Album Project update! The last studio album, 'Reality' (2003). I can't believe that's nearly 10 years ago. 10 years with no new Bowie albums. Sad. I like this, hmm, but it's not my favourite. Not by a long chalk. It's hard to say what my favourite song on it is. Maybe 'Bring Me The Disco King'. I don't know really. It's a good album, though once again you're unlikely to have heard of any of the songs on it. So that's it for studio albums. 23 solo studio albums, all listened to...
Labels: 2003, Album Project, David Bowie, Reality
Have been kind of ill for the past couple of weeks, resulting in 2 1/2 days off work this week and general death-cold grimness. Today, back at work, I wrote 'Benedictine monkeys' instead of monks. I kind of hope there weren't other mistakes like that that I've failed to spot!
Still, I have managed to finish the Blur section of the Album Project! Yes, I have now listened to their last (so far) studio album, no. 7 - 'Think Tank' (2003). This has all sorts of experimental sounds - squeaky doors and the like - and various World Music influences. It's completely mad in places, but it works together really really well. I think that if you like the Gorillaz, this is the Blur album that you're most likely to like. (There were a lot of 'likes' in that sentence.) And when this album ended they all went off to run for Parliament, make cheese, form animated music groups - that sort of thing. :)
So, which were my most and least favourite Blur albums? I think 'The Great Escape' is my least favourite. When you listen to all the albums, it's the one that stands out as being quite different. It's just a bit too silly for me. My favourite album, wow, that's hard. It's either 'Modern Life is Rubbish' or 'Parklife', I think. Ok, well, I'll go with 'Parklife'. Hooray! Now it's time to embark on a trip that may well send me mad. Listening to all 25 of David Bowie's studio albums..!!! Yikes!
Labels: 2003, Album Project, Blur, Parklife, Think Tank
