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Posted on 09/12/08 at 12:00:25 pm
So it's official: Blur are reforming - and they're set to play a mammoth comeback gig at London's Hyde Park on Friday July 3.
You can read more about this momentous news in the new issue of NME - on sale across the UK from Wednesday December 10 - in which Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon reveal why they've finally buried the hatchet.
To celebrate the band's reunion, here are the Blur songs we'd most like to hear at the Hyde Park show. What would be your ultimate setlist?
[NME Video: Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon explain why they decided to reform Blur]
She's So High
In their early, shoegaze-inspired incarnation, Blur could be maddeningly shambolic (to the extent that their label Food considered dropping them in 1992), but this dreamy slice of blissed-out psychedelia has aged surprisingly well.
For Tomorrow
Posited such a beautifully-realised snapshot of wounded, cornered Britishness it's hard to believe Blur's management originally lobbied hard for the whole of 1993's 'Modern Life Is Rubbish' to be remixed by Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's 'Nevermind'.
Badhead
Honey-sweet and heartsore, this 'Parklife' highlight gave the lie to the criticism, often levelled during the Britpop wars, that Blur were all art-school artifice, no feeling. Here's an early demo version:
This Is A Low
The last song to be written for 'Parklife', this slow-burn epic found Damon Albarn blending the Shipping Forecast with Edward Lear-style surrealism ("The Queen, she's gone round the bend, jumped off Land's End") to fashion a uniquely English mode of weather-beaten melancholy.
Beetlebum
A song so unarguably ace even Damon's nemesis Noel Gallagher has called it a "top tune". Rumoured either to be about heroin or sex with Justine Frischmann ("And when she lets me slip away…"), this lazy-grooved masterpiece, released as a single in January 1997, foreshadowed the Americanisation of Blur's sound following the bitter parochialism of 'The Great Escape'.
Coffee And TV
Words by Graham Coxon, music by Damon Albarn, this was the perfect example of the Blur boys' symbiotic songwriting partnership. The fact it inspired one of the best videos ever was just a bonus.
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