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Originally Posted by noisereductions
it is. Yes. A friend of mine said it best: "I don't like their music, but I respect their grind."
Personally I just shrug off the ICP hatred. Honestly, they have stuff that I find really fun, and stuff I find really bad. Whatever.
I've noticed the Spotify date confusion stuff as well. For instance, they list 12 Reasons To Die as a 2013 album, but then the deluxe edition as a 2014 album.
RE: Raekwon, I will check it out soon. Unfortunately even though it has been a long time coming, it can't really compete w/ the wait that a new Blur album has been for me!
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You're a Blur fan?
Shit! I didn't realize! 13 is one of my favorite albums ever. I keep wasting to make a thread about the Magic Whip (and about Faith No More's Sol Invictus), but I've heard like zero discussion about it here.
I have the album btw. Got an early promo, so I've had some time to form an opinion. First listen was frustrating, as there were few moments of the kind of spacious, epic pop that I have come to expect from Blur. But now I'm digging it. Like a latter day REM release, it's just a great band finding a way to stay great without turning their sound completely inside out. It lacks the extreme experimentation of 13 and Think Tank (closer to the latter actually) but there are some golden moments for sure.
I really like it. I think Blur is finally receiving some long overdue mainstream international press acknowledgment for being a furiously fearless band, for whom the label "Brit-pop" was always an oversimplification of insulting proportions.
To call Blur Brit-pop is to call the Beatles "British invasion."
May have been true initially, but they transcended and became infinitely more complex than the category itself less than halfway into their career.
In a perfect world, they would have been the biggest band of the '90s. True inheritors to the Beatles legacy. Or maybe the Kinks legacy. The Stone Roses legacy? All three and then some?
Whatevs, Blur rules. Glad to have them back. Gonna see me a gig this time around.