Hannett of the Apes wrote: Parklife is alright but Modern Life is Rubbish is the highwater mark in my opinion.
i concur. MLIR is my favourite blur album and always has been.
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Blur VS Oasis
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Are you a blur fan, or do you think the sun schiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnneeesss out of Liam and Noels rear?
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Oasis 7 (28%)
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For those with crappy memories such as mine;
Then (in 1995) Oasis, now, looking back Blur, also because im a bit of a mockney myself. Just been watching them (blur) on BBC4's great britpop nostalgia night which included a 10 year's younger Phil Cunnigham with Marion.
Never liked either, truth be. Oasis gets negative points for being a load of cokehead rockstar ego whores...buying their records only encourages them, people.
Damon Albarn, on the other hand, co-composed with Michael Nyman the score to "Ravenous," one of the most entertaining and underrated horror/comedy flicks in years. The score is one of my favorites for being totally mental, quite hilarious, and also rather creepy.
Oasis couldn't be bothered to write something as interesting as a film score if their worthless overrated lives depended on it.
Having watched the documentary for the first time in a few years last night, it made me realise why i despise albarn.
Why couldnt he just admit that he acted like a twat in thw whole oasis/blur 'war'? Then again, the use of the word 'acted' implies that he isnt just a twat full stop.
Uncle Liam wrote: Having watched the documentary for the first time in a few years last night, it made me realise why i despise albarn.
Why couldnt he just admit that he acted like a twat in thw whole oasis/blur 'war'? Then again, the use of the word 'acted' implies that he isnt just a twat full stop.
Ha Ha Ha 
The only thing Albarn lacks is a MANC ACCENT. It seems this (and a reactionary take on the world) is enough to endear LIAM to your band 
It was a good Doc. "Great Tunes, Shit Cloths"
70% + to Blur at this stage.
Blur: Better band Smarter boys Better Looking Better Tunes Better Live Better.
Better live? Somehow, i dont think so. Better tunes? See list before. Smarter Boys? Who Cares? Better looking? And how does this matter? Better Band? I assume you mean technically, and that may have been the case ten years ago, but since Coxon left blur, there was the best musician gone, and since Oasis got Starkey, Gem Archer and Andy Bell in, they've got some quality musicians there.
Uncle Liam wrote: Why couldnt he just admit that he acted like a twat in thw whole oasis/blur 'war'? Then again, the use of the word 'acted' implies that he isnt just a twat full stop.
i think a gallagher brother wishing that damon would 'catch AIDS and die' trumps anything damon ever could have said.
Uncle Liam wrote:
Better Band? I assume you mean technically, and that may have been the case ten years ago, but since Coxon left blur, there was the best musician gone, and since Oasis got Starkey, Gem Archer and Andy Bell in, they've got some quality musicians there.
I have to agree on this count. I really, truly tried my hardest to like Think Tank but never succeeded. The entire attempt to integrate Eastern/Morroccan rhythms with ambient-y trip-hop and a folk twinge really only produces three worthwhile tracks: Brothers and Sisters, Ambulance, and Moroccan Peoples' Revolutionary Bowls Club, of which the latter two sound more like softcore 23 Skidoo songs than anything else.
I think my friend has the best analogy for what happened to Blur when Coxon left- it's identical to one used for when Bernard Butler ditched Suede or the Charlatans lost their organist: "Imagine if everyone left the Beatles except Ringo."
And why has another band who truly wiped the floor with Blue not been mentioned? The utterly fantastic Pulp. Different Class wiped the floor with everything in 95.
Uncle Liam wrote: And why has another band who truly wiped the floor with Blue not been mentioned? The utterly fantastic Pulp. Different Class wiped the floor with everything in 95.
'cause everyone liked pulp. there was no 'quadrophenia' battle going on between pulp and another band.
Q:If you are the Rolling Stones, are Blur teh Beatles.
A: We are both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Blur are the Monkees.
AgentWood wrote:
Uncle Liam wrote: And why has another band who truly wiped the floor with Blue not been mentioned? The utterly fantastic Pulp. Different Class wiped the floor with everything in 95.
'cause everyone liked pulp. there was no 'quadrophenia' battle going on between pulp and another band.
I can think of no better live group then BLUR - maybe Kraftwerk.
I can think of NO good OASIS gig - ever.
I can think of NO good tunes that OASIS have put together in their teiiiimmmmmmme.
And of course it matters how a band looks. What they wear, how they conduct themselves, etc. Presumibally you would have the same opinion of Joy Division if Ian Curtis had a big quiff and wore fake tan I take this to include Videos, and Album sleeves. Blur wipe the floor here. I can think of NO band with worse sleeves than OASIS.
Loved both of em, but Oasis always were ahead cos they were cool as fuck. They gave the best interviews ever and still do from time to time.
Definitely Maybe is still as good to me know as it was back in the day. I did go off them after What's The Story and constant pictures in the paper of Liam taking things too far in America (not going or gobbing on the stage - it all got to him a wee bit)
For the last couple of albums I've been impressed again, even with their shitey album period there were still songs on them albums capable of beating most other things about.
Lost interest with Blur after 13.
Uncle Liam wrote: Presumably, you have never seen Oasis. Or in fact, listened to them.
With Shame I say I have, both!
Saw them around 96 in an outdoor gig in Meath, and have Definitely Maybe. I put it down to a pre adolescent phase - and classify them with Garbage or whatever other shit I was listening to at the time. 
Question for Liam; do you have any non-Manc albums in your collection?
I like 'em both really but they're by no means favourite bands for me. Oasis were really exciting around '94-'96 but relaxed into autopilot after Morning Glory. Musically, they're boring now and not relevant unless you're pissed up in a pub with your mates. There were about four tunes on Be Here Now I liked and one or two on Heathen Chemistry and the new record, but they always choose the wrong singles, Lyla is same old and not an exciting track. To be honest when a new Oasis album comes out I normally just rediscover the first two albums plus the "Whatever" CD single for about a month and then they go back in the CD rack. It would take alot for Oasis to surprise me these days, I downloaded the new album in MP3 and I pretty much always buy the actual CD if I like the songs (honest!) but I didn't with "Don't Believe The Truth" (SHIT, pretentious title). I still have the MP3s but they've been unplayed for a while now.
Blur is a similarly mixed bag for me. I think Albarn is far more talented than Gallagher could ever hope to be, he tries different things musically which probably means I'm more inclined to give records he's involved in a listen. His lyrics are also far better written, and funnier than Gallagher's. I thought The Great Escape was fantastic, Parklife too. On the other hand "Think Tank" was bollocks from start to finish; sounded like they recorded it in Albarn's kitchen. Fine line between lo fi and a waste of sound y'know? Albarn is a bit of a hypocrite slagging Oasis's samey songs when he himself came out with "Crazy Beat", utter shit!
My prediction for the future is Blur will probably split for good (maybe 1 more album) and Oasis will become our generation's Rolling Stones. Oh and Noel will go bald
Uncle Liam wrote: Presumably, you have never seen Oasis. Or in fact, listened to them.
I did. I told you I did. I was half dragged along with my Sister who was a huge fan. We were both into them around the time of the first 2 albums - then realised they were shit. 
Saw them in Slane : around 96 ish I think. I have DM, and the sister has 2 more albums.
As we have established:
Better Band Better Tunes Better Looking Better.
Not that I really give a shit to tell you the truth. I dont think anyone does, or did
