Publishing Splits and Legacy

Oh yeah, it's right man Wome Puran is Fota Wom! And underallaida Wolong. We're talking about him in Albn all of his time as the Fen of peracorillas. We will teach y'all D on Lxur Today, we're diving into a song that turned two minutes, a scream and a wall of distortion into one of the most recognizable rock records of the nineteen nineties, a song that somehow became Blur's biggest doorway into America, even though it was never really supposed to be the full picture of who Blur was. That's right, Yalla. And we could not talk about this song without talking about where it lands in Damon Albarn's career So today's episode is part one of a two part story whereere we start with Blur and a pivotal moment in Damon Alburn's career before following him into the world of gorillas. Tay we're talking David Alburn, Blur, and the accidental anthem that became one of the defining rock singles of the decade. 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Law suppupplies last ends june thirtieth turns at aka. mS slash collllege PC How much energy? I'm so pumped for today. Yeah. One of my favorite bands of all time. I will say right at the very top. Look, it needs to be said. We've done one hundred and thirty episodes of the show. Diallo has really held back on literally your favorite band. So much restraint. So much restraint, but we finally got there. This is the Daamon Allbn episode we've been waing to make from day one, so we can't wait to launch into the Damon and the blur of it all with you guys I'm actor writer director and sometimes DJ Diola Riddle And I'm producer DJ and songwriter and musicologist Luxury, AK the guy who Wh whispers inter And this is one song. The show will break down the stems and stories behind iconic songs across genres to tell you why they deserve one more deeper listen You will hear these songs like you've never heard them before and you can watch one song on YouTube and Spotify. whileile you're there, please like and subscribe All right, let's get started Diallo, when did you first heard Bur? Fun story. I was actually Bachir you know, my writing partner. We were getting kicked out of Amagi's, which was a bar restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. What'd you do We were just having too much fun, man. You know like at one point the songs got ridiculously good and I think that we might have hopped up onto the bar and thought we could dance with the girls and the establishment didn't want that kind of entertainment. I see. I see. So they supposed a cooyote uly. No Okay So they actually tossed us out, but the fun fact is we were getting tossed out. We just graduated from Harvard not that long ago. We were just getting kicked out. and one of our friends was just like, Oh man, what a great night. Did't you loveve when they played that song by Blurred? And I was like, which song was that? He was like, It was the one with the lyrics don't make any sense. I can see his face to this day. He was just like, it's the one where he says, I got my head checked by a Jumbojet. And I was like and the lyric made me laugh. I was like, yeah, that's wonderful but does not make any sense. And so I went out and I sought that song. I might have bought the single. Maybe I aboutought the album, but either way, I went out and I was like Holy shit, I like all these songs and so then, you know, as one would do back then I went back and I bought all their albums and some of them my life more than others. That was your doorway into the band. That was my doorway into the band was just one crazy night senset strip. That song was played Yeah. Can we just point out that it's to me unusual that he would have referred alluded to the song not by that part where it goes woooo. That would seem to be the easier way to like refer to something that you didn't know what it was when it was happening. He went straight for the Jumbojet though He thought Jumbojet was so funny. and I thought it was funny too. And Basher and I were just like Yeahah, that seems like a really cool band, you know, because they just seemed cool at the time this band blurred. But it's one of those things where like it accomplished the mission it was supposed to accomplish, which was it got it caught my ear And then all of a sudden I'm deep diving through all their stuff. And I might have heard There's No O wayay, which is another great blur song. I might have heard that maybe on rock radio back in Atlanta back when it first came out. And to this day is There's No O wayay. It's still one of my favorite songs by them.. Stoy That song is so great, but it's so interesting to hear it now contrasting with songs too. They're very different songs.s almost like very different bands. like different bands. I like that's more of a Madchester kind of late eighties, early nineties thing. You can imagine Liam Gallagher coming in on There's No O wayay with the way or she so high in particular, right? You know Or may I say Soup dragons because my friend Sean from that band was mad at me Last time when I mentioned the Sou Dragons in passing, Sean, love your band. love Hi byi Saron. des out long. And Super Dragon's Great band, it could have been a Su Dragon song. I think that's more of a reasonable connection there. And I'm also trying to make nice. Don't hate me, Sean U Given the very different paths that Oasis and Blur went down, can I just say I am a fan of both. It's the same way I like Tuac and Biggie. You know what I mean? Like I loved Blur. I loved Oasis at the same time, but the band that recorded She's so high could have easily gone to the oasis. In fact, it sounds like a song that you can imagine Liam coming in singing over. Yeah. But by the time even as early as like the Park life album, which I think is one of the best albums of the nineties. Yeah Blur has staked out a distinctly quirky, nerdy sort of like British sound. It's it's a very quirky It's a very quirky time, I think in the UK, like the whole Bit pop movement it' sort of a celebration of the UK. and I feel like Blur attacks it from a very different point than their Mancunian R counterpart that That's a perfect opportunity. We do have to talk about two things, both Bit pop, the musical movement, the genre, created by Neme and Mlody Maker and Sounds, but also a real phenomenon where there are a bunch of bands. Elastica would be one maybe suuper grass. If you've ever heard Hope commommon Hope one hundred percent. What a great song, what a great album that that one comes off of I just feelelt like that was when they were really like establishing a sound distinct from the new wave of the eighties, even the jangly guitars that we would call Madchester. Yeah. But it was harkening back to kind of sixties Britannica, like kind of a love for that London was liive. Waterloo sunset era Kinks and the Beetles and the Stones and the who There was just sort of a resurgence of love and admiration for those bands. And specifically London because I think this is the London of David Beckham. This is the London ironically of an America movie, Austin Powers that celebrates this period. Right. They got the kind of right. Yeah. The Beatles are releasing their anthology. And then you've got one band, you know, Oasis that sounds very beatlely in one way But I would argue that Damon, without sounding beatly also sounds like you said, like a band that could have existed, sort of a modernization of that sixties London. And it's interesting to make the parallel too, because as much as Oasis very much stays within the lane, I would argue, like they're a Beatles loving band. And every now and then