The Best Of Blur - Blur

When blur started out their life in the early 1990's I doubt very much that they would have been expecting the fame and popularity that they have gained. But that is not to say they are not worthy of their status. As this album of all their greatest hits proves they most definitely are. Blur is made up of four members : Damon Albarn - lead vocalist and now also of gorrliaz fame(you know the animated band with the hit single ‘Clint Eastwood') Graham Coxon - the bands guitarist Alex James - the basest Dave Rowntree - the drummer The band really became a major name in the pop scene in the mid-nineties when so called Brit-pop ruled ...  Read the complete review

I loved my college years. The work was inconsequential compared to the parties, the clubs and the friends I spent that time with. Music moves ever onward, but back then boy and girl bands were in their infancy. There was a new group in town called the 'Spice girls' but they would never amount to anything, they didn't own guitars. The charts meant something with songs moving up as well as down and big news was the showdown between Blur and Oasis. Two singles released in the same week by two of the biggest bands around. The rest is, as they say, history. In the mid nineties britpop ruled the music scene and if britpop itself had a ruler then it was ...  Read the complete review

When I got Parklife in 1994, I thought that album could not be bettered....I was obviously wrong! This album is one of the best albums of this decade, a compilation of quality music from the fathers of Brit-Pop. With a live CD featured with the special edition, you couldn't get much better, even if you tried. I would say it compares in quality to Beatles 1. It features quality songs such as the explosive Song 2, the melodious The Universal, There's No Other Way and many other infamous tunes. Damon Albarn must be rolling it in off this album because it has enough quality to put the likes of Blink 182, Greenday, The Offspring and other so-called ...  Read the complete review

Blur has grown to to be one of the most successful British bands of the 90s. Like the best bands throughout history, they have continually reinvented themselves with each album. Some bands, like The Beatles, released albums throughout their progression, not only giving us a glimpse at the road ahead but also some mighty fine music along the way. But the days when artists release an album every six months has passed. These days, the wait is more like two-to-three years. So we are very rarely privy to a band's evolution anymore. Instead, it becomes a gasping waiting game: what are they going to do next? And Blur is one of the few artists recording today (along with, ...  Read the complete review

Box Set- all the singles [up to No Distance Left To Run] Blur (1999 Food) 22 singles and who knows how many hours of music that navigates us through the erratic trajectory of one of the best bands ever. There is a lot here: on quite a few of the early singles there are 9 B-sides! If those were released they would qualify as albums. However teacher’s warning is applicable: quality not quantity. Graham Coxon (guitarist) admitted that early on blur did pretty much release everything “Which wasn’t maybe wasn’t a great idea.” But some of the B-sides that aren’t that great musically seem to tell the blur story very well. For ...  Read the complete review