New Blur Material

[Johnny Textface]

Blur - Fool's Day

First material featuring Coxon for a good while.

It's nice enough if a bit slight and polite, there's certainly a whiff of B-side about it.

Hopefully they can get it together, one day soon, and write a proper pop hit like the used to back in the day.

Thoughts?

[purlieu]

*New Madness Material

[Ray Le Otter]

You can download this for nowt you know, from t'website.

[fremsley]

Phenomenally good in my opinion, though it's hard to say why exactly. Somehow the Albarn melody and Coxon noise always gels perfectly for me. Some of my favourite Blur songs are b-sides, so this is quite satisfactory also.

All in all I'm glad they're back. It seems ages since a pop band making unpredictable music could actually trouble the public consciousness.

[Mr Colossal]

can somebody tell me what its sounding almost exactly like? its really bugging me now!  after the 'do-dee do.' of albarns vocals  I find myself expecting the vocals of the other song its a dead ringer for in a call and response fashion...  It doesnt help that I cant for the life of me remember what this song is, or even what it says-  but the lyrics are obscured in a mopey drawl and sound  like 'yeah... yeahhhhhhh yeah'.  That might  be what they say actually.  'do-dee-do... yeah yeahhhhh yeah'.     



The  song im thinking off has an All the young dudes / Cum On Feel The Noize /  Boys Are Back In Town type rock sound to it.

[buntyman]

It sounds to me like Getting Away With It by New Order

[imitationleather]

Don't you mean Electronic?

And I don't think it does really.

[Ray Le Otter]

"Spacer" by Sheila B Devotion.

[buntyman]

Yup I meant Electronic, not sure why I thought it was New Order. Anyway, Ray Le Otter's suggestion  (which you have to admit, also has echoes of Getting Away With It!) is even more like the Blur one so forget I ever typed.

[Ray Le Otter]

Or "Crying At The Discotheque" by Alcazar if you're a bit modern.

And Mika had a similar song as well.

[Mr Colossal]

"Spacer" by Sheila B Devotion.

I think this is possibly what I was thinking of.  A 'spa-aa-cer  A Star cha-ser'  although I can still hear a much more 'grungier' male vocal in my head that follows exactly the same vocal pattern.


But now disturbingly after listening to that, im now getting Cutting Crews 'I just died in your arms tonight'.



edit: the 'all my life'  part of getting away with it seems to fit too,  although i dont remember the song im thinking of sounding so 'take that'   but its another possible.

[PaulTMA]

Well I was expecting another 'Don't Bomb When You're The Bomb' with added Coxon so was very happy to get this instead.

[copylight]

What colossal said

***I Just Died in your Arms - Cutting Crew***

[confettiinmyhair]

I think Blur still have some mileage left in them judging by this song. It would be nice if the band met up every couple of months for old times sake and put out two or three singles. With no pressure of a new album or a touring cycle, just infrequently for kicks.

[Brundle-Fly]

I think this is possibly what I was thinking of.  A 'spa-aa-cer  A Star cha-ser'  although I can still hear a much more 'grungier' male vocal in my head that follows exactly the same vocal pattern.


But now disturbingly after listening to that, im now getting Cutting Crews 'I just died in your arms tonight'.



edit: the 'all my life'  part of getting away with it seems to fit too,  although i dont remember the song im thinking of sounding so 'take that'   but its another possible.

Good call but Albarn does subtle melody theft so well though. eg: Feel Good Inc/ Sunny Afternoon

[Bennygaylord]

Perfect. I love it. It's so... reassuring? I say this not as a huge Blur fan, but I'm really impressed with this.

[35mm]

I dont think it quite matches Albarn's Gorillaz output. I think the first Gorillaz album is in the top 10 records of the decade. Nevertheless a new Blur album would be most welcome and might finally prove my point; Blur absolutely wipe the floor with Oasis.

[The Boston Crab]

A cracking little tune, only just heard it. Sounds very 'Modern Life' to me. He's back to the Mockney as well, which is always good. His well-spoken voice (as heard on Out Of Time) is just a bit drab.