Blur?

[The Placid Casual]

13 and Parklife are probably my second and third favourites. The self titled is great too

[Mardy]

Hmmm. Probably...

Blur

13

Modern Life

Parklife

Think Tank

Great Escape

Lesuire

[The Placid Casual]

Modern Life

13

Parklife

Blur

Think Tank

Great Escape

Leisure

For me

[The Placid Casual]

I also absolutely loved Under the Westway

[matt2007]

Saw Blur supporting Jesus Jones at a Food records Xmas gig once.......

[Wooderson]

"13" has so many interesting little fills and drop ins. Still sounds so modern. Gorillaz began here.

[Wooderson]

13

Parklife

Modern Life

Blur

Great Escape

Think Tank

Leisure

Hehe people comparing their output to Oasis - and even Pulp - just ain't getting it. Supergrass and SFA only bands that come close.

*edit*

And before you whiney Radiohead fans chime in I don't compare Blur to them persay. Radiohead far more esoteric and proggy. Blur are the best UK indie band ever. Miles better than the Smiths and the Roses. Yeah I said it.

Edited February 24, 2015 by Wooderson

[eFestivals]

"13" has so many interesting little fills and drop ins. Still sounds so modern.

listen to a 1974 Brian Eno album that it borrowed from, and say again it sounds so modern.

[The 38 year old virgin]

Saw Blur supporting Jesus Jones at a Food records Xmas gig once.......

I won a Jesus Jones cd on radio Nottingham 'beat' show before I had a cd player.

True story

[Wooderson]

listen to a 1974 Brian Eno album that it borrowed from, and say again it sounds so modern.

I've got Here Come The Warm Jets. Yep, deffo parallels. But "13" is the most personal of Blur's recorded output - so for me it stands on its own in their canon, irrespective of influence.

*Blank Frank is YEARS ahead of its time.

[LondonTom]

£120 a day ticket at Reading these days so if the Blur support is good then I'll probs get a ticket for Hyde Park

£59.50 this year

[eFestivals]

I've got Here Come The Warm Jets.

I might be confused over albums, but I think it's much more 'Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)' - like an identical guitar sound, and an 'inspired' (I'm being kind) solo.

</goes off to hunt down the track...>

Edited February 24, 2015 by eFestivals

[festhead]

£59.50 this year

really? for a day ticket ?

[eFestivals]

really? for a day ticket ?

yup - tho with guaranteed "no campsite access" now.

[Mouseboy11]

Don't think I've ever listened to a Blur album in full? I do really like them though. What should I go for?

Coffee and TV is probably my favourite song.

Edited February 24, 2015 by Mouseboy11

[The 38 year old virgin]

Don't think I've ever listened to a Blur album in full? I do really like them though. What should I go for?

Coffee and TV is probably my favourite song.

Think tank, 13, blur, modern life is rubbish, in that order

[eFestivals]

Coffee and TV is probably my favourite song.

then you REALLY SHOULD check out those Eno albums mentioned above, so you can hear where they got the idea from.

[stuartbert two hats]

no I like it! was just trying to think of songs I'd like them to play that they didnt do last time.

Sing is brilliant. And the first song they ever did too.

[FrancisH]

yup - tho with guaranteed "no campsite access" now.

Gone are the days when you could buy a day ticket for a decent day and get hammered the rest of the time, hiding in your mates tent and being bored in the day time when everyone else was watching bands.

Edited February 24, 2015 by FrancisH

[Wooderson]

Don't think I've ever listened to a Blur album in full? I do really like them though. What should I go for?

Coffee and TV is probably my favourite song.

13 makes for a really great listen chief.

[DeanoL]

Not for an act of James' size it isn't. I saw Nine Inch Nails in an arena last year for £35, and QOTSA the year before for the same price, and both those bands are bigger than James.

I'm curious, did those shows sell out? I mean we can argue about relative 'size' of bands all night, and as they're one of my favourite bands, the fact that the tickets aren't nice a cheap is always a bit annoying. But they can sell out academy gigs at £35 and arenas at £50. It's the price the market will bear, and I think to some degree people underestimate their draw. Possibly because that draw isn't the core music market these days. But there's a reason you see them high up the bill on smaller / family festivals - they shift tickets (you'll note the festivals they rarely do are the ones that don't really need extra help selling tickets).

They're selling to a huge contingent of fans they've built up over years - they're not a 90s nostalgia band that went away and now occasionally get back together to play the hits. Other than a five-year break in the early '00s, they've been constantly putting out stuff for 35 years. But that whole audience is a bit... hard to pin down. The band were never Britpop despite having hits in the 90s, they were never really Madchester despite coming up on that in the 80s. The music press haven't liked them in 25 years and they get very little TV coverage. Yet as you point out, they can out-sell QOTSA and Nine Inch Nails. They're a weird case.

All that said, makes it very unlikely they'd do Glastonbury. Though I reckon they'd jump on it for less than the usual fee if it was a slot with TV coverage.

Edited February 24, 2015 by DeanoL

[home to you]

Modern Life

13

Think Tank

Parklife

The Great Escape

Blur

Leisure

[howlin_pete]

I love think tank, can go back to it again and again. Out of time, good song and sweet song are all fantastic

[DJL]

I've never really loved blur the way so many others do - damon's voice just grates on me. Of the songs they've collectively produced many of my favourites are coxon or (gorillaz with) guest vocals.

Saw them at hyde park and they were decent but if they played glasto i'd probably skip it... and spend the next few years trying (failing) to justify the decision on here.

[Woffy]

Weirdly, Modern Life is Rubbish for me...then a gap...then...13 / Think Tank.

My mate can be - very tenuously - seen in the crown waving a Walls Ice Cream flag at the Astoria, i think it was (i'm 40 now), in the Starshaped doc.