I love everything about this video: the reddish tones, the middle class British atmosphere, the food, the twins, the way the band interact, it provides me comfort.
It is quintessentially English, yes. As someone who was born in the UK, and then grew up all over the shop, it's in my blood stream. But then it's also quintessentially psychedelic, which I love, and so damned melodic and intense...and as for that guitar hook - godamned sublime!!!
@@marrakechsound You don't know where Sonial is from. Perhaps for him having a boring life is way better than having a life among car bombs, shooting on way to school and state terrorism
I'll be 58 on Tuesday. I came to Blur after a long obsession with XTC, The Dukes of the Stratosphere and Robyn Hitchcock. Then in the mid-2000's my teen came home with a Gorillaz album on vinyl, which I immediately loved. But it took me years to actually look at the cover and learn it's Damon's band...thus proving Mom is the last one to know 🤪
@@dedge12858 yea but the production on the album was basically a poor mans stone roses. That, mixed with the fact they were trying to be a part of a movement that was already dead, is probably the reason this album was considered a flop.
@@trunksstuff3112 The producers on this album WANTED them to sound like the stone roses, and this song is the culmination of there dislike toward the producers, the words "you've taken the fun out of everything" is referencer to them being forced to make music they didnt like too, there is an interview with graham were he explains this, believe its a BBC1 doco!
@@trunksstuff3112 I wouldn't say indie dance was dead in early '91 when this was recorded. The Roses had just gone into their 4 year hiatus, but other bands like the Mondays were still popular in 1991. Primal Scream didn't release Screamadelica until September, and that won the first Mercury prize. Nirvana dropped Teen Spirit in August though and that signalled the next big thing.
You're taking the fun Out of everything Making me run When I don't want to think You're taking the fun Out of everything I don't want to think at all [Chorus] There's no other way There's no other way All that you can do Is watch them play You're taking the fun Out of everything You're making it clear When I don't want to think You're taking me up When I don't want to go up anymore I'm just watching it all
Way to send a message. I always wondered why Damon looked so disgruntled when singing this. Everything made sense after i saw Graham explaining the song lyrics. Their later works had a totally different vibe, and in my opinion sounded better too.
im a huge oasis fan and ive heard country house and park life etc... but i saw a clip of this song on a documentary and damn blur did come out with some great songs man
Yeah I think their musc was a lot more diverse than oasis's. Oasis were brilliant, and noel was and still is a genius songwriter but their songs all sound a bit similar really.
This is bittersweet to me, because it was basically all of my Sundays when I was a girl. My dad went off to the pub, my sister shut herself in her room reading old copies of Match and thinking about Aston Villa, and my Mum and I prepared the Sunday dinner "always take the leaves off and cut a cross into the top of the Brussels sprouts Amy". I must have cut a thousand crosses. Then my Mum, who was a fantastic cook, would serve it up to my dad who sat at the head of the table like the big I am, he always had the best cut of meat and the crispiest roast potato whilst my mother (who worked full time and earned more than he did) served herself last. I used to sit there and think, this can't be right. Maybe that's why I am not married. Mum's been dead nearly ten years now, but I love her and miss her every day. Oh to be cutting Brussels sprouts and listening to Radio 2. I love you Mum x
Not really a shuffle as that's triplet time - more a 16th note groove on the hi-hat with the snare on 2 and 4, plus some extra snare beats between 2 and 4. But I get what you mean - if I didn't know otherwise I'd swear it was The Charlatans. The Happy Mondays had a similar thing going on too, and The Stone Roses, and others.
The in-/outro of the video was pure Blue Velvet. Having heard the song many times over the years but never seen the music video, I was quite surprised, and intrigued, by this darker side.
This is one of the best pop song i have ever heard. When i first heard this on release, it blew me away. What pop song should sound like. This has never ,ever dated either
"The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can’t hear it, you can feel it." that's how i feel abt basically all blur music videos
Imagine having dinner with your family and you have that 1 son that makes faces like this and just mouths words while creepily staring, at the dinner table
Nowhere else have I ever seen an idea for a music video like this 😀 They must have had fun making it and what memories the twins will have of being in it now they're all grown up 😀
Twenty five years old, and it still sounds great. One of the best ever takes on the very early Pink Floyd circa 1967. Syd Barrett would have loved it....
