- alternative rock, rock, britpop, indie rock
- 124 min
- 32 tracks
- Parlophone
Blur is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 10 February 1997 by Food Records. Blur had previously been broadly critical of American popular culture and their previous albums had become associated with the Britpop movement, particularly Parklife, which had helped them become one of Britain's leading pop acts. After their previous album, The Great Escape, the band faced media backlash and relationships between the members became strained.
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Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and cool.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune3.5/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork8.1/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Select4/5
- Spin7/10
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Tracks
- 1Beetlebum5:05
- 2Song 22:01
- 3Country Sad Ballad Man4:50
- 4M.O.R.3:27
- 5On Your Own4:26
- 6Theme From Retro3:37
- 7You’re So Great3:36
- 8Death of a Party4:34
- 9Chinese Bombs1:25
- 10I’m Just a Killer for Your Love4:12
- 11Look Inside America3:50
- 12Strange News From Another Star4:03
- 13Movin’ On3:43
- 14Essex Dogs8:10
- 1All Your Life4:12
- 2A Spell (For Money)3:30
- 3Woodpigeon Song1:43
- 4Dancehall3:11
- 5Get Out of Cities4:03
- 6Polished Stone2:43
- 7Bustin’ and Dronin’6:32
- 8M.O.R. (Road version)3:02
- 9Swallows in the Heatwave2:33
- 10Death of a Party (7” remix)4:19
- 11Cowboy Song4:07
- 12Beetlebum (live acoustic version)4:34
- 13On Your Own (live acoustic version)4:11
- 14Country Sad Ballad Man (live acoustic version)4:44
- 15This Is a Low (live acoustic version)3:32
- 16M.O.R. (live in Utrecht)3:18
- 17Death of a Party (live in Utrecht)4:16
- 18Song 2 (live in Utrecht)2:07
32 tracks, 124 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Blur
- Label
- Parlophone
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- AF
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