Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread

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Triumph imo (unlike the rest of that fetid album)

7. Out Of Time
(12 votes, 1 first place, 303 points)

Triumph imo (unlike the rest of that fetid album)

Harsh. I think 'Caravan' is up there with anything else. 'On The Way To The Club' is pretty good. 'Jets' and 'Sweet Song' too.

Ha, I was just about to post "Looks as if my top five might be the top five" but not quite.

I love Think Tank, but mine is a marginal opinion and has been since 2003.

Think Tank is a like a B sides collection, except that most of the songs should have been B sides.

I'll hear any song off it and think "hey that's not a bad demo", and that's all. It doesn't hold together as an album at all for me.

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Think Tank's great. Screw the haters.

6. Badhead
(14 votes, 2 first places, 340 points)

Badhead? Barely remembered it 'til this poll got me listening again. Very sweet & gentle, and nice sequencing after 'Bank Holiday'.

This was my number one.

For the purposes of this poll I listened to 'Think Tank' for the first time in 4 or 5 years. Still meh for me, doesn't hold my interest at all.
MLIR > Blur > Parklife > Leisure/Escape > 13 > > TT
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xxp yeah, I'm doubting half my votes now. Badhead is incredible.

OK, so Low, Tomorrow, Century, Beetlebum, Sing?

Okay, I know four of the top five, so there's one surprise left for me now. Didn't expect Badhead so high.

Was forgetting about Century.

That top 5 seems about right.

Think Tank is my third favourite Blur album behind Parklife and Modern Life is Rubbish. It could lose We've got a file on you, Brothers & Sisters and Crazy Beat but the rest of it is solid. Along with the songs that have made this list Good Song and Gene by Gene are really great too.

Pouring one out for Music Is My Radar

Crazy Beat is real "what the fuck were they thinking?" territory. But it's my fourth favourite behind Parklife, MLIB and Blur. Never got on with 13 beyond about 4 tracks - that's the one where I think, "Yeah, great, you're experimenting - now come back when the experiment's finished and you know what you're doing."

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5. Sing
(16 votes, 3 first places, 357 points)

Is that the first one to have 3 first place votes?

(xp) Having re-listened to everything repeatedly over the last two or three weeks, I'm surprised to find that 13 is actually one of my favourites. MLIR sounds a bit dated in places.

Feels totally different to anything else on 'Leisure'

Is that the first one to have 3 first place votes?

Yes

DL: I disagree completely about 13. It sounds very deliberate and is a complete and convincing album. Think Tank sounds like a band in its death throes.

I think you'll find more people who'll agree with you than I will tbh, especially outside the UK - Think Tank was well-reviewed here but murdered in the US.

The piece on 'Sing' in that Select link hotheads is interesting - it's what they sounded like left to themselves in the early days basically. I think it's the only one off Leisure that was self-produced.

Just listened to Sing for possibly the third time ever. Wow. I don't bother with Leisure but that one is spine-tingling stuff.

I gave it good points in the showcase poll

shoegaze, damn you

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haha nice

Dirty little monsters! Ahahahaha

4. End of a Century
(16 votes, 370 points)

cracker

I thought they were in the cupboard eating morsels but carpet is just as plausible.

Why do I have a bad memory of Squeeze covering this?

No first-places yet still outscored 'Sing'. How many ballots were there in total?

Oh I love this song, somehow ignored it thinking about "to the end".... forgot to vote for it.

Makes sense it not getting any #1s, because it's like a mini 'This Is A Low'

Have to go to bed now. Thanks for doing this NBS. Love the results and agree with the top 20 as it is. Will make myself a decent blur compilation with this one.

Not particularly relevant at this stage of the results, but I've just found this video of Bugman using Gorillaz bits and pieces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3FOnSyv8BU&feature=related

How many ballots were there in total?

I refer the right honourable gentleman to the second post in the thread.

I see

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