Blur - 13
NME.COM feature on Blur - 13 album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 11 September 2006
Tracklisting click track to read more
- Tender
- Bugman
- Coffee And TV
- Swamp Song
- 1992
- B.L.U.R.E.M.I
- Battle
- Mellow Song
- Trailerpark
- Caramel
- Trimm Trabb
- No Distance Left to Run
- Optigan I
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Blur - 13: Wikipedia Album Entry
13 is the sixth album by English alternative rock band Blur, released in March 1999. The album reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and number 80 in the US Billboard 200. 13 spawned three hit singles: Tender, Coffee & TV and No Distance Left to Run.
Recording history:
13 sees the band moving further away from their britpop past into more cerebral and denser musical territory. Some of the songs, however, are evocative of songs from their previous efforts, such as Bugman, Coffee & TV, 1992 and Optigan 1. Much of the album was inspired by Damon Albarn's breakup with Elastica singer Justine Frischmann. Two of the singles, Tender and No Distance Left to Run, describe Albarn's love for Frischmann and his struggle to move on. It is named after the band's recording studio, and also is their first album without longtime producer Stephen Street, rather with electronic producer William Orbit. The cover is a portion of an oil painting by Graham Coxon called Apprentice. The album's singles also have cover art by Coxon. The numbers 1 and 3 have been painted so they also form the letter 'B' - presumably for 'Blur'.
Release and reception:
The album was seen by many as a highly experimental work and received a number of unenthusiastic reviews, but the critical response was generally positive. Of the reviews collected from notable publications by popular review aggregator website Metacritic, the album holds an overall approval rating of 79%.
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Blur - 13 Lyrics
Blur - Coffee & TV Lyrics
Do you feel like a chain store
Practically floored
One of many zeros
Kicked around, bored?
Blur - Swamp Song Lyrics
Give me good times
Give me saliva
Give me fever
I'm a believer, yeah, yeah
Blur - 1992 Lyrics
Going into business
An agreement of your bombast
You'd love my bed
You took the other instead
Blur - Battle Lyrics
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone, who
Battle, battle, battle
Battle someone, who
Blur - Caramel Lyrics
I've gotta get over
I've gotta get over
I've gotta get better
I'm with you forever
Blur - Mellow Song Lyrics
I left my street
I'm a guillotine
Pullin' away, in my machine
Where have I been now?
Blur - B.l.u.r.e.m.i. Lyrics
Group using the loop
Of another pop group
Group shooting the hoop
And starving it up into the soup
Blur - Trimm Trabb Lyrics
[Incomprehensible]
I got no style
I'll take my time
Blur - Bugman Lyrics
I am an ex offender
They let me out in the summer
I think I was in a coma
I didn't know what to do, oh no
