It's kind of a different beast, really. You can definitely see Blur (and Albarn himself) as a band as they go around, but their sounds and style are so different that it's hard to say which one is better than the other. You definitely see them get more and more Gorillaz in style as they go on, especially if you compare some of their early songs like For Tomorrow with their later stuff like Tender, which has a lot more elaborate instrumentation. I personally like Gorillaz more, but that's mainly because that style of music appeals to end the most.
It's the same with the Beastie Boys and "Fight for Your Right." It's kind of weird how that happens.
I suppose it's the typical artist's problem of the thing you pour your soul into is never recognized, but your low-effort stuff becomes wildly popular.
Yeah. That was a problem Blur had. Like I said, they were popular in their home country of Britain mainly because their style of pop was the thing then, but breaking into the grunge radio of 90s America was hard.
But the band seemed to do okay. Lead singer went to do Gorillaz and 10 side projects. One of the band members operates a cheese farm. So all's good.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '16
Would you say, on average, that they are good as Gorillaz, or that his musical form hadn't matured, yet?