Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread

19. Clover Over Dover
(7 votes, 2 first places, 196 points)

A truly gorgeous song.

Of the songs that got three or more votes, Clover Over Dover got the highest average score per voter. Those that like it, really like it.

I've only ever been to Dover twice (ferries) but this song still invokes very strong memories of Dover. The whole album is weirdly evocative like that.

Wow yeah, I do love it. I didn't think I loved it as much as I do 'til I put it on after I'd voted, while reminiscing about something else, and the combination was so overwhelming that I had to back and amend my ballot. So one of those #1s is mine.

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YES

18. Chemical World
(9 votes, 205 points)

oh

(sugary tea, you see?)

Ah, see I thought it was <REDACTED>

I love Chemical World. Hope I voted for it - can't remember!

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xp I was trying to think of what will probably end up #1 on this board and I assumed it would be Chemical World! Can't wait to see the rest!

17. Best Days
(10 votes, 216 points)

Quite surprised by how much of 'Great Escape' has made it. 'Best Days' is ace especially when damon slightly speeds up as we get into the chorus.

I think this is my favourite on Great Escape. Such a sad and delicate melody, even for Blur. Didn't Graham write or sing this one?

Yes, this is the best thing on The Great Escape.

Always disappointed with Great Escape but forgot that it's not a middling album but rather half genius and half nonsense.

Yes, it's absolutely that - massive highs, huge lows.

TGE was really the first album to make any kind of impression in Aus. Obv the self-titled album (specifically Song 2) was the breakthrough, but Parklife did so poorly here that I found it in a cut-out bin for $10 right as it was smashing up the British music press.

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16. Trimm Trabb
(13 votes, 220 points)

Love a bit of Trimm Trabb. It was going to be a single, but I doubt it would have worked. Couldn't have been made in any other era than post-Blur LP.

When listening to '13' I tend to skip from the end of 'Battle' thru to 'Trimm Trabb'. Love that one.

That's the bit I skip TO!

# "Battle" – 7:43
# "Mellow Song" – 3:56
# "Trailerpark" – 4:26
# "Caramel" – 7:38
# "Trimm Trabb" – 5:37

Trailerpark aside, this is the best run on the album.

Trimm Trabb always reminded me of the Shake-n-Vac advert.

Highlight of 13 imo - well, after Coffee & TV but that always seems like an outlier on the album whereas Trimm Trabb nails what they were trying to do sonically.

I think this poll highlights that the best songs on The Great Escape really were the ballads. Hoping that the very best one will make the top ten.

Oh hell Mark G never going to be able to hear it without that in my head now!

i don't hear it.

Writing a Gil Scott-Heron obit recently, I said that GSH was one of the few songwriters who could do satire and empathy equally well. Damon was far better at the latter and that pretty much explains the quality chasm down the middle of The Great Escape. The satire was too flip and flimsy and directed at mediocre targets.

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15. Tender
(10 votes, 231 points)

WAAAAAAY too high.

Cornelius remix is pretty spectacular though

That's what I voted for. One of my favourite remixes ever - gets all the beauty out of the song and leaves the lumpenness behind.

I like that it's long.

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awww <3 love that song. I voted for it! But didn't rate it super high because.. so much goodness.

I remember trimm trabb being a highlight when I saw them at the astoria in 2003. Simon Tong was there instead of Graham, but that song was really good.

Yes, the Think Tank tour really sold me on Trimm Trabb. It had a filth and ferocity that the Think Tank material, much though I like it, lacked.

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14. To The End
(11 votes, 1 first place, 238 points)

The French version is so good.

Plus I think this was the one that kind of pushed me over the brink of tears when I saw their reunion tour.

Someone said here or on the other thread that Damon can't do sincerity & this one proves it for me. 'End of a Century' has a layer of irony and is lovely and quite affecting cos, I don't know, the real feeling of ennui is something shared with the characters in it. This one's striving for real feeling unfiltered and I just don't buy it, it seems like an exercise.

I dunno, it's been claimed to be about him and Justine, and I don't think he's sharing it with the characters in the song as much as he *is* one of them...

Ah forget about the sentiment and listen to the lovely arrangements, particularly in the final verse/chorus and coda.

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13. On Your Own
(11 votes, 251 points)