Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out (Jools Holland)

[mrcarpetride]

punk rock without the venom

[sratus]

my name is graham coxon and i enjoy nicking the tune of the verses of range life by pavement and using it in the verses of my song called freakin' out

[joebstarsurfer]

this is ones mode living i a shite townie city).

[OpenedCanOfWhoopAss]

Fucking brilliant.

[theSPECIALbrew74]

it might get loud 2: graham coxon, johnny greenwood and matt bellamy. i wish

[TheBjf]

@theSPECIALbrew74 oh yeah that would be ace. not bellamy though maybe he can play but he's such a show off. can't stand him;)

this man wears class!

[DaniVerd]

Sounds like some punk music for me.

[gvhh]

The main chorus bit reminds me of Good Morning By The Beatles

[benjamin308]

Such a great player. In fact he's underrated. Too many people think brilliant guitar playing is all about playing bluesy scales really fast.

[ericpickerill]

@benjamin308 Amen brother, amen!

[iisgonnasmackurface]

A touch of strokes?...... its great love it though, better than alot of blurs stuff...

[OwlOnDuty]

who cares about his singing, he plays this guitar perfectly!

[ShopingHourer]

Good song, good music, R'n'R. But man, he can't sing!

[johnmcluskey]

The 90's was my generation for music and at that time I liked some Blur songs, but was never really into them that much. These days I cant stop listening to them and I like Coxons solo stuff. I think he's the best guitarist of that era hands down and he plays some amazing riffs on that SG on this vid. There's also a cracking vid of Blur doing beetlebum live on Jools Holland around 97 and I recommend watching it for his guitar work. LEGEND!!

[ragmancometh]

Deep meanings are true because you derive your own truth. Straight forward lyrics are nice though; you can tell the band was takin' a piss and came up with some natural stuff.

[jackwhitesguitar]

WOO!  \m/ \m/

[MrDrB1981]

Coxon looks like Bill Gates here

[alonelyplanetboy]

coxon rips ! and that is rock to me. and fyi, my penis quotient is 9.25 inches.

[procrastinats]

wtf? tmi.

[TheSecretMachines]

A hero to every shy kid who picked up a guitar.

[sharinfoo101]

YES that is like so true ^^, coxon is a hero

[bindestreck]

@TheSecretMachines A hero to every kid who ever related to the line "sociability it's hard enough for me"

[OUBLIETTE01]

Total rip off of 'Into The Valley' by The Skids!!!

[shootsbrah]

"AHOY AHOY!"

[kizpsycho]

Similar chords but this sounds much better imo.

[nahgajorma]

not totally.. slighty

[EuchridEucrow1]

"think tank was superb. im just looking forward to seeing them together again.:D "

"Think Tank" was absolutely terrible. Take Blur, dump the ingenious guitar tricks, the humour and the sheer joy and you've got yourself the 2003 offering.

Hey, I suppose it's still better than Radiohead. That wouldn't be particularly difficult, though.

[listentokingme]

Better than raidohead? EuchridEucrow1, you're an epic cunt

[ladygalt]

You know, I'm sorry to those who think differently, but I agree here. Think Tank never really did do much for me. It may just be me, but in their later stuff they seemed at times to "dumb down" the guitar and I hate that. I'm much more for a complicated lick than an effects box trick. For instance, I like Essex Dogs, but seeing live vids where Graham is bent over his effects for whole minutes KILLS me.

[ltothem11]

i think coxon's solo work is good but it lacks something. All the songs ove heard are kind of tounge in cheek and not very deep and that annoys me, maybe thats the blur fan coming out of me.

[justthatchapLC]

yes, cs songs like country house, song 2, beetlebum, girls and boys and park life have "deep meanings".........lol

[ltothem11]

yeah well im nottalking about blur's commercial stuff like Parklife etc i assume you haven't listened to all of blurs albums because if you had you would know what i mean, try (BLUR,13 and THINK TANK!) btw beetlebum does have a deep meaning you obviously don't get it.....LOL

[justthatchapLC]

Beetlebum in Damons words is about feeling "sleepy" and "sexy" at the same time..deep man....so i'm afraid you just don't get it "LOL".

