Blurilliant! (Awesome 2)

Member Name: indigo

Product:	Awesome 2
Date:	15/08/00 (16 review reads)
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Advantages: just brilliant, six great albums, never know what they will do next

Disadvantages: some songs (Girls and Boys, Country House) a little too famous

I LOVE BLUR! Ever since the release of She's So High/I Know, along with its stunning (for a 1991 debut single) video and charming melody. Actually, this is a lie. Like many other Blur fans, I had no idea they existed until Parklife (my only excuse - I was too young). Even this groundbreaking album that introduced Britpop to the world was not enough to convince me of this band's great undeniable talent until I got The Great Escape (for my 12th birthday!). The brilliant catchy tunes (some pop, some not), amazingly intelligent and sometimes disturbing lyrics and even some real emotion make this album as good as Parklife. Please read my opinion on this album separately to see my opinion on the current practice of slagging it off!

Blur are amazing. My fave album has to be Modern Life is Rubbish (see separate comments again please!) which has simply great tunes, with a pervading sense of a joy in being english. As I've grown up, so has the band, with gorgeous new darker directions (but they haven't forgotten the sublime punk/pop/rock of singles like Popscene). The albums just get better the more you listen to them, and the lyrics are so clever and the tunes so surprising that you can't ever get bored of them. Every album heralds a major change in direction!

The best-of album is out right now. I guarantee that (unless you only creep out from under that rock to read dooyoo), you will know at least one song on it! If you like that song, buy the best of. If you like the best of, buy the albums. If you like the albums, join me in my obsessive Blur adulation! I can tell you that Blur fans are some of the nicest people I have ever met!

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