Blur - Blur
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Album Review
Release date: 11 September 2006
Blur: The Best Of
The ones we like best - the big pop anthems, the soundtrack to our very own twin summers of love - are monuments to the power of pop.
There's a story going round that Blur had so much trouble agreeing on the line-up of this album that eventually the record company lost patience and left it up to public research groups. Which is, of course, just how it should be. After all, in the recent past, Blur have not exactly kept shtoom about the fact that they don't want these songs any more. In fact, they even paid them the...
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- Beetlebum
- Song 2
- Country Sad Ballad Man
- M.O.R. (Alan Moulder Road Version)
- On Your Own
- Theme From Retro
- You're So Great
- Death Of A Party
- Chinese Bombs
- I'm Just a Killer for Your Love
- Look Inside America
- Strange News From Another Star
- Movin' On
- Essex Dogs
- Dancehall
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Blur - Blur: Wikipedia Album Entry
Blur is the fifth album by English alternative rock band Blur. Released on 10 February 1997 in the UK, it reached the top of the UK album chart. Blur was also a hit in the US, with Song 2 becoming a hit there and the album being certified Gold. It also spawned several hit singles in the UK, most notably Beetlebum and "Song 2". The album's style was resultant of Blur's dropping their previous britpop mantle in favor of lo-fi and alternative rock recordings, reportedly at Graham Coxon 's urging. As a result, Blur was a hit primarily because it proved that Blur could evolve beyond their Britpop roots. The album's move from Britpop was emphasised by this being the first Blur album not to use Stylorouge cover-art and also not to have lyrics and chords printed in the liner notes, instead having a composite photo of the band in the studio spread out over three panels. The album featured the first song in which Graham Coxon not only wrote the lyrics, but also provided lead vocals, for the song You're So Great. He would later do the same for Coffee & TV for Blur's next album.
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Blur - Blur Lyrics
Blur - Chinese Bombs Lyrics
He makes, an inner arm, block
Then kicks it, behind
The lights, would go off
But he can fight, blind
Blur - M. O. R. Lyrics
It's automatic
You need to unload
'Cause under the pressure
You've gone middle of the road
Blur - Death of a Party Lyrics
Death of the party
Came as no surprise
Why did we bother?
Should have stayed away
Blur - You're So Great Lyrics
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Sleeping really late
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Not feeling so great
Blur - Strange News From Another Star Lyrics
All I want to be, is washed out by the sea
No death star over me, won't give me any peace
All I want is light relief, put the crazies on the street
Give them guns and feed them meat
Blur - Movin' On Lyrics
At the music heist
I met the gourmet man
With aluminium lungs
He sucks on all he can
Blur - Look Inside America Lyrics
Good mornin', lethargy
Drink Pepsi, it's good for energy
The bath's on, smoke in the bedroom
Sore throat, and on my neck a nasty bruise
Blur - I'm Just A Killer For Your Love Lyrics
I heard a man who had no lungs
He took me in and made me lunch
Told me how I'd lost a friend
He smiled at me, it was the end
Blur - Essex Dogs Lyrics
I remember thinking murder in the car
Watching dogs somersault
Through sprinklers on tiny lawns
I remember the graffiti
Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man Lyrics
Yeah, I found nowhere, it got to know me
Let me sleep all day, spend the money
I haven't felt my legs since the summer
And I don't call my friends forgot their numbers