[ltothem11]

well there is obviously more to it than that! like i said anyway im on about album tracks on BLUR, 13 and THINK TANK. I was saying lol cause you did btw so ur now quoting youself? and why you afraid? Just listen to them albums!!

[justthatchapLC]

"beetlebum does have a deep meaning you obviously don't get it" hahahahahahahahaha

[ltothem11]

'and when she lets me slip away, she turns me on now all my love is gone..' HELLO MCFLY!!!!!

ha i can see this debate is getting rather childish.

[justthatchapLC]

Yeah I think you should stop now before you embarrass yourself anymore.

[drattigan91]

No, I'm sorry but what you said about most of Blur's lrics is total crap. If you bothered to actually listen to them you'd realise that Country House is about being stuck in the rat race and people's desire to get out ("caught in a rat race/ treminally ...caught up in the century's anxiety"), Song 2 is about being lost in yor own self contradictions ("I'm pins and I'm needles... all of the time I'm never sure why I need you/ pleased to meet you").

[drattigan91]

Sorry about this, I ran out of space on the last message. Anyway, Beetlebum is actually about Damon Albarn's experiences of heroin ("nothing is wrong/ I just slip away and I'm gone"), Girls and Boys is an attack on uniformity and steroetypes ("like battery thinkers/ count your thoughts on one, two, three, four, five fingers") and Parklife is just about being British/ English and the shared experiences of being British, its meant to be just a banal description of an ordinary person's day.

[justthatchapLC]

Country house - how is writing a song about being caught in a rat race being "deep"?? there are millions of songs about that e.g. rock n roll star. Beetlebum - (already explained in another comment) Girls and boys - again not profound at all millions of songs about that. Song 2 - "woohoo".......enough said. Parklife - loads of songs written about that and it's in no way profound there just observations just like the kinks, small faces..etc

[drattigan91]

First of all it's pretty dumb to disiss sing 2 because it has a catchy chorus line. Secondly, what do you define as deep? If you want Kant set to music then you're going to be looking a long time but if on the other hand you want some observational songs (the fact that other people also made these observations in no way makes them less relevant) that actually bear up to lyrical analysis then Blur can provide you with that. And a song about the unfulfilling nature of capitalism is deep.

[ltothem11]

drattigan91 im glad you have sense this justthatchapLC obviously doesnt have the intelligence to know 'deep meanings' when he sees them.

[justthatchapLC]

Actually you don't have the intelligence to realise that music is completely subjective. Also just because you've convinced yourself there's a deep meaning in an average pop song, in which even the writer of it has explained is not profound in any way, shows that if any one of us lacks intelligence it is you!!!! Which is why i'm not going to reply to your next post; in which you''ll try to be witty and fail miserably. p.s. my IQ is 129

[drattigan91]

Well I'm sure mummy is very proud of your IQ. But my main point was that Blur lyrics do stand up to attempts to get meaning out of them very well. And in fact, post-structuralist subjectivity is the keystone of my argument as I pointed out that meaning is there so long as you want to look for it. You however, cannot say that all meaning is subjective and then make the objective assertion that the lyrics are meaningless. And IQ results have never been 100% reliable indicators of intelligence.

[ltothem11]

what does your IQ have to do with Blurs music having deep lyrics?

like i said before the ALBUM TRACKs (not singles or 'average pop songs') have a deep meaning that i think coxon's music lacks.

have you listened to blur,13 or think tank?

oh wait thats right your not replying to my next post because you IQ is 129, you sure showed me!

[Twillz123]

Yeahhh woooo

[yihd]

Deep meanings aren't true at all. Straight forward lyrics are best. coming straight outta the mind

[yihd]

I know not relevant.

[ltothem11]

well well now who has embarrassed themself? you me thinks! "woohoo"....enough said hahaha you must be joking.

