Comment on December 8th, 2007.
I like about half of it, but it's definitely the beginning of the end of the band as I loved them.
Comment on December 8th, 2007.
Goodness gracious me, I hope you're not implying that you don't love 13 to itty bitty bits.
Comment on December 8th, 2007.
13 is okay. "Coffee & TV" is one of their twenty best songs and has one of their two best videos (with "The Universal"). The only other song on 13 that makes my Blur top 40 is "Tender", which is nice but a bit too much like an overlong Beatles song. The best thing I can say about 13 is that it's a damned sight better than Think Tank.
Comment on December 9th, 2007.
I'll agree that Think Tank is very sub-par, though it has some great songs ("Out of Time", "We've Got a File On You", "On the Way to the Club"). But man oh man, 13 might be my favorite Blur album. It actually kind of pains me to say it, because when I think of Blur I think of Parklife style britpop (and I love that stuff), and 13 is far from that, but that album blows me away every time I listen to it.
Out of curiosity, what's your favorite kind of Blur?
Comment on December 9th, 2007.
Hm, I should pull 13 back out.
For me, the second through fourth albums tower above the rest of their work. I like virtually everything on those albums. The very peak is the four songs that lead off The Great Escape, and the peakest peak is "Best Days" and "Charmless Man" back to back.
One of the things that most separated Blur from other adept pop bands, in my opinion, was their slow songs. "Best Days", "The Universal", "To the End" -- lots of bands can do catchy pop songs, but far fewer can do slow songs with power and grace.
Comment on December 10th, 2007.
Would you count 'AWB' by the Average White Band?
Comment on December 10th, 2007.
Nope! But good question.
Comment on December 10th, 2007.
A few more:
Camper Van Beethoven (1986)
Charlie Hunter (2000)
Prince (1979)
John Cougar (1979)
John Mellencamp (1998)
Weezer (2001) ("The Green Album")
Also, the Peter Gabriel album called 'Security' in the U.S. was released eponymously in the UK (that would be his 4th eponymous album).
Comment on December 10th, 2007.
Prince, Weezer, doh! Thanks!
I decided against Security -- I was working at a record store when it came out, and even in America it only had the title on a sticker -- deciding not to include any album that had an official other title anywhere.
Thanks for all of those!
Comment on December 10th, 2007.
can't believe I didn't think of that Prince one...
but here's another: Blue Cheer!
Comment on December 12th, 2007.
Thanks!
Comment on December 14th, 2007.
Boy, I sure think of =Paul Simon= as Paul Simon's debut album. I know he was in a group before that, but isn't it his solo debut?
Comment on December 14th, 2007.
Nope! Like Warren Zevon, Simon had an obscure but generally released album years before the stuff everyone knows. In Simon's case, it was a 1965 album called The Paul Simon Songbook.
Comment on December 16th, 2007.
Interesting!
Bo Diddley.
The Indigo Girls.
Cher!
Jefferson Airplane.
Does Dylan (73) count? I'm guessing not.
Bananarama.
Donny Hathaway.
John Fogerty is tempting, but I'm pretty sure the Blue Ridge Rangers album has been retroactively credited as a Fogerty record--at the time, he kept his name off it.
Lucinda Williams.
Here's a hip-hop act: The Geto Boys.
(Your alphabetizing on the list gets a little wonky around J/K, by the way.)
Comment on December 19th, 2007.
Thanks! I've gotta add these when I get back.
I've been told by other folks that RateYourMusic starts having trouble keeping list items in the order you added them as the lists get bigger. I maay have to give up on alphabetical order if it gets much more tiresome.
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