http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9jJ5xT0aRSA/SUb1FnEVo_I/AAAAAAAAAWk/NlEW4CfQzJ4/s320/Blur+-+Parklife+%5Bsingle%5D.jpg50. Parklife(5 votes, 75 points)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
'Country House' really works well live imo tho I can't really listen to it on record. Didn't vote for it however. 'Inertia' was my #2 I think. Perfect.
― pandemic, Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
Guy I worked with at Virgin looked a little bit like Damon and one Saturday when the shop was absolutely rammed this group of maybe 10 or 11 year olds followed him round the Singles Dept screaming "PARKLIFE!" at him for about 20 mins. Kinda realisation, on my part, that Blur big-time now.
― pandemic, Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Like "Country House", people who think "Parklife" was worth a vote get something completely different from Blur than I do. Probly wasn't annoying the first couple of listens.
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://991.com/gallery_180x180/Blur-Charmless-Man-86912-991.jpg49. Charmless Man(4 votes, 77 points)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
ok i take back what i said about the last 2
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of excited to see three of their most well-known singles in a row ranking at the bottom of the poll... parklife should have fared better tho...
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
It got beaten by "Charmless Man" !
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
I've always held a place in my heart for Great Escape, because that seemed to be the first to really a get a big push in America prior to its release.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Charmless Man is my least favourite Blur single - grotesque self-parody.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01413/Ambulance_1413374c.jpg
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
48. Ambulance(4 votes, 84 points)
At least 'Parklife' made the top 50 but really, that's robbery. Nothing not to like about that track.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
... except the fact it's not "Country House"
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
love Miss America. easily in my top few Blur cuts. it's Alex James' fave Blur song!i was pretty taken aback when i heard Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs for the first time though.
― piscesx, Thursday, 26 May 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
When it came to compiling my list I didn't end up putting in many of their biggest hits so I'm quite glad three have of them have are already out of the way. Parklife is one of my favourite albums of all time but I really don't ever need to hear the title track again.
Ambulence was in my top five, it's such an amazing opening track.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 26 May 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/27/article-0-03B0B12F000005DC-730_468x312.jpg
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
47. 1992(four votes, 87 points)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
FWIW I liked Parklife when it came out. I can remember hearing it for either the first or second time on the radio one morning and thinking "it's just some bloke talking about pigeons - this is brilliant", then they suddenly cut into the song to announce that John Smith had died, which took the edge off it a bit. As with 'Girls & Boys' I just feel I've heard it far, far, far too many times to want to listen to it again now. As for 'Charmless Man', while it's far from being my favourite I don't really get the intense hatred it seems to inspire in some people. '1992' on other hand, is a little bit boring and self-pitying (and I say that as a fan of most of the desolate introspection numbers).
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 May 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
46. Essex Dogs(four votes, 97 points)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 26 May 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
If "Blur" hadn't had that tracck, the album would still have been way long enough, so it always seemed like a bonus track.
And all the better for it...
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 May 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
hurray. 1992 is the first of mine to make it.
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Thursday, 26 May 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
51. Country House
TOO FUCKING LOW!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 26 May 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Globe Alone's music is a brilliant representation of the madness going on in the head of the subject of the song. Ugh, crap sentence. Anyway. Love the shit out of it.
Charmless Man is mainly a great tune, really, but to its benefit/detriment (take yer pick) it continues that album's theme of characters that Damon hates/pities (including himself obv). In retrospect it's not that surprising that he effectively disowned the album – it's sooo negative, and not in the dull-fondness way that makes Parklife so appealing.
'er indoors LOVES Ambulance. I don't mind it but I have enormous prejudice against everything off Think Tank because I do not like Think Tank.
btw I don't recall voting for many tracks off 13 but it's my favourite Blur album by some distance.
― Autumn Alma Park Toilets (Schlafsack), Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
You people are savages. Country house below 1992 and charmless man, I mean...?!?
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yes I'm talking about the 'blow blow me out' bit which is pop genius as opposed to drivel like 1992 and embarrassing nonsense like charmless man. A pox on ya!
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Woo-hoo!
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 06:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6PbDrJkTF_w/TL10xnKfWQI/AAAAAAAAACs/YPqPCJ16g9k/s1600/blur_song2.jpg45. Song 2(5 votes, 98 points)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 May 2011 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
Song 2: A song largley unknown outside of Britain - rejected in American for being "too darn rock". Most Americans, when asked about Blur, give a blank look - but if you play them the chorus of 'Yuko & Hiro' they immediately recognise it as the soundtrack to countless games of Ice Hockey, Baseball and 'Football'.
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
heh
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 May 2011 07:15 (twelve years ago) link
Not to mention Soccer.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 May 2011 07:17 (twelve years ago) link
It was huge here.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 May 2011 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
oddly enough i have felt Heavy Metal on many occasions but none of them induced by Blur.
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 May 2011 08:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.allgigs.co.uk/images/object/artist/62317/PJ_Proby-1-200-200-85-crop.jpg
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
44. Country Sad Ballad Man(6 votes, 99 points)
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
ha i was trying to work out what the picture was signifying
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 May 2011 08:49 (twelve years ago) link
I love that one.
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 27 May 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
dammit should have voted for CSBM, I could have sent it a few places up.
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Friday, 27 May 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah this is a good one. Glad to see it scrape past song 2. Shoulda been a single instead of mor
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
mor is such a single, CSBM is not.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 May 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
MOR is like "on top of old smokey" played fast.
That's a good thing, btw.
MOR is eugh
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 May 2011 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
it's like the whole album just stops being interesting for four minutes
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
I can't even remember how mor goes but csbm is an earworm. Sorry to disagree
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
Autumn otm. In a strange way it could be seen as a very clever self-fulfilling parody.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
It really is! CSBM otoh is epic.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
M.O.R. and For Tomorrow are the two Blur singles which always remind me of Bowie (the former based on Berlin, the later on Ziggy Stardust) and they always make me wish I was listening to him instead. They both sound to me a bit parodic (then again, most of their singles seem to share this quality). CSBM might not be single material but it's more interesting and unique.
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Blur are the ultimate 90s parodists in a sea of parodists. Damon's wanted to be Syd Barrett, Ray Davies, Terry Hall, Stephen Malkmus, and a whole host of other figureheads throughout his career. Don't really see it as a problem though because I knew Blur before I knew their influences and worked back.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
Let's not forget Jilted John as well.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 May 2011 11:40 (twelve years ago) link