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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Blur “The Universal”
At this point in Britpop of 1995, you were either Team Oasis or Team Blur, or at least that was the whole selling point. The Great Escape was a solid album, not our favorite Blur record, but a solid...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Mali Music “Spoons”
This is the sometimes forgotten 2002 project from Blur/Gorillaz man Damon Albarn, Mali Music, featuring his collaborations with various Mali musicians. The results were at times stunning, but...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Blur “Coffee & TV”
The perfect Blur song, our all-time favorite pop-song, one of the greatest music videos of all-time (although you can’t see it here, because the music industry blocks it), please enjoy today’s helping...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Blur “End Of A Century”
This is just one of those songs where we know if you were in a pub in London late on a Friday night, and this song comes on, there is going to be a singalong. A really, f**king great singalong. (We...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Blur “Chemical World”
We go all the way back to 1993 and Blur’s second album, Modern Life is Rubbish, where gone when shoegaze and in came super pop. “Chemical World” was a decent single from the band, and when you hear...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Gorillaz “Empire Ants”
We sort of forgot about Damon Albarn’s new mini Gorillaz opera, Plastic Beach, and one of the albums better tracks, “Empire Ants.” But then we remembered, and felt you should listen. The Good, the...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Blur “Parklife”
One of the great single sleeve covers of the 1990s, and one of the great tracks of the 1990s, Blur’s “Parklife” contains the best spoken/singing vocal in the history of British bands doing...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Democrazy “Five Star Life”
This is Damon Albarn at his ultimate demo/solo career stage, with 2003′s Democrazy album. “Five Star Life” might not even be that good of a song, or Democrazy that good of a side project, but it...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Gorillaz “Ghost Train”
This is the first song that Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett did in 1998 under the moniker Gorilla, later named Gorillaz and later a B-side to a Gorillaz single. It is definitely on the side project...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: “Herculean” studio version
A long while back, we used this section for a live version of the epic “Herculean” by a little band of Damon Albarn’s called The Good the Bad and the Queen. Now, we think that live version is good,...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Thursday: Blur “No Distance Left To Run”
This is one of the saddest songs in the Blur catalog, at least when it comes to the subject of relationships. At this point in their career, Blur’s 13 became the full introspective album, mostly about...
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The free Gorillaz tour EP is good.
We know its not our normal Thursday “let’s feature something Damon Albarn” day, but the new Gorillaz free EP, “The Fall,” is not so bad and something you should be committed to on this slow getting...
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