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Tracklist:
Questions:
Graham:
01. Is this a big Graham record, you're more
prominent
on this than on any other Blur
record,
aren't you?
02. Do you think the record
sounds like it does
because
of the things you've been listening
to
lately, like hardcore?
03. So you want to sound exciting
straight off?
04. You obviously wanted to make
a record that
laid
the Brit Pop stuff to rest and the
influence
of bands like The Kinks?
05. So it's fair to say there's a
lot more of your
ideas
on this record than on "The Great
Escape"?
06. Did you want to move Blur
away from where
they'd
ended up in the market place?
07. Give us a few words to
describe the mood of
the
record. Any words spring to your mind?
08. Is this what Blur should
sound like?
09. Was it instantly obvious that
something
different
was going on with this record?
10. It's not a very British
sounding record is it?
11. A lot of the way this record
sounds reflects
what
you've been listening to, which is
mainly
American music.
12. Do you get fed up with being
a pop star?
13. You must have found yourself
in situations
after
"Parklife" and thought, what are we
doing
here?
14. Will some of these people be
frightened by
this
record?
15. Were you conscious of the
decision that
there
was no strings, no brass or pretty
things
going on the record?
16. Are you looking forward to
taking this on
tour,
presumably you in particular will be
rocking
out?
17. You'll have your work cut
out, there'll be
a lot to
do because you're central to most of
the songs.
18. Do you have any favourite
tracks on the
record,
as of today?
Dave:
19. What does it feel like being
in an art punk
band
again?
20. Is it a case of being successful which then
gives
you the leeway to do what you want to
do?
21. How did it happen, did you all convene after
the
"The Great Escape" and say we've got to
make
a different record?
22. Were you happy when you realised that this
record
was going to sound the way it was,
did
you have any reservations?
23. It sounds like the record that couldn't care
less
for demographics or marketing. This is
what
you want to do?
24. Is it your most honest record?
25. What was the atmosphere like at the
recording
sessions?
26. The sound and the mood is different from
the
"The Great Escape"?
27. Tell us about the last track on the album
"I'm
Just A Killer For Your Love" which was
done
very quickly?
28. Does it feel scary that people will put this
record
away and say "blimey what's this"?
29. Are you looking forward to touring with this
record?
30. I understand the flying is going well and the
last
time I saw you you flew to Dublin.
Alex:
31. How did you go from making a
pretty and
pristine
record like "The Great Escape" to
making
such an angry, nasty, dark and dirty
record?
32. But when you realised what it was going to
be
like, were you more than happy with
that?
33. It's not a Brit Pop record then is it?
34. Did you get fed up with being a popstar?
35. Did you find yourself in circumstances
musically
or personally that made you want
to
take a step in a different direction that
"Parklife"
or "The Great Escape"?
36. As befits your roots, it's an arty record isn't
it?
37. This isn't an ironic record at all is it? It
sounds
pretty full on and sincere.
38. Did you want to make a record that was
taking
you in a different direction that "The
Great
Escape"? When it became obvious that
this
record was going to be so different were
you
happy with that?
39. Some of the younger fans you brought along
with you from "Parklife" might even be
scared
by this record, is that good
40. Do you have a particular favourite track on
the
record?
41. How do you feel about taking the record on
tour?
Damon:
42. I can't think of a major group making a
record
that's such a rejection of the last thing
they did.
43. It sounds like the four of you have made a
statement
on this record where you don't
care
about trends or reactions.
44. Were you worried about doing it at any time?
45. Was it a case, that becoming pop stars and
then
realising that wasn't what you wanted to
be
all along?
46. How much of this record is actually about the
circumstances
you found yourself in after
"Parklife"?
47. Can you characterise the mood of the record,
what words would describe the record
or
what it feels like?
48. Some of the people who came to enjoy Blur
with
"Parklife" may hold their hands up in
horror.
Are you prepared for that?
49. Your relationship with America is much
documented,
and funnily enough this is a
very
American sounding record in that, some
of
the stuff that's gone on in American rock
in
the last ten years, the loud and angry
sounds.
That quality seems to be on this
record.
50. It's a very nineties record in the sense that
you
talk about Brit Pop, this is really a record
of its time isn't it.
51. It sounds like a real pre-millennium record
as
well.
52. It's a big change lyrically from the last
album.
53. It also feels like a record that's an
outpouring
of how you were feeling, less
painstaking.
54. Your voice on a lot of the tracks is treated or
processed,
almost trying to hide away from
the
fact that this is Damon singing. Is there
any
thruth in that?
55. What was the process in between the demos
and
the finished artifact?
56. There's no strings and no brass.
57. Is this what Blur are about and will continue
to
be about or is this Blur at this stage in
the
nineties and you may go off again on a
different
track?
58. It will polarise people's feelings, some won't
like
it and others will think it's the best
you've
done, is that what you want.
59. Tell us what your love affair with Iceland is
all
about?
60. The album seems quite fractured and angry.
61. You have said that Dublin was a pivotal time
in
Blur's recent evolution.
62. Was there any points that made you think,
there's
a lot of stuff I want to reject now?
63. There's a track on the album about America.
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