they're kind of a stonesy loving band and there's a little T rex that gets thrown in now and that a little Gary glitter For the most part, they stay in that lane throughout their whole career. Well they've always the first track on the track before song two on this album is called Beetlebum for a purpose. Oh yeah. You know, I never knew that could. Oh, Beetlebum is great.'sen a little bit of Beetlebum lets sl. It's funny because you hear the Beatles, but it's also not the Beatles. It's also not no, it's a s new singing in celebration of the Beatles, but it doesn't sound like,y, I'm going to do what the Beatles have done. I just real quick, he said it right and I'm just gonna stand for the record. This is one of those groups I know almost their entire catalog to the extent which this episode, when I inevitably go back and listen to it will disappoint me because I'll be like, whyy didn't I bring up song? I know that feel Which was that song on the train spaotting soundtrack, which was incredible, but was originally recorded As the song Sing To Me by their previous group before they were blurred, they were called Semour, named after the J Dall. Are gonna be crumbs that you leave on the table? It's part of the tragedy. I don't want to leave's part of the agony of doing this show. No any crumbs. It's only an hour long and it's only one song, but it's still we under I understand you perfectly, man. Listen real quick. Listen to a little bit of sing from the trainpotting soundtrack We've had have we talked about this on an episode that this soundtrack we both maybe love as our favoriteound contracts of all time. I they share this? I think we were guests on a podcast. I think that's the We'll do a special one off call one album or one soundtrack. Yeah we go. And we'll talk about. But that was sing. Here's the original nineteen eighty nine version back when they were called Seymour, once again named after A Jadie Salinger book, Nerds, cheheck this out The pian almost sounds like out of tone. Yeah out of tone. He's thring a couple notes in there that are not in the chord, but like, you know they're spicy notes, but it sounds cool and messy, which by the way, is a connection to both of the songs on both of the episodes we're talking about today. What a great reminder too of where they were coming from because that's such an era, that sound and that the Brit pop thing, we arere done with that And song two, that's not there anymore. And this song is kind of in eraser. Pong two in some ways is there's a song on this blur album called Death of the Party Yeah. And I do feel like to a certain extent, in a very short period of time, London might have partied itself out in the rock bands of the Bp hop era. That's They sort of seeing themselves replaced by more of the poppy spice girls. Just to put dates on this chronology. So if in nineteen ninety four it starts to be used Technically, I've read that in nineteen ninety two, Damon himself thinks that Blur began to use the word Britpop. By ninety four, it's definitely in the common parlance. And that means that the British papers are using it constantly to sell copies of FME Mlody maker and sounds. nineteen ninety five is the famous blur versus Oasis showdown. Absolutely. Right whereere they both come out with their singles at the same time. It's a rivalry. I think Oasis is thought to have won that particular rivalry because in terms of sales in terms of sales and the fact that they were able to break into the American market, which ye no, I mean go. You know, America never celebrated Swadee or pulp Yeah or Any of these bands Swede got lumped into that whole like Suede UK thing that some bands they come over the Charlatanight. They have to have at the end wham UK or wham UK a wham. There was a wham UK thing too So that means there was a U.S a wham already. Yeah I know that there was a wham US. Listen. Suede are great though. O I think they might even call the UK Sede even worse Oo, that That was a great band. Something to stick in your pocket for now. Yeah. I don't know why I said it like that. Something put in your back pocket for now. Remember, I said that they did sing to me and it was kind of faster and peppy. By the time we get to ninety six, they slow it way down The heroin is in this from trainspotting, sing is much slower. Remember that because temples are going to play a role And the conjuring, if you will, of s. That's absolutely right. Just to finish the chronology by nineteen ninety seven, when this song comes out, we we're post Bit pop. It's all over. At this point, you know, for all of us, I was just discovering it. No you tell the sense Yeah I was coming in on the party late and that people were leaving. Oasis' beat here now is considered kind of a flop at this moment. There was a sense that the party was over to your point of the song on this record You know, we've got the Verb bittersweet Symphony coming out in this same year. They're going to play a part in the Damon Albarn story. We've got radiohead, OK computer and cold playay. There's sort of a new rising post Bit pop sound that's coming out at this point Absolutely. I don't mean to take up all the blur air I want to ask you, how did you first hear Song two Well, this is an MTV story. You know, I grew up watching one hundred and twenty minutes every Sunday night and then the young ones. That wasative Rock Yeah curated for the curious hundred percent And this is where I first was exposed to or one of the ways because I was also listening to live one hundred five in the Bay area. but like The Smiths, the cured, the D Pest mode, all of these English bands really mattered to me because first of all, the music was great, but they also felt like an alternative and better source than just what the kids at my school were listening to an American radio. There was a sort of vbe that these were the things to listen to that were cooler, frankly. L I don't have a better word than that. It felt cooler. It felt a little more mysterious. And of course, genuinely, I loved the music itself. So this is a few years after that. This is the next generation into the nineties. But all of the bands we've been talking about, I wasn't getting from topop forty radio in America. I'm getting them from I am reading these magazines. read M. I'm reading an MMy. I am watching whatever the remnants of one hundred twenty mininutes was So there was this idea that they were cool and I needed to pay attention to what this what this battle was, you know, between Blur and Oasis, for example. And what's wild is this is the same self titled blur album that not only gives you song to But it also has a song that I never thought I'd have a chance to talk about. Onour O. One of my favorite songs that's been described by Damon himself as one of the early gorilla songs. Let's check out a little bit of onnour O. So say your ar, you r. All right. It's so laddish. It sounds like a drunken pub sing along. a pub whose lyrics are totally garbled by the drunkenness of the singer. It be the same Right. In other words. should be drunk. Well It all be dead. Okay till then you're on your own. That was not the lyric you were pointing out to me? No, the linees that I thought was interesting because I didn't know that until we started researching this episode. Okay. When he said that he considers this an early gerorilla song the course starts I. So take me home, donon't leave me alone. I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad. No psycho killer. Hooligan Gorilla. So the word gorilla is actually in the ch of the song and the second I read, oh, one of the early Gorilla