Other Mixes By Siobhan
CD
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Mixed Genre
Cassette
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Theme
CD
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Pop
Pop Music And Gold
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Blur |
M.O.R. 
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| Girls And Boys | ||
| For Tomorrow | ||
| Coffee and TV | ||
| Caravan | ||
| He Thought Of Cars | ||
| Trailerpark | ||
| Pressure On Julian | ||
| There's No Other Way | ||
| Entertain Me | ||
| Out Of Time | ||
| The Universal | ||
| This Is A Low | ||
| Death Of A Party | ||
| Battery In Your Leg | ||
| Clover Over Dover | ||
| Chemical World | ||
| Sing | ||
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
Comment:
Blur were the first band I was really, seriously into, and Britpop conveniently came into its full being when I was about 12 - despite some opinions that it was really more about the image than the music, I do think that if it hadn't caught my attention then, I wouldn't be listening to half the stuff I do now. After a slight slackening in my interest of Blur after they released 13 (although I still continued to get their albums) I recently started giving them more attention, and think that they have really been a consistently great band (Leisure was admittedly a bit of a false start, but even it has "Sing"), and anything but static. Furthermore, I don't think they've really had, perhaps, the critical attention they deserve - they seem to often be treated as the poor man's Radiohead, despite challenging themselves in the studio to a similar degree, and, like Radiohead and OK Computer, they did produce a genre-defining album (Parklife). This is simply what I believe to be the best and most wide-ranging examples of the ground that they've covered, from pure pop to scuzzy lo-fi. There aren't many tracks - you can blame the lengths of Sing and Coffee and TV on that - and there's no Parklife, Country House or Song 2, mostly because I think they get too much attention even though they aren't necessarily their best songs. Painful cuts included Bugman, Popscene and Oily Water (possibly my favourite Blur track, but it just didn't...go.) Title comes from Sweet Song (Think Tank) which didn't quite make the cut!
Feedback:
Marie...I just noticed yr from Scotland...did u see that programme on C4 last night 'bout Smash Hits Magazine? If u didn't there was a Scottish guy saying that the 'Brit' in Brit Pop was enough to make him vomit. RE: Blur...I don't think they've suffered a lack of critical press - good or bad. And I've never seen comparisons with RadioHead made...Pavement, The Kinks and Small Faces, yes...I think Blur epitomised 'Brit Pop' with Park Life but they managed somehow to transcend the genre (if we can call Brit-Pop a genre)and explore new sounds...all of the albums have something to offer....Sing, as you rightly point out, being that gem from Leisure (Hi-Jacked by The Trainspotting sndtrck)and from the Great Escape,my fave Blur Track The Universal....both of these trax u have included....good job!
hey where's popscene ? ;) did you get my e-mail ?
Thanks for the comments - unfortunately I didn't see the programme on C4 because I'm in Germany at the moment - sounds like it would have been interesting though! (Once upon a time I used to get Smash Hits...:) ) Interesting comment the guy made and I can understand why he said it; the sudden Union Jack waving during that whole period didn't admittedly rest easily with me, but I think that Britpop is a relatively harmless term(and let's face it, everything's labelled in music)...the music itself seemed to be more about social commentary on British life rather than talking it up, then it seemed to inadvertently become an accessory to the whole Cool Britannia thing though which was kind of vulgar. As for Blur etc, apologies for being unclear about the Radiohead comparison - I didn't maybe explain that brilliantly; I was referring more to the way the two bands re-invent themselves (and I think that their respective progressions in terms of albums follow a fairly similar pattern) rather than the music itself - yes, Blur definitely are more related to The Kinks, Small Faces etc. p - didn't get your e-mail, unfortunately (I wanted to include Popscene, really I did!)
Going through a bit of a Blur phase myself too at the moment. It's incidental of course, but the only thing missing for me here is 'On Your Own.'
hell. yes.
Cool mix. I have a Blur mix, too, "We kiss with dry lips when we say goodnight." I have to admit that I'm not interested in them without Graham, though...