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May 26, 2023 · The band (L-R): Graham Coxon, Alex James, Damon Albarn and Dave Rowntree, in 2015. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA 17. Young and Lovely (1993) Blur didn’t squander many great songs on B-sides ...
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This is a comprehensive list of songs by English band Blur. Since forming in 1989, the band have released eight studio albums, three live albums, seven compilation albums, and thirty-five singles. This list does not contain live versions or remixes released by the band. Blur have officially released 255 songs, excluding alternate versions or ...
TitleAlbum/singleYearWords By"1"Blur 21 (recorded in 2000)2012Albarn"3"Blur 21 (recorded in 2000)2012Albarn"7 Days"2000Albarn"1992"1999AlbarnMay 4, 2024 · SBK, Blur’s American record label in 1993, requested the band add a song to Modern Life Is Rubbish that could possibly appeal to American listeners. “Chemical World” is the band’s response ...
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Blur got back together in 2008 and toured, but fans had to wait until 2015 before their comeback-album The Magic Whip was released. Popular Blur songs Song 2
- “The Universal,” The Great Escape (1995) Blur’s single greatest song is also one of their most slyly dark, juxtaposing imagery of surveillance and hints of dystopia with an overarching sense of defeat.
- “This is a Low,” Parklife (1994) The era of Britpop peaked with this most English of songs: a ballad about the Shipping Forecast, a BBC radio broadcast that’s influenced art and poetry, as well as a long list of songs from the likes of Radiohead and Wire.
- “Tender,” 13 (1999) The maximalist counterpart to “No Distance Left to Run,” “Tender” turns the idea of a breakup song on its head, reveling in an uplifting gospel melody — backed by the London Community Gospel Choir — while continuing a long, slow build during the course of its seven-plus minutes.
- “Girls and Boys,” Parklife (1994) A campy foray into Duran Duran-flavored disco probably wasn’t what anyone expected after the conceptual jangle of 1993’s Modern Life is Rubbish, but Blur made a habit of shuffling the deck early and often.
Albarn, however, attempted to assuage fans' fears that the album would be electronic by providing reassurances that the band's new album would be "a rockin' record", and also said that it has "a lot of finely crafted pop songs". Early in 2002, Blur recorded a song that would be played by European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander once it touched ...