songs, he actually says Gorilla in the chor. A seed was laid Higan Gorilla. A seed was laid Soccer Hooligan, mayaybe so. shout out to the World Cup. It was very Gorill a shout out for me. That was a very Hooliganish sounding song. It's a little hooligan, but it's a fun It's, you know, it's a what's ironic is that blur fans thought this album was so dark, I had been listening to hip hop pretty much exclusively since ninety one by the time this album came out. And just like you were saying you were looking for an alternative from some of the rock bands you were Yeah. I was looking for an alternative. You gott to remember, ninety seven, Tupx's dead, Biggies's dead Puffy has taken over all of hip hop. That's right. ninety seven ninety eight is when I decided, you know, I gotta listen to more than hip hop for the first time in like six years, what am I going to really listen to? And Rip pop just came there was a night here in here in LA called Bang and I feel like some of some of the partyrers some of the founders of that nightight listen to the show. shhout out to Bang because it was a place that I could go once a week and hear all this stuff played loud. It's one thing when you're like driving around town, you're just streaming your own music and you're in your own little bubble. But it's something else to go someplace and hear music that you think is kind of obscure, but suddenly it's being played loud among a bunch of like minded individuals. It's excit It's community. Yeah. And I didn't know that I had a community of a whole bunch of people who obsessed over blur lyrics like I did, So so that was a lot of fun. You know what, you're making me realize,, there's a third source of music that I would have had in this moment too because we're both post teenage years we're l The radio anymore, but this is before the era of like maybe Napster and blogs and Spotify where writing is uiquitous. And in that moment, because as I was saying it, I was like, you know what? MTV was starting to phase out at this time. I just realized what it was. It starting to become TRL MTV. That's right. I just realized what would have been my music source because you just made me think of it based on yours. It was probably just like the record stores in New York City Other music, whereere'd you go? Kim's video and other music. Other music I hundred percent Other music and Kim's video, I would walk in and I would hear something and that was my radio station. Whatever the cool like record store guys at those places I were cool. I bought cool for me I bought so many records based on it being played in the store. I probably bought Blur. I definitely b I definitely bought some Lcratch Perry records. So you're just kind of helping me fill in that gap in my musical chronology. That's so interesting Before John Kusack and Jack Black made them seem really like jerks, in h. mean I thought the guys in the record store were the coolest. Well, they were a little bit jerks too. Song two was always just a working title what they felt they needed for the second song on the album. Literally just a track listing. R. So it was just They always knew was gonna be song T two. They' like eventually they were like, okay bama go fest But then we'll do song two. and we'll come up with a name for it, but they just kept calling it song two. And then we are going to mangle the English accents throughout this episode. British listeners we are sorry in advance, but we're also not sorry we're Americans. How do this? We're not sorry. It's our two hundred fiftieth anniversary. this country suck on in English Get in the ring in front of the White House.t that G in the UC cage Come for the music, stay for the Maga talalking No, seriously, it's a conffluence with so many things. They knew they wanted to be the second song in the album, so it's called song two. It's also two minutes and I think two secondes. So it's like for a reason, right? Yes. And by the way, when this song came out, we used to laugh that it was only two minutes long. Yeah. We used to laugh about that becausecause it's like, who records the releases es now that's normal. And now that is so normal.adays it'd be like, Damn why'd you give us a day in the life by the Beatles? T two minutes. Hey, come back with a minute thirty nine second version of the song. Edit the edit Jesus Christ. This story really blows my mind. It relates back to how the ch how they changed that one song sing into a slower song for trainspotting. The story behind song two It kind of mixes almost better. So according to Blur guitarist Graham Coxson, can we call Coxsan maybe one of our unsung heroes? because I don't sure. M people know the members of Blur. I think that' the contributions they bring in. Coxsan plays a big role here. the song did not start off as the version that we all know. Damon had this slower acoustic demo of the song. And even the woohoo part was different. It was more like a whistle, which to me sounds so s It's like He's like very cynical. I love Damon for that. It sounded like this unplugged version that you were able to find. Yeah, I wasn't able to find the actual demo, but we did find this sort of like unplugged version louny version. and we believe that it would have sounded similar to this.ing all time I that's crazy. I know. And again to be clear,s that wasn't the demo, but we think the vibe was a little similar. Listen, that is gets Gilberto's version. Yeah so s Sorry, Bosa. But by the way, it also sounds a little bit like Blur this is for the real Blur fans Am I crazy? Does this sound a little bit more like modern life is rubbish era blur? I don't you know, like they did songs that sort of sound like Yeah's always played around with genres. Yes. Yeah. And so they record this raucous version. That's almost like a joke. It's like total It's nineteen ninety seven. Grg has been dead for a while. Like in their mind, I think the idea was we're gonna do something just to piss the label off and tell them it's our new single. This is gonna to be a joke. they did. They were like, Hey, this is the single We're going atast In their brains they're like we're being funny. we're doing the kind of Typical Pixies quiet loud, crunchy al. And by the way, like quiet loud is not completely gone because okay, then I'm call it necessarily Grunge, but like you can kind of imagine Billy Corgan watchatchioning Pumpkins recording It becomes part of the rock vernacular for lack of a better word. But at the time, it's also a little bit in nineteen ninety seven, a little bit of like, hey, remember this from two or three years ago? when everyone used to do this and it was kind of newish So it wass a bit silly. It was clearly done as a goof, but like It's the kind of goof that as you're doing, you're like, hey, this is kind of good, right? So that's what they do. and they presented to the label and the label was like not getting the joke. They're just like They were expecting them to reject. They loved it. They were like, this is great. great label loved it. And I want to point out, this has happened a couple of times on the show that somebody has recorded a track off the label. Itiss off the label. It often backfires. I was recently and I said sh its. Yeah. We're flipping off the record labels. No, just this week, ironically, it came out that gang star and DJ Premiere. He was like when we were producing mass appeal He said, we care with the title first. Yeah becauseuse he was like literallyppers a going to do thing. So I'm gonna to do what I think is a mass appeal hip hop song and I'm just gonna do the laziest bass loop. And Guru, you just talk