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Veikko · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:50 pm Post subject:

Welcome TimL !

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jmbrilley · Blur Expert Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 130

TimL · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:05 pm Post subject:

Cheers!

Veikko · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject:

jmbrilley · Blur Expert Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 130

TimL · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:16 am Post subject:

What are we debating, actually? I suppose I do feel differently than you two about Crazy Beat.

And since it kind of has something to do with over/underrated, I was surprised at the "Parklife-ness" of the recent set-lists. I suppose the 4 of them underrate Into Another and Beachcoma... Then again, it's a nice thing to play the big hits - the thousands who tooted the horn with songs like Parklife (I must admit here that I only got into Blur in 97!) are the ones who made the band so big, I guess.

jmbrilley · Blur Expert Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 130

Veikko · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:33 pm Post subject:

jmbrilley · Blur Expert Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 130

yea when i was in 1994-6 era i dont really remember it but my stepfather used to go pub wit graham, i also met justine from those years. my step-father did ask me to ask graham if i ever get to speak to him if he remembers him (i must do that)

Syntheticgerbil · Junior Member Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 14

Haha, I can't believe they consider Mace underrated. I had to check my Special Edition to see what song they were even talking about since most of the everything on the Special Edition was so unmemorable to me.

TimL · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: MLIR

Veikko, I'm quite surprised at your opinion on MLIR. I agree it's not the most exciting album. I would call it touching. I think it (and b-sides) dwells on stuff (I guess I'm thinking of sounds) that evokes emotions that don't get evoked by more.. exciting albums. To put it plainly, it really makes me think of me as a boy. And of trains. Which I rode when I was boy and now as a... older boy.

Meeting the band sounds cool jmbrilley!

Gerbil (what the?), I agree with you on Mace, though I think it is a cool song. When I was 16, I listened to it again and again. But then I got more hooked (Veikko!) on Oily Water and such. Coping and Advert are for me probably the low-points on the album. But Oily Water, flat? Perhaps it is. But I think that is part of the emotions this album uses/dwells in that others don't and that I find quite touching.

jmbrilley · Blur Expert Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 130

modern life is rubbish is my favourite album of all time Smile

Veikko · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: MLIR

jmbrilley · Blur Expert Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 130

TimL · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:59 pm Post subject: mlir

jmbrilley, fav album... Hear hear!

Veikko, NME # 6... Wow. I wouldn't have expected... There's something about top 10's or top 100's though, isn't there? They're never quite right. A radio station in Australia just released their best 100 of all time. I won't mention some of the rubbish that featured highly, but I will add that Muse's best was apparently Knights of Cydonia... as if that's their best! And there was very little straight-up pop. As if queens of the stone age or nirvana could ever be better than, say, Mystery Girl (or whatever it's called), Roy Orbison. That is magic. I've been listening to it today.

And as much as I like MLIR more than Parklife, the ultimate top 100 would have Parklife (or The Great Escape) higher than MLIR. It's just that MLIR is more emotive Wink