I was just wondering if the director of the 'Black Hole Sun' video was influenced by this video. This video puts a mysterious twist on an otherwise ordinary British Sunday lunch, while 'BHS' seems to follow in its footsteps but makes it more extreme, taking ordinary white picket fence-Americana and turning the weirdness up to 11.
Yh he's crazy good. I think if he really tried a solo career back in the 90s he could've been huge. The reason I prefer blur by a scratch over gorillaz is because gorillaz is missing them ruff riffs and Melodies that graham creates.
Love Blur to bits. Such a soundtrack to good times and bad. My mom was a good cook like this. Always something tasty. She's 77 now, so she's slowing down with that a little, though.
Weird, just sat down to watch this on 1st Jan 2020 over breakfast... in a bowl of the same pattern :o Then again every second house in Britain must have Willow Pattern crockery :D
I have something similar, I'm 52, I live in a bedsit (bedshit) in Blackburn, i bought sumet like these from a market in Greater Manchester, only use em when mother comes round
you just recorded your family eating without them knowing so let me repeat that sentence until I can stop find it creepy bcs its cReEPinG me tHE fUCc out
This is one of my favorite songs of the 90's. This is actually the first time I've ever seen the British promo video. I like it better with Damon acting all creepy at luncheon with the folks. I also love the ubiquitous "Beat of the 90's" ("Funky Drummer"-inspired) that BAD II, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Charlatans (UK here in the US) and so many other groups used. And don't even get me started on that excellent, slinky guitar riff!
The ironic thing is that this song was one the band did NOT want to do. The record company gave them a Stone Roses album and went "Write some songs that sound like this!" and the guys went "Why, we're not that kind of band!" but because the record company had their paychecks, they gave it a go anyway. Those bitter lyrics are about the record company "Taking the fun out of everything!"
30 some odd years ago, used to have to go to this doctor cause I was wicked shy and my parents wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna lose my shit I guess, was lame...best memory was listening to this album my old man had on our way over. Stopped being shy many years later...not a psycho. Lol. Thanks Blur.
Here in 2024 and still one of the best tunes ever. I owned an alternative nightclub called Salad Days in Ft Myers, Florida when this came out. It was the dawning of the classic 90's sound and this was a biggie.
The video makes me think of an older brother, who’s going through his introspective phase experimenting with psychedelic drugs, and who’s college band mates, have come over for Sunday lunch, with his suburban, middle class family and how the brother thinks it’s all bullshit and ends up leaving home because he and his conservative dad don’t see eye to eye and can’t stop fighting. 😄 Love this video and song! Viva indie and dance music from the 1990s!
director: remember, never look into the camera
That one extra:
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Looks like him@@CJFS00s
I love everything about this video: the reddish tones, the middle class British atmosphere, the food, the twins, the way the band interact, it provides me comfort.
Totally agree. The whole video is so quintessentially British. I guess that’s the whole point.
It shouldn't comfort you if you had understood the lyrics and the video. It's about having a boring life for the sake of being like everyone else.
@@marrakechsound It shouldn't but it does.
It is quintessentially English, yes. As someone who was born in the UK, and then grew up all over the shop, it's in my blood stream. But then it's also quintessentially psychedelic, which I love, and so damned melodic and intense...and as for that guitar hook - godamned sublime!!!
@@marrakechsound You don't know where Sonial is from. Perhaps for him having a boring life is way better than having a life among car bombs, shooting on way to school and state terrorism
I was in uni when this came out, I'm almost 52 now. Where have the years gone? Classic song.
I'm 51. I hear you brother:)).
I'll be 58 on Tuesday. I came to Blur after a long obsession with XTC, The Dukes of the Stratosphere and Robyn Hitchcock. Then in the mid-2000's my teen came home with a Gorillaz album on vinyl, which I immediately loved. But it took me years to actually look at the cover and learn it's Damon's band...thus proving Mom is the last one to know 🤪
I ask myself the same question when I hear songs from that era.