about people selling out to have mass.n the idiot would like this song. O And then he gave it to the label and the label's like, gang star, listen We love mass appeal. And to this day, that is a lot of people's favorite ang star song, but they were It's the title of a magazine. make commentary Yeah about something. And here these guys were like, hey, let's make fun of the American market that bllur. I mean like it's a little bit like Blur being a little bit salty that Oasis blew up so big Yeah in the United States They like the United States. I'm sure we would blow up if we did some stupid stuff like I got my head. Oh just like big dumb guitars over there. Let's see what happens if we do big dumb guitars, crrunchy guitars. I bet you start off with The world is a vampire. know They're just like, right I a clown of this, but of course the song takes off. We've actually got a recording of the first ever time the song was performed. They still haven't got a title for it yet. Nor have they settled on the absence of a title being the title. So let's listen to Blur performing the song, june fifteenth, nineteen ninety six in Sweden, the first ever was performance But this' now a new song we're doing I don't know what it's called and I don't really know what it's about, but You might get, you might get. 'use I haven't really written it yet, but We're gonna to anyway At the moment it's called song number two And just a couple of interesting foreshadowings for this episode of One song. One is the whole fact of the lyrics. In the moment, he's like, I don't have lyrics yet Foreshadowing, put opinion that we'll come back to that in a minute. The other thing I'll say is that until we were preparing for this episode, I could have sworn the song was called song number two.. It's just called song two, but there's Damon calling it song number two. We're also gonna talk about feel good ink. R I think you were calling that feels good ink. I thought it was feels good comma ink with a dot. Well, I have a confession. Okay I always thought the name of the song was Massive Attack Unfinished symphony. I've thought that my entire life.. And I just was likeympathy. Unfinished sympathy. There's a typo here and I looked it up and I was like, o dud. Little Monda greens Punctu Mondag Green. Yeah just youve learned one time wrong and it follows you. All right, so we've learned that song two lives up to its name quite literally. And the question that remains that we'll be maybe answering when we get to the stTems next, mayaybe not. We're gonna investigate together. Is this a grrunge song? Is it a Bit pop song? Is it a sarcastic grunge song? And if it is, is that still grunge? Can I pause a possible answer? Pause it I think that they are a Bitop but I think that they play in so many genres because I think that it'd be silly to say this song too sounds like the rest of the Bp pop canon. It does not. Yeah. I was thinking about the song Girls and Bys. That doesn't sound like a Brip pop song either. That sounds like their attempt to do sort of like a Paul Oakenfold era dance song. You know what I mean? I think sort of like how blondie is hard to classify by pure genre because they dabbble in so much. I would argue blur is sort of similar in that sense. I think their song actually determines genre, but the band is bripp. That's really well said. and I would even take that a step further and say You're helping me realize what Damon Albarn likes to do is play with genre. That's kind of like he's thinking about chords, melodies, lyrics, and genre. It was like going into the next song. he's like, what that's what he's in That's his recipe. Sometimes they sound like stone roses. Yeah. Sometimes they sound like D funky homo sapien, and we'll talk about it. And very distinct from Oasis just going back to that because it's Oasis stays in their life. Oasis is always kind of in the be Beatles in the sixties lane Or the pubby lane. Yeah. Or the pubby Pubby lane. Py in. sorry. a lot of tortured English accents today Well, let's take a quick break, but when we get back, we're gonna to get into the stems and we're gonna to figure out how song two pulls all of this together. 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I will now tell you. So let's talk for a second about Unsung hero of this episode, Stehven Street. Well, yeah, the producer. producer of this record who was the in house engineer at Iland before he started working with the Smiths and the Cranberries and became a producer very well known producer at this point. A veryy in demand dude. Exactly right. wentent on to work with a lot of Bit pop producers. In fact, I read somewhere he was called, quote, the producer behind Bit pop fromom his work with Blur, Sleeper, Catatonia, Sed seeven baby shambles I love all these sort of lesser known because I knew about sounds like you're making some up. I remember that because I remember at the time I was still reading these British magazines where you would only ever hear about Shed seeven from like you know, page fifty of the like enemy that week or something like. I'm gonna admit, I feel like Shed seeven is a group that I've always heard about. never heard of. I I've never heard them either. Menswear, was that another Brit pop band Yeah Yeah, menswear, Yeah Hosh, you know, there's a Gomez. Yeah. Gomez was a group. We never we rarely bring up Superggrass, but Sperass was in the mix. Supergrass would have been my number one. Really? They were my favorite Brit pop man. Absolutely. So mister Street, by the way, nickname is Streety. That's thought they referred to him. That's so British. it's like hookie. tootally. Streety. So Streety set up two drum kits in the room We think that one of them might have been like annoyment, like a U eighty seven, but the other one The others were these cheap PCM mics that he put on the wall. These really cheap microphones are contact microphones, whichich is part of why you get this really low fi sound, this really crappy sound. And to both Dave Roundntree, the regular drmer for bllue I thought that was going to be our here. I feel like Roundree does not give the love that he deserves. shhout out to Roundree. Round Tree was one of the two drummers and Graham Coxon the guitar player was the other one. spepecifically, he's playing that clicking sound on the side of a tom, a floor tom. But then he does the end of four on the tom. So he's going, dick dick dick, dick dick dick dick toom d d d d toom d. can you play it again listen out for that because I was wondering what that was. That's a great idea. Here we go Yeah. Okay, it's every other one. here's the t. But why plus one? Wow. What You're right I had never know that before. So it's more of a four bar loop. I'm just gonna listen again All there it is I never noticed that I just wanted to watch you because that was a joy for me. I was looking at the wrong thing. There's actually four notes in there. I'm gonna watch you this. Okay. All right, here we go That last one is so dainty and It's very kind. It's very loving. It's very loving. veryery posh. So the other thing to bring into this conversation in nineteen ninety six, it's still relatively early, especially especially importantly, especially in rock music. for there to be digital and the idea of using samplers and loops, et cetera, relatively new. There are some bands that have been doing it for a while, more so than others New order being a perfect example, we just it to them But in this moment Stephven Street is just starting to experiment with digital technology. So he's got this Otari radar, which is this early hard drive