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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Album / Mix Blur : [X] Leisure

Posted by on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM

Blur's Leisure has few fans.

Originally released in 1991, the band's initial full-length is a frustratingly malformed, black-sheep debut album harassed by premature international attention, behind-the-scenes battles with their label, lopsided tempo shifts and gusts of noise, an apparently drunken track-listing — which remains different for three different countries — and an overall sick feeling of a band already devolving from promise to punch line.

Question is: By scrounging the archives of B-sides, demos, and fantastically chaotic live clips of the time, thanks to the recent Blur 21 box set, can an album like this be fixed? Or at least given another go?

A dare.

Tracklisting:

She's So High
Bang [Extended Version]
Uncle Love
Explain
Repetition
Berserk
Birthday
Day Upon Day [Live]
There's No Other Way [Extended Version]
Sing

 

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Summerisle 1
The album is fine the way it is. It's nice to have all the extras from the box but these kind of questions irk me.
Posted by Summerisle http://www.facebook.com/biggieJ?ref=name on October 30, 2012 at 6:14 PM

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