Owl's Time Music #4 - Coffee and TV - blur

1:20 am BREAKING NEWS: BLUR IS COMING TO HONG KONG!!!!!!!!!!! 6th of May!!!

Recently has been so obsessed wit the Japanese band which made my friend forget I am also a fan of Brit music, I should shift back to the English music form time to time.

Indeed, the latest lives I had attended were of Japanese acts, it is totally normal for her to think I had forgotten the English music field hahahaha.

Actually I am a great fan of rock made in Britain. For example, this band called BLUR.

My first met with these guys can be rewound to 6 to 7 years ago when I was still doing secondary school, when the time TV was still the major channel for me to get information about my favorite artists of overseas. Good old days when the Internet was still developing. By that time there was a music programme which would broadcast MVs form overseas on every Wednesday midnight, and I loved to stay up late on every Weds.

One day, I came across this MV of a funny story about how the milk goes on a quest in search for his master's son and it got stuck in my mind ever since. Years later, I was introduced to the world of Brit-Pop, and finally I met Blur properly.

A little background information: during the late 80s to 90s, there was a musical movement from the UK which was later referred as the Brit-Pop movement. It was a period when the Brit music went phenomenal  around the world as a mean to fight against the invasion of American Grunge rock. There were at least 3 bands went excessively popular: Suede, Blur and Oasis. Not only the 3 of them were interacted with each other quite frequently, they WERE the symbol of Brit Pop music, even till now, together with their fellow colleagues like Pulp.

Unlike Oasis and Suede, which are of industrial and psychedelic style respectively, Blur is quite like, as the arrogant Noel Gallagher (guitar of Oasis) commented, boys burst out from the white-bread world who were too care-free and able to spend time to contemplate on meaningless things in life as if there are the greatest thing on earth - however they were indeed as cynical as Oasis was. And due to Damon Albarn's good looking faces, which was, curiously, an synonym of "bad musicians" for the British, Blur was always underrated. But anyway they got popularity, as deserved.

For me, if I have to describe Blur with a certain colour, it would be a rainbow. Indeed there is a certain kind of absurdness and laziness in Blur's sounds and music. Most of their songs are like killing time. However Blur's songs are more "colourful" when compared to Oasis's and Suede's - dream-like, noncontinuous, but undeniably playful and harshly humorous about the real world, just like Coffee and TV.

Even Damon and Graham Coxon (bassist of Blur) sounds quite like killing time (hea in Cantonese) in Coffee and TV, which is quite a song of cynicism:

So give me coffee and tv, history
I've seen so much
I'm goin' blind
and I'm brain-dead virtually

What a "I-don't-give-a-damn" attitude but filled with anger about the crazy world.

They may sound blur, but indeed they are as witty you think you are.