If Blur retire right now (or after the two Hyde Park knees-ups unless they somehow manage to blow those) they stand a good chance of being canonized. Mostly for lack of really exciting new mainstream acts than due to sounding better than they did ten or fifteen years ago. Talk about publicity and good timing.
Good as the lads are and always have been , it would be extremely sad to see this particular band overpraised a la Radiohead. Wouldn't suit them at all. Especially seeing as they might actually have at least one more decent record in them.
It's funny how people (and, more embarrassingly still, media people) 'suddenly' realise the most obvious of things, i.e. that Springsteen can be quite cheesy and naff. Or that Albarn can't really sing - at least he's not dropping those h's in 'happen', which used to be really, really, really annoying.
And, as a sidenote, Glasvegas are even more rubbish live than they are on record (which is a bit of a feat) and seem to be getting progressively more mind-numbingly dreary at that. Perhaps they should consider retiring rather than Blur, possibly together with O... all right, I'll spare you that one.
Good as the lads are and always have been , it would be extremely sad to see this particular band overpraised a la Radiohead. Wouldn't suit them at all. Especially seeing as they might actually have at least one more decent record in them.
It's funny how people (and, more embarrassingly still, media people) 'suddenly' realise the most obvious of things, i.e. that Springsteen can be quite cheesy and naff. Or that Albarn can't really sing - at least he's not dropping those h's in 'happen', which used to be really, really, really annoying.
And, as a sidenote, Glasvegas are even more rubbish live than they are on record (which is a bit of a feat) and seem to be getting progressively more mind-numbingly dreary at that. Perhaps they should consider retiring rather than Blur, possibly together with O... all right, I'll spare you that one.
1 feeble trace of thought | Any ideas?