The Narcissist

St. Charles Square

The Ballad of Darren

The Ballad

Barbaric

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Shes So High

There's No Other Way

Song 2

For Tomorrow

Swallows In The Heatwave

Beetlebum

Globe Alone

Girls & Boys

Colin Zeal

Advert Bank Holiday

The Magic Whip

Ghost Ship

Leisure

There's No Other Way (2012 Remaster)

Think Tank

Out of Time

Parklife

This Is a Low (2012 Remaster)

Parklife (2012 Remaster)

Girls & Boys (2012 Remaster)

No Distance Left to Run

The Great Escape

Country House (2012 Remaster)

Coffee & TV

Tender

Blur

Song 2 (2012 Remaster)

You're so Great (2012 Remaster)

Beetlebum (2012 Remaster)

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Advert (2012 Remaster)

Blur: The Best Of

Maggie May (2012 Remaster)

Charmless Man

Chemical World (2012 Remaster)

Country House

Blur as we know it was born in 1989 when the band signed to Food/EMI. Debut album Leisure (1991) announced the arrival of a band with pop suss warped by an art-punk eccentricity. Yet Blur had more in them: namely, a revolution in the sound of English popular music. Second album Modern Life Is Rubbish reintroduced the idea that English rock music could be cool, and by the time their third album Parklife emerged in 1994, the rest of the UK had caught up. 

The Great Escape (1995) refined the sound palette of Britpop, but Blur were already moving on. 1997's Blur was an about-face - scuffed and noisy and un-English. Follow-up 13 was an even a more radical adventure in sound as William Orbit refereed a truce between organic punkpop and new-fangled technology.

Seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur’s first as a three piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, featuring an eclectic variety of rhythms and textures and glorious melodies. 

In 2009 Blur reconvened as a four-piece to play a series of UK shows including two sold out dates at Hyde Park and a historic Sunday night appearance at Glastonbury. A film about Blur, No Distance Left To Run, was released in 2010.

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