recording thing. It's less screeny and mousey than P tools. In other words, that's one of the reasons people don't want to move from tape. Because like you're just, especially back then, you're locked in this tiny screen with a little mouse trying to make music. It's very unmusical sounding So he finds kind of this middle ground and that's how he gets the two bars that you identified. And that's how we're getting a loop out of that drum beat He finds the two bars that you've been noticing all these years are the same throughout the song And in nineteen ninety six, that's how you do it. He doesn't have an NPC. He's using this like crazy Otari kind of like lesser known piece of technology The band goes in and plays on top of that loop, including Roundry who plays the chorus, which is the bigger drum sound, right? And Damon is just jumping around with his SM fifty seven singing the song, but he's singing guide vocals. He doesn't have lyrics yet No keepeep that in mind as we go through the song because that's how all the music that you hear, short a handful of overdubs came together They've made that first beat. band played on top of it, and Damon was just kind of like joking around with his SM fifty seven with like didn't have lyrics. He just kind of had like little placeholder words, right? So you've got a British band using sampling techniques. You know what it is? I know it is. It's the self looping It's the selflf loop. Yeah. and we've self looooping like when you like push a pedal. That's right. you go. We've been to be clear, we've been hearing this for a while. Fortis headads dummy. A lot of that record is the band playing. And then not only did they take loops from that record, they put them on vinyl and then sampled the vinyl of their own performances.. And that became the Portis head song was a toally of a sample of the band playing. So again, to be clear, this isn't a new idea altogether. but for Blur, this is starting to lay the groundwork, I think, for what we're going to start seeing in Damon Abarn's later or I was gonna say it's like primitive radio go standing outside a broken phone. Oh my go. Booth with money in my hand. rememember that song? That's rings about play for. That's an example of samly. Let's check that out I played off my l I mean, that's not obviously It primitive radio guys sampling themselves, but it is like at the time sort of revolutionary that a rock band would sample anything. But I appreciate that really helps me still say sampling stealing. Right. And that helps make the distinction of what's unique about this is the band sampling themselves as also like a recorder. And if they had really committed to it, they should have suothed themselves. They should have sued this band blur. And said, how dare you sample thieves Can I just say that crash energy? Amazing. Like the drums don't change drastically at the chorus, but that constant symbol doesn't. I can't you lay lif. I can't listen to song and not like air drrum it. I mean, you saw me in the intro, you saw me this now. Let's listen it again. W H. You're talking the T Where are the two drummers? Heold, Wh are the two drummers? Ready? Here we go. onene, two, three. I want the for? I can I can't hear him anymore I'll give it to you with. I I can't hear him. This is so important that it's going to be Old in the mix. Okay, here we go. findind it there I can't hear it. man. It's like when you ask somebody to like sing a song but you're playing anotherother song in they their head I can't hear it. someone sees you on the street who is a fan of some of your work, your comedy work's, Tell me a joke Be funny, funny man. Only real assholes do. That's never a fan of your work. I'm a huge fan, Albert Brooks, Tell me something funny.. I was hoping to see that dainty Tom. I can't do the dainty Tom. You know, this is why I work alone. This is why I work alone in the studio. I'm like, Hey, everybody turn down the lights like Marvin Gay and burn some incense Let's talk about the base. Alex James. I don't think he gets a whole lot of love outside of us Blur fans, but he's laid down some of the best baselines in in history. I think it's sae to say in history, this is not necessarily a song where I feel like the bass has much to do. So what is Alex doing on this song? The notes are few. Yeah. The rhythms are simple, but the sound enormous. Let's listen Wow, that is so nirvonic. Can I just Yeah. Yes, it is. Who who' crystal what's what' Chris of that Sol? Yeah, I feelt like that is that is right off of inbloom, you know? Oh yeah. big wall of disported b Wall disported bass sounds. What's funny is I had actually just heard that my untrained here from nineteen ninety seven. I just heard that as a guitar. It never ever occurred to me that's actually a bass guitar. Like you gotta remember as a blur fan, like Alex is laying down as far as I know, you know, songs like London Loves, which has a crunchy bass line. Yeah. So like he's usually like kind of prominent. Sure. This was not a song where I like even knew that he was even on it, but he's on it. The tone quality overlap. L love it. A crunchy guitar, a crunchy bass. It's just a register thing. It's just lower in frequency, right? Just a quick note about the structure of this song, the arrangement, we start with the intro, which is basically the first chorus Y Now we go into the first verse, a second chorus The second time around, we have kind of a post chorus. You know, you might call it a bridge, but there's like a new chord is introduced, basically So Exactly right. We're gonna listen to that. but I'll tell you what it is after we listen to it Yeah Let's listen again because it's so funny.'s like very funny. That sounds word life based So what he does is he transitions from the court janges into this kind of extended post chorus He the. Please dia It's so funny That' great. Yeah. And apparently that's a second bass. It's actually just a bass guitar, but being played through a tiny battery powered marthial, not a marthial stack. notot the giant amplifiers. not when you go see ACDC or Wezer or whoever or Dudas priest and like it's a wall of amplifiers. It's a tiny little battery powered marthial amplifier. I love it And it just sounds like this little funny wearing It sounds like like almost like eight bit. Yeah. I love that. Really cheap. By the way, I was trying to figure out why sounds like the sixties to me and I figured it out. Oh, it sounds like Beck, New Palushia, the B B which I would have heard around the same time. Yes. You know, like it's that sort of like M back to our sixties sitar a. It's gonna say it's like our pain at B black episode. There's a sort of nasal connecting of the notes. It's not a distinct one note to the next cordamenta where it's like It's w. It sounds like you're in a really cool party in the nineteen sixties, either on the sunset Strip or in Swing in London And someone's either got a guitar, which is legit, or somebody's just doing something really trippy with their bass guitar Yeah. But like it's a sound, it's a vibe. And it's not the kind of thing you play and you're like, man, I just played a really cool rifft that's like seexy Equle. It's like, this is funny. I think it's more this is fucked up, and I'm fucked up but this is great. I guess it could also be, hey, this is hilarious. I have no idea It feels silly and just in the tone of this It'sly fun sense. Yeahah. definitely sounds like a good time. of say it doesn't surprise me that they had a small battery. Battery Howard Marshall. Yeah. because you know, there's something about like Before all of our cars had these