It's boring to point out omissions on hits compilations, especially when a collection is as generous as the 18-track The Best of Blur, but let's do it anyway. The Best of...
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Much has been made of the departure of Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, but that loss makes little difference to the creative waterfall that is Think Tank. Singer-lyricist Damon...
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It's boring to point out omissions on hits compilations, especially when a collection is as generous as the 18-track The Best of Blur, but let's do it anyway. The Best of...
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A stunning, cinematic record of odious characters that are powerfully crafted and pop songs that are delectably played, The Great Escape is a masterwork of style and...
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In the simplest terms, The Great Escape is the flip side of Parklife. Where Blur's breakthrough album was a celebration of the working class, drawing on British pop from the...
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For Blur fans, "Tender," a track that bassist Alex James described as "one of the best things we've ever done, the one that's going to f-cking knock people...
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Blur's penitence for Brit-pop continues with the aptly named 13, which deals with star-crossed situations like personal and professional breakups with Damon Albarn's...
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In front of a quite appreciative audience -- if they don't generate the same level of hysteria as Cheap Trick did in the same venue some years before, they get close -- Blur...
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Blur released Bustin' + Dronin', a limited-edition Japanese-only remix album, after completing the supporting tour for Blur. Apparently, this has become a group tradition,...
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Blur recreate themselves as pure popsters through Albarn's clever characters and the band's growing instrumental prowess and inventiveness. Though working-class to the...
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As a response to the dominance of grunge in the U.K. and their own decreasing profile in their homeland -- and also as a response to Suede's sudden popularity -- Blur...
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With quintessential musing on British pub-life, track-life and sex-life, Parklife catapults Blur into the British mainstream, where at the time, they reigned supreme. Yields...
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Tarting up their usually gentlemanly songs in studio trash and punk vibes, Blur may alienate all but the truly devoted this time out. But their wondrous melodies remain...
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The Great Escape, for all of its many virtues, painted Blur into a corner and there was only one way out -- to abandon the Britpop that they had instigated by bringing the...
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Blur's penitence for Britpop continues with the aptly named 13, which deals with star-crossed situations, including personal and professional breakups with Damon Albarn's...
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The first of two 12" singles put out by Food, in a harbinger of the eventual double-single format that took over the U.K. charts, contains almost exactly the same track...
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Blur's breakthrough single, reaching a respectable eight on the U.K. charts, "There's No Other Way" is obviously a product of its era -- shuffling baggy/indie beats, a light...
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Blur is loosely lumped in with Britain's Manchester Sound; a kind of '60s-psychedelia-meets-dance-music scene. Unlike others in the genre, however, Blur parks most of the...
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