Snap. It sounded so fresh and far out back then...
I’m 55. I rocked this song back in the day; bought the cassette single.
Dude Graham Coxon is a mad genius, love the riffs in this song so much
Basty Elwood it was nothing new you can tell he took inspiration from John squire
@@4Morfius Because of course John Squire wasn't influenced by anyone.
@@dedge12858 yea but the production on the album was basically a poor mans stone roses. That, mixed with the fact they were trying to be a part of a movement that was already dead, is probably the reason this album was considered a flop.
@@trunksstuff3112 The producers on this album WANTED them to sound like the stone roses, and this song is the culmination of there dislike toward the producers, the words "you've taken the fun out of everything" is referencer to them being forced to make music they didnt like too, there is an interview with graham were he explains this, believe its a BBC1 doco!
@@trunksstuff3112
I wouldn't say indie dance was dead in early '91 when this was recorded. The Roses had just gone into their 4 year hiatus, but other bands like the Mondays were still popular in 1991. Primal Scream didn't release Screamadelica until September, and that won the first Mercury prize.
Nirvana dropped Teen Spirit in August though and that signalled the next big thing.
"Damon, elbows off the table."
"Damon, stop slouching."
"Damon, it's impolite to stare."
"Damon, stop summoning the dessert demons."
*dessert damons
Dessert demons hahaha class
Stop..stop damon…
"Damon, get your hair cut."
Why are you styled like how we grew up ?
No matter how many times I watch this video, I laugh every time when I see Damon’s weird glances at the camera.
this video makes me strangely happy lol
and in one moment looks like one of the girls have a scared face when Damon is looking to the camera XD
And the friar tuck hairdo lol, what was he thinking? 🤣
@@mrchico2621Fr hahaha
Damon's face at 3:15 will forever be the best thing about this video.
+Nick Pollard Fuck me, that was a sharp observation, it lasted a split second, but he did look a bit mental mate
+Nick Pollard Fuck me, that was a sharp observation, it lasted a split second, but he did look a bit mental mate
+Nick Pollard No. The song is the best thing about this vid. Spring of '91.
Nick Pollar
Lol 😂
2:16 having a bitta trouble with the carrots lol
3:09 When you spike the family dinner with LSD
Damon's like the weird emo teenage son of the family in this vid.
othyization I think that's the point
Sounds exactly like a certain black eyed, blue haired fellow I know...
practice what ya preach
Same to my family I look the same everyone in my family is normal and I'm the emo one I look exactly the same
im not even emo but all my family members see me that way they are like “oh my god stop being depressed and serious 😂😂😂😂” and im just like ??
Whoever those two little girls are, they sure are lucky to have been in the same room with Blur. I bet they look back fondly on this.
1:30 how did the little girl not start laughing
3:15
Damon's face
I feel like that was his real reaction, knowing him
Hahaha
Hahahaha
hahahah
Hahahaha
Hahaha
The aggressive bowl cuts. I love em
lol our childhood styles
Mop heads
The guitar, the harmonies, his voice, all combined make for an awesome song!
This video is like those nightmares you get when you have a fever
You mean a fever dream?
Absolutely
Imagine having Damon Albarn in your dreams, lucky
Jasmine Leather right? I want their fever dreams
Miguel Elgueta oh god, please look after yourself. i hope you recover and feel better soon.
I'm 73, I bought their cd some years ago and still love to hear it.
2:52 alex grabbing for the plate that damon then takes so he picks up a potato
Ha lol
idk why this is so funny to me omg
HOW COME DID I JUST NOTICED THIS EVEN THO I WATCHED THIS LIKE A HUNDRED TIMES
bye this is the funniest thing ever 😭😭
haha funny, good spot
Everyone else: enjoying dinner
Damon: creepily staring into the camera and singing
Seems normal
||-//
--- he's just watching it all
Chewing up the scenery as usual
That's Damon's mum , a sturdy MILF
Howling at this!
"Dad, Damon is acting weird again,"
"Don't worry daughter, he probably just forgot to take his schizophrenia pills."