amazing sound systems that any one of us would have died to have back in nineteen ninety one. you had to get all you had to get tens of thousands of dollars of speakers and amps into your car back then to equate what is factory now But like this is a song that like because it's not relying on like thick and heavy bass, it sounds good on speakers both big and small on an radio or whatever.. Yeah, like no matter where you hear this song, it kind of works. Yeah. I mean that's probably one of the reasons why it works well in car commercials. you know, selling stuff ' like no matter what kind of speakers you have at home, you're like, Oh man, my life's pretty good. My TV's got good speakers. and I should probably buy these steaks. The song that makes you feel good about havingap cheap speakers. A song so good you forget about how your station in life is. See, Blur is just they're part of the establishment, They're industry plantans so that we will not hold a revolution. I'm kidding. Damon is like one of the most revolution endor forces out there. My two sents, Not necessarily luxuries. I think he's showilling me coll here this whole time. Let's talk about what the guitar is doing in this because this is a very guitar driven, driy. let's take over America type song. This is a riffy Riffy song. So let's talk about the riffiness of this riffy song as played by Graham Coxson. And let's listen to the top That was five courses YM Ukule style. You know It's a little dude. It's a little out of tune too I've heard him in an interview. I see that yeah. Yeah, an interview I want to give credit to. it's produced like a pro, An another great channel I would recommend. He talks about how he thinks in his memory that that was probably a telecaster. And maybe in the next part we're about to hear when he crunches it up, he's probably going through a rp pedal. But the goal was to be cheap sounding. The goal was to be dinky. in his own words, quote, I wanted a clangy, clean crap sound. not played particularly well. He also said that he was quote tiredred of doing complicated parts. He wanted to do something horrible and noisy. I love it. That's such a mission statement. This song is quote, horrible and noisy, but like horrible and the best possible use of that. You have to be really good at something artistically to do the bad version of it. That's to see the best bad acting, you need so I'm going to give a shout out to Fred Armis in front of the show. L he's really good at bad acting because it's a good actor. Yeah. You know, And I feel like this is an example of It's like P premiere producing what he thought was gonna to be a hacky hip hop hit, but we' actually massive They're trying to be crappy is legendary. And herear Graham Coxon kind of trying to sound crappy. sounds amazing. That's exactly right. So when he stomps on those stomp boxes, whatever they it turned out to have been. Yeah, we've got two different guitars in the chorus. I'll isolate them. Here's the first one B by the way, there's about That's right, let's isolate that and I can play that for you. Oh really? And to be clear, I mean they've layered that guitar six, seven, twelve times. It's not just a single guitar or two guitars. Here is that thing that you heard, this like one note kind of cragendoy thing, this insistent thing And look at how dissant it is This a Sonic youth band. I can see that. And it's getting louder Cresndo So we stop. So is everybody out. Inisting back to the ukule. Just ukule. It's so like it starts out sounding a little dissonant, like a little bit sonic Uutthy, almost.. And we're just hearing this one note and it gets crescendo, It gets louder and louder and louder. And it gets more and more like stress inducing, right Your brain is telling you it's getting louder, but that was like danger. So you can't ne no, it's spawning fight or flight, rightight? Let's listen together. Here's all the guitars in the chorus together Theid hear get louder. Sweet reallyine at the very end when we go back to just the, you know, crappy sound you were just you were just raging Pogo dancing on the dance floor. So when it goes back to like, I'm gonna it's not a ukule guys. we know that, but I call it the ukule p partark ' it's like so small and dainty. Like, you know, that's where you're like How you got like one more ear to save up your energy before we go into that last. I always like the song is that. It's called songtube. It's two minutes and two seconds. It has two verses Yeah. ye. It's technically, you would have made the argent. It's got three choruses, but if we weren't counting that intro. I'm only saying the intro is the chorus. I don't think it happens, but lyrically it doesn't have the s. Well we go to the chorus twice, I would say in the chus in the core of the song. So Maybe should have been called two song two and a half. Song two and a half for that extra chorus at the top there. Yeah, exactly. And at the very end, we have that same insistent thing, but another note gets added. Let's listen Oh isolate that I hear something souder. Yeah So we had it was a minor third, and then we added a fifth on top. So it' basically a chord. It's an triad. and it just sort of fills it out a little bit more, but it also makes it more urgent insistent and like,, I can't wait for this second. It's a little bit tense. It's always tension resolution, tension resolution before in the earlier choruses, the resolution to the tension was the next verse.ight Here it's just the song ending, which is kind of sweet relief when it happens. So let's listen to the very end Rrapp ending is just like, Phew We made it. We didn't get killed by this third and this fifth that's trying to stab me It feels like a stabbingotion It's very pyche Oh wita., that note and I'll do the one underneath it Damam baby D If you're still listening, thank you. Thank you for indulging with us. What are the Graam Coxson stabbing notes. Butram's a man. Graam's a man. There's something about this rift that's very old and yet new. like It's recognizable to have a riff that's d d d d d, which is one, seven, three, four, five. We've heard a lot of that before. It certainly evokes a lot of the grungeer. It's not literally the same chords as, you know, smmells like Teeen spirit, but it's got a little bit of that vibe. It also kind of evokes this one to my ears Now we're getting some similmer recwards there. N one, seven, really one And of course it being a riff oriented song is also part of the character that binds it to this song in the lineage of crunchy, riff driven you know, distorted guitar songs, The kinks practically invented that as a genre as a thing to do. So we're kind of getting a little a bit of that lineage there. And for me, another song that evokes it after the fact I always think of this song that I'm about to play as harkening back to and maybe not existing were it not for song two. That's the hives. hate to say I told you so The first three chords are the same in all three of the songs that we just heard, and they just share a lineage of being like Riff driven rock songs that start with the riff. happen to share these chord changes that are very evocative of each other. While we're talking about the highs, I wantan to give a shout out to the international Ns consonserers. that a great sweet. I thought those garage rock I thought that group was the freaking truth when they came out.otally. I loved INC. Yeah. And also the vines, you know, people forget INC internationalids C conspiracy, the Hives, the vines started off that way and the vines actually had a song that had a major crossover. I would argue