Best Blur album

BornToRun88 · 06-08-2009, 13:22

which in your view is the best album by Blur.

Leisure, Modern Life Is Rubbbish, Parklife, The Great Escape, Blur, 13 or Think Tank

For me it has to be 13, an album full of inspiration and musical genius. Not their most poppy or most single-heavy album. The smashing guitar solos on Bugman, Mellow Song, Trimm Trabb and Caramel do it for me, not to mention albarn's lyrical genius on songs such as Tender, No Distance Left To Run and Caramel.

Rics · 06-08-2009, 13:29

Thirteeeeeeeeeeeeen

**loyatemu** · 06-08-2009, 13:34

Modern Life - not a bad track on it, and the pretty much the cornerstone of the entire Britpop movement.

mercuroman · 06-08-2009, 13:43

I would have to say Thirteen or Parklife. Too close to call

BornToRun88 · 06-08-2009, 14:01

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Originally Posted by loyatemu

Modern Life - not a bad track on it, and the pretty much the cornerstone of the entire Britpop movement.

Modern Life Is Rubbish is a good album, Resigned is a track I love to recently, the brillant lyrics and the harmonica blending with the melodic guitar solo, simply wonderful.

13 will always hit the spot for me tho as an album

cinnamon girl · 06-08-2009, 15:04

It's between Modern Life and Parklife for me. There are a couple songs on Modern Life I don't particularly like, whereas I like everything on Parklife - but the good ones on Modern Life are so good I'd usually put that one on first anyway.

seachto7 · 06-08-2009, 15:14

Parklife is a pretty strong album but in hindsight a bit too "light" for me (some really top class guitar work on it, not so much solos but chords and tones..), but I prefer the more indie/alt rock ones. Think Thank is great, I really like it. I also like Blur and 13.

Saw them in 99 only having heard Parklife, so was humming and hawing. Great gig, and their stuff off the albums I mentioned above was great live...

Is Graham Coxon an under rated guitarist??

MikeHoncho · 06-08-2009, 16:35

The Best Of Blur.

Wreck · 06-08-2009, 16:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan Partridge

The Best Of Blur.

loveissucide · 06-08-2009, 18:42

Blur-S/T. Great album.

ND 1978 · 06-08-2009, 22:43

Has to be Modern Life for me

Not a weak tune on it

JerryHandbag · 06-08-2009, 23:01

The last one, Think Tank. I love it, even the hidden track that you have to rewind back to at the start!

iain-not-ian · 07-08-2009, 00:51

The Great Escape does it for me. Stereotypes is brilliant, who would hae thought a rock tune about wife swapping could work?

whatawaster · 07-08-2009, 09:25

Leisure.
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Only Kidding - Parklife, Modern Life is Rubbish and then Blur
Tink Tank is very underrated.

quarryman · 07-08-2009, 10:00

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Originally Posted by JerryHandbag

The last one, Think Tank. I love it, even the hidden track that you have to rewind back to at the start!

+1

This album is an under-rated gem.

06-08-2009, 13:22	#1
BornToRun88 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 69 Adverts \| Friends	Best Blur album which in your view is the best album by Blur. Leisure, Modern Life Is Rubbbish, Parklife, The Great Escape, Blur, 13 or Think Tank For me it has to be 13, an album full of inspiration and musical genius. Not their most poppy or most single-heavy album. The smashing guitar solos on Bugman, Mellow Song, Trimm Trabb and Caramel do it for me, not to mention albarn's lyrical genius on songs such as Tender, No Distance Left To Run and Caramel.

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seachto7 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 786 Adverts \| Friends	Parklife is a pretty strong album but in hindsight a bit too "light" for me (some really top class guitar work on it, not so much solos but chords and tones..), but I prefer the more indie/alt rock ones. Think Thank is great, I really like it. I also like Blur and 13. Saw them in 99 only having heard Parklife, so was humming and hawing. Great gig, and their stuff off the albums I mentioned above was great live... Is Graham Coxon an under rated guitarist?? __________________ 'I think that the most important thing about music should be that it expresses some kind of humanity and it should express the personality of the person who is playing it'' Rowland Howard.

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MikeHoncho Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,550 Adverts \| Friends	The Best Of Blur. __________________ I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE

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ND 1978 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Dwelling in Dublin, but Lovely Laois at heart Posts: 465 Adverts \| Friends	Has to be Modern Life for me Not a weak tune on it __________________

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JerryHandbag Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Central County Limerick! Posts: 1,617 Adverts \| Friends	The last one, Think Tank. I love it, even the hidden track that you have to rewind back to at the start! __________________ Fascists dress in black and go around telling people what to do, whereas priests................MORE DRINK!

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Rics Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 80 Adverts \| Friends	Thirteeeeeeeeeeeeen

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loyatemu Moderator Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,358 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Wicklow	Modern Life - not a bad track on it, and the pretty much the cornerstone of the entire Britpop movement.

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mercuroman Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 157 Adverts \| Friends	I would have to say Thirteen or Parklife. Too close to call

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cinnamon girl Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Dublin Posts: 53 Adverts \| Friends	It's between Modern Life and Parklife for me. There are a couple songs on Modern Life I don't particularly like, whereas I like everything on Parklife - but the good ones on Modern Life are so good I'd usually put that one on first anyway.

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loveissucide Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: AWOL Posts: 366 Adverts \| Friends	Blur-S/T. Great album.

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iain-not-ian Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dublin Posts: 18 Adverts \| Friends	The Great Escape does it for me. Stereotypes is brilliant, who would hae thought a rock tune about wife swapping could work?

07-08-2009, 09:25	#14
whatawaster Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,183 Adverts \| Friends	Leisure. . . . . . . . . Only Kidding - Parklife, Modern Life is Rubbish and then Blur Tink Tank is very underrated. __________________ "Well, I've always wanted to remake Annie Hall. Except, I wouldn't want to get in bed with a green producer like a Sofia Coppola, though. Oh, but give me an old pro like a Robert Redford. Oh, I'd jump into bed with him in a second. And I wouldn't just lie there, Michael Bluth, if that's what you're thinking." - Tobias Funke

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