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Do you wish Every Frame A Painting was still making videos? Yeah me too.
So this is TRASH THEORY. Not as good as Every Frame but a music essay channel all the same. We encompass the entirety of the pop culture spectrum. A bit of film, a touch of video games, TV every now and again, though mostly it'll be music.
"You'll laugh, you'll learn, you'll hurl!" - Paraphrased Wayne's World Tagline
So this is TRASH THEORY. Not as good as Every Frame but a music essay channel all the same. We encompass the entirety of the pop culture spectrum. A bit of film, a touch of video games, TV every now and again, though mostly it'll be music.
"You'll laugh, you'll learn, you'll hurl!" - Paraphrased Wayne's World Tagline
Woo-hoo!: How Blur Mocked Grunge & Destroyed Britpop ["Song 2"] | New British Canon
At first, Blur were a band that prided themselves on their Britishness. They wrote keenly observational pop songs about 18-30 Holidays, The Shipping Forecast, Sunday Lunch and the Quiet Frustrations of Everyday British Life. In Britain, it made them heroes. But in the US they were nobodies.
So it was quite the surprise that midway through the 90s, they made an about-face and unleashed a screaming chunk of Apple Pie-scented Grunge rawk, the key modern jock jam. But how did they get there? Why was a jumbo jet involved? And was it just a joke aimed squarely to whom it appealed? This is New British Canon and this is the Story of “Song 2.”
#Blur #Britpop #MusicDocumentary
Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.
Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Blur & Britpop's Ascension: "So The Story Begins..."
07:17 The Great Escape: "I Am So Sad, I Don't Know Why"
15:30 Recording Blur: "Sad Drunk and Poorly"
22:30 Creating Song 2: "When I Feel Heavy Metal"
28:07 Enduring Legacy of Blur & Song 2
Sources:
The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris, 2004, Harper Perennial
Verse, Chorus, Monster! By Graham Coxon, 2022, Faber
The Life of Blur by Martin Power, 2013, Omnibus Press
Isle of Noises by Daniel Rachel, 2013, Picador
Starshaped - Documentary (1993) dir. Matthew Longfellow
Blur - The South Bank Show (1999) dir Gerald Fox
No Distance Left to Run - Documentary (2010) dir. Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace
“Blur: Britain’s Class Act” Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, Nov 1994
"The Hic Parade" Ted Kessler, NME, Dec 1994
"Blur: The Return Of The Fab Four" Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, Aug 1995
"Blur: The Return Of The Fab Four: Part Two" Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, Aug 1995
“Graham Coxon: I'm Completely at Odds With Everything” Keith Cameron, NME, Sep 1995
"Blur: England Expects" Chris Heath, The Face, Sep 1995
"Gold, Nonsense and Blur" Johnny Cigarettes, NME, Dec 1995
“Blur: Stop The Band, I Wanna Get Off!” Adrian Deevoy, Q, Mar 1996
“Blur in America” Everett True, Melody Maker, Mar 1996
"Blur Clear Things Up" Susan Kaplow, Addicted To Noise, 1997
“What Have We Done?” Roy Wilkinson, Select Magazine, Mar 1997
“‘Sly Stone Meets Black Sabbath’” Roy Wilkinson, Select Magazine, Mar 1997
“One day, all this will be ours” David Cavanagh, Q Magazine, Apr 1997
“Blur Knocks The Pulp Out Of Oasis, Right?” Erik Himmelsbach, Pulse!, Apr 1997
“Red White and Blur“ Sylvia Patterson, Spin Magazine, Aug 1997
"Woo Hoo!" Michael Dwyer, Rolling Stone Australia, Sep 1997
“Chaos Has Reappeared, Everyone’s Drunk Again Great!” Mark Beaumont, NME, Nov 1997
“The Death of a Party” Stuart Maconie, Select, Aug 1999
“Alex James explains Blur’s ‘knickers-off headbanger’“ Q Magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever, 2003
“It was all a bit of a Blur…” Ally Carnwath, The Observer, May 2009
“Blur - Album By Album, by Stephen Street, William Orbit and Ben Hillier” Nick Hasted, Uncut, Jul 2009
"Thinking outside the box" Jake Kennedy, Record Collector, Jun 2012
"Graham Coxon: All a blur" Fiona Sturges, Independent, May 2012
“Woo-hoo! 20 Years Ago, Blur's 'Song 2' Became an Unlikely Sports Anthem” Rick Paulas, VICE, Apr 2017
“‘We Found Our Own Heavy Psychedelia’” Martin Aston, Mojo Magazine, Nov 2023
“‘C’est quoi ce bordel?’” François Moreau, Les Inrockuptibles, Dec 2023
You can also follow me here:
Twitter: TrashTheory
Facebook: TrashTheoryYT
Or support me on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/TrashTheory
So it was quite the surprise that midway through the 90s, they made an about-face and unleashed a screaming chunk of Apple Pie-scented Grunge rawk, the key modern jock jam. But how did they get there? Why was a jumbo jet involved? And was it just a joke aimed squarely to whom it appealed? This is New British Canon and this is the Story of “Song 2.”
