Xfm's 10 Best Blur Songs Ever
You voted for your favourite Blur songs... and here's what you picked!
1. Song 2
Woo hoo! The rip-roaring second single from 1997's 'Blur' album is two minutes of incendiary rockism, courtesy of Graham Coxon's patented big guitars. Probably the most raucous Blur song since, um... 'Popscene'?
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2. The Universal
After the dirty shoutfest of 'Song 2', here's the graceful side of Blur, with a celestial flavour as Damon contemplates global culture. Or something.
Download The Universal from iTunes
3. For Tomorrow
If there was ever a moment that Britpop was truly born, it was with this song. Opening the band's second album 'Modern Life Is Rubbish', this is a fine evocation of great British songwriters, particularly David Bowie.
Download For Tomorrow from iTunes
4. Parklife
"Oi!" And with that, actor Phil Daniels kicks off Blur's most famous song. An update of The Small Faces' cockney geezerisms for the 90s, it's the definitive Britpop song.
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5. Beetlebum
Opening the 'Blur' album, a great slow-burner from the band, complete with drawn out outro.
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6. Tender
Damon's big gut-spiller, played to devastating effect at last year's Glastonbury.
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7. Country House
It's kind of been excommunicated from the Blur canon now, but this was the track that went head to head with Oasis in the Britpop wars... and won!
Download Country House from iTunes
8. This Is A Low
A meditation on the shipping forecast, a live favourite from the 'Parklife' album.
Download This Is a Low from iTunes
9. To The End
Another sedate Blur track, a beautifully done pastiche of French pop with vocals from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier.
Download To the End from iTunes
10. There's No Other Way
Not the band's first single, but their first big hit... from Blur's short-lived "baggy" phase.
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