Just like me!
So did he
I too call my daughter daughter
Suppose you can’t have that many kids without at least one of them turning out a little 🤪
So glad I'm off those schizo meds🤪
graham's hair is giving me unexplainable happiness
You're taking the fun
Out of everything
Making me run
When I don't want to think
You're taking the fun
Out of everything
I don't want to think at all
[Chorus]
There's no other way
There's no other way
All that you can do
Is watch them play
You're taking the fun
Out of everything
You're making it clear
When I don't want to think
You're taking me up
When I don't want to go up anymore
I'm just watching it all
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Way to send a message. I always wondered why Damon looked so disgruntled when singing this. Everything made sense after i saw Graham explaining the song lyrics. Their later works had a totally different vibe, and in my opinion sounded better too.
This song will always define the uniqueness of Blur.
I love it when the dad comes in and he just stands for a moment with lightening behind him
Love Graham's early look with the do and the spex. Love him with the thick rounded ones during Country House and.... Bah, just love him.
One of the greatest songs of the 90’s The guitar riff is EPIC
im a huge oasis fan and ive heard country house and park life etc... but i saw a clip of this song on a documentary and damn blur did come out with some great songs man
Yeah I think their musc was a lot more diverse than oasis's. Oasis were brilliant, and noel was and still is a genius songwriter but their songs all sound a bit similar really.
Also I'm 5 years late to your comment jesus christ 😂😂
Very underrated band.
@@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg They won four Brits one year and were one of the two biggest bands in the country for a decade - I wish I was that underrated...
blur can rock when they want to early stuff was better
Live105 1991
love the synchopated drumming
blissed out music
This is bittersweet to me, because it was basically all of my Sundays when I was a girl. My dad went off to the pub, my sister shut herself in her room reading old copies of Match and thinking about Aston Villa, and my Mum and I prepared the Sunday dinner "always take the leaves off and cut a cross into the top of the Brussels sprouts Amy". I must have cut a thousand crosses. Then my Mum, who was a fantastic cook, would serve it up to my dad who sat at the head of the table like the big I am, he always had the best cut of meat and the crispiest roast potato whilst my mother (who worked full time and earned more than he did) served herself last. I used to sit there and think, this can't be right. Maybe that's why I am not married. Mum's been dead nearly ten years now, but I love her and miss her every day. Oh to be cutting Brussels sprouts and listening to Radio 2. I love you Mum x
Similar for me too.
Coxons guitar on this is stellar, really interesting licks to play here
fun to learn too
A forgotten favourite? Just in that period of 90's indie. Perfect for the time, and still as addictive.
Blue, Oasis & Mansun
I hate Oasis
@@cjhepburn7406 Hhaha. I Don't wanna Fink!
@Seth Smith ricky martin
This ain’t indie.
the way he stares into my soul
idk why but i just love that tune at 1:16
The unmiskable shuffling snare drum from the late 80s/ early 90s. A classic.
The shufflebeat and that haircut lol
Not really a shuffle as that's triplet time - more a 16th note groove on the hi-hat with the snare on 2 and 4, plus some extra snare beats between 2 and 4. But I get what you mean - if I didn't know otherwise I'd swear it was The Charlatans. The Happy Mondays had a similar thing going on too, and The Stone Roses, and others.
I borrowed this cassette from a friend in high school. been a fan ever since. thank you, blur, for being part of the soundtrack of my life.
The lack of Alex In this video is a bit sad but then Damon being an angsty teenager cancels it out
1:29
Exactly, where is Alex!?
@@helenkahajossyova298 making cheese
alex is in the vid u cant just recognized him cause he looks like rodrick from the diary of a wimpy kid : long haul
@@yunjins0124I saw him too in the foreground on the same side of the table as Damon.
The in-/outro of the video was pure Blue Velvet. Having heard the song many times over the years but never seen the music video, I was quite surprised, and intrigued, by this darker side.
What is blue velvet everyone keeps referring?
One of my favourite blur songs
This song signifies my once upon a time reluctant acceptance of an uncertain youthful existence.
