Badly Drawn Boy!

Badly Drawn Boy?

Sigh!


What was it with this guy?

I was going to start a thread where we could discuss artists whom it seemed impossible to pin down and/or whom we couldn't assess as brilliant or irrelevant.

But then, because it was Badly Drawn Boy who I was thinking about/listening to at the moment I thought that that funny woolly-hatted enigma deserved a whole dedicated thread of his own.


Personally, I think he's a kind of genius.

No exaggeration, but he's a weird sort of one-man Beatles.

And what happened to him?

For about 5 years he was everywhere and then not at all.

So thoroughly unsexy in appearance and demeanour, but so unbelievably prolific with the lovely tunes and self-effacingly touching and amusing lyrics...

I'm currently listening to the (typically) idiotically and flippantly titled Have You Fed The Fish? and it's replete with fab songs.

These remain his best work:

Hang on, we need closure on that talking dog joke:

TMATMATMA wrote:

Badly Gone Career

He's got a new album out.




Goatse references in *present year* how quaint.