#Blur #Britpop #MusicDocumentary
Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.
Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Blur & Britpop's Ascension: "So The Story Begins..."
07:17 The Great Escape: "I Am So Sad, I Don't Know Why"
15:30 Recording Blur: "Sad Drunk and Poorly"
22:30 Creating Song 2: "When I Feel Heavy Metal"
28:07 Enduring Legacy of Blur & Song 2
Sources:
The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris, 2004, Harper Perennial
Verse, Chorus, Monster! By Graham Coxon, 2022, Faber
The Life of Blur by Martin Power, 2013, Omnibus Press
Isle of Noises by Daniel Rachel, 2013, Picador
Starshaped - Documentary (1993) dir. Matthew Longfellow
Blur - The South Bank Show (1999) dir Gerald Fox
No Distance Left to Run - Documentary (2010) dir. Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace
“Blur: Britain’s Class Act” Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, Nov 1994
"The Hic Parade" Ted Kessler, NME, Dec 1994
"Blur: The Return Of The Fab Four" Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, Aug 1995
"Blur: The Return Of The Fab Four: Part Two" Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, Aug 1995
“Graham Coxon: I'm Completely at Odds With Everything” Keith Cameron, NME, Sep 1995
"Blur: England Expects" Chris Heath, The Face, Sep 1995
"Gold, Nonsense and Blur" Johnny Cigarettes, NME, Dec 1995
“Blur: Stop The Band, I Wanna Get Off!” Adrian Deevoy, Q, Mar 1996
“Blur in America” Everett True, Melody Maker, Mar 1996
"Blur Clear Things Up" Susan Kaplow, Addicted To Noise, 1997
“What Have We Done?” Roy Wilkinson, Select Magazine, Mar 1997
“‘Sly Stone Meets Black Sabbath’” Roy Wilkinson, Select Magazine, Mar 1997
“One day, all this will be ours” David Cavanagh, Q Magazine, Apr 1997
“Blur Knocks The Pulp Out Of Oasis, Right?” Erik Himmelsbach, Pulse!, Apr 1997
“Red White and Blur“ Sylvia Patterson, Spin Magazine, Aug 1997
"Woo Hoo!" Michael Dwyer, Rolling Stone Australia, Sep 1997
“Chaos Has Reappeared, Everyone’s Drunk Again Great!” Mark Beaumont, NME, Nov 1997
“The Death of a Party” Stuart Maconie, Select, Aug 1999
“Alex James explains Blur’s ‘knickers-off headbanger’“ Q Magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever, 2003
“It was all a bit of a Blur…” Ally Carnwath, The Observer, May 2009
“Blur - Album By Album, by Stephen Street, William Orbit and Ben Hillier” Nick Hasted, Uncut, Jul 2009
"Thinking outside the box" Jake Kennedy, Record Collector, Jun 2012
"Graham Coxon: All a blur" Fiona Sturges, Independent, May 2012
“Woo-hoo! 20 Years Ago, Blur's 'Song 2' Became an Unlikely Sports Anthem” Rick Paulas, VICE, Apr 2017
“‘We Found Our Own Heavy Psychedelia’” Martin Aston, Mojo Magazine, Nov 2023
“‘C’est quoi ce bordel?’” François Moreau, Les Inrockuptibles, Dec 2023
You can also follow me here:
Twitter: TrashTheory
Facebook: TrashTheoryYT
Or support me on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/TrashTheory
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Really good video. Much appreciated.
'Third wave ska' is embarrassingly American
Some bands imitate. Some bands innovate.
Blur didn't killed Britpop. What killed the genre were different trends coming into play by the mid 90s.
Song 2 is the only Blur song I like. I am also American.
Trust Pearl Jam to fuck a good thing up
So "mocked" is British for "cashed in on"?
