T/S the solo careers of Graham Coxon vs. Bernard Butler

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Graham's stuff is very all over the place, but I love Sky Is Too High, most of Morning and even half of Golden D. I like how he tries to purposely play like some amateur but it still comes out sounding complex.

Butler's stuff on the other hand is like 22 versions of Cast No Shadow by oasis. Pleasant but boring.

― Viz (Viz), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

I seem to recall one of my best buddies telling me he saw BB do a festival set which consisted of a 30 minute guitar wankathon. Whereas GC, despite being Blur's Luddite fringe, has never struck me as wanting to be Jimmy Page. So I award the tie to Coxon, on condition that he stops being an indie twot.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Coxon is better. Bernard is a great guitar player but as far as a whole singer/songwriter/guitarist, Coxen is better.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

i find the solo careers of both completely pathetic, but butler's music is less irritating even if it is boring swill.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

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― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

How do the solo careers of either of them compare with the solo career of Johnny Marr?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

i'll side with graham. the only real downside to his solo work, in my favoring, is the lack of th experimenting he did with his guitar work in the Blur context. His reocrds are all over the place and very much not Blur, but have much more charm and possibility than they might immediately let on.

Butler's work has never even caught my ear for a moment.

as for adding Marr as a third wheel. ... i've never really been whelmed by it, over or under. some nice stuff happened when he's guested on other people's records and electronic had some moments, but la la la, imho.

― b b, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

in spite of all the love i have for butler, his solo work is (mostly) crap (not including his work with mcalmont which is brilliant sometime).
coxon : i don't care.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

poor bernard haha

but the stuff with mcalmont was delicious.

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I still think the Syd Barretty stuff on The Sky is Too High is the best thing ever done by anyone with any relationship to Blur ever. "In a Salty Sea!" In any case you can't call that album underexperimentally disconnected from Blur, cause it mostly feels like Graham-Blur tracks (e.g. "Miss America") going off to be themselves.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

The Maclamont/Butler albums are great.

I've really enjoyed the slapdash, off-the-cuff feel of all the Coxon albums, although the last one seems to indicate he's heading back down a more commercial path.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

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