I miss Blur.
Oh, don’t get me wrong; I totally dig Damon Albarn’s efforts with Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad, and the Queen, and those little solo things he occasionally does, and Graham Coxon is a pretty decent solo artist (check out Happiness In Magazines).
But I miss the musical unit of Albarn, Coxon, bassist Alex James, and drummer Dave Rowntree. I really do.
Out of boredom (and a desire to stop listening to Scarlett Johansson’s album), I’ve been blazing through choice cuts of their seven-album discography. The Great Escape’s “Country House” reminded me of the nastiest war of British popular music history where “Country House” went head-to-head on the charts with Oasis’ “Roll With It” in 1995. Think Tank’s “Crazy Beat” reminded me of that crazy Levi jeans commercial where some guy was fighting a pair of jeans. And did you know that Leisure’s “She’s So High” was the soundtrack of a date over ice cream and pizza in 2003? Memories, man!
A part of me would love to see these boys reunite and create great music again. But, there’s also a part of me that knows that Albarn’s erratic personality, as well as Coxon being content with his solo career and James totally in love with cheese, will prevent such a thing. Hey, maybe Dave Rowntree will save the day? I bet he wants to go back to the skins after his time with British politics are over. Well, at least that’s what I think.
So I left a really AWESOME comment, because I love Damon Albarn…especially his work under the Gorillaz flag. But it gave a programming error on your blog and now it’s lost forever on the interweb. Sad days. Like the blog though, good to see some people appreciate music as much as I do, even though our tastes may differ a bit — mine being more of the trance and breakbeat nature.