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I think you've just proved his point
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At what point did they rip off the Charlatans and Spiritualized?

I think they are a great band, probably the UK's best band in the last 20 years. They are our generation's The Kinks/The Who.

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12 obvious ones off the top of my head.

Sing

Starshaped

Coping

Peach

Till The Cows Come Home

Badhead

This Is A Low

Best Days

He Thought Of Cars

I'm Just A Killer For Your Love

Bugman

Trimm Trabb

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I agree, i don't think Blur have recorded a truly "great" album but they have a fantastic string of singles!

And that is not saying they don't have brilliant non album tunes it's just their albums can be a bit "mixed"

brilliant brilliant live band though, saw them a few times at their peak and will be there on Sunday night :lol:

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Damon the best songwriter in the UK in the last 20 years. His bpdy of work in the last ten years alone is incredible.

I don't know enough about Nick Cave to compare them fairly but if he was that good their relative positions on the Pyramid would be reversed.

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Alburn Best song writer of his generation- ididn't think the 90's were that bad

anywsy i thought blurs songs were credited to all of them

i could name a lot of people who were better song writers - people who have actually realeased consistently brilliant albums part of being a great songwriter is realising when some of your compositions are not very good crmpling them up and starting again. yes there are are probably time constraints and pressure from record labels but who said being great was easy. also why not just release albums with 10 tracks on?

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Alburn Best song writer of his generation- ididn't think the 90's were that bad

anywsy i thought blurs songs were credited to all of them

i could name a lot of people who were better song writers - people who have actually realeased consistently brilliant albums part of being a great songwriter is realising when some of your compositions are not very good crmpling them up and starting again. yes there are are probably time constraints and pressure from record labels but who said being great was easy. also why not just release albums with 10 tracks on?

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Just to throw my little opinion into the mix, I don't think they've ever recorded a really bad album, Leisure and The Great Escape dip a little for me but all the others are pretty consistant.

13 is my personal favourite, followed by Modern Life and Think Tank.

And better than Nick Cave? That's a tough one, I'm a big fan of both and I've seen Nick and his seeds before and they were excellent so Blur do have some stiff competition there, I guess I'll decide on the night.

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Just to throw my little opinion into the mix, I don't think they've ever recorded a really bad album, Leisure and The Great Escape dip a little for me but all the others are pretty consistant.

13 is my personal favourite, followed by Modern Life and Think Tank.

And better than Nick Cave? That's a tough one, I'm a big fan of both and I've seen Nick and his seeds before and they were excellent so Blur do have some stiff competition there, I guess I'll decide on the night.

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I'm still a bit baffled as to why they got back together just to do gigs. It strikes me as standing still rather than moving forward, which is strange for Albarn & Coxon especially. I wonder if an album may come out off the back of their sessions together.
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