Posted May 12, 200718 yr Damon Albarn criticises Blur albums Saturday, May 12 2007, 09:32 BST Digitalspy.com By Daniel Kilkelly Damon Albarn has revealed that he isn't a fan of Blur's first and fourth albums. The band's frontman criticised 1991's Leisure and 1995's The Great Escape, naming them as two of his biggest mistakes. "I've made hundreds of mistakes," Albarn admitted. "I've made two bad records. The first record, which is awful, and The Great Escape, which was messy." Damon claimed that the Kaiser Chiefs have made similar errors with their second album Yours Truly, Angry Mob. "The Kaiser Chiefs' new record sounds a bit like The Great Escape in that it sounds a bit empty," he said. "Sometimes records are like that if you try too hard to repeat your success." Do you agree with him & which Blur album do you think is their worst effort?
May 12, 200718 yr Hmmm, Leisure is pretty good (Shes So High, Sing and Theres No Other Way all being excellent). The Great Escape is pants, but does have some good songs (Best Days and The Universal for example). For me the worst album is Think Thank. Experimenting gone awry imo.
May 25, 200718 yr Author Like Oasis' Be Hear Now, I think The Great Escape is a pretty good album. Although they really should have released Best Days as a single. Their two weakest albums are by some distance their debut Leisure & their last (so far) Think Tank.
May 25, 200718 yr I don't own any Blur albums so I can't really comment :( However, why make and release an album unless you are 100% satisfied with it? Surely that's the reason you spend so long making it? Or is this just a hindsight thing?
August 6, 200717 yr I don't own any Blur albums so I can't really comment :( However, why make and release an album unless you are 100% satisfied with it? Surely that's the reason you spend so long making it? Or is this just a hindsight thing? let's say... money? :naughty:
September 6, 200717 yr i love "the great escape" n i still believe that its an excellent britpop record
September 7, 200717 yr I think it's one of these things where Damon is looking back over his career, and what seemed like good ideas at the time, he now sees in retrospect as being a bit sh!t, how many of us can honestly say that we haven't made similar mistakes in our lives and our career paths? I dont think it's anything to do with money or whatever, I applaud his honesty actually. "Leisure" was awful, a pretty second-rate attempt at Happy Mondays/Inspiral Carpets style "baggy", and clearly a bid to break into the "Madchester" scene that was going around at the time. I also feel that "The Great Escape" is a poor album as well...
November 17, 200717 yr Leisure was the first Blur album, so it's obviously not quite as good as the follow-ups. The Great Escape had it's moments though. I still say Think Tank is the only bad Blur album. It's simply not Blur without Graham's and his guitar.
