https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/blur-album-damon-albarn-called-awful/ 短址 http://tinyurl.com/y3axja6f The Blur album Damon Albarn called “awful” Joe Taysom @josephtaysom Wed 10 January 2024 11:00, UK Blur needed to overcome bumps in the road to reach their rightful destination, even though their journey started on the right track. While they successfully managed to gauge sizeable anticipation for their debut album, 1991’s Leisure , Damon Albarn holds negative feelings towards the record, which he once label led as “awful”. It only took around a year following their formation for Blur to capture the a ttention of Food Records, who signed the band in 1990 on the condition they ag reed to change their name from Seymour. After re-branding to Blur, their natur al progression to superstardom seemingly began to take flight. Together, they spent months plying their trade on the road supporting The Cramps, providing t hem the chance to road-test material before finally unleashing it on the gener al public. Their first single, ‘She’s So High’, charted in the top 50, which was impre ssive for a group with little profile and helped build a foundation for them t o build. Their next move was the release of ‘There’s No Other Way’, which p eaked at eight in the UK chart and made Blur become the band on everybody’s l ips. From this point, it seemed they could do no wrong, and Leisure was anticipated to be the album that would help them climb further up the ladder. Blur were a ware of this at the time, and as Albarn later admitted, they consciously tried to make the project they thought would be most commercially viable rather tha n seeping with artistic integrity. During an interview on Guitar Centre Sessions in 2014, Albarn said of the proc ess of making the album: “Well, that wasn’t a particularly happy experience. I was so keen to have a record deal; it seemed like such a big deal that I th ink, with hindsight, we were a little too eager to please our masters.” Elaborating on his point, Albarn added: “I think when you started out, at tha t time, the music business was very different to what it is now. There was def initely a business and a way of doing things, unless you were very lucky, you generally got signed because they saw your potential to continue a trend that was ongoing. There never have been that many true visionaries in the music bus iness.” Blur felt they had to present a version of themselves, rather than being wholl y inauthentic, if they were to succeed as a band. Rather than carving out thei r own sound, they instead bowed down to the perceived industry demands and han ded in an album they’d later grow to regret. -- 猜到答案了嗎 有兩張 -- 好像多年前已有一樣的訪問 這次再訪問還是一樣的結果 XD --

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