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| 4.0 excellent | spindrift | July 1st 10 |
"The Good, the Bad & the Queen" is the perfect "Brit" album, but don't be misleaded: it is the perfect "Brit" album mainly because it eschews all the "Britpop" crap we've grown used to (and disturbed from).
All the laddism, the retro nonsense, the banality of the Brit-pop fashion that has mudded the bright British music legacy is not here.
No echoes of Oasis, of Starsailor, of Cast or Ocean Color Scene or other useless, retro crap.
This is the sound of Britain. Not Modern Britain, but Britain as it is and was. Immutable.
And it must be, if you see the cast: Damon Albarn from Blur (the only band to get out of britpop mud with some kudos), Paul Simonon from Clash (the only band to get out of punk with any relevance), Simon Tong of Verve (well...) and Tony Allen (former Fela Kuti collaborator, to represent the Empire that was).
All the album is dark, rainy, ingrained in that typical relaxed and bittersweet sensation of longing and nostalgia, together with a subtle feeling of pride for what Britain is and always will be.
A very good album, indeed.
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| 4.0 excellent | TheWaqman | September 11th 09 |
Another great effort from Damon Albarn proving to the world he doesn't need Blur. When I first heard he was creating a group that consisted of Paul Simonon and Tony Allen and Simon Tong I was very excited because I respected all of those musicians immensely (particularly Simonon and Allen).
The album itself is like classical pop really, very good stuff. Simonon's basslines were solid as always. Allen had good rythm on the drums. Guitar riffs were decent I guess. Albarn's vocals were solid as always. Especially in Nature Springs (and I loved the harmonizing backing vocals in there too). And watch out for the whole band to go nuts, particularly Albarn on piano, in the title track. I would like to see Albarn revisit this band in the near future. He can do no wrong in my eyes.
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| 4.0 excellent | chwe | February 16th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | June 29th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | mongo77 | November 8th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brock619 | September 3rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | fifek | October 16th 19 |
| 3.5 great | aoh21 | September 15th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | gnombyX | February 3rd 19 |
| 3.5 great | Alexxx | November 24th 18 |
| 3.5 great | vai90 | November 17th 18 |
| 3.5 great | wg98 | August 5th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Saros | May 11th 18 |
| 3.5 great | bahlof | January 15th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | jday | April 29th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rudy K. EMERITUS | March 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | JPaller | December 27th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Skipdog | September 20th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Olson | August 29th 11 |
| 3.5 great | CoConi | July 10th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | sehguh | July 10th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Ydun | August 20th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Yupa | August 1st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yay | July 9th 10 |
| 3.0 good | gonzab | April 12th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bryapro | June 17th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Tim00w | June 13th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | barns | May 11th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | DrReg | December 23rd 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Glomp | December 16th 08 |
| 2.5 average | ratcfc | December 14th 08 |
| 3.5 great | doqtor | December 26th 07 |
| 2.5 average | timbo8 | November 10th 07 |
| 3.5 great | Regole | August 29th 07 |
| 3.5 great | tom79 | January 25th 07 |
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