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[SD-Ness]

I was young and puerile during the 90's and therefore am uninformed on the period's music. I've really only heard the "Woo hoo" song by Blur, which is a shame, since I've heard they had much better stuff.

 

[Matlock]

Song No. 2

It's all you need!

Although I also like Crazy Beat.

 

[sefskillz]

Think Tank was one of my favorite albums of 2003. That's not a bad place to start at all.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Song No. 2

It's all you need!

Get the fuck out of my head.

Though, that is the woo hoo song. And they don't have any better stuff.

 

[Blabala]

I loved Blur and I begun to buy their discs from the fourth, I then bought the three left, and now I'm still buying them, I think I have 7 or 8, I can remember of "Park Life" and "Boys & Girls" form the third disc, "Charmling Man" (or sth similar) from the fourth and "Morrocan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club" from the latest one. There are lots of songs that I love, you should get the whole discograpy as their style as changed a lot. I've also changed with the style and they always managed to like me till today when their music is no less than paranoic.


PD : Song2 was great but now it should be forgotten, too much hearing it, to much overrated, they have lot's of better songs if you like their music.

 

[Guzim]

Coffee & TV
Charmless Man
Tender
Girls & Boys
Parklife
For Tomorrow
Out of Time
There's No Other Way

 

[Jak140]

Coffee & TV
Parklife
End of A Century
There's No Other Way
To the End
Girls & Boys
This is a Low

 

[heavy liquid]

Get their best of.

My favorite 'proper' album is The Great Escape, followed closely by Modern Life is Rubbish.

 

[Dead]

Stereotypes
The Universal
Tracy Jacks
Parklife
Ambulance
Beetlebum
M.O.R
Pop Scene
Battle
Charmless Man


..among others


My favorite Blur album is The Great Escape as well

 

[MetatronM]

Everything off of Parklife. Most of The Great Escape is great too.

And yeah, Song 2 (that damn woo hoo song) does, indeed, suck.

Lots of other stuff off of their self-titled album is great, though, like Beetlebum, M.O.R., Death of a Party, I'm Just a Killer For Your Love, Look Inside America, Strange News from Another Star, and Movin' On.

Also, the three singles from 13 (Coffee and TV, Tender, and No Distance Left to Run) are three of their best songs, though the rest of the album is terrible.

 

[nomoment]

Good Song is a good song.

 

[MetatronM]

Good Song is a good song.

'Tis true. One of the few high points from Think Tank.

 

[mattx5]

Song 2
Good Song
Coffee & TV
Crazy Beat
Caravan
Out of Time

 

[Mama Smurf]

Overexposure doesn't make a song bad! Anyone who doesn't like Song 2 has no taste.

That's not to say Blur don't have lots of other good songs.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

To the End
Theme From an Imaginary Film
Stereotypes
Starshaped
Parklife
The Universal
End of a Century
Out of Time
Tender
Pressure on Julian
Badhead
Colin Zeal
London Loves
Country House
Mr. Robinson's Quango

They're a great band.

 

[Kola]

Parklife!

You should give the Best of CD a try.

 

[Alex Anderson]

Definitely get their Best Of CD. You'll have pretty much all their best songs. Their best non-compilation album is probably 1994's Parklife.

I was bored one day earlier this year and ranked all of their songs from my favorite to least favorite. The number in the parentheses is just the order it came up on my shuffle in Winamp. Bear in mind this list is purely subjective. I doubt Wear Me Down, Battle, or Essex Dogs would be too high among other Blur fans, and they aren't tracks I'd make someone listen to in order to win them over to Blur

