I am well aware of the chronology of Blur records.
Just drawing attention to their genre tourism and how fucking awful it was when they dabbled in lo fi and, well, trying to sound like Spiritualized. You have to remember just how fucking immense Spiritualized were back then, and only then will you realise that Tender is to Ladies & Gentlemen...what the Gobots were to Transformers.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:07, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Spiritualized depressed me.
Isn't the world a wonderful and varied place.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:09, Reply)

Stop saying genre tourist, you sound like Mariella Frostrup you boring auld bastard.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:09, Reply)

Ha!
Then again, I love Primal Scream. They are not genre tourists, they have reinvented themselves on the cutting edge at every point. Up until XTRMNTR. Slow decline since then.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:13, Reply)

Again, they depress me.
Seems to drone on. Apart from that one where the bird goes on a bender in the video, and someone smashed a bottle on her head and she laughs.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:14, Reply)

Primal Scream drone on?
Loaded is depressing? Kowalski drones on? Kill All Hippies is dull?

Well well.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:16, Reply)

Loaded lasts for a month and at some point they poke Bobby and he does summat.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:22, Reply)

Andy Weatherall prodded him with a snooker cue, at which point he woke up from his dream, impersonating Robert Johnson and he sang a bit of Terraplane Blues.
TRUE STORY.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)

Thanks daddio

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:37, Reply)

That snooker cue was handed to Chairman Weatherall by me, aged 9.
TRUE STORY, FACT FANS.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:42, Reply)

So how do you change direction musically without being a 'genre tourist'?

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:14, Reply)

When you are good at the genres.
Blur doing Pavement in the Stars in Their Eyes style was just a fucking travesty.

What the fuck was that idiotic WOO HOO thing anyway?

Quenders.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:15, Reply)

That song was actually a piss take.
I think they're as bemused as everyone else as to how it got so popular.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:21, Reply)

People have influences. It's not always a direct impersonation.
Your're picking the Blur stuff I like the least anyway so I'm not arsed. I could ask you what you thought of a particular song they did which depicted middle-class life, was before their 'lo-fi' thing, didn't impersonate Holy bleeding Spiritualized or Pavement and you'd still go "YES IT'S PRETENDING TO BE WORKING CLASS AND IT'S AN AFFRONT, YES AN AFFRONT, TO STEVEN MALKMUS. GENRE TOURISM AT ITS WORST".
I hate Damon Albarn but I think you're tarring all of their music with the same well-researsed brush that you appear to have drilled into your brain. Which is fine. If James Blunt releasd something amazing tomorrow, I would still call him a cunt and say it was shit. I guess we all do that.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:21, Reply)

I have a lot of time for Graham Coxon.
I always felt sorry for him having to pimp out his skills for the latest sub-Charlatans/ sub-Kinks/ sub-Pavement/ sub-Spiritualized guff that poshboy Albarn dreamed up becuase it's a frightful fucking wheeze old boy.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:26, Reply)

I love Graham Coxon.
I love the way he messes about with a guitar.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)

Alex James is the one for me.
Only because he did EXACTLY what I'd do if I was in a famous band.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:29, Reply)

make cheese
?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:30, Reply)

Act like a cunt and tit about?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:31, Reply)

You are correct sir.
Anyone who wouldn't do what he did in his position is a woofter. A boring woofter not worth knowing.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:33, Reply)

Didn't he fuck a qotwer?
What was he thinking man
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:34, Reply)

If I was in a famous band I'd probably do a Bobby Gillespie and 'go shit' during the heroin years.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:37, Reply)