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Track List: Blur
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- BeetlebumDownload & Buy
- Song 2Download & Buy
- Country Sad Ballad ManDownload & Buy
- M.O.R.Download & Buy
- On Your OwnDownload & Buy
- Theme From RetroDownload & Buy
- Death Of A PartyDownload & Buy
- Chinese BombsDownload & Buy
- I'm Just A Killer For Your LoveDownload & Buy
- Look Inside AmericaDownload & Buy
- Strange News From Another StarDownload & Buy
- Movin' OnDownload & Buy
- Essex DogsDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Blur
- Release Date:
- 02/10/1997
- Label:
- Japanese Import
- UPC:
- 766488624922
User Reviews: Blur
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Yooohoooo when i feel like Tim Meadows!
, October 30, 1999Reviewer: Tes-Tickle - See all Tes-Tickle's reviews1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Blur review helpful I don't know what he really says. Beetlebum yes!! The rest is good but Beetlebum yes!! I wish blur sucked cos I don't feel like spending any more money on CD's nuts. Oh Chee! -
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, October 19, 1999Reviewer: squeegeetee - See all squeegeetee's reviews1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Blur review helpful A great Blur album, and quite a welcome diversion from The Great Escape. Including the instant classic Song 2, Blur hardly sounds like the previous 4 albums. Gone are the days of britpop, as Blur now style themselves on strange vocals and simple rock sounds. Not my favorite Blur album, but still a great one.
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Pro Reviews: Blur
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews The Great Escape, for all of its many virtues, painted Blur into a corner and there was only one way out -- to abandon the Brit-pop that they had instigated by bringing the weird strands that always floated through their music to the surface. Blur may superficially appear to be a break from tradition, but it is a logical progression, highlighting the band's rich eclecticism and sense of songcraft. Certainly, they are trying for new sonic territory, bringing in shards of white noise, gurgling electronics, raw guitars, and druggy psychedelia, but these are just extensions of previously hidden elements of Blur's music. What makes it exceptional is how hard the band tries to reinvent themselves within their own framework, and the level of which they succeed. "Beetlebum" runs through the White Album in the space of five minutes; "M.O.R." reinterprets Berlin-era Bowie; "You're So Great," despite the corny title, is affecting lo-fi from Graham Coxon; "Country Sad Ballad Man" is bizarrely affecting, strangled lo-fi psychedelia; "Death of a Party" is an affecting resignation; "On Your Own" is an incredible slice of singalong pop spiked with winding, fluid guitar and synth eruptions; while "Look Inside America" cleverly subverts the traditional Blur song, complete with strings. And "Essex Dogs" is a six-minute slab of free verse and rattling guitar noise. Blur might be self-consciously eclectic, but Blur is at their best when they are trying to live up to their own pretensions, because Damon Albarn's exceptional sense of songcraft and the band's knack for detailed arrangements that flesh out the song to its fullest. There might be dark overtones to the record, but the band sounds positively joyous, not only in making noise but wreaking havoc with the expectations of their audience and critics. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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Initially, Blur was one of the multitude of British bands who appeared in the wake of the Stone Roses, mining the same swirling, pseudo-psychedelic guitar pop, only with louder guitars. Following an image makeover in the mid-'90s, the group emerged a...Full Blur Biography
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