Damon Albarn

[fatyeti24]

Me neither, although if it did mean it wasn't then it's going to affect a hell of a lot of 'art'.

[russycarps]

you know, walking into town this morning I put some blur on. The narrative of blur's album releases, from the first one to the last is just fucking extraordinary. Every album is a jump, a reinvention, a revelation. It's startling really, and while Coxon always gets a lot of the plaudits for that, I genuinely think it's Albarn who's The Seeker in this, pushing and probing at the limits of what the band can do.

The jump from Leisure to Modern Life, and that huge leap from Great Escape to Blur. Fucking hell, I can't think of another band over the last 40 years who've done anything remotely like that.

[greenArmy12]

Who cares if Blurs music is used in ads. Their songs were and are still great and that's all that matters, I saw Blur late last year and was not expecting the superb show they put on, they really still have the enthusiasm to get a crowd going. Damon Albarn is a hugely talented and diverse artist hence why so many other artists hold him in such high regard

[Mardy]

now, I love Nick cave, you know that, but is there that same sense of progression? I don't think so, it's a refinement, a process of evolution from one record to the next. Not the same at all. Brilliant, but not the same.

Radiohead, i don't really know enough about. The give me the shits, can't be doing with them. His voice, their piss miserable faces, all of it.

[Wooderson]

if however someone sits down to create something specifically for the puropse of success, wealth and a new girlfriend every night, then that which has been created is something other than art.

[Mardy]

dangerous road, tying to figure out someone's intentions when they create something, who can tell, maybe they don't even know, maybe they're mixed.

Motown, purely created as a business, designed solely to make money, no concept of 'art' behind that one, but fuck me, it's wonderful, and I think that sometimes what's created can transcend any grubby motives. Football is another example.

[Wooderson]

dangerous road, tying to figure out someone's intentions when they create something, who can tell, maybe they don't even know, maybe they're mixed.

Motown, purely created as a business, designed solely to make money, no concept of 'art' behind that one, but fuck me, it's wonderful, and I think that sometimes what's created can transcend any grubby motives. Football is another example.

[mrtourette]

now, I love Nick cave, you know that, but is there that same sense of progression? I don't think so, it's a refinement, a process of evolution from one record to the next. Not the same at all. Brilliant, but not the same.

Radiohead, i don't really know enough about. The give me the shits, can't be doing with them. His voice, their piss miserable faces, all of it.

Edited April 29, 2013 by mrtourette

[fatyeti24]

What if the person who has created it tells you that it wasnt created for this purpose but in reality it secretly was. Is it art then?

[Wooderson]

yeah, with apologies for repeating myself - i don't know. i'd love to share your certainty as it appears in your post quoted below.

it would, however, make them a liar!

[fatyeti24]

Why is there a need for certainty? If it evokes a response - thats its purpose reached. The painting that makes you linger a second longer, the sculpture that demands you view it from all angles, the song that stays in your mind for days or indeed the advert that you discuss with others.

All advertising is certainly not art. A lot of it is dreadful gash. But some - the Guinness ad as already mentioned - most certainly is.

[Tuna]

radiohead, nick cave and the bad seeds.......

[MEGABOWL]

thats ball, so because we dont care about people using songs in adverts, we have tory values?

the people who write the songs are far less obsessive and precious about them than the fans. That's all it is

[Mardy]

Sorry to bother you,

Citizen taxman!

No thanks...

Don't worry...

I'd rather stand.

I've come to see you

on a delicate matter;

the place

of the poet

in a worker's land.

Along with

storekeepers

and land users

I'm taxable too,

and am bound by the law.

Your demand

for the half-year

is 500 roubles,

and for not filling forms - 25 more.

My labour's

no different

from any other labour.

[shoptildrop]

a similar thing happened over on the Reading/Leeds boards over Green Day. when they were announced as the headliner loads of people were saying it was a poor booking as they'd already played in 2012 - as if that 12pm slot they did on one of the smallest stages in just Reading was the equivalent to a headline slot at both festivals. just bizarre