001. This is a Low - Parklife (97)
002. Coffee & TV - 13 (62)
003. Music is My Radar - Blur: Best of (19)
004. Song 2 - Blur (45)
005. To the End - Parklife (61)
006. No Distance Left to Run - 13 (31)
007. On Your Own - Blur (73)
008. Beetlebum - Blur (98)
009. Stereotypes - The Great Escape (13)
010. Wear Me Down - Leisure (86)
011. Battle - 13 (65)
012. Sweet Song - Think Tank (90)
013. Badhead - Parklife (25)
014. Essex Dogs - Blur (103)
015. Chemical World - Modern Life is Rubbish (99)
016. Ambulance - Think Tank (59)
017. M.O.R. - Blur (52)
018. Charmless Man - The Great Escape (57)
019. Country House - The Great Escape (44)
020. There's No Other Way - Leisure (69)
021. Tracy Jacks - Parklife (24)
022. Colin Zeal - Modern Life is Rubbish (85)
023. Movin' On - Blur (30)
024. Good Song - Think Tank (41)
025. For Tomorrow - Modern Life is Rubbish (38)
026. Tender - 13 (33)
027. Dan Abnormal - The Great Escape (50)
028. You're So Great - Blur (26)
029. She's So High - Leisure (83)
030. The Universal - The Great Escape (29)
031. Girls & Boys - Parklife (75)
032. My White Noise - Think Tank (106)
033. Trimm Trabb - 13 (28)
034. Look Inside America - Blur (32)
035. Brothers and Sisters - Think Tank (67)
036. End of a Century - Parklife (104)
037. Oily Water - Modern Life is Rubbish (72)
038. Top Man - The Great Escape (87)
039. He Thought of Cars - The Great Escape (101)
040. On the Way to the Club - Think Tank (93)
041. B.L.U.R.E.M.I. - 13 (70)
042. Blue Jeans - Modern Life is Rubbish (47)
043. Bugman - 13 (82)
044. Country Sad Ballad Man - Blur (7)
045. Yuko & Hiro - The Great Escape (100)
046. Caramel - 13 (12)
047. Turn It Up - Modern Life is Rubbish (14)
048. Mr. Robinson's Quango - The Great Escape (3)
049. Death of a Party - Parklife (1)
050. Advert - Modern Life is Rubbish (18)
051. Best Days - The Great Escape (40)
052. Jets - Think Tank (89)
053. It Could Be You - The Great Escape (81)
054. Battery in Your Leg - Think Tank (54)
055. Bad Day - Leisure (68)
056. Popscene - Modern Life is Rubbish (77)
057. Bank Holiday - Parklife (6)
058. Mellow Song - 13 (35)
059. We've Got a File on You - Think Tank (5)
060. Out of Time - Think Tank (10)
061. Clover Over Dover - Parklife (20)
062. Pressure on Julian - Modern Life is Rubbish (17)
063. Entertain Me - The Great Escape (43)
064. Sing - Leisure - (37)
065. Swamp Song - 13 (76)
066. 1992 - 13 (74)
067. Trouble in the Message Centre - Parklife (105)
068. Bang - Leisure (39)
069. Resigned - Modern Life is Rubbish (4)
070. Strange News From Another Star - Blur (79)
071. I'm Just a Killer For Your Love - Blur (51)
072. London Loves - Parklife (16)
073. Parklife - Parklife (42)
074. Me White Noise - Think Tank (102)
075. High Cool - Leisure (34)
076. The Debt Collector - Parklife (9)
077. Theme From Retro - Blur (84)
078. Lot 15 - Parklife (2)
079. Intermission - Modern Life is Rubbish (36)
080. Crazy Beat - Think Tank (66)
081. Slow Down - Leisure (63)
082. Come Together - Leisure (22)
083. Repetition - Leisure (27)
084. Fade Away - The Great Escape (23)
085. Globe Alone - The Great Escape (91)
086. Commercial Break - Modern Life is Rubbish (88)
087. Peach - Modern Life is Rubbish (80)
088. Birthday - Leisure (49)
089. Gene By Gene - Think Tank (94)
090. Star Shaped - Modern Life is Rubbish (71)
091. Coping - Modern Life is Rubbish (61)
092. Villa Rosie - Modern Life is Rubbish (53)
093. I Know - Leisure (43)
094. Fool - Leisure (78)
095. Trailerpark - 13 (60)
096. Chinese Bombs - Blur (64)
097. Optigan 1 - 13 (96)
098. Magic America - Parklife (55)
099. Jubilee - Parklife (46)
100. When the Cows Come Home - Modern Life is Rubbish (15)
101. Caravan - Think Tank (11)
102. Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club - Think Tank (92)
103. Sunday, Sunday - Modern Life is Rubbish (58)
104. Miss America - Modern Life is Rubbish (21)
105. Far Out - Parklife (56)
106. Ernold Same - The Great Escape (8)

