Top 10: Blur
The Colchester crew have announced their return, so it's only fair we remember how ruddy marvellous they are.
1. This Is A Low: Parklife.
They closed all their best gigs with this. That's why it's their best song. Hands. Down.
2. End Of A Century: Parklife
'Ants in the carpet, dirty little monsters, eatin or the morsels, pickin up the rubbish.'
3. Caramel: 13
This one dropped while I was at Uni and wrapped up in post-rock miserablism. It's lost maybe some of it's haunting chill, but is still a walloping mess of spooky aceness.
4. The Universal: The Great Escape
People knock Damon Albarn - all the time. But there's simply no mistaking that while Graham, Alex, hell even frickin Dave (think of his Brits 'Slave' jibe at Prince) are cooler - no-one in the band writes heart-breakers as as consistently as Dan Abnormal.
5. Out Of Time: Think Tank
Just a lovely little tune, innit.
Nice Banksy artwork on the single and LP before he went bigtime, too.
6. There's No Other Way: Leisure
Their debut is awful. Truly awful. But this baggy pastiche, hated by the band, is a killer indie-disco staple.
7. Parklife: Parklife.
Overplayed. Not at all.
8. Music Is My Radar: Stand alone single.
A total curve-ball, which while signalling the beginning of the end of Blur, was a true moment of WTF invention.
9. Badhead: Parklife
All the classic Blur elements: Albarn's melody and lyrical verve, Graham's sappy backing voxs with understated yet magic licks, and Alex and Dave's lolloping rhythm. Gets me everytime.
10. I'm Just A Killer For Your Love: Blur.
Strange really, but this is the only cut to make it from possibly my second favourite longplayer of theirs. Suppose it's a good sign of what works as a whole sometimes doesn't when you pull it apart - the same can be said for Song 2, still perhaps the most grating song (even more so than Country House) in their catalogue.
What, none from Modern Life Is Rubbish. Yup, never did getintothat one.
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1. To The End
2. Coffee & TV
3. Popscene
4. Out Of Time
5. Far Out
6. There's No Other Way
7. Badhead
8. Trouble In The Message Centre
9. For Tomorrow
10. Theme From An Imaginary Film
1 Oily Water
2 Resigned
3 StarShaped
4 Far out
5 Colin Zeal
6 Pressure on Julian
7 Blue Jeans
8 Miss America
9 Villa Rosie
10 Coping
Blur were/are shite.
Lolololol, Ben. Saw that a mile off ; )
1. Tender
2. Beetlebum
3. Chemical World
4. Popscene
5. Stashaped
6. Girls & Boys
7. Country House
8. Song 2
9. Stereotypes
10. He Thought of Cars
1/ Universal. 2/Ambulance. 3/To The End. 4/ Topman 5/ Parklife. 6/ Mr Robinson's Quango. 7/Music is my Radar 8/ Trimm Trabb 9/ Tracey Jacks. 10/ Magic America.
Wow it's been a difficult choice trying to pick a top 10, but here goes...
1/ For Tomorrow
2/ This is a Low
3/ Beetlebum
4/ The Universal
5/ Popscene
6/ Tame
7/ He Thought of Cars
8/ Ambulance
9/ Trimm Trabb
10/ Oily Water
1. Magic America
2. Popscene
3. He Thought of Cars
4. Battle
5. You're So Great
6. Blue Jeans
7. Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club
8. Chinese Bombs
9. Pressure on Julian
10. Trailor Park
Love the 13 record, even though I'm not a Blur fan. Tender, C&TV and No Distance Left To Run are classics. With the latter being the best song Damon will ever write. Ever. Not clever, just filled with soul, you see. "It's over/you don't need to tell me/I hope you're with someone who makes you feel warm when you sleep/and when you're coming down think of me/I've got no distance left to run." Gorgeous. Music Is My Radar and Out of Time are great too. And obvs Beetlebum. that's me...
Beer.
it was on the Parklife CD single.
oh, and Coffee and TV was alright.
did an awful lot of shite but still better than Quo wannabes Oasis.
1. This is a low
2. The Universal
3. There's no other way
4. To the end
5. She's so high
6. Strange news from another star
7. Sing
8. Tender
9. Death of a party
10.Badhead
1. This is a low
2. The Universal
3. There's no other way
4. To the end
5. She's so high
6. Strange news from another star
7. Sing
8. Tender
9. Death of a party
10.Badhead