Blur - Charmless Man - TFI Friday

[mamflyer]

Dont you think that they all look younger, i mean damon here was 28 years old, and to me he looks like a 23 year old guy or something like that

[lilasam44]

Yo Blur!!!Damon is the most BEAUTIFUL man on Earth!!!!For ever!!

[stuntmaniatv]

How can someone be so sexy?

[julietiiin]

whos the girl who is playing keyboards? what is her name?

[julietiiin]

whos the girl who is playing keyboards? what is her name?

[Salmijaervi]

Give us back TFIF!

[reniisgod]

Coxon you fucking legend

[MrDeedra]

ki e' la tastierista mato''

[Erim483]

OMGGG damon is damn cute, i love blur !!!

[MaccaHacka]

Cheeky monkeys eh. Brilliant, great guitar from Coxon, a little bit Lee Ronaldo me thinks.

[MrMonkeytrumpets]

I remember watching this. Was a student back then. Good times. It was good to be in your early twenties in the mid-nineties. Im still listening to the same bands today! Always loved blur.

[leannfisha]

@MrMonkeytrumpets I wish I was in my 20's in the 90's, Love britpop! I'm 21 now and music is average. Saw Blur at Glasto last year so so so good.

[tartufo7y7]

demon albarn is the most handsome singer ever

[werty3535]

christ what was going on with Chris Evans hair

[snowiezkit]

damon flutters his eyelashes a ridiculous amount.

[thebobbseytwins]

@snowiezkit

Because he has such beautiful eyes/eyelashes/eyelids that he wants to draw attention to them and show them off!

[hOOdilol]

@thebobbseytwins I dont think its because of that. Too much down to earth to be a fag poser.

[thebobbseytwins]

@hOOdilol

Doesn't make him a "fag poser." He knows he's good looking. Jeeze, how could you be Damon Albarn and not know how gorgeous you are!

[hOOdilol]

@thebobbseytwins Oh I get your a woman, now I see. Men are NOT like that, at least not real men, and as a man thinking about how georgeous you are have 3 explanations 1. you are gay 2. wanna-be metrosexual 3. ego trip

[thebobbseytwins]

@hOOdilol

Yeah, and Damon doesn't have an ego at all....

And since when are gay men not real men? I think someone is insecure in his masculinity...

[MaccaHacka]

@hOOdilol

idiot!!!!

[zackpliskin]

This is the quintessential Britpop song for me. It so perfectly captures the mood and ideas of it's time while still sounding new and exciting.

[popmachine12]

These guys are british.

[cribscian]

@popmachine12 i meant the people commenting

[WasterMe]

i get this song in my head sometimes even after not hearing it for ages

[badhead]

When this was made Blur very unhappy with the music they where doing, Drinking too much and had fallen out with each other.

[mocafester]

amaria, mataria por q volvieran a hacer un disco damooon i love yoooooouuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[caribo26]

im with your girlfriend lol

[acrumble]

its not all about perfect singing and it sounding like a polished cd, its about live performance and the energy they have, try doing a two hour set at glasto two hours of singing is hard. for anyone

[laurencelake007]

you must be a yank if you dont like this music.. or a gangsta! this is true british music.. tihs is alot better than all the shit music in the charts nowadays

[LozMac33]

Mate, I'm no Yank and I despise hip hop / rap and the shit its causing in our society. I love Blur, just not this performance that's all. In fact, this is my fave Blur song.

[JDA315]

i hate to break it to you, but damon albarn is into hip hop, the good kind, i hate reminding people that there is good hip hop too. you say it like there is no such thing as shit rock music. love blur

[nathanch90]

Totally agree with you mate :)

[JackWMS14]

@JDA315 Well said, look at Gorillaz. Very influenced by Underground and 90's Golden era Hip-Hop. J5, De, Krs, ATCQ, MF Doom, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Pete Rock etc. All fantastic Hip-Hop artists that don't go on about money and women like too many mainstream Rap does.

Come on, if you were to judge Rock by what was in the mainstream you'd have people thinking Lady Gaga was.

[NickTrousers]

Yank? Come on...I'm a fucking "Yank" and I love Blur! Just about 98 percent of the music I listen to and love comes out of England and all around Europe. Fucking stereotypes.

[scotlandr]

Man i totally agree with you there

Im scottish and i cant stand bloody stereotypes, like one american said that if i actually wear a kilt for everyday use and i was like...get a grip son haha.

[NickTrousers]

A kilt for everyday use? LOL! When I think of Scotland, I think of cool accents and beautiful land.

[scotlandr]

Aww man you think wisely :)

but its not all beutiful land haha, most of it is... :p

[StephenS1974UK]

@scotlandr lolz

[warriorprince1010]

@NickTrousers Everyone is welcome to listen to the music of their choice.

[THthefirst]

He's singing, which is fairly clear at the start.

I agree, he did a lot of pointing and shouting at Glasto though. Think he's a bit out of shape and practice at live performances.......

[ohweloveeverton]

my girlfriend thinks of Damon when we shag

[cactaceous]

That sucks for you.

[ohweloveeverton]

it ain't so bad. I pretend she's Anne Hathaway

[FIFTY2WEEKS]

This show is the perfect location to play this number. Are they trying to say something to the ginger one

[Ertal77]

Umf... pixels as lego pieces... Thank you anyway, they are great.

