How did He Thought Of Cars only get one vote in this?
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
Best Days > He Thought Of Cars > Yuko > Country House > the embarrassing rest.
Does anyone ANYONE like Stereotypes AT ALL?
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
It certainly was a bizarre choice for a single.Country House is a bit of a curates egg.Sure there are some good bits on the album (aged 15 I loved Globe Alone) but haven't listened to it since the 90s
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:17 (six years ago) link
Terrible lyrics, but I really like the music for Stereotypes. In 1995, that was exactly how I wanted the first track of a Blur LP to sound.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
I've said this before, but I always read the chorus as :
"Oh god, here I am again writing a song about unbelievable characters that don't exist, there must be more to life surely? I'll sack it after this one"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
It doesn't sound terrible, but they could at least have written a chorus for it, instead of a musical shrug.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
I think it's kind of wonderfully ugly. The sort of thing Albarn doesn't do any more because his head's gone soft (also he can't write songs full stop now)
― imago, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link
It's like he forgot what a song was halfway through writing Think Tank.
Lyrically Stereotypes isn't very far from The Specials' 'Stereotype' which isn't their best song either but a darn sight better than the Blur song.
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
i listed to this album an infinite number of times aged 13. nowdays, i can only stomach He Thought of Cars, Yuko and Hiro and Best Days which are all wonderful. All the upbeat stuff is awful, and The Universal can't be on the above list due to gas adverts
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
^ this. it's a melancholy album at heart with some horrible bombast. I especially hate 'Mr Robinson's Quango'. A lot could have been left off. Incidentally, if you play the B-sides from this era together they make a great muted little art rock album https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/3DRiSshVe7IHx5qYJmvuiQ?si=DJw7yfe9RvWCsbPnHK-K1Q
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
The b-sides for Stereotypes and Charmless Man (with the exception of Ludwig) completely pave the way for the next era of Blur, although this took me forever to realise
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link