Blur - Blur (1997 Album) Full Album Review and REACTION

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  • @user-fb6cw6cb2i
    @user-fb6cw6cb2i ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Some people just don’t get this this album but that’s alright. Those who do, understand the masterpiece this album is. One of my favorite albums of all time.

    • @najlis1784
      @najlis1784 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah

    • @StephenOBG
      @StephenOBG 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My 90's hits absolute.

    • @latenightlogic
      @latenightlogic หลายเดือนก่อน

      No it’s just personal taste. I’ve listened to it many times and I don’t personally rate it, although I acknowledge how important it is.

  • @williamandres1042
    @williamandres1042 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "You are so great" was written by Graham Coxon, he is the lead guitarist of the band. He is singing there too, no Damon Albarn, so funny that you did not notice the voice being so different (you thought it was Damon singing bored? WTF?) . IMO that song is very nice, Graham is a very talented guy. Good reaction BTW.

    • @gavinjohncarter
      @gavinjohncarter ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Coxon is my spirit animal. I love him.
      I actually have a ticket to see Blur at Wembley in July (on my own 😑) I can't wait to see Graham shredding in person.

  • @darrenfinlayson
    @darrenfinlayson ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Great album from a great band, seeing them play in Dublin in 2023

    • @gavinjohncarter
      @gavinjohncarter ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm seeing them in London in July & I'm so excited that I'm actually a bit scared lol.

  • @pievancl5457
    @pievancl5457 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    this is one of those albums (like a lot of 90s albums) where you listened to it from front to back countless times and grew to love every song. there are so many musical nuances in these songs and so many original motifs and melodies that slowly congeal into something more the more that you listen. i miss when albums used to be like this... you could immediately tell that there was a craftsmanship there, and the artist was challenging you to figure out what they were trying to assemble

  • @JayKFilmz
    @JayKFilmz ปีที่แล้ว +15

    As a lifetime Blur fan ( Dont you love when someone says that phrase like to say settle down expert is here 😂😂) from the states who listened to this album constantly on release I think this isnt their best album as a whole . This album though is an important step in the creation of Gorillaz as Damon starts to explore more with sounds and beats . This is an exploring and changing album for Blur. Its also a product of the many musical changes happening as music reached the 2000s . To me this is the dissect point of Blur from pop sounds to more everything is good to try. Yes some songs needed tightening but I still love this albums main 6 or 7 songs . Just sayin …. PS the song Youre so Great was written and sung by lead guitarist Graham Coxon. Thats his style

    • @gavinjohncarter
      @gavinjohncarter ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Country Sad Ballad Man is such a Gorillaz song. I could easily picture it being on the first Gorillas album.

  • @pievancl5457
    @pievancl5457 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    as a 90s kid this song defined my middle school years. got this for my birthday along with final fantasy 7 for ps1... those 2 go hand in hand in almost all of my memories from 6th grade. what a great time to be alive

  • @TapestriMusic
    @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Aw man, what a great album! 13, magic whip and think tank are probably my favourites, this one is fourth place.
    I've listened through their entire discography and most of it is great and highly enjoyable

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@the_oslovian Yes I'm a huge fan of damons somber songs and that album has that.

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@the_oslovian Yea, he was one of those artists that I discovered as a teen and in turn it inspired me to make my own music
      Eternally thankful for his work

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว

      @@the_oslovian I always wanted one but I only got an acoustic. I'm thankful for it now tho.. it suits me much better

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว

      @@the_oslovian I not sure! Rings a bell for sure, what's it called?

    • @gavinjohncarter
      @gavinjohncarter ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Magic whip & think tank don't get much of a mention these days cos they were later albums but both are fantastic.

  • @stussysinglet
    @stussysinglet 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bettlebum, Death at a Party and Strange News from another star are amazing songs.. Song 2 and M.O.R are also really great... The whole album is pretty much a masterpiece...

  • @Lovver420
    @Lovver420 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “You’re so great” is a brilliant song. Listeners would understand this song and some specific tunes on this record more if they familiar with the whole 90s American lo-fi recording scene with groups like Pavement, Silver Jews, Guided by Voices, etc. This is not a type of easy listening pop album that will hook you from the first listening.

  • @rabbithole8922
    @rabbithole8922 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun Fact: Beetlebum is Billie Eilish's favorite song

  • @cheerio4000
    @cheerio4000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    how many days did this take to record my goodness 😭

  • @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek
    @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek ปีที่แล้ว +7

    13, parklife and modern life is rubbish are way better.

