Let's all laugh at Damien Allbran

[Nikki Gradual]

Ignore the tune, what a derivative, mannered art-school wannabe Madchester prick.
Not an original hair on his head.
"Oh, look at my stumbling and wild druggy eyes, I look dead cool like all those northerners, man.
Fucking pointless tosser.

[Fonz]

I agree

[Deebank]

Ignore the tune, what a derivative, mannered art-school wannabe Madchester prick.
Not an original hair on his head.
"Oh, look at my stumbling and wild druggy eyes, I look dead cool like all those northerners, man.
Fucking pointless tosser.

I thought you were going to post his (apparently - I didn't actually watch it but my wife says...) shambolic Brits acceptance speech from last night.

The thing about Blur and the song you posted is that it seemed at the time to be so massively after the fact. The world had moved on from 'baggy'. But then DA was always good at turning up late to the party - witness his hapless electropop/new romantic duo in the mid-80s and also his 'invention' of African music in the noughties.

I used to have this cheap Casio keyboard. One of the built-in music styles/auto rhythms was 'Oriental'. When you hit the button it played a cliched (like that bit in Turning Japanese) oriental riff followed by a gong sound. Imagine my surprise when Albarn was on R4's Today programme talking about his Monkey musical. It seems he relied heavily on that Casio machine for his inspiration.

And people take the bloke seriously!

It's beyond me!

[never/ever]

Hurray!

I'll give him props for seriously supporting some great African artists (Konono No. 1, picked up on them on his recommendation) but indeed, what a cumrag he is.

[clive gash]

Pearls before BCB swine.

[yomptepi]

He is a worthless sack of shit.

[never/ever]

Pearls before BCB swine.

Shouldn't that be written underneath your username?

[naughty boy]

You can dig up early film of any artist looking like a doofus.

Save your ire for dried-up old bores like Fripp. Damon's alright.

[yomptepi]

You can dig up early film of any artist looking like a doofus.

Save your ire for dried-up old bores like Fripp. Damon's alright.

You've changed man.

[naughty boy]

I don't think so.

I don't really mind Albarn. He's an easy target, a fella who grew up in public. And 'There's No Other Way' is one of the best singles of its time.

[Goat Boy]

A real talent. Lots of great stuff with Blur and one classic album (Parklife) that is one of the greatest records of that period. I’ve not heard his solo material but he’s done good stuff with Gorillaz too. The last Blur album was good too, much better than it had any right to be.

He's greater and more interesting than any number of idiots people gush over on here.

[Nikki Gradual]

You can dig up early film of any artist looking like a doofus.

But you can dig up any film of Albarn and he is a doofus.
Even when he is saying the right things, he does it with the same portentous self-importance of Sting or Bono and I think he should be derided just as much as them. Except he makes things even worse by trying to temper it and appear cool via the medium of laddish mockney wankerness. It is all so obviously faux and pretentious and Loaded circa 1995.

[Carl's Son]

Yes, what a ridiculous clip. Certainly a shame that he's never produced anything else in the following decades. Truly this clip is his defining moment and what we should judge him by erternally.

[Darkness_Fish]

Wasn't Honest Jon's records something to do with him? That's a decent label. I have nothing positive to say about Albarn otherwise.

[Nikki Gradual]

Yes, what a ridiculous clip. Certainly a shame that he's never produced anything else in the following decades. Truly this clip is his defining moment and what we should judge him by erternally.

**Anyone got a mop? The sarcasm from Chopping's post is dripping all over the floor**

[Nikki Gradual]

That said, I don't think it is harsh to judge someone eternally on the basis of one early clip if they have done nothing subsequently to suggest that that clip does not perfectly reflect the utter twot that they are and forever will be.

[The Modernist]

A real talent. Lots of great stuff with Blur and one classic album (Parklife) that is one of the greatest records of that period. I’ve not heard his solo material but he’s done good stuff with Gorillaz too. The last Blur album was good too, much better than it had any right to be.

He's greater and more interesting than any number of idiots people gush over on here.

Agree.

[Bent Fabric]

I was probably more generous to him at the time of that clip/song than I've been at any point since.

[Nikki Gradual]

A real talent. Lots of great stuff with Blur and one classic album (Parklife) that is one of the greatest records of that period. I’ve not heard his solo material but he’s done good stuff with Gorillaz too. The last Blur album was good too, much better than it had any right to be.

He's greater and more interesting than any number of idiots people gush over on here.

Agree.

Yes, but you two are being grown up and talking about the music and that is not what this thread is about. It is pure petty hatred and entirely personal. I am sure you could have a Bono is a prick thread without it necessarily impinging on U2s superb music (assuming there is some, I haven't heard any decent stuff myself).

[NMB]

A real talent. Lots of great stuff with Blur and one classic album (Parklife) that is one of the greatest records of that period. I’ve not heard his solo material but he’s done good stuff with Gorillaz too. The last Blur album was good too, much better than it had any right to be.

He's greater and more interesting than any number of idiots people gush over on here.

Agree.

So do I. And There's No Other Way is my favourite song of the entire baggy era. I'll take Blur over the Stone Roses any day.