Trimm Trabb

 As you can tell from my profile picture, I like this song a lot. 

Trimm Trabb features on Blur's sixth album, 13. It's the eleventh track. It's better than most of the tracks on 13 combined, in my opinion. Disincluding Coffee & TV and perhaps Tender, naturally.

How is Trimm Trabb not a single? It's really incredible. You can see talent written all over it... talent and feeling... 

That's just the way it is.

(1) The best part in the song occurs at about 2:50. I'm not musical in the slightest so excuse me for these crude explanations, but it goes all dizzy and vague and quiet for ten seconds or so, and then Graham Coxon comes in, swoosh, thrashy guitar, same riff. You can't help but grin madly at it. 

(2) And then Damon's voice comes in, all distorted and rough and loud: "I got no stylllle..." It is perfect. I cannot describe.

(3) He's screaming at the end.

(4) The intro is very interesting. He's reading out an address, though you can't hear it very well. According to the internet, 733 North West Knoll Drive, CA 90069.

(5) Man, that riff is irresistible. 

(6) The build-up is awesome. After all those mad songs that come before it, you've got a kind of calm, almost pensive intro, verses and choruses, but you can feel the tension building. Then, of course, 2:50. I'm going to say it again because this part is just so incredible. It goes all dizzy and vague and quiet for ten seconds or so, and then Graham Coxon comes in, swoosh, thrashy guitar, same riff. You can't help but grin madly at it. And it just carries on, tension as high as it could possibly get, and then Damon's screaming.

(7) And then we finish with pensive calm again. And you can feel it, we're done here, everything's been let out, there's nothing left, no distance left to run. It's perfect. Perfect track placement within the album; perfect song structure; perfect song.

(8) That's just the way it is.