Yes and wonderful accent

To paraphrase Ian Dury: "He comes from Essex, as if you couldn't tell. His given name is Damon, he comes from Colchester and he's doing very well"

RIP Ian Drury. Brilliantly put.

He’s got a bit of a stammer, didn’t notice that before

Ab-ab-absolutley

Word.

I would listen to it everyday ♡♡♡

Anurag Sharma I'd never turn it off

Anurag Sharma and a train station.

Anurag Sharma eh eh eh eh em em er her herr do you really think so.......

Sunny Bear handsome yes but funniest has to be Shaun Ryder 👍🏼👍🏼

and creative

As if Happy Mondays or Stone Roses are anywhere near the body of diverse brilliant songs Blur have done!

Huh what about Alex James

@@aronroyle1523 happy Mondays were brilliant way they were completely different to blur you can't even compare them

Blur did that too. Albans' own point of Oasis being "better (...at communicating who they are)" is a moot point. Oasis just stayed the same., so that instantly qualifies them as consistently "communicating who they are", but is that a virtue in music, especially with a - albeit well executed - derivative style?

Still sell out any stadiummmmm if it went on sell... but hold on, lets all cut out ear off in the favour of art

You’ve got the Beatles/Bowie model (constantly changing things up) and the AC/DC/The Fall model (incremental changes at best). There’s merit in both approaches

I think Noel tries to experiment musically but Liam still thinks it's 1995

Young Dylan why so defensive

His face in that moment just says, "Fuck, again?"

"I'll pass that on".

I fuckin laughed when he said that

🤣🤣🤣

Fucking love Damon, always count on him to be blunt

Tina Hoyi he has a beautiful voice no matter what he does

Caius Camara He’s a private schoolboy, exactly.

him and morgan freeman need to narrate all documentaries

@@delmarhi add Neil Peart to the list too!

Always had

I just saw an interview with Bowie where he keeps interrupting the interviewer to remind him what year it is 😂. He gave great answers though. I can’t imagine the stories he took to his grave.

I agree.. He lives and breathes to create

He gave a very grown up answer to a disappointing tired 'ol question. Yup he kept it classy!

Who...they were

Very diplomatic!

But also he is wrong. Five days without a cigarette doesn’t prove anything. Try quitting for a few months. I love the man but he was addicted to heroin in the 90s and there have been studies that show you need 90 consecutive days to break a habit or build a new one. That includes addictions.

@@ablurida he's still doing it apparently

@@ablurida Well, I’m just like that. But not five days, I can quit smoking like for a month and even forget about cigarettes and then just smoke one while drinking a beer. Don’t need to wait 90 days, because I’m not addicted really.

​@@abluridaI'm the same, I cannot get addicted at all. Tried pretty much everything - dr ugs, al ohol, p*rn, sx, tea coffee caffeine lol nothing. I cannot get addicted. I cannot form hbits either. Like my timetable is random. I eat idd times. I cannot do routine

Poor Damon. 1:40 starts STAMMERING

Watch the Nardwuar interview

@@davide0o.o0o06 I was just starting to get into them and that video came up on my recommendations... ruined everything

@@davide0o.o0o06I did and it shows a different side to him. He was laughing at Dave’s behaviour during the interview.

@@davide0o.o0o06 yeah, a video from when they were drugged up 20 years ago really defines their entire personality for the rest of their lives. makes sense

ich auch;)

Me too and now its almost 7!! 🙈👍🏻

@@THX-22089 years now😭

Fuck I just looked. This came out 10 years ago

30 now and the music is as good as ever!

+Nisa Jolly (Nisa Jolly) Two totally different sounds and genres

MrSixiesRock I agree

+Nisa Jolly (Mary Mustang) Thank you. Damon called it - kind of a childish question and one you wouldn't expect from respectable news outlets. The whole subject is shit.

Good 90's marketing tho:)

Nail and head there, Benji

You've obviously never met him.

Why? He is a douche?

To be absolutely honest Bruno, i personally have never met him. However, I know someone who has met him on 2 occasions in a work capacity (photo shoot) and they said that he was a humourless tosser on both occasions. The other person I know, who has met him is also a photographer, and said that he was very nice.... but she is Japanese! So I guess he is like most of us; sometimes okay, other times not.

He seems totally like that. A normal person, temperamental sometimes.

MisAnnThorpe yeah, that seems like his personality

Damon is not underrated in any way.

@@craz4jaymz me when i lie

And liam is overrated

There is youtube's favorite stupid and overused word, "underrated". A word for those without an original thought, but somehow want to join in the comments section.

Yeah..not listening to this mainstream manufactured ass water.

Questioning the Oasis hype!

Heroin.

Sniffing coke and listening to definitely maybe.

