Today, we’re giving away the commemorative Blur 21 box set, a collection that’s out at the end of the month. Here’s what it includes:
To enter the sweeps, you need be a fan of Stereogum on Facebook and comment with your favorite Blur song via Facebook Connect (do not use your ‘Gum user account on this post — we’ll have to be able to check if you are a fan of Stereogum on FB when the sweepstakes ends). Sweepstakes ends 8/8 at 6 PM EST.
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Crazy Beat
Sorry Coxon purists, but my favorite Blur song is ‘Out of Time’
<3
It changes.
Right now it is Under The Westway
probably because it is new
Ambulance
The Universal
To the End
To the end.
Trimm Trabb
Coffee & TV… though, that is a very tough call to make.
Peach
“Out of Time”.
Black Book
Love those Bsides.
OHMIGOD I WANT THIS BOX SET SO BADLY!!!
Ok, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way…
I could pick any number of songs, but I always go back to “To The End”, as good of a ballad as any that came out of the Britpop era…
Popscene
The Universal
Under the Westway
My favorite Blur song is: Clover Over Dover
We’ve Got A File On You.
Actually kind of don’t like Blur, but I’ve always wanted to win something, so what the hell. Song 2.
GET OUT OF HERE
Tender
It’s a tough call, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Good Song on Think Tank.
Tracy Jacks
Too many good ones. I’ll go with “High Cool” – best of luck everyone
I love a song called – I’m Fine Its a b-side on the pop scene 12″ every once in a while it gets slapped on my turn table. Who knew Blur had a shoe gaze phase.
It doesn’t sound like anything else they ever wrote. I also went to the same University as the band and often wonder if Damon wrote this song whistling it down one of the corridors at Goldsmiths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxgAIZ4pHYY
And yes it is cruel to pick out just one, they were literally the first band I got into.
Tender
Battle (track 7 from “13″)
“On Your Own”
Coffee and TV
Yes, very difficult to pick just one so I’ll go with “Death of a Party.”
Beetlebum
I’m a pretty big fan of “Tender”. Additionally, I’d kill for this box set.
Trimm Trabb
you’re so great
Blue Jeans
End of a century
tender
Tender
There’s No Other Way
This Is A Low, definitely
Tender. Huge backing choirs never cease to move me.
Beetlebum
“Yuko & Hiro” last track on The Great Escape – such a sad tune in context (and strangely ahead of its time on the whole Apple/Foxconn thing), yet it sounds beautiful – especially the backing vocals/spoken word stuff in Japanese – for a band continually miscast as a great singles group, this one always stands out for me.
The Universal
I’m not afraid of being predictable, cos we’ll all have the same answer in the end… “On Your Own”
Clover Over Dover
Strange News From Another Star
There are almost too many to name but if I had to pick one, “No Distance Left To Run”…
No Distance Left to Run
Out of Time.
To the End
Battery in your leg.
End Of A Century
This is a Low. Though we all know it’s a tough call.
For Tomorrow, the opening track of Modern Life is Rubbish. The song is always sure to bring a smile to my face.
The Universal.
To The End
I’m a charmless man, give me the box!
Coffee & TV
Charmless Man
Growing up in a small Midwestern town, my introduction to Blur came via mainstream radio and video outlets. Late nights spent soaking up content intended for hip twenty-somethings was my conduit to a world of which my adolescent self could only dream. In ’97 I was too young, too ‘merican to be aware of Brit Rock’s cultural relevance. So, when “Song #2″ entered regular rotation locally, Blur was already a hard and fast staple in Gen-X circles around the globe. But to me — age 13 and yearning for escape — Blur’s most ubiquitous single was a revelation. As a result, I rummaged through my local Circuit City until I curled my clammy digits around a copy of their self-titled LP (that’s right; I saw poster-plastered record stores manned by beleaguered slacker-types as fantastical places that existed only on film.) I listened to Blur endlessly: My Discman spooged pop-tinged melancholy throughout family trips and daily school-bus rides. Despite my angsty purview, the records sunny, uncertain optimism moved me. Not because I got it, but because someone out there appeared to get me. I was, even at age 13, akin to the titular character of what has remained my favorite Blur song: “Country Sad Ballad Man.”
Song 2. I’ll be that guy.
Caramel
I love, love, love “Tender.”
Country House
Tender
Beetlebum
The Universal
It’s a tossup between “Essex Dogs” and “This Is A Low”. It’s songs like this where Damon Albarn and crew went from being just another Brit pop band to being a Beatles to the alternative generation. They had their singles, but they also had stuff that seriously messed with your head. It’s places like this where it was obvious that Gorillaz, GB&Q, and Rocket Juice & The Moon would happen eventually. It’