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...began. The real reasons are unclear, although the band claims Coxon didn't show for a recording session. He claims he was sacked. To most four-piece rock bands, losing the guitarist would be tragic, a career-ending divorce. For Blur it was just another challenge: how can a guitar-based rock band make a record without a guitarist...
...diversion than an impetus. It has always seemed a ridiculous coupling." He has a point: where Oasis was lager louts, Blur was college boys. And these days, with the Gallagher brothers still playing to the Britpop nostalgia crowd - churning out new records stuck in Oasis' mid-'90s towering guitar rut - Blur has been quietly growing, developing its sound and self-confidence. And with Think Tank, the band has produced its most mature and accomplished album to date - with or without its resident guitar slinger. Despite the new breakthrough, Albarn says, "I don't mind if I'm still called Britpop...
...Clash, such as Gene by Gene, though with Albarn's jumping-on-the-trailer thing. The final track, Battery in Your Leg - the only one which features Coxon - is a plaintive ode to the past. Sings Albarn, "This is a ballad for the good times," and Coxon's spacey guitar loops tell you just what he means. Could this song foretell the future? "We had a sort of band reunion at Alex's wedding," says Albarn, "and we're all getting on just fine, so I wouldn't ever discount a return to the original four members at some point...
Blessedly, there's plenty of soul elsewhere on American Life. For most of the gorgeous Love Profusion, Madonna wraps her voice--that candy-coated piece of plastic we've come to know and love--around a simple acoustic-guitar hook and some achy lyrics: "There is no comprehension/There is real isolation/There is so much destruction/What I want is a celebration." She is similarly relaxed and woeful on Nothing Fails, Intervention and album standout X-Static Process, which opens with the delicacy of a Gordon Lightfoot song and peaks with the self-pitying bridge "I always wished that I could find/Someone...
Many of the songs, including “Paratrooper” and the opening “Oh Come Down,” are quiet ballads featuring acoustic guitar and occasionally drums. Typical McCaughan, the lyrics are infused with a poet’s sense for words and at the same time exquisite and emotional. In “Don’t Disappear,” McCaughan sings softly and longingly: “And in this dream we were terribly tall, wobbly and weak / And I was afraid we would fall / Impaled on dull silver mass of antennae...