Pre-Order Thread

 
Protomartyr live set from '14 just announced.


Not sure if the back means limited to 750 or not.

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Protomartyr live set from '14 just announced.


Not sure if the back means limited to 750 or not.

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Hopefully everyone snagged a copy that wanted one.
 

Hopefully everyone snagged a copy that wanted one.
I think I'm going to sit it out because I've been spending too much lately, but it looks like it will still let me buy.
 
For its 25th anniversary, Blur is rereleasing The Great Escape in blue and white vinyl

I think this is an underrated album personally, but I also don't really need two copies... maybe if it included some of the B-sides on vinyl but just a straight up rerelease isn't too tempting

also @Joe Mac saying it's their second worst album sounds really bad until you consider how great their discography is 😅
 
I think this is an underrated album personally, but I also don't really need two copies... maybe if it included some of the B-sides on vinyl but just a straight up rerelease isn't too tempting

also @Joe Mac saying it's their second worst album sounds really bad until you consider how great their discography is 😅

Yes there is a bit of the “every album other than Leisure has strengths”, and even it has She’s So High and There’s No Other Way! I just find that parts of it can tend towards the obnoxious shouty side. That said The Universal is pretty damn perfect.
 
I think this is an underrated album personally, but I also don't really need two copies... maybe if it included some of the B-sides on vinyl but just a straight up rerelease isn't too tempting

also @Joe Mac saying it's their second worst album sounds really bad until you consider how great their discography is 😅



Any album with He Thought of Cars on it is worth owning!
 
Yes there is a bit of the “every album other than Leisure has strengths”, and even it has She’s So High and There’s No Other Way! I just find that parts of it can tend towards the obnoxious shouty side. That said The Universal is pretty damn perfect.
It probably doesn't reflect well on The Great Escape either that it ended up being the last true britpop album Blur made. There's a feeling on the album that (ironically, given it's title) the band is feeling a bit trapped by the limitations of their genre, and what with all the Oasis chart battles and whatnot, you can see why they abandoned that whole scene entirely for their next album.
 
It probably doesn't reflect well on The Great Escape either that it ended up being the last true britpop album Blur made. There's a feeling on the album that (ironically, given it's title) the band is feeling a bit trapped by the limitations of their genre, and what with all the Oasis chart battles and whatnot, you can see why they abandoned that whole scene entirely for their next album.

Yeah I think fhat the two previous had been a reaction against the US and grunge after a particularly terrible early tour supporting Leisure. That had probably run its course by the end of Parklife and as you say with Parklife they were the big guns and Oasis the upstarts on their debut. By the great escape and morning glory that had completely flipped.
 
Yeah I think fhat the two previous had been a reaction against the US and grunge after a particularly terrible early tour supporting Leisure. That had probably run its course by the end of Parklife and as you say with Parklife they were the big guns and Oasis the upstarts on their debut. By the great escape and morning glory that had completely flipped.
Yeah, here in the US Oasis are the way bigger and more well-known of the two, at least nowadays. A lot of people know Blur as the band the Gorillaz guy was in before Gorillaz, lol. People know "Song 2" but that's about it. I think Oasis were just more accessible to Americans than Blur were. Blur were very aggressively British as opposed to Oasis who seemed to play a very "universal" (hehe) kind of music.
 
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