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