 

[Mario_Hugo]

I've been a blur fan since Modern Life is Rubbish. This said, I personally dislike Think Tank and I'd avoid it altogether. The Gorillaz suck too for that matter. Same goes for 13 barring the songs that Metatron listed. I would shoot straight for Parklife, Great Escape, and self-titled. Parklife is probably the most accesible while self-titled is the most contemporary. I wasn't much help, I know--but I'd also advise you find some of Damon's solo work and avoid Coxon's at ALL COSTS. :lol

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I like Graham Coxon's albums. But I also like Think Tank and 13.

The only solo thing by Damon Albarn I've heard is Democrazy, and I wouldn't recommend that to anyone.

 

[shakezula]

She's So High is a brilliant pop song.

She's so high. She's so high. She's so highhh.
I want to come all over her. (not the actual lyrics)

 

[Dilbert]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought 13 was their best album in a lot of ways. It's certainly lightyears from the pop perfection of Parklife, but it has infinitely more depth.

 

[scorcho]

Tender - every good British rock-pop outfit outside of the Kinks needs to have their own Hey Jude. fuck, No Distance Left to Run is how an electrified Elliott Smith would've sounded if he weren't so dead.

other than that, get all of Parklife, then tune out.

 

[Substance]

'Oily Water' reverbs with traces of their shogazer influences, and I'm surprised even by myself as a crazed pop fanatic, that it happens to be my favourite Blur song. Blur, yes, very 'Blur-ish' indeed song. The Pixies-like vocal echo towards the last minute of the song is so eerie. Modern Life is Rubbish has a few hiccups here and there (Colin Zeal has a cheesy chorus) but its a fantastic pop-scape and its distinctly British, early 90's flavour is kind of enchanting. I may not be correct but I believe it kickstarted the Britpop craze.
Think Tank is overrated and a dull mess; their only mediocre album. With Coxon gone, Albarn cannot be harnessed and his ideas are poorly executed. It's overproduced and lacks any value among Blur other albums. 'Brothers and Sisters' is morbid, 'Good Song' is too clinical to be heartwarming, 'Crazy Beat' is seemingly out of place, and along with 'We've Got a File on You' is by-the-numbers Blur punk but less clever and more annoying, the melodies seem forced with 'Jet' and that other song, I'm not sure, one of the last three, but not 'Battery in Your Leg'. The supposed 'great songs' from the album, 'Ambulance' and 'Out of Time' are pompous and do not measure up with the finer, low key Blur work of the past. Do not waste your time with 'Think Tank'. It is Boring.

1. Parklife
2. Modern Life is Rubbish
3. Blur
4. The Great Escape (approach this album first, because the pop-chock hook-filled madness can be tiring at times)
5. 13
6. Think Tank

 

[DECK'ARD]

The Universal
Tender (check out the Cornelius Remix as well)
Beetlebum
This Is A Low
Out Of Time
There's No Other Way
Tracy Jacks
Pop Scene
Sing
Badhead
Coffee & TV
Parklife
Me White Noise (the hidden track on Think Tank, also referred to as Darklife)

And last but not least:

Music Is My Radar

That's genius that is.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought 13 was their best album in a lot of ways. It's certainly lightyears from the pop perfection of Parklife, but it has infinitely more depth.

I like it a lot too. In fact, it was pretty much my favorite album for a really long time.

 

[shoplifter]

Tracy Jacks

This is because he works at civil service.

 

[MetatronM]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought 13 was their best album in a lot of ways. It's certainly lightyears from the pop perfection of Parklife, but it has infinitely more depth.

Yeah, you're crazy.

001. This is a Low - Parklife (97)

Good man. Probably my favorite Blur song. Certainly top 3.

 

[Triumph]

After emerging from a hellish Brit pop faze in the mid 90's, I must say that Tender is my favorite song.