Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread

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39. She's So High
(7 votes, 115 points)

iirc 'I Know' was on the flip of this. Prefer 'I Know' ever so slightly but love both really.

All Your Life is great. "on the way to heaven in a comedy car, the new stars of melancholia"

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38. Entertain Me
(6 votes, 117 points)

One of the best Blur basslines

Love love love "Entertain Me", one of Damon's sharpest dissections of the end of civilization riding this beautiful Berlin-era-Iggy droney New Wave anti-riff. The weekend's here, hip. hip. hooray.

of all the pictures xp

I should have had Entertain Me on my list, love that bass line.

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=36. You're So Great
(6 votes, 120 points)

Ugh, I hate that.

ahahahaha brilliant. So glad this song got a few votes. The last 30 seconds is sublime.

You're so great I'm indifferent to, but yeah I like the little guitar solo towards the end. Other than that it represents a filler triumvirate (theme from retro/ysg/death of a party) towards the middle of the album where songwriting dips. Not that these are necessarily bad songs but taken together they make the album flabby, especially compared to the first few tracks on the record.

I might have to relisten to Entertain Me again. At the time I remember thinking it was a poor man's Girls an Boys and the Live It! Remix sounded like Take That, which was just about the worst thing imaginable in my book at the time

Always liked "Entertain Me", and I'm really glad to see it here - never knew anyone else rated the track.

I disagree about "Death of a Party" being part of any weak triumvirate - it's one the strongest Blur ST tracks in my book

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36. Bugman
(5 votes, 120 points)

I love this one. It shatters any illusions you might have had coming into 13 for the first time - Tender was the single ahead of the album and then the first track on it, this could scarcely be more different, right from the off with the jarringly unusual chords.

Bugman!

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35. Me, White Noise
(5 votes, 121 points)

YAY

(of course, if this is #35, I should give up on seeing "Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb" probably.)

Ah, just realised this is the first track with a first place vote, so that should have read:
(5 votes, 1 first place, 121 points)

(of course, if this is #35, I should give up on seeing "Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb" probably.)

― Johnny Fever

Pretty sure I only heard this the one time but remember thinking it was terrible, that was a long time ago though.

It's more of a chant with a beat than an actual song, but I love it anyway (enough to place it #2 on my own ballot).

I just listened to it again on Youtube, I don't love it but it's no way near as bad as I remember. It's a very odd song, it sounds more like a Gorillaz track really.

"Country House" woz robbed (and my ballot I think never made it for some reason. Dunno, but I got a mail failure notice)

(My ballot did of course have "Country House" on top - one of the best songs ever made by anyone)

Is The Great Escape your favourite Blur album Geir?

I consider that "The Great Escape" and "Parklife" rather equal in quality.

I do have a lot of time for The Great Escape but there's too much filler on there.

Looking at the track listing for The Great Escape if you took out Charmless Man, Top Man, Mr Robinson's Quango, Ernold Same and Dan Abnormal you would have a pretty great 10 track album. The only thing I would really change about Parklife is to have not heard the title track so many times so I could still bear to hear it.

X-Post: The filler is the main problem about "The Great Escape", but the highlights are fantastic. And, as for the worst tracks, "Globe Alone" > "Bank Holiday". Although by a narrow margin (and "Chinese Bombs" is worse than both)

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34. Advert
(7 votes, 122 points)

That's the sixth song from MLIR, and we're not even in the top 30 yet. Surprising?

Food processors are great!

Will you post all scores once this is all done? I want to see if I was indeed the only person to vote Dizzy. :)

I love the teasers pictures, thanks for doing this!

Also way xp - I also have a lot of love for entertain me and the live it remix too. A car! A house! Both in! A street!

Advert is making me think fuzzy half formed theories about how MLIR and Siamese Dream are bizarro versions of each other.

Flying back from Barcelona tomorrow btw :-( might not bother

Will you post all scores once this is all done? I want to see if I was indeed the only person to vote Dizzy. :)

Yes, I will and I'm afraid yes, you were. Just for you:

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=74. Dizzy
(1 votes, 1 first place, 40 points)

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33. Caramel
(5 votes, 123 points)

Caramel is such an amazing song, easily my favourite song on 13. I'm fairly sure I remember reading at the time Damon was pushing for it to be the second single after Tender which would have been brilliant.

I like it, but I can't really imagine it as a single.

Even a teaser picture? You're too good to me :)

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32. Young & Lovely
(6 votes, 1 first place, 134 points)

I can't even find evidence that that song exists.

so far, I'm finding that my taste in blur tracks differs wildly from these results.

i didn't vote. meant to. did not. sry.

So far, Inertia is a pleasant surprise. And Colin Zeal is awesome. Maybe Country House on occasion.