We loveed this year
This is one of the best pop song i have ever heard. When i first heard this on release, it blew me away. What pop song should sound like. This has never ,ever dated either
Absolutely...independent pop genius
Then you’ll probably dig the rest of the album
Indie 👍
Damon is a Genius❤love Blur since 1990❤
PLEASE DON'T KILL OUR SINGER
PLEASE DON'T KILL OUR SINGER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
iykyk
Damon Albarn? not lead singer.
PLEASE DONT KILL OUR SINGER PLEASE DONT KILL ARE SINGER OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
what do u mean
0:35 John Lennon! What are u doing there? 😂
my good friend is introducing me to cool sounds, this is one. POPSCENE out loud
Had not heard this tune in over 30 years and it still sounds epic!
"The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can’t hear it, you can feel it."
that's how i feel abt basically all blur music videos
Imagine having dinner with your family and you have that 1 son that makes faces like this and just mouths words while creepily staring, at the dinner table
I love how used to it they all look😂
Best Blur song
At 0:35 Harry Potter is thinking "mmm... I miss muggle food!"
Anytime Damon looks into the camera it feels like he’s looking at you personally! It’s both exciting yet kind of unnerving🥺❤️🔥
3:14
デイヴ「えっ、なになに!?」
デーモン「遂にこの時が来たぜ…」
アレックス「ヒュー、メインディッシュの登場だぁ!」
グレアム「まぶし…」
The greatest Madchester song to ever come from outside Greater Manchester
Amazing that this song is 30 YEARS OLD!!
2:22 love those little guitar thingies that Graham does lol
Nowhere else have I ever seen an idea for a music video like this 😀 They must have had fun making it and what memories the twins will have of being in it now they're all grown up 😀
2:11 James May, in the Motorhome Race Day in Essex episode:
‘Now THAT’S a pie.’
My favourite food. Tomato soup for starters. Roast dinner for main. And for sweet, trifle. Lovely.
Twenty five years old, and it still sounds great. One of the best ever takes on the very early
Pink Floyd circa 1967. Syd Barrett would have loved it....
I agree! :)
Agree 2
well yeah your 25
***** Syd spent the remaining years of his tragic life,living with
his mother. From all accounts,he wasn't
listening to any type of music at all.
I’m not the only one
Damon's hair... priceless
My favourite Blur song. I was team Oasis in the 90’s, but loved this
1:10 hahahaha creepy and funny!!!
Even with a bowl cut he still has my heart
Classic dreamy britpop
To see what happens next please visit Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden.
LOL
I love you for that
Lmao true
I was just wondering if the director of the 'Black Hole Sun' video was influenced by this video. This video puts a mysterious twist on an otherwise ordinary British Sunday lunch, while 'BHS' seems to follow in its footsteps but makes it more extreme, taking ordinary white picket fence-Americana and turning the weirdness up to 11.
IM CRYiNG
One of the best examples of what Blur was and continued to be! plus Damon's evil eye never gets old. but the hair? hahahahaha youth.
graham coxon so underrated as a guitarist.
alex james too as a bassist
the entire band as a whole.
ok ladies I agree.
it's all sO TRUE
Yh he's crazy good. I think if he really tried a solo career back in the 90s he could've been huge. The reason I prefer blur by a scratch over gorillaz is because gorillaz is missing them ruff riffs and Melodies that graham creates.
That trifle is frightening.
probably the most stone roses sounding song ive ever heard, apart from you know, the actual stone roses.
It's the same drum loop from Fool's Gold
That's what I was thinking when this song started. Even though I have heard it before.
This is an awesome song xxxx
Soouuunnddd Fella!
Love Blur to bits. Such a soundtrack to good times and bad. My mom was a good cook like this. Always something tasty. She's 77 now, so she's slowing down with that a little, though.
Graham Coxon on his own, freaking out, brilliant
Oohh, the 90´s. What a lovely decade
I have the same plates
My dad still has some of those plates. He's 87!
damon has used them
Weird, just sat down to watch this on 1st Jan 2020 over breakfast... in a bowl of the same pattern :o
Then again every second house in Britain must have Willow Pattern crockery :D
In your head?