#0023_NineTeenEighty_FREE_WhyCantBritsPronounce_th⚠️
Punks not dead they just bought samplers😂😂😂
deftones are pretty much the only "nu metal" band that still holds up really well. of course theres individual tracks from other bands that are still good but White Pony is still in my top 50 all time albums
TBH, "Song 2" is the only song of Blur I know and remember - I couldn't care less for Britpop as a whole, just not my cup of tea, never was and probably never will... ^^
I am unapologetic about my love for nu metal and all metal but I really don't think of deftones as nu metal. I love deftones and think they are an awesome alt metal band in their own lane.
They are still Epic
When they released What Time is Love they knew what could be achieved ❤
I hope pete knew how loved he was by his fans before he died
of course if youre a rich kid from the UK youre not going to understand the sadness and "self pity" of the grunge explosion...also, Gorillaz are awesome but Blur is throwaway BS
Blur were dicks to Nardwaur I will never respect them after that.
... always wondered if those strings were specially recorded, or sampled from a movie soundtrack. Now I know.
Bill Drummond’s 1986 solo album “The Man” is an additional piece of missing career context here, and a great treat for fans of pedal steel and Scottish crooning
Around 13:30 I couldn't help but imagine Fred Armisen"s punk character whenever Albarn's lyrics pop up. They're just so incredibly unsubtle that it cracks me up along with the timing of rhe video editing.
why does nobody mention the bad brains influence on deftones adrenaline
It's quite funny how artists interpretations of their most frustrating moments, always end up making legendary songs. Another example than Blur - Song 2, is Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams are Made of This, which is all about how absolutely annoying the big labels have been (and still is) to deal with. Big labels have to approve everything their signed artists puts out, so if they change style and that change isn't allowed in their contracts, the labels can, quite literally, order the artists to return to a style they no longer love and use that to fulfill their contract, hence why frustrations end up boiling over and making the artists do what they do best. Expressing their pent up emotions in a violent artistic outburst.
Couldnt even say Siouxsie's last name properly
You really have a grudge against record covers.
Was always more a Suede fan than Blur tbh.
Shit I’ve got a nice list of Deal-influenced acts to check out now.
Bloc Party was the last band I felt attached to. I became a fan at their first Coachella appearance. I knew very little about them but my brother and friend raved about them. They came out and played Eating Glass and was a fan instantly. Great video!
Man.... the FBI REALLY had nothing better to do back then.
Hearing people disparage The Dreaming album is hilarious. The album is stellar and aged incredibly well, even better than Hounds of Love. Possibly her most impressive work.
The 4 lines of the chorus are the World summed up in a nutshell... "Some of them want to use you, some of them want to be used by you, some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused"... were never more true! The song is GENIUS!
So beautifully in depth! Fantastic deep dive!
I am a 500-year-old vampire and they've saved my undeath more than once
No wonder they weren't successful in America
What I'm getting for these videos is that The Kingsman Louie Louie , Eddie Cochran Summertime Blues and The Kinks you Really Got Me ARE PROTO-EVERYTHING
Blur has always been musically more interesting than Oasis.
grunge is my favorite rock subgenre but i will never not like blur. their music reminds me of queen and i am a queen mega fan.
13:22 hugely influenced by interpol… it sounds exactly like them
As a kiwi/ New Zealander i never got Blur or britpop rock it was always on the airwaves but it never appealed... Grunge was my cup of tea during that era... Don't get me wrong some of my all time fave musos are brits but the 90s brit pop rock was just bland, boring and over the top
In the US they were nobodies cause they were rubbish They couldnt touch oasis Song 2 was dope tho
Old Blur sounds bad
Im a Huge Fan Of Hip-Hop And Nu Metal
04:47: Weird this actress in 1984 looks like Billy Corgan in 1979
I’m an American, same age as these blokes, and got on the BLUR wagon quite late but never bought completely into OASIS though I do appreciate them and their craft. “Song 2” was my favorite snowboarding song. I think it was a good time to be a Brit. We, here in America, must thank the UK for the history of the music and all the influences ya’ll gave us. Cheers to Britain! 🇬🇧 ❤ Oh! And by the way, thank you for referencing XTC in this video. One of my favorites!
That was an amazing documentary. Thank you.
The gorillaz
Goat
Tim was the last truly great album? Pleased to Meet Me was as awesome
Being at Uni in the 90s (in England) was the best time for music. Saw Blur many many times (first time: Sugary Tea tour, Damon in a washing machine I'll never forget) and have seen them many times since.Fave album: Modern Life..., favourite song Popscene. I was always Blur over Oasis. Still am... but I was then too
I appreciate you for acknowledging Deftones. They've always been far more than nu metal though.
The golden years the silver tears