that Bur song two in nineteen ninety seven kind of leads the way into this moment where we've got the hives, the white stripes White stripes that l. Yes. It's a garage rock. riff driven crunchy guitar where the hook and with the guitar riff is the hook of the song at the beginning of the. Yes like therokes, you know, It's part of a The BBC and radio onene, they did a lot to champion Th those low fi groups early on, probably in part because it was easy to go from being a blur fan, which I was into a fan of all those groups, which It was a gateway drug. Yeah. Blur was the gateway drug. Absolutely And then one last thing just for fun. So those three songs all have the same first three chords, but here's one song with all the same chords. This is twenty one pilots stressed out. Now listen to this and sing song two on top of it, Ready Here we go What time. I'll be off work. It the bed was stress up I don't know if I hear that one. know it's literally believe. Yeah. Usually I could be like,, this one I'm like, No, it's just fun to think about how if you wanted to kind of Cver the blur song Or right sideways. Right or right sideways. W, w,,a, way down. Just grab thoseoos. byy slowing it down. So what's interesting about that is by I don't think dressed out is gonna sell products. It' fun though to think about this connection with chord changes, especially as being, yeah, when you change the tempo, when you slow it down, when you change the instrumentation, and the melody is very different. It is hard to hear the similarity, but they are built on the exact same chord progression, the same harmonic progression. Now earlier, you had brought up the fact that he had placeholder lyrics in this song Yes. I want to talk about the vocals on song two because I just Love Damon, love his, love his voice and love his lyrical choices. L I do hear the humor Maybe not always in the distorted base, but I always hear the humor in a good blur line. Yeah.. So it's sardonic all the time.. By the way, that sounds like the worst party. You could it's sardonic all the time. M gw is sardonic all the time. S Anyway, listen we Eddie Murphy made the right choice, man a call. Come on the show Eddie, we will definitely talk about we'll talk about whatever wantna talk about I want to talk about these lyrics. So what tell me the story of the lyrics behind song two. Basically, there weren't lyrics written. So when they recorded it, that I was mentioning before in the control room with the band playing and Damon had his SM fifty seven and he just like, w. That was a guide vocal And then they recorded it. And then he wrote new lyrics and they tried to record the new lyrics And they listen to it and they're like, it was better before with a guide vocal. And that's what we hear today. So that's the guide vocal. What we're hearing today is what Damon Albarn was shouting in the control room on an SM fifty seven while the band played it for the first time. One thing we want to point out about song two is that the woohoo is not Actually a lyric in the traditional says it' a sound, is a hook, It's a crowd cute. It's almost like a drum field that everybody in the stadium can sing along with It's the evil genius of having a hook being non lyrical. It's international. Oh yeah. You can go to the deepest, you know, outbacks of whatever continents and Greenland say. Maybe maybe Australia. Yeah. Let's hear a little bit of isolated woohoo Heere's the bleed. Totally lots of bleed. That's because the band is playing it while he's singing it And That's just it four times. Here you go. And of course, like Damon did not invent woohoo. It did not start there. You can go all the way back to the Rock of teens from nineteen fifty nine, this is woohoo That was fantastic. sounds familiar, but you didn't know the Rocket teines. Right, right. That's probably because it got famously covered. Let's hear a little bit of the five six seven eights and their version from Win, nineteen ninety six a year before song two. So maybe this maybe the title was on his mind when he went into the recording with that day. I mean, maybe I'm always going to associate that song with Quentin Tarantino and Kill Bill because that was the first time that I had heard it. But we also like to say on the show that Who knows who invented Woo Woo? We can't really know It sounds very like the caveman invented Woooo. Like some very early human being made the sound woo, and then the sound who came right after it? Naturally. some it's like, Hey, woo, they're like, who. We don't know. I often say that join doctor Sus Stokes now I often say that there could have been a race record that is sort of lost a time that could have been the first use of You woohoo very of reported things. So like we sometimes say on this show All recorded history ain't recorded And so we'll never go out of our way to say. this was the absolute first, but we can trace some of these lines back to earlier earlier music. I'm curious about the verses on this song. L who were these like were they intentionally weird and cryptic express we don't know You know it's funn about this episode is how much research we've all done. And there's a lot of stuff that I love that Alburn has sort of left unanswered. Yeah. And I think that's all right. I think whatever popped in his head that day is what we're hearing. whereere it comes from, it's unclear, but it's sort of wonderfully poetic as a result And the fact that your friend, as we said, in the anecdote at the beginning of this episode Didn't refer to this song as the Woohoo song as the jumbo Jet song. Let's listen to that line I've got my head shacked. B a jumbo Chad It wasn't easy But nothing is No Pill thaty meow He that Where I li? y O of a time I' never show I nate you age. And you can hear in the bleed the entirety of the track. I heard the incistent guitar line. So they'd obviously laay down the entire thing or maybe he was playing that live in the room. That. Yeah, it's interesting. L you can hear the evidence of the kind of chronology of how the song got made in the bleed. Can we hear a little bit of the second verse I got my hat done Win When I was young That' my problem. Is it your problem It's not my problem R a in ley meow A up pears out up n up I' playing through, why not? What a lion amazing. All of the time but I' never show why I n you Pace up me Ch! Yeah! We're just gonna listen to the Edward Kicks. Yeah ye.. Yeah yeah. One more I'm sorry. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I count it. there's about if you don't include, there's like fifty words total on There's not a lot of word. Not a lot of word. This might be the longest episode of one song ever. It's about a two minute song. I point. Heaven forbidd he'd done two and a half minutes, this would just be a five hour episode. And by the way, the verse melody is, I think, three notes. I think littleittle variations every now and then and he's like d d d d It's three note melody, two non verbal words, woohoo. What a lesson in simplicity and two minutes And not overthinking. I think that in my own work, we've talked about sometometimes when you've been working on music, there's so many times I feel like as an artist, it's very easy to just overthink it Yeah. And yet when I see things that I really like, they're usually with the exception of Chinatown, that is an insane plot that does not work. The protagonist has almost no effect. on the story break so many rules with the exception of Chinatown Uh Most things I watch, I'm like, they kept it simple and clean and it was enjoyable. And I think this is example. I know I found this