  • @riquiffer
    @riquiffer ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Typical american, liking Song 2 and disliking the actual good songs on the album... Beetlebum, You're So Great, Death Of A Party, Strange News From Another Star... music doesn't get much better than that. And it's nothing to do with the nostalgia factor, because I wasn't even born when this album came out. This is a band who fell completely out of love with pop and decided to take the fully opposite way. After the Britpop battle they were being insulted on the streets and seen as loosers to most of the UK public. This is a full artistic statement to show they weren't a basic Pop Rock band for teen girls. The musicianship had always been there but was overshadowed by the ironic lyrics and the up beat tunes.
    This album has beautiful melodies, unique soundscapes, great lyrics, impeccable guitar work, singalongs, fast songs, mellow songs... what's there not to like?
    Plus every song is filled with so much detail and quirky sounds that you can pick on something new with each listen

  • @pitipiti_
    @pitipiti_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Now you have to react to parklife and go to the other round to understand the sound shift that this album is all about

  • @velocity1852
    @velocity1852 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You’re so greats one of my favorite songs. It’s supposed to be sad

  • @DinJerr
    @DinJerr ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You guys need to hear a bit of Parklife to understand why the record companies were "Whoa there..." cautious.

    • @radiator-gb7pk
      @radiator-gb7pk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Parklife is subversive and experimental in its own way though.

  • @luisrios1774
    @luisrios1774 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It’s not my favorite blur album but I love that it’s a great album of post modern art. It makes notice of the previous decade. It doesn’t matter cause it wants to surpass it cause the band did structure for 3 albums. The ultimate statement is freedom

  • @supaman6713
    @supaman6713 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm pretty sure some of these songs were making fun of American grunge, at least that was the case with Song 2, don't know why they were so short though

    • @Gymbo-Baggins
      @Gymbo-Baggins ปีที่แล้ว

      Americans love it when English bands make fun of their music. Being its so diverse that it even includes 1st and new waves. Maybe they were mocking Bush

  • @TapestriMusic
    @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'll tell ya what's great about it! (I still enjoyed this video btw! Thumbs up)
    Nr 1. MYSTERY! (I'm coming back to that 1)
    First point!
    I love the goofy vibe and humour that Blur brings, that's coming from a guy who hates parody music and "joke songs" so why does this work? It's got a whole lot of heart and that goes for a lot of their work, you can tell that they're having fun and Damon Albarn is known for criticising artists who take themselves to seriously.
    Point two! Lyrics
    I love that many of Damon's lyrics are cryptic to the point of incomprehensible. The voice is an instrument, that happens to be able to formulate words'n'shit but when I hear a good guitar I don't need it to actually tell me a story, I just need it to make cool sounds happen to my earholes. Enjoy the sound of words rather than what the words are saying.
    Point three! 'Fuck it' attitude.
    In some ways this album should not sell, it's wonky, disjointed and unpolished... Or is it?
    The lyrics makes no sense.. or do they?
    This album is ironic and not very serious.. or is it?
    This album is just a 90's pop rock album.. or is it?
    This band is just a pop group and a product.. or are they?
    I would say time proved them to be much more interesting. This album planted some huge seeds and showed that the band really wanted to be more than oasis
    P.S I have big brain ultra long obsessive psychopath attention span for music (and things like this) so I like a song that picks a mood, colour palette and tempo and just stays in that world for a long time. The worst songs on this record are the ones you liked lol 😂

    • @Gymbo-Baggins
      @Gymbo-Baggins ปีที่แล้ว

      Music shouldn't be a complicated escape room. It should invoke an emotion..this album doesn't.

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@the_oslovian Battery in your leg live is one of damons best performances, so much emotion

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@the_oslovian also the upon the westway I believe it's called? The one where they perform on a rooftop?

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@the_oslovian also "for tomorrow" Live is always amazing

    • @TapestriMusic
      @TapestriMusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Gymbo-Baggins it doesn't? Sure does for me.

  • @microwavecucumber33
    @microwavecucumber33 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Albarn doesn’t control everything about the direction of Blur. It’s seen as a group project which can seem to contradict in styles due to each musician having different ideas for their music. Which in my opinion makes this album very unique. He mostly has control over the lyrics, but every now and then, another would come in. For example, You’re so great and Coffee and TV, both written by Coxen, followed Coxen’s style. As for tracks like Far Out and Alex’s Song, written by Alex. I’ve listened to Blur since I’ve been alive, my dad loved to play it for me. Especially this album, Parklife, and Modern Life is Rubbish. And only Coffee and TV from 13. I never got into Blur’s albums during the end of the 90’s and 2000’s, I just felt like it was becoming a secondary Gorillaz to Damon Albarn, which I believe shows through the songs at the time. What I do find interesting about 13 was that the album was full of 13 tracks spanning across some of their albums that didn’t make the cut.

