Blur?

[stuartbert two hats]

One of my favourite Blur tunes! If they play it has to be there this time out!

I'd love Pulp to do a This is Hardcore heavy set!!! What a fantastic show that would be!

It was. In 1998.

[Gnomicide]

The Best Of is my favourite.

[Wooderson]

The Best Of is my favourite.

Thought you'd be more of a Greatest Hits kinda guy Gnome.

[Gnomicide]

Thought you'd be more of a Greatest Hits kinda guy Gnome.

The work of scoundrels.

[Guest]

13

Parklife

Modern Life

Blur

Great Escape

Think Tank

Leisure

Hehe people comparing their output to Oasis - and even Pulp - just ain't getting it. Supergrass and SFA only bands that come close.

*edit*

And before you whiney Radiohead fans chime in I don't compare Blur to them persay. Radiohead far more esoteric and proggy. Blur are the best UK indie band ever. Miles better than the Smiths and the Roses. Yeah I said it.

New Order are better that blur.

[Gnomicide]

New Order are better that blur.

Bit shit live by all* accounts though.

*When I've seen them on the telly.

[home to you]

New Order were sh*te at Blur a few years back. Maybe that was just me though..?

[Wooderson]

I've seen New Order four or five times. With and without Hooky and Gilbert. Soz, but they're not a patch on Blur. Unless we're talking including nightclub/record label ownership New Order have a half dozen seminal singles and little else.

[Greenelk]

Saw Blur supporting Jesus Jones at a Food records Xmas gig once.......

I was there. 1991. Those were the days that Damon was so pissed on stage, you didn't know if he was going to die when he did his regular climbs up the speaker stack. He got pretty far up the Brixton Academy walls that night as well.

New Order were sh*te at Blur a few years back. Maybe that was just me though..?

I think unless you were right down the front, pretty much everyone sounded shite at Hyde Park that day! Or did you mean their performance? New Order weren't at their best that day, but they can be fantastic.

[home to you]

I was there. 1991. Those were the days that Damon was so pissed on stage, you didn't know if he was going to die when he did his regular climbs up the speaker stack. He got pretty far up the Brixton Academy walls that night as well.

I think unless you were right down the front, pretty much everyone sounded shite at Hyde Park that day! Or did you mean their performance? New Order weren't at their best that day, but they can be fantastic.

I was talking about performance but then again the sound probably didn't help. Was only near the front for Blur and The Specials

[tolywoly]

I think unless you were right down the front, pretty much everyone sounded shite at Hyde Park that day! Or did you mean their performance? New Order weren't at their best that day, but they can be fantastic.

Yeah, I thought New Order sounded pretty duff at that Hyde Park show. Saw them a couple of months later at Festival No 6 though - excellent.

Specials sounded fine that day.

[russycarps]

new order were pretty crap at glastonbury in 2005.

[stuartbert two hats]

new order were pretty crap at glastonbury in 2005.

They were bloody awful. Looked more pissed off than Oasis the previous year.

[Mezhyp1]

I thought New Order were brilliant when I saw them at TITP in 2012, I was pretty rammed as well

[The Nal]

They were bloody awful. Looked more pissed off than Oasis the previous year.

Oasis are basically unlistenable now. Tunes I used to like such as Acquiesce are dogshit really. Can't think of a band who were so big but have dated so badly.

Saw New Order before. Couple of times I think. The were ok. First few minutes of Blue Monday was decent.

[ThomThomDrum]

Now Blue Monday is a tune that will simply never date.

Stick that on today and I can still get ridiculously excited about it all.

An extremely difficult thing to achieve that. One of the most popular tunes ever, played to death, but can never actually be played to death. Genius.

[ThomThomDrum]

Sorry just had to do this

[Stefanie_Rogers]

Saw Blur at Primavera a couple of years ago, amazingggg! Hopefully they'll announce Glasto this year, fingers crossed

[Bradders]

New Order weren't great supporting Blur, but then it was like 5PM or something, the sound was terrible and the crowd were even worse.

Loved them headlining Bestival.

[Bisque]

Loved them headlining Bestival.

That was truly brilliant. Wasn't expecting the Joy Division bit.

[Gucci Piggy]

Blur were bangin' at Werchter in 2013. Beaten only by Sigur Rós and Nick Cave that weekend, for me. Actually I probably enjoyed Editors more, but that's because I'm a bigger fan of theirs.

[WS_Jack_III]

Now Blue Monday is a tune that will simply never date.

Stick that on today and I can still get ridiculously excited about it all.

An extremely difficult thing to achieve that. One of the most popular tunes ever, played to death, but can never actually be played to death. Genius.

yeah i think it's the greatest song to be made by a British band ever. Bring on the down votes!

[Wooderson]

yeah i think it's the greatest song to be made by a British band ever. Bring on the down votes!

Have you been on the shandys mate

[WS_Jack_III]

Have you been on the shandys mate

not yet.

[Guest]

yeah i think it's the greatest song to be made by a British band ever. Bring on the down votes!

Its not even the greatest New Order tune imo. But it is arguably the most influential British song ever. New Order were light years ahead of every other British band in terms of music and style.

It is quite remarkable how 5 musicians have made such diverse and innovative pop music, which was equally at home in the bedsits of Manchester as it was in New York nightclubs.

New Order are very up and down live. But when they are up, they seem untouchable.

Damon Albarn shares a lot of similarities to Bernard Sumner. But Sumners catalogue of music under different guises is astounding. Joy Division, New Order and Electronic is some C.V