Blur "Out of Time" - Late Show with David Letterman 10/06/03

Blur performs on the Late Show a song from the album "Think Tank" on October 6th, 2003.

[@drewzing]

For me, this is withouth any doubt the greatest blur's song

[@akf2000]

his voice has such a rich tone in this performance, really really good, they've been with me my whole life and i fucking love Blur.

[@sHART1780]

He's got the coolest voice ever.

[@UndyingFury]

One of the best singles of the decade for sure.

[@stuartf1837]

Well, I love the tone of his voice and I think it's a beautiful song. Done 🙂

[@loserbabysowhydontyo]

blur in one of their finest moments

[@PantheonLincoln]

That's not Graham. It's Simon Tong, who has previously played with The Verve, and also played with Damon in The Good The Bad & The Queen. Graham left the band during the recording of the "Think Tank" album, he only played on one song. Simon is playing a Fender Mustang here.

[@Ingens_Scherz]

It's like hearing David Bowie performing an unknown John Lennon song. It's almost how good that would have been. Almost. Close enough.

[@RockyStradlin]

I read somewhere that this was Bowie's favorite Blur song

[@RockyStradlin]

I read somewhere that this was Bowie

[@facuchango]

love blur, they are great, and the last album, is wondeful, hope they meet again, for at least one more cd, or maybe more:D

[@andrewr7982]

And they did

[@Lisajayneb]

Reminds me of Bowie, luv Damon's voice always gets me

[@jamescarroll9205]

Amazing song one of their best. Great songs came from these lads.

[@mmtz3051]

This song is wonderful!!! So do this performance

[@wormeister]

a beautiful song a true classic

[@REMnut12]

Love that solo!

[@blackaristofon]

amazing... Pure perfection!

[@semiflex]

that line says it all!

[@ughhjuan]

El maestro , living legend 💯

[@oliveiragirao]

best band ever.

[@julesfrancis]

So good

[@toejoe]

Mate this would’ve been recorded the day I was born. Insane.

[@VinceverevecniV]

perfection

[@welshboyy2k8]

amazing .makes you realise to a degre i guess.pure brilliant song

[@nahtyman]

Great song!

[@deathbear96]

of the 55,000 odd views, i'm somewhat certain i'm responsible for at least half. i could listen to this song all day.

[@MrPeeter]

Damon is a killer guitar player

[@bingstar316]

Please somebody post the studio verion of this great tune from this great band.

[@Mineav]

Damon sounds like Bowie a bit here. Great vocals.

[@alessia81ish67]

Masterpiece

[@54spiritedwill54]

Awesome

[@josephcent]

Great. Damon is one of the biggest artist in the world.

[@luvbbjane]

tell me i'm not dreaming...

[@wout112]

Best live version of this song I've heard :)

[@WindKun]

Think Gorillaz; then Think "Blur" in the way they sounded prior to him "Leaving". Damon and him had a big battle about the artistic direciton; and Damon as much as I love him is an egotistical jerk; thus Damon makes millions and millions with Gorrillaz and Graham is remembered as the lead guitarist that made the songs shine and jangle and the amazing lead riffs and hooks via guitar.

[@charlotte955]

mmmmmmmmhhhh, great!

[@gunlodge]

good voice here

[@WindKun]

Its like The Beatles without George Harrison. Try to even fathom it (wrote basically every major guitar part and "riff" for songs) from simplistic 4 note riffs on top of Pauls chords written for the AMAZING song "And I Love Her" (Do Do Do Doooo) catchiest little riff around; to the opening guitar lick (and out lick) in Octopuses Garden; to Something. Some Lead Guitarists are forgettable; some are absolutely irreplaceable.

[@ybot1983]

I can hear David Bowie in this

[@cactaceous]

@PantheonLincoln Don't forget that Damon also recruited Simon Tong to play guitar in all three Gorillaz albums. Damon has also handpicked him to be the rhythm guitar player in the upcoming Gorillaz tour.

[@pared1986]

yeah sure...rock n roll...

[@googlego]

yes ,ur baby he is ~~:)

[@LorcanDMeath]

what a fucking song

[@festivitycat]

The one song that stops me writing off Think Tank.

[@MarijuanaGood4U]

joke. it's Simon Tong Ex-Verve. i joked that 'looked' like Dave Grohl drumming for Nirvana (which he is of course) and people thought i was actually serious! anyway, apparently Blur fans are a bit smarter :)

[@okkcomputer]

yeah,, maybe some chords. but now he's playing full time

[@NTAFNM]

I've noticed that too...it's weird

[@rentz46]

I agree...too much like Bowie but still good

[@itsian44]

graham

[@crubba]

@goingmadrider this is after graham had left

[@MarijuanaGood4U]

graham looks different

[@djkikis]

no graham no blur.. guys a fkin genius.. look how empty it sounds :S

[@zellah]

Damon Albarn. Woof!

[@bilwit]

wtb graham

[@djkikis]

@corpsemunger well Blur were considered to be Pop geniuses so................... Most ppl that are into blur are aware and love them for that... im just saying how empty this performance sounds... Anyways where are Blur now? now that graham's gone.....

[@MarijuanaGood4U]

that bass used to belong to Oasis

[@Lieven29]

Nope, it wasn't. It's a good song, but I think it would have been better with a nice Graham Coxon-riff.

[@denisuntoro]

Simon tong its better, waw 12 years ago HAHAHA

[@JakeANowhereMan]

Poor Damon, he knew the shitty music and relaps of the 80s was comming.04-08 so far.

[@maryhadfad]

For once.

[@MrQuintin1959]

we can never have enough david bowie sound alikes. right? lol

[@JakeANowhereMan]

lol

[@okkcomputer]

damon learned how to play guitar during the recording in morocco. true

[@Jacox98]

okkcomputer He knew how to play guitar on 1998

[@WindKun]

"Gorillaz" Damon makes far more money with this crap project (Okay; I think its crap after the last record; but the debut is an A+ debut; and the second album Demon Days is AAA Quality album through-out; perfection) but I slam him for going that route; Tension had been high with Damon and Graham, I believe artistic direction made the departure actually happen as in many articles suggest; Remember when Blur was in the media as "The New Beatles?" Oasis got some of that media but faded *thank god*

[@Dannzzx]

joke or?

[@ilkerender]

BLUR is not a rock'n roll band.

[@moyno85]

I'm gonna come clean. I love Blur and Think Tank is a good album... but I really don't like this song. Go on, give me a thumbs down.