    • @radiator-gb7pk
      @radiator-gb7pk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Totally. It's not a 'project'. Blur were an actual powerhouse of youth culture in the UK in the 90's.

  • @festivitycat
    @festivitycat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I did watch to the end! This is one of my favourite albums and it's really interesting to hear it with 'fresh ears', vicariously through your video. I agree it's at least 50% nostalgia-driven. I was 13 when this came out so it will always be important to me. They're definitely not the strongest songs they wrote and it's not the most exciting album they wrote. As Americans listening to it 25 years later, with no cultural context (history of the band, previous albums, what it was like to live in the UK in 1997, etc) I think your take is pretty fair. But yes, people do exist who will choose to listen to the whole album - I do at least a couple of times a month.

  • @iantellam9970
    @iantellam9970 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of the best albums of the 90s.

  • @eggzaki
    @eggzaki ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the bad pun and the follow up sarcastic ridiculous laughter made me love this video already

  • @Gobbluth666
    @Gobbluth666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Most Blur albums grow on me.. Takes a while..

  • @goldboy150
    @goldboy150 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Parklife is the album to do.
    Also, I’d recommend doing the parklive live album from Hyde park 2012.

    • @gavinjohncarter
      @gavinjohncarter ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I tend to listen to that more than the actual studio albums because they're so great live but also they do more obscure songs like 'Young and lovely'.

    • @goldboy150
      @goldboy150 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gavinjohncarter it’s a great album. There is so much passion in the performance and personally I reckon you can’t beat graham’s live work.
      The only thing that annoys me about that album is that charmless man and there’s no other way aren’t on it.
      There’s no other way is an example of what they can do live Vs studio - they Jack up the tempo a few notches and it has so much energy.

  • @gavinjohncarter
    @gavinjohncarter ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm not sure how popular this will be but the album 'Meltdown' by Ash is definitely worth listening to. I only stumbled upon this album because 2 songs from it were used in Shaun Of The Dead & I wanted to find those songs. I now listen to it constantly. It's one of the unsung gems of the early 2000's (2004 specifically) it's very of its time but it's truly a diamond that many people don't even know about.

  • @skyhouston2001
    @skyhouston2001 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Graham Coxon wrote and sand lead vocals on You’re So Great. Not Damon Albarn.

  • @evilashxero
    @evilashxero ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not everything is for everyone. It's cool.

  • @jboy9336
    @jboy9336 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mate I fckng love Blur

  • @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek
    @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Parklife

  • @DamonAlbarn21
    @DamonAlbarn21 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is not the best Blur album for a firts reaction.

  • @gavinjohncarter
    @gavinjohncarter ปีที่แล้ว +1

    13 is a better album by them, incidentally. I think it may be their best album tbh.

  • @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek
    @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Definitely maybe

  • @moonlightkayla4903
    @moonlightkayla4903 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love song 2

  • @racephase
    @racephase 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it was fine but nothing special compared to Suede's Coming Up (and all their b-sides of that period) a year earlier.

  • @zeitok8
    @zeitok8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow really disappointed with this one since you enjoy ween, many criticisms you make here may well go into a ween album ¿?

    • @WelpHereWeAreOnYouTube
      @WelpHereWeAreOnYouTube  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well. Can’t say we lie. Sometimes things strike us differently

  • @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek
    @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blur 13

  • @latenightlogic
    @latenightlogic หลายเดือนก่อน

    Too many nothing songs for me to be a direct bullseye.

  • @velocity1852
    @velocity1852 ปีที่แล้ว

    13 or Parklife would’ve been a better listen

  • @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek
    @DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek ปีที่แล้ว

    13

  • @radiator-gb7pk
    @radiator-gb7pk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cursory, dismissive and fairly clueless. One of the best albums by one of the greatest British bands of all time.

  • @Gymbo-Baggins
    @Gymbo-Baggins ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This band as talented as they are perceived seems like they set out to dismantle music single handedly. Sour sounds with depressed forced off key singing. Ok if your trying to get out front and re-invent, try to make it better not so much unique. It's creative but uncomfortable to listen to a band try and fool me into aligning with their experiment. Sorry I actual like some Blur but the same goes for Radiohead.
    This was bowie/Eno/Smiths and something else that sorta puked up.
    Also liked Magic whip and think tank a whole lot more