I have something similar, I'm 52, I live in a bedsit (bedshit) in Blackburn, i bought sumet like these from a market in Greater Manchester, only use em when mother comes round
Best of the underrated blur music
Back in the early '90s, as grunge was taking over here in the U.S., this song was my introduction to Blur, and I was hooked from that day forward!!
The best thing Blur ever did and it's still just a Stones Roses rip. I love it, but it is what it is.
me when breakfast is ready: 0:39
I don't know... Something about this song makes me wanna hear It 24/7 365.
It’s the vibes man
How can you not miss the 90s after listening to blur?
because i wasn’t alive in the 90s
1:08 i love how everyone is eating dinner and Damon is completely tripping out. I think we've all been there at family meals
I think Damon is the only person who can make a mushroom bowl cut work somehow...
V popular back in the early 90s
Rivers Cuomo as well
And graham haha
Clint Boon was unquestionably the lord of the bowl cut.
Parece de la familia Médici!!
I once recorded my family (me included) while eating without them knowing. When they watched the video, they said "Woah, we eat like pigs".
you just recorded your family eating without them knowing so let me repeat that sentence until I can stop find it creepy bcs its cReEPinG me tHE fUCc out
@@bandidocavalier the "(me included)" makes it less creepy, tbh.
@@rakh3942 No
3 years and i'm still laughing
@@CheesestringXX Woah :0 *X-Files music theme plays*
This tune was a sweet closeout to the Summer of '91...perfect vibe tune added to my personal life soundtrack of that year.
Damon looks awesome in this! Don't diss!!
great song and great video, just damon creepily staring at the camera is just....*shivers*
😁😁😁There's something spooky behind this "normal" Lunch (and isn't the food 😆😆😄)... Albarn He-Man hairstyle😆😆😆... Great Video👏👏👏!!!
Damon doing his best "Droog" impersonation
This is one of my favorite songs of the 90's. This is actually the first time I've ever seen the British promo video. I like it better with Damon acting all creepy at luncheon with the folks. I also love the ubiquitous "Beat of the 90's" ("Funky Drummer"-inspired) that BAD II, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, The Charlatans (UK here in the US) and so many other groups used. And don't even get me started on that excellent, slinky guitar riff!
The ironic thing is that this song was one the band did NOT want to do. The record company gave them a Stone Roses album and went "Write some songs that sound like this!" and the guys went "Why, we're not that kind of band!" but because the record company had their paychecks, they gave it a go anyway.
Those bitter lyrics are about the record company "Taking the fun out of everything!"
30 some odd years ago, used to have to go to this doctor cause I was wicked shy and my parents wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna lose my shit I guess, was lame...best memory was listening to this album my old man had on our way over.
Stopped being shy many years later...not a psycho. Lol. Thanks Blur.
Greatest David Lynch film ever
That's what I was thinking too. Also, not the first time they have nooded to great movie directors in there videos.
Yep. Browsed the comments looking for this one.
Surreal video but one of Blur's best songs, never get tired of it!!
Can't stop watching this video.
I really want to be in the shoes of these girls... THEY WERE SITTING AT THE SAME TABLE WITH BLUR REALLY, IT'S A DREAM😭💕
Except Blur weren't well known when this video was made.
once you hear this on the radio its a seriously addicitve tune... evertime i wake up now i instantly sing theres no other way lol
Here in 2024 and still one of the best tunes ever. I owned an alternative nightclub called Salad Days in Ft Myers, Florida when this came out. It was the dawning of the classic 90's sound and this was a biggie.
Damon stop singing, we're trying to eat
Thanks for making me chuckle 😅
@@davidlindsay6274
Me too
this song is SO catchy
The crust on that pie is everything!
1:00 his head moves weird!! omg
The video makes me think of an older brother, who’s going through his introspective phase experimenting with psychedelic drugs, and who’s college band mates, have come over for Sunday lunch, with his suburban, middle class family and how the brother thinks it’s all bullshit and ends up leaving home because he and his conservative dad don’t see eye to eye and can’t stop fighting. 😄 Love this video and song! Viva indie and dance music from the 1990s!