CC00024: Blur
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:24
Tags:
- Parklife (9)
- The Great Escape [US/UK] (7.5)
- Blur (7.5)
- Modern Life Is Rubbish (7.5)
- Leisure [US] (6)
Author Comments:
This is an entry in a continuing series I call Critical Consensus. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. The albums will each have a rating between 1 and 10. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is. These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
I cannot begin to express how disappointed I am with the critics here. I even have an exactly even number of British and American critics in my CC cadre, and Blur still panned out to be extremely underrated.
An interesting sidenote: I went back to sources about 3 and 4 years old, and Parklife worked out to a 10, with The Great Escape averaging an 8.5. Obviously, they are slipping in critical esteem. I can only hope a positive re-evaluation of their work is not too far in the future.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs