is a Low /
And into the sea
Goes pretty England and me
Around the bay of Biscay
And back for tea
Hit traffic on the dogger bank
Up the Thames to find a taxi rank
Sail on by with the tide
And go to sleep
And the radio says
This is a low
But it won't hurt you
When you're alone
It will be there with you
Finding ways to stay solo
Up the Tyne, Forth and Cramity
There's a low in the high forties
Saturday's locked away on the pier
Not fast enough, dear
And on the malin head
Blackpool looks blue and red
And the queen, she's gone round the bend
Jumped off Land's End
And the radio says
This is a low
But it won't hurt you
When you're alone
It will be there with you
Finding ways to stay solo
This is a low
But it won't hurt you
When you're alone
It will be there with you
This is a low
But it won't hurt you
When you're alone
It will be there with you
Finding ways to stay solo
The pill not pier love.
@@adrianos198 It's pier. Pill makes zero sense.
WOW!!
In the top 10 songs of all time
There's me thinking the solo how, then played so beautifully on the piano, it even almost threatened to fall to bits for a minute, like coxons guitar :)
BEAU-TI-FUL
I know it's been said before but this reminds me of early Bowie, especially now his voice has matured. Excellent toon though innit 👍
毎日聴いてるよ♡ from Japan
Que linda versión 😘👏👏👏
its f*cking beauty
haunting version
💝
💓💞💓🥰💓
💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
And now the a Shipping Forecast from the Met Office...
For Blur lovers I invite you to listen to my piano cover of This is a Low, simpler than other versions around here, but I think it sounds good, simply because of the beauty of the song (melody and chords), not because I am a piano virtuoso.
3:05
when tosin abasin is playing the bass for damon albarn...tsorry, they need to eat.
Toss...? In a Basin...? Dirty fucking rotter...!
promociona su nuevo album solista...
procede a tocar una cancion de hace 20 años
Pharrell Williams al bajo?
But it won’t hurt you..
Not fast enough dear!
Damon albarn On Jimmy Fallon? Damnit Albarn get on Jimmy Kimmel
Fallon's wanted Gorillaz on since LNJF
This song is all a blur to me
I'll get my coat
What I love and hate about damon albarn is right here. I mean why is that guitarist just stood there?
To... play the guitar maybe?
Is that Pharell on guitar?
lol no it's not
he wishes
That’s Seye adelekan. He’s the bass player for Gorillaz and YOTA.
2 Pharells tall ;)
I like to imagine if Layne Staley still lived to this day, he would look like Damon here.
One survived the H, while one didn't.
I'll probably take some flack for sharing my honest opinion, but?
To me Blurs music is like Jeckyl & Hyde. They have several brilliant songs, (this is definitely one of them) that leave me in awe of their brilliance. But then they also have quite a few tracks that are unlistenable and leave me wondering how such rubbish could come from such a talented song writer/band, and how could they ever believe that it was worthy of recording and releasing?
I'm just glad that when I was introduced to Blur/Albarn, I bought "Modern Life is Rubbish" & "Park Life" and I listened to them in their entirety. So I discovered the Brilliant Tracks, along with the less than Brilliant, Unlistenable Tracks, to put it nicely, because I could conceive of someone without patience and a proper introduction to both tyoes, coming to a negative conclusion and never getting to experience Blur/Albarns Genius, and that would be quite unfortunate! It's my personal *opinion*, based upon what is an extremely subjective criteria....musical tastes...that Blur has 11 Tracks that I include upon my list of all-time favorite Tracks. That is a huge number, and they (Blur) are 1 of only 13 Artists/Bands that have a double digit [>9], number of Tracks upon this list. To me, it seems like Blurs body of work can be placed in 1 of only 2 types/grades of songs. Type 1 are the Amazingly Brilliant Tracks, and Type 2 are the antithesis of the Type 1 Tracks, the nearly unlistenable, complete assault on my hearing type of absolute rubbish sounding tracks. 2 extremes at both ends of the proverbial spectrum of sound, with nothing that I've yet heard, in between the two.
Could you please write your type 1 songs here? I want to listen to them :)
@@col7937 *Hello, Keep the dream alive, *Sunday Morning Call, *The Turning, *Morning Glory, She's Electric, *Cast No Shadow, Guess God thinks I'm Abel, Let's all make believe, *Don't look back in anger, *Live Forever, *D'you know what I mean, *Slide Away, All around the world, *Champagne Supernova, Part of the Queue, *Wonderwall, Waiting for the Rapture, *My big mouth, A bell will ring, *Don't go Away, Lyla, *Rock n Chair, *Talk Tonight, *Roll with it, Acquiesce, *Little by Little, Cigs & Alcohol, Keep the dream alive, The importance of being idle, She is love, *Where did it all go wrong, *GasPanic, Hung in a bad place, Angel Child, *Boy with the Blues, Turn up the sun, Columbia, *Hello, *Stop Crying your heart out, I hope I think I know, *Stop the Clocks, Mucky Fingers, Born on a different cloud, Force of Nature, *Stand By Me, *Falling Down, *Let there be Love, Half the world away, Little James, Digsys Diner, *Some might say, It's gettin better man, Be Here Now, A shock of lightning, Songbird, Sad Song, *Whatever, Supersonic, *Fade in/out, All around the world, Shakermaker, *I'm outta time, Go let it out, *The Masterplan, *Underneath the sky, *Magic Pie, The Girl in the dirty shirt, Stay Young, The Fame, Flashbax, Probably all in the mind, Rock n roll star, The Meaning of soul, *Falling Down,
There's many more but this should sustain you for a bit. 😳
@@joegvoll6017 Thank you so much :)
So many bad songs in that list..oasis wrote so many crappy/mediocre/similar sounding tunes.
It was what they’re were being TOLD to do. Damon has mentioned it several times in interviews that he wished he would’ve had more creative authority but labels said to write brainless hits and so they did.