Live for ever.

i don't..oasis are pretty shit

They speak very highly of you! 69Birdbrain

Only someone with the monicker of John Smith would rate Oasis...boring, everyman uninspired thatcherite drivel for the football terraces

and what do you do?

lets just say i'm in the music business..but whatever i say you're not going to believe me..so i'll just say..Oasis never wrote one truly transcendent song...thats my opinion....they are not real....damon is at least interesting and blur were somewhat imaginative..but to me you have no real view on music if you think oasis are'amazing'.

couldn’t have said it better myself

Daniearp You had to be there at the time i suppose...

I guess so!

Damon and Blur basically started the comparison when they released a single on the same day. That tied the two bands together in a battle opposed to each other. I loved them both as well though - very different bands with several amazing albums each. I also love Suede and Pulp.

No, their rivalry started before that; that's why they released singles on the same day on purpose, to settle who'd 'win' on the charts. (The rivalry started from Oasis's first album, and their rival single was Roll With It, the lead off their 2nd album.) The rivalry was precisely because they were so different. Blur was more poppy; Oasis more rock. Blur was and spoke to art school kids; Oasis was and spoke to working class. Blur were southerners; Oasis was from the north. There was all this political and class-based stuff that made the rivalry take on a life of it's own and explains why people are still so passionate today (see some of the Blur fan comments here attacking Oasis as stupid - it's class snobbery). I'm a Canadian whose barely spent time in the UK and I fucking get it. This is pretty obvious stuff. But maybe Brits don't want to admit the south-north or class divides are still so prevalent and tied to the music. It's also a huge part of why the Roses and Mondays are considered heroes.

The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays are another 2 Manchester bands totally undeserving of the hype and exposure they received. Interesting that you bring class up, because for me, that's the difference between the Blur and Oasis; Blur have/had it, Oasis never did. When did Oasis ever make an out and out classic that will only sound better with the passing of time? Wonderwall? I doubt it! I'm already at the stage where when that bloody song comes on the radio, it just goes straight over my head. There's just not enough about it to stand up to the scrutiny of repeated listening..... although I will concede that the cello on it is really nice; who played that? Liam?! On the other hand; The Universal, on the other hand sounds as much a classic to my ears as something like The Kinks' Waterloo sunset. Can you imagine the kudos it will have acquired in another 10 years?! I always believe in giving credit where it's due though and therefore I will admit that there is an arrogance and cocksure swagger about Supersonic that makes it by far the best thing I've ever heard by Oasis or anything Oasis related. However, when you listen to the likes of 13, Think tank, Demon days, Plastic beach or Dr Dee it's impossible not to acknowledge (begrudgingly; I don't like him!) that Albarn is an extremely gifted individual in the world of pop and far beyond.

Because Blur were so much more complicated than Oasis

Probably.

Equilibrium Oasis tapped into the uneducated market, appealing to chavs and yobbos. Blur were trying to say something but most people were to stupid to hear it.

eldospinks I don't give a fuck what they were trying to say, I only care about the music. Oasis had better music, that is it.

Equilibrium I agree. The Beatles do have the best music.

Mister Sifter Come back in 50 years and we’ll debate it then. ;). I love the Gallagher’s. And the early music. But there is no denying how derivative it is. Same would be true of britpop era Blur. Modern version of the Kinks and all that. But Albarn has made much more diverse and inventive music than the Gallagher’s. It’s objectively true. Just listen to the full body of work of each artist. I’m not saying it’s better or that it is enjoyed more. Just that Albarn’s output is deeper and broader. I didn’t say it would be remembered more but I understand your comment.

Blur has 1 fucking good song Oasis is way better

Dog 2 I’m talking about Damon Albarn, not Blur. But if you want to continue a media-manufactured debate started in 1995, be my guest.

Ever-evolving mediocrity. It will never be as good as the first Oasis albums.

@@adammartin7007 this comment is a year old but i still wanna point out that any gorillaz album easily out performs any oasis album in terms of enjoyability

Alphas set their own pace.

@Barry Is hyperbola your middle name?

Does he f❤❤k

and father :)

Bad reader of "good" humans detected!

And yes, I am responsible for the sole down vote .

MisAnnThorpe Wowie aren't you special for being the only dislike

What's so special about being honest? You seem easily impressed...... or maybe you're a liar?!

Please tell me why you think Damon isn't a good person. I don't want to start fights here. Is it because of Oasis Vs Blur?

MrRoboskippy albarn is more creative than all of oasis combined. just look at the work he has done with gorrillaz.

Oasis have ripped off one Beatles song, played it at the pace of Status Quo, and stretched it over an entire career. Thanks for playing.

Yes, pure genius isn't it?

To be fair to Oasis, they also ripped off T-Rex, The Sex Pistols and The Stone Roses...

Hypnodelica oasis were the best band on the planet, you can say they stole material from certain bands because they were highly influenced by all those bands you mentioned, but only retards who don't listen to oasis will say that to discredit them. ✌️

Congrats on predicting the future with their Gorillaz collab

MissMicaMica not really, Noel already did backing vocals on some live occasions

Collaborating as in songwriting + backing vocals

North and south divide, And the north has always had the best bands, fact!!!

