Blur

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• Titre : Song 2
• Album : Blur
• Année : 1997

Paroles :

I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is
No

[chorus]
Woo-hoo
When I feel heavy-metal
Woo-hoo
And I'm pins and I'm needles
Woo-hoo
Well, I lie and I'm easy
All the time but I am never sure
Why I need you
Pleased to meet you

I got my head down
When I was young
It's not my problem
It's not my problem

[repeat chorus]

Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Oh yeah

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• Titre : Coffee and TV
• Album : 13
• Année : 1999

Paroles :

Do you feel like a chain store?
Practically floored
One of many zeros
Kicked around bored
Your ears are full but your empty
Holding out your heart
To people who never really
Care how you are

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away form this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Do you go to the country
It isn't very far
There's people there who will hurt you
Cos of who you are

Your ears are full of the language
There's wisdom there you're sure
'Til the words start slurring
And you can't find the door

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away form this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away form this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again

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• Titre : Tracy Jacks
• Album : Parklife
• Année : 1994

Paroles :

(Tracy Jacks) works in civil service
(Tracy Jacks) it's steady employment
(Tracy Jacks) it's a golfing fanatic
(Tracy Jacks) but his put is erratic
(Tracy Jacks) saw a Harley Street doctor
(Tracy Jacks) who prescribed healthy living
(Tracy Jacks) but he's getting past forty
(Tracy Jacks) and all the seams are splitting

EVERYDAY HE GOT CLOSER
HE KNEW IN HIS HEART HE WAS OVER
I'D LOVE TO STAY HERE AND BE NORMAL
BUT IT'S JUST SO OVERRATED

(Tracy Jacks) left home without warning
(Tracy Jacks) at five in the morning
(Tracy Jacks) got on the first train to Walton
(Tracy Jacks) and stood on the seafront
(Tracy Jacks) threw his clothes in the water
(Tracy Jacks) and ran around naked
(Tracy Jacks) got stopped by the police
(Tracy Jacks) and escorted back home

EVERYDAY HE GOT CLOSER
HE KNEW IN HIS HEART HE WAS OVER
I'D LOVE TO STAY HERE AND BE NORMAL
BUT THEN IT'S JUST SO OVERRATED

Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks

And then it happened on a Tuesday morning
Tracy Jacks bulldozed down the house he lived in
Saying it's just so overrated
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks

EVERYDAY HE GOT CLOSER
HE KNEW IN HIS HEART HE WAS OVER
I'D LOVE TO STAY HERE AND BE NORMAL
BUT IT WAS ALWAYS OVERRATED

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• Titre : Charmless Man
• Album : The Great Escape
• Année : 1995

Paroles :

I met him in a crowded room
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me down and so began
The story of a charmless man
Educated the expensive way
He knows his claret from a beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way

He thinks his educated airs those family shares
Will protect him, that you will respect him
He moves in circles of friends who just pretend that they like him
He does the same to them and when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man

He knows the swingers and their cavalry
Says he can get in anywhere for free
I began to go a little cross eyed
And from this charmless man I just had to hide

He talks at speed he gets nose bleeds
He doesn't see his days are tumbling down upon him
Yet he tries so hard to please he's just so keen for you to listen
But no-one is listening and when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man

He thinks his educated airs, those family shares
Will protect him, that you will respect him
Yet he tries so hard to please he's just so keen for you to listen
But no-one is listening and when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man

Blur incarne la quintessence de la pop anglaise des années 1990. Originaire de Colchester, le groupe obtient son premier succès en 1990 avec She's So High, aux accents très Pink Floyd. Deux ans plus tard, le deuxième album du groupe, Modern Life Is Rubbish, est bien plus convaincant, Blur affirmant désormais un style pop bien distinct, qui en fait une des figures de proue de la brit pop naissante. Grâce au tube Girls And Boys marqué par une rythmique proche du morceau Fashion de David Bowie, Blur remporte un succès commercial immense au milieu de la décennie 1990. Le groupe suit alors les traces de l'héritage musical laissé par les Small Faces et les Kinks, tout en jouant des coudes avec Oasis et Pulp. Au gré de chaque nouvel album, Blur consolide son statut de vedette émérite de la brit-pop tout en explorant de nouveaux territoires comme ceux de la musique africaine et du dub jamaïcain. Un premier album solo du guitariste Graham Coxon impressionne son monde. Celui-ci chante pour la première fois à la place de Damon Albarn sur Coffee & TV. De son côté, Damon signe des bandes originales de film.