really great quote from Albart and he explains about his own process. He says, quote, As soon as I hear myself doing anything I've done before, I just do something else. I go the other way or I just go above or below. I can't bear repeating myself. As soon as I finished something, I think that's terrible. Right? I better start again I totally get it. I love that about D and. sometometimes I do wish he'd go back because sometimes there's like some undiscovered, you know gold in some of those early ideas or whatever. but I think that perfectly fits with The the man who I've never met, but I think I know through his art I totally get it too. It's just like you can't repeat yourself the same way. My first job was at Jimmy Fallon, which is technically part of the Saturdayight Live. It's like, if it works, you do it five more times. That's right. That's actually. So like right if Hans and Franz wins or Penelope, you know Christis making copy this making copy R it to the ground. Absolutely. a good idea just run to the ground on that show. Domingo the song that they with espresso like you do it a couple of times and then when the audience stops laughing then you move honestly for my own like interpolation thing like there's part of my brain that's like, I should really push that more, but it's really hard for me to be like, you can't you can't be c'synical. Yeah. Yeahah. I feel cynical. If you printed up shirts that said interpolation, youd probably make a lot of money. I might. But you every time somebody ask you, they're like, Hey you on my shirt Be funny, tell a joke. thenen you'd be like,h, man, I shouldn't have sold out. Or I should have sold out for more. That should be held back All right, we've heard the song, Luxury of a manan. How did the splits break down? Please don't let me down. Do you want to take a guess first before I tell you the real numbers? behind the scenes Well, gosh, by this point, I don't know. Let's recap. Okay. I do know can I for it? I'm gonna make an educated guest. The band did kind of break up You know, not on this album, but after the next one sort of. You think the groundwork might have been. Yeah, I feel like they put out their last s one twenty two thousand three, maybe. that think that was the think tank album So I'm going to go with Damon making like thirty seven forty percent and then the other members splitting the sixty. That's a pretty good guess. Damon Aubn, forty five percent I know this man. I've listened to too many hours of his voice today You're dead on businessusiness negotiation. You're dead on. In fact, you did a malid by guessing by undergessing. I man. I was hoping it was thirty seven percent. David Halvarn is forty five percent of the publishing splits on song two. Graham Leslie Coxson is next with twenty five percent Uh Stehven Alexander James. Yeah, whoo is that Ohx Alex He was like, who's Stehven James? Alex James. his first name is Stehven and he gets seventeen point five percent and mrter Rounding in the drummer chair is left with the remaining twelve and a half percent. O twelve percent for the drummer wal. And those drumps came in strong. comeome on guys. Damon made four times as much. And let me just say this, this is no shade on on Damon, but knowing now that like, Damon had, you know on a slower song and it was Graham who suggested this stuff, assuming that that's correct I think that even his percentage sounds low. I really am an egalitarian when it comes to split money Well for the sake of a band saying together certainly your point. It's not super shocking it didn't last much. And if you don't and if you don't, if it's not always equal, equal, equal, at least if you know what the guy contributed to the song, Hey, speed it up, slow it down or this other guy playing some rocket drums here like, you know, I don't know, man. I don't know But you know what,? when I meet Damon, he might be like, you know, Graams overstating it or they get along now They get along now. That's good. Well, as we come to the end of our part one, I guess you could say, of our Damon Albert series You know, I think the thing about Song two is that it took all the years of Damon and the guys meeting and then you know, forming a group called Circus and then changing the name to Seymour And then changing it to Bur, took all the albums all the way through Park life. and self titled Bur album to get to this point to release this song to get, as I said earlier, good enough where they could record a song that was kind of bad But then also broke them w. And I will say as a fan of Blur, if you go to Blur fan, you're like, o, I love song too. It's a little bit like going to a radio head fan and say, I love creep You know like it's gott to be careful. Yeah, I mean, like it's not going to impress us right away. We'd much rather hear. Ohh, you know, I really like to the end or you know, one of these other songs. Yeah.. I like the deep cuts. I do like some deep cuts and After Song two, nothing was ever the same for the group. There was so much pressure on their next album, thirteen to have a song to like success And I would point out that one of my favorite songs by them is the second song on thirteen, which you can almost imagine being all choppy and distorted. May Maybe the label thought it was going be the next song too. It's a great song called Bug Man. isten it's a fucking great song. The group was never the same after song two. and I think like so many people, you know, Bandmates get older and people want to do different things with their life. You know, it's been almost thirty years since song two came out. And this is still that one song that my kids know And I know thatny. I know that the band was very frustrated when they played Cachella just last year because America temporarily warm to this band And then the name of the band went away even as the song stayed famous a little bit. And he was very frustrated that that crowd. didn't know Blur as well as like a British crowd, you know even of young people. Meanwhile, dont famously is with their comeback to our making billions of dollars in America no less. Very interesting in that way. But I just want to say on behalf of Blur fans, specifically in America, Damon Mission accomplished. those of us who heard it and really heard it, we really appreciate you We might even be too old to be a Coachella. I know that I feel very comfortable sometimes watching Coachella from the comfort of my house on one of those five feeds. We're still here. The American Bur fans are still here and we hope that you've appreciate this episode because this is a love letter to your blur yearsars. And now I want to say a little bit about your gorillaass yearsars Well we're going to get into that in part two of this two partri episode. When we talk about the gorillas and we're going to start with a song not off their first album, but off their second album, feelel Good Ink. But trust me, as we always do in one song, we're going talk about the group. We're going to talk about their albums and songs before that song, feel good Ink. and then we're going to talk about the legacy of Damon that continues to this day. both blur and outside of blur So I hope you'll listen to that. Check out next week's One song. Until then, be safe All right, as always, you can find us on socials. you can find me on Instagram at Dialo DIA LO and on Instagram at Y Alla Riddle. And you can find me on Instagram at LUXX URY and on TikTok at Luxury XX. You can also watch full episodes of One song on YouTube and Spotify. Just search One song podcast. 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