Ben Neyland As a northerner (Liverpudlian more specifically) I have to disagree, sure we had the Beatles but the south has Radiohead, Blur, Gorillaz, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Queen, David Bowie, The Police, The Who, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, hell even Manchester own chemical brothers are from London and the Beatles even recorded all their songs in London. Have to give credit where it's due.

valzer84 Stop lying! As a 10-year old, you were still playing with Lego’s...

Langelier Fabrice but wings were shit! So Oasis couldn’t have copied them. Dumb comment.

@@startracker5895 Is that you Liam?

Oasis 1 trick pony

Blur were shit 1 good song then stupid lyrics and stupid songs.

He’s known as a notorious bellend in the industry actually. Which disappointed me.

@@BigFred109Exactly. It’s usually just sycophants defending and praising everything he says and does because they practically worship him but don’t think this guy doesn’t have a huge ego because he certainly does. And I think making music that many like doesn’t give the authority to be a bellend, you should still be a stand up person regardless. There’s just a pretentious aspect to Albarn that I can’t get behind.

@@BigFred109Out of serious interest: What did he do?

but it actually was

Oh, Beetlebum is your song then

​@@robsdianten1 nah, Tender.

They were better musicians Noel almost stole every lick from Harrison and Townshed but still I’m team oasis blur are a sick band tho

Not really, but he looks humble compared to Liam as everyone does 😂 he does take himself less seriously these days though, very wise.

Joel Shields are you projecting your own passive aggressivity on to that statement by any chance?

3 idiots with an opinion to give . Worst thing about the modern world is what ye make of youtube and the old www? Do you know him personally or did you jus make this opinion when you were an even less educated idiot 20 years ago that now unfortunately has internet , youtube and a keyboard.

Oh very very deep analysis Joe . Yu are clearly a fan of Freud and Jung m. I might be going out in a limb here and say you might be a Blur fan perhaps ? Also clearly a critic and true thespian. You look deep wit your analysis

Ha, tell it like it is!

Alpha Jinks he’s not bi tho?

He is Gen X tho?

He's not bi.right?

He's actually apparently stated he is "an intellectual bisexual"

hes not bi

Jamie Hellfire everyone’s voice does as you get older

There’s a YT video somewhere of Cobain making a threatening voicemail to a journalist in 1992. Absolutely doped up to his eyeballs, voice barely more than a drawl. That’s a heroin voice.

except cobain was a good singer

True, then again, even at the height of their rivalry, Noel Gallagher said he had a lot of time for Graham and that he's one of the best guitarists of his generation. Also, you never actually heard Noel deny they are good or had great songs. He said he wished he had written Beetlebum when he heard it. I think the rivalry was more personal, I'm sure as songwriters they must have appreciated one another, which is probably why Damon and Noel are friends now.

Radioheads Jonny greenwood was better than both combined

Philip Kearney Radiohead are better than both combined! ;)

Bernard Butler. Period.

+erin79 no chance... guitar, piano, xylophone, drums, computer programming, writes scores missing out on an Oscar for There will be blood, because a competitor complained one of the pieces had been used elsewhere, thus not making it original. Go check out "climbing the walls" and you'll see he uses a radio...a radio, scanning for adverts, peels paint with his guitar and uses a Ondes Martenot... the fact they're so diverse speaks volumes.

Ughm my arm??? Isn't it obvious

which is better, chocolate or shit?

My wanking arm

😂

well put man.

daweller That requires a sense of humour and smattering of self deprecation...

@@hyena131 Not really, because I think he is sick of the question... so saying Radiohead would stun the interviewer.

@@daweller As would a cattle prod or an unexpected Chinese burn. The point being is albarn is slow on his feet and a dullard bore with no sense of humour or irony...

@@hyena131 I bet Liam Gallagher would agree with you. ( I honestly dont know much about the guy )

@@daweller Maybe so. gallagher equally dull as albarn.

nah Oasis was a bigger deal in fairness but Blur was cooler for some reason..

+Paul M In the UK blur were the bigger band

+Nick Falletta In YOUR opinion. You have to be open; all us flimsy humans are different. In MY opinion, OASIS was far better rockers, and reached more to the kids.

You people are all wrong Gorillaz is the best.

+Nick Falletta Sneaky question, that! Albarn's always been quite humble answering it. Probably played a big role in Noel eventually performing "Tender" with the band.

Longtime Servant Of The Gun totally agree it was ridiculous to the point it was embarrassing and what the fuck is his new material all about ????

That'll be the heroin mentioned haha!!!

Oh get an attention span for fuck’s sake....

I've noticed most people that have been practicing buddhism for a while start talking and moving about that way.

Gal Dagon your clever

Joao Correia Modern Life is Rubbish was a better album.

Joao Correia IMO

Bank holiday is ropey-ish haha. But I agree

Tyler Watkins it’s charming though