[willianrm1]

His falsettos are funny live.

[serendipitysoul]

I always like how alex shakes his head in almosr every performance (live and on video)

[vanhalen8200]

where is the nhaa nhaa nhaa naaa naa!!

[54spiritedwill54]

BEST BAND EVER!

[jamesk911std]

This song has eery similarities to that of Boogie Shoes by KC and the Sunshine Band , yet i have never heard of such a court case.

Meanwhile the Stones can find scant similarities with Bittersweet Symphony.

Maybe KC have less stingy legal eagles ( or vultures in the Stone's case)

[drakey101]

i really don't see the connection between the 2 songs at all, i really believe you are terribly confused.

[DaianaDJ]

Graham y Damon los amoo!!!! son hermosos!!

[doremi5002]

hermoso

damon

[sophasoph]

Why, Damon, art thou so damn sexy? seriously...

[fungafly]

blehblehbbelh-beleh..

[soundjoseph]

¡Gran banda! ¡Buenisima la canción! :-D

[pamel855]

Love U Damon!!! Kisses from Argentina! Romi

[burnt62]

Don't like his singing but what a songwriter !... superb lyrics and a great band ...

[pickemallayyye]

you dont like his singing! r u american

[burnt62]

Nope. I am a Londoner !!

[pickemallayyye]

okay, same, well essex

[uktah]

BLUR ARE BACK!

[fungafly]

they are?

[uktah]

Yeah! Hyde Park here i come

[squirehorse]

i thaught it was supposed to be about bernard butler

[gutterflower24]

I'm in love with him...

[iwish4it]

lol me too..

[tweetermkyman]

Your wish has come true!

[reniisgod]

I see the Blur VS Oasis thing still gets to people here lol The Charlatans beat them both.

[patfirkin02]

i think it's about himself

Damon's professed that most of the songs on the album were more or less about himself

maybe all the facts of the songs aren't about himself 'exactly'

but he may have viewed himself as rather charmless....

but who knows...and who cares

it's a catchy tune - and that's all i really care about.....

plop.

[coolstuff2003ad]

lol

Blur are artistic and I kinda like em, but am the same time don;t, know wot ah'mean?

[coolstuff2003ad]

gay, but gay cool.

[matthewrox1004]

Blur ROcks!!! Yeah! ONe of my fav songs, Charmless Man! Oh, by the way, did anyone saw Damon drinking a bottle of beer prior singing? LOL :) XD

[5452583]

OASIS LIVE FOREVER

[Bari77]

Oasis is good but Blur is better!

[noogies]

hells no, oasis sucks

[8Keiji4]

At 01:09 and at the end he's really amazing!

But Damon IS it...^^

Just a question:does he say "tschuss" in german at the end?I can't understand

[Lukigol001]

yuup, and than he said hail hitler, he said CHEERS

[JenJenEL]

Rumor has it Blur was just giving a big insult to Morrissey here..makes sense with all the talk of depression and Ronnie Cray..lol

[vanhalen82000]

what the hell happened to the nanannaa?? that's not the one we want to hear and where is the jumping?? you just ruined the song!

[NoNotThat]

I don't think this is ABOUT morrissey even though he makes references to his music, i've heard it is about brett anderson because he had dated justine frischmann before damon did

[lomasca]

Bring back the jumping on the nanananana's :P lol

[Nemie125]

Wasn't this rumoured to have been written about Brett Anderson?

[bingefeller]

I'd never heard that, could be true though. I always think of The Smiths tune This Charming Man when I see the title Charmless Man.

[vymmas]

Nope, Morrissey. One strong hint is the line "I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray". Morrissey notoriously sent a bouquet to kray's funeral.

[blackdice23]

it's also slang for 'gay'

[peoplegutloops]

This song is about Justine Frischmann's brother. It is well know that she comes from a very wealthy family, and her brother is a banker, or something like that.

(educated in an expensive way)

[peoplegutloops]

known, sorry

[TIMPA921209]

no. this song is about brett andersson suedes frontman and justine Frischmann's ex boyfriend.

justine was dating damon after she broke up whit brett

[bubupor]

really?

[TIMPA921209]

yeah read the book suede love and poision

[xinezito]

q mal canta!!!!!!!!!vaya nanana mas falso

[olili56]

this is normal us french girls make damon hot

[zizzou23]

what did damon said in 2:13?

[eternaltoffee]

"Just as screwed as they come"

[sirhadley]

Man, I haven't seen that for years! I was in the crowd bouncing around to that. Quality.

[Cmoney930]

BEST BAND EVER!!!!!

[pgl0897]

apart from Oasis obviously.

[oshite007]

Goes without saying, if it wasn't for Oasis they wouldn't have made that much money - they live off being around the same time as Oasis!

[islingtonlad]

you could not have been that old back then son??

otherwise you would know that blur had singles out in 90-91 oasis did not come on the scene until well late 94

[targetscooter88]

typical musical conservatism

[redtail77]

Holy shit! Thanks for posting this. I've been wanting to see this performance again for years.

[colinzeal83]

This is the first time I've seen this since I was 12 when it was first aired back in 1996. TFI Friday was so exciting and obviously the bands were much better back then. Now we're lumbered with crappy corporate sponsored music programes like T-Mobile Music with The Klaxons. What a load of shit.

[StigBoro66]

na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na a

[baboonah]

very good