Tag Archives: Blur

World Cup 2026 – cynicism and corruption are no match for the vibes

Posted on 30/06/2026 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

“I’m a professional cynic, but my heart’s not in it”. It’s a great lyric from a revoltingly twee song which I obsessively hated, because it incisively exposed an undesirable personal trait of mine. The video for “Country House” equally grates, … Continue reading →

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Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2025

Posted on 21/12/2025 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’m not sure what’s more concerning, that, without checking, I can’t remember all the albums which made my Best Releases Of 2024 list, or that it seems only yesterday that I was writing that column. From now on, instead of … Continue reading →

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Essential Listening: The Best Songs Of 2015

Posted on 28/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Well pilgrims, we arrive at the best songs of 2015. Many of these choices come from the albums I selected on my best albums/EP’s/Mixes/Reissues of 2015 post last week. The reason for this? I know it sounds snobbish, but there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Alexandria, All Safe All Well, Alright, Antony Hegarty, Art Angels, Atom Dance, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Bem Inventory, Best Songs of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blown, Blur, Calling Card, Calling Card / Mezzanine, Carina Sayles, Carmine, CC Not, Chorus, Crisis, Crotocosm, Culture Of Volume, D.K., Dark Energy, Dream A Garden, East India Youth, Eating Glue, Elaenia, Erotic Heat, Essential Listening, Even Temper, Fanatic, Fanatic 2, Fit Siegel, FKA Twigs, Flesh Without Blood, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, Holly Herndon, I Neva Seen, If God Is Not Here, In Quiet Streets, In Time, Infinity Machines, iTunes, Jam City, Jessy Lanza, Jlin, Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Key Markets, Levon Vincent, Licence To Dream, Loca, Love On Delivery, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mercury In Retrograde, Mutado Pintado, My Terracotta Heart, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, Patricia, Platform, Projections, Prostitutes, Rainbow, Re Run Home, Romare, Shutdown, Silhouettes I II & III, Skepta, Sleaford Mods, Summertime 06, The Beginning, The Epic, The Galleria, The Magic Whip, To Pimp a Butterfly, Too many tags again, Turn Away, Vince Staples, Vtro V 2.0, Vulnicura, White Privileged Wank, Worriedaboutsatan | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums, EPs, Reissues and Mixes of 2015

Posted on 24/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year the better music websites (and no, this doesn’t include the Kanye West fellating, hypster centric, Pitchfork) are publishing their end of year lists well before the year ends, in some cases right at the start of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 31st March Mix for Rinse FM, 38 Metal Guitar, 54 Synth Brass, 65 Cathedral, A Love Supreme, A Tribe Called Quest, Alexandria, Ami Shavit, Another Side, Anthony Child, Aphex Twin, Art Angels, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Best of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blur, Brand new, CC Not, Demdike Stare, Dream A Garden, Elaenia, Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Volume 1, EP, Fingers Inc., FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, High Drama (Blowing Up The Workshop 41), Holly Herndon, I Was Crossing a Bridge – Music From Memory, In Alpha Mood, In Situ, Infinity Machines, Jam City, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Key Markets, Laurel Halo, Leif, Lil-Ugly Mane, Lone & Ross From Friends, M Ashworth, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mixes, NTS Mix 5th November, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Peru Bravo: Funk, Platform, Reissue, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Secret Thirteen Mix 149, Shinchi Atobe, Ship-Scope, Shit And Shine, Sleaford Mods, Soul & Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Sticky Fingers, Summertime 06, Taraxacum, Testpressing 007 (EP), The Epic, The Magic Whip, The Rolling Stones, Third Side of The Tape, Too many tags, user48736353001, Vince Staples, Vito Ricci, Vulnicura | 1 Comment

Song Of The Day – Beetlebum by Blur

Posted on 24/11/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the album ‘Blur’ (1997)

Posted in Song Of The Day | Tagged 90's, Alburn, Another self titled one, Beetlebum, Blur, Britpop or not?, Coxon, I will do an Oasis SOTD to even things out, James, Nostalgia binge, Rowntree | Leave a comment