[Twillz123]

Yeh but why don't you just shut up? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­haahhahahaaa

[onaoasis]

gyrate4 ~ you are gonna bleed from your eyes , ya cunt

[Beetlebum97]

Bass volume too fucking loud! I wanna here Graham's aggravated guitar!

[thicky7ern]

peace out and KICK IT!.......coxon

[gyrate4]

He makes Oasis look like twats.

[whatareweon]

oasis are twats who make alright music

[cillianp91]

very true

[196177]

@gyrate4 Oasis are twats!

[jaykayadrock]

@gyrate4 oasis make themselves look like twats

[TheViewAreOnFire17]

@gyrate4 To be fair, it's not hard to make Oasis look like twats xD

[GunsGenialeStuff]

@alliepwnz Shut up. I love Grahammy(<3), but Oasis are great as well.

[KutaniCrane]

compared to blur .... this is pure shit.

[likioumama]

Fuck you!

[KutaniCrane]

sure :p

[FlyingMango94]

I don't really think you can compare Graham's solo records to Blur, they're just very different, just as you can't compare Blur and Gorillaz in my opinion. But well, I'm not going to tell you to fuck you cause everyone's entitled to their own opinion I guess ;)

[dermotoblong]

think tank was superb. im just looking forward to seeing them together again.:D

[Cammertime]

His microphone looks really small in this video. For some reason I find it really humourous.

Graham's fantastic, and this is one of the catchiest songs I've ever heard.

[sadeyez72]

I don't care what anybody says, to me Graham is perfection! He's a brilliant guitarist. He has a unique quality to his voice, reminiscent of 70's punk rock.

[ronnieleta]

Great song. Graham is brilliant.

[cryptickeeper]

fookin' turbo charged!

[219970]

Oh dear. These lyrics are appalling. Stick to the guitars mate.

[10ccalanarkush]

Ever heard of Dada or minimalism?

[HNTFM]

He is sexy...:)

[bethluvsu]

graham...he's one of the best guitarists ever..he's not gonna be the best singer

back to blur blur blur!

[Scoob505]

that was an insult to all guitarists that are better than him

[vivio19861986]

he's one of the best in to the "indie world"

[brudengirl]

this is great shit which pwns Blur's Think Tank yawnfest.

[lostunicorns]

these to records are very different, you can't really compare them. but i like think thank better if i have to choose

[sasbabeuk]

I was excited abt Think Tank coming out but must admit it felt like a disappointment.

[jonweldon]

Great, but he can't sing though. Oh well.

[velouria91]

er, listen to his albums.

[jonweldon]

I love his albums, big fan. I meant his voice didn't sound very good on this video did it?! Be honest!

[velouria91]

it sounds nearly the same as it does on his albums!

both good!

[BeRidiculedInAName]

Genius! For those who don't get it, try listening to The Skids 'Into The Valley' and other stuff of that era. Brilliant!

[jonnytheoasisfan]

I really like The Skids.. Graham is nice as well

[liamuir]

this is just awful why is he wasting his time doin this rubbish !!!!

[Kurt4erva]

owo27 yeah right... xD Never in their lives!

[Paladinsucks]

well they might eventually. but good for them if they do. graham is one of the most influential indie guitarists on the scene.. some of his stuff is really complex

[Kurt4erva]

They don't have the feeling and intelligence...

[HeleneRT]

well.. then you just need to listen to more Blur ;) LOTS of feeling there. Universal for instance ... genial guitar

[Kurt4erva]

Helene I was answering this comment "he´s a good guitarist but his music is just crap. take any school band you like, they would play as well as graham does." I really Blur, a lot!

[HeleneRT]

He might not be a technical genius, BUT he has an amazing sound and choice of tones and chordes ;)

[owo27]

he´s a good guitarist but his music is just crap. take any school band you like, they would play as well as graham does.

[DURANIMO]

One of the best British guitarists ever!