Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread

I thought I was pretty well versed in the Blur catalogue but I barely recognize or remember most of the songs in this last run.

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30. Battle
(7 votes, 144 points)

The next one's a bit of a surprise (well, to me anyway)...

These poll results are awakening me to the fact I was never really serious about liking Blur.

29. Theme From An Imaginary Film
(6 votes, 1 first place, 148 points)

xp - well, we're still only at the 6 or 7 voters per song stage (so only about a quarter of the voters) - there's far more of a consensus as we get towards the top

nah i have a totally limited liking for Blur and obv a different perspective to all you b-side loving nerdlingers

I only knew about three of the b-sides before this poll and I've never been a fan of Leisure so I don't really know most of the songs on that.

Inertia is the best one that I'd never heard before.

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no way

=28. Resigned
(8 votes, 149 points)

lol okay thought it were gonna be Dr Mango's Quango Bingo for a minute

That's not what I thought you thought - I thought you thought it was Don't Bomb When You're The Bomb, that's what I was thinking you'd though

thought that'd been up already for some reason

Battle is sick.

Theme From An Imaginary Film.. yay!!

Resigned is unusual in that the emotion is all in the music - the vocals are quite flat.

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Erm....so, er, that =28 up there should obviously be an =27...

=27. Oily Water
(7 votes, 149 points)

Cheers for the Young & Lovely tips, everyone. Looking forward to hearing it (and yes, simultaneously in despair that there's so much Blur I've never heard). Stoked that so many of these results are from the MLIR era.

Imaginary Film was my top pick, although I'm still not quite sure why. It thoroughly deserves its placement, though.

Oily Water is a jam.

its pretty much consensus among blur fans about young and lovely being best bside, I'd probably put all your life above it, but yeah, its a good'un.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOZTz51V8

was reading this article which gives a blurb on every single blur song up until the last parklife single and it struck me how many of these are non-album tracks, like 50% almost. http://www.vblurpage.com/articles/print/stories/select_95.htm

shocking fact = I am now listening to this song for the first time ever. it is very nice!

(xp) That article is the basis of the Select article from 95 that Dog Latin was talking about (maybe on the voting thread instead of the results thread), which in itself is massively expanded in this book from 1999.

A Mr J4gger, once of these parts, has drawn my attention another small error: earlier I said that 'Me, White Noise' was the first track in the top 60 to have been given a number one vote. It was actually 'Essex Dogs' (no prizes for guessing whose number one vote that was). The only first-placed vote outside of the top 60 was for 'Dizzy'.

He lives!

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HA

hmm, leg involved?

26. Battery In Your Leg
(7 votes, 152 points)

I dunno, I still wonder what song they were working on before Graham quit and they (presumably) changed the lyrics to suit the occasion.

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25. Death of a Party
(8 votes, 168 points)

Definitely not filler, imo. One of the better tracks on the album and I love the eerie organ.

Yeah (oops missed it off my vote)

I realized only now that "Death of a Party" was named as one of the unfinished songs at the end of the "Compleat Blur" article in Select. None of the other eight unfinished songs appeared on "The Great Escape" either.

Every song from MLIR is going to make this list besides "Villa Rosie", "Commercial Break", and "Turn It Up"?

slight diversion then:

88-96. Blur have recorded nine songs – to various stages of completion – that’ve never been released. ‘I Love Her’ (Seymour-era, recorded at Diorama in Great Portland Street in 1991); ‘Close’ (produced by Stephen Street for the ‘Leisure’ sessions in 1991); ‘Seven Days’ (produced by Andy Partridge for the aborted ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ sessions – see 44); ‘Death Of A Party’; ‘Singular Charm’; ‘Pleasant Education’; ‘Bleached Whale’; ‘Pap Pop’; and ‘One Born Every Minute’ (see 52). ‘Seven Days’ was recorded for a Mark Goodier Radio One session on April 11, 1992, engineered by Martin Colley and broadcasted on May 5, 1992.

"I love her" was released on a fan-club CD, and as such was eligible for this poll.

"One Born Every Minute" was a Country House b-side
"Close" was also a fan-club CD, I haven't heard it.

The rest? I assume some got titles changed..

"Pap Pop" sounds like it was no great loss.

Death of a Party was by far their best dalliance w/ trip-hop imo

Interesting that Death of a Party was written so early, considering it's regarded as their classic Britpop's-last-rites song.

yeah Death Of A Party was very much written in the era when Suede were getting big and Blur were being written off. it's brilliantly miserable. the 7" remix by Adrian Sherwood is a blinder. you could only get it as a kind of official promotional CD single and it cost me a fortune back in the day. loved the sleeve too
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it was great to see it revived as a band favourite 2 years back, appearing not only on the MidLife compilation but also rather amazingly and incongruously bang in the middle of the encore at Hyde Park, right after Song 2 and just before
For Tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu6EomubqN8

Great Specials influence on that one. The spooky organ + the morose, Terry Hall-esque vocal.

Yes, I was going to say it reminds me a lot of Ghost Town, then I thought about the total lack of brass and thought better of it.

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24. Popscene
(8 votes, 177 points)

"Popscene" is a shade over-rated imo compared to maybe some other singles of the era which will be coming up shortly.

Love 'Popscene'. Probably has added appeal to me cos it was a stand alone single not on any album which shouldn't really make any difference but somehow kinda does. My favourite of the shouty blur ones.

See, when "The Celtic Soul Brothers" failed to be a hit, Kevin Rowland did give pause, but carried on with "Come on Eileen" and all went well. Whereas Blur went "oh" and packed it.