Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread

Damon Albarn once mentioned that people kept putting 'Roll With It' on the jukebox every time he walked into a pub. He said he expected people put 'Country House' on whenever the Gallaghers went in one, but I doubt it.

I think they put on Ocean Colour Scene on.

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42. Strange News From Another Star
(6 votes, 111 points)

my favourite damon vocal performance...maybe.

Think I put Strange News From Another Star in my top 10. I remember when John Peel died Radio 1 did a tribute show and Damon came in and did a solo version of it that was just stunning.

Strange News is great - really makes me think of Bowie actually. No Distance is wallowsome self pity of the worst kind ahhh poor Damon boohoo. Meh.

It's very "cross between Prettiest Star and Starman" yes.

No Distance is wallowsome self pity of the worst kind ahhh poor Damon boohoo. Meh.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I feel about it and 1992, but I was trying to express it a bit more tactfully.

41. Starshaped
(5 votes, 112 points)

love this song. beautiful oboe solo.

This thread is the first thing I look at every morning. I'm so very grateful.

Starshaped is almost anthemic. It's certainly bursting with colour. It's also one of the songs XTC nutters mention when they insist Albarn weaved references into his lyrics ("I've been making plans...").

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40. All Your Life
(5 votes, 114 points)

I also love you putting the pic and song in separate posts because on first glance it looks like the pic is a response to the previous post.

All Your Life was one of my last-minute "oh I need 22 songs??" entries. Probably my favourite B side.

I'm having to restrain myself from just posting all of the tracks one after the other in about ten minutes.

ahahaha I can imagine

I always get confused between this and Til The Cows Come Home. As such I can't remember how this one goes.

A brief interlude:
I'd just like to mention two high-placed songs on my ballot that have missed the cut (I don't think this is really much of a spoiler as nobody would have expected them to feature especially highly):
Mellow Song
and
Caravan
Why no love, ILX?

Mellow Song? Is that the one with the pretty piano chords and starts "what am I to do..?" if so I thought I did vote for it.

Here's a roundup

61. Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club
60. Intermission
59. Colin Zeal
57. One Born Every Minute
57. When The Cows Come Home
55. Coping
55. Magic America
54. Globe Alone
53. Inertia
51. Miss America
51. Country House
50. Parklife
49. Charmless Man
48. Ambulance
47. 1992
46. Essex Dogs
45. Song 2
44. Country Sad Ballad Man
43. No Distance Left To Run
42. Strange News From Another Star
41. Starshaped
40. All Your Life

Mellow Song? Is that the one with the pretty piano chords and starts "what am I to do..?"

No, that's Sweet Song. Mellow Song is the one on 13 which goes "is this where I'm going to? we'll see" (except it sounds more like "we're sea").

On 13? I can't picture it but I know it's on the decent stretch of the album where I don't skip any tracks

"I lift my string on the guillotine, pulling away in my machine,
forget where I've been, I for - get you"
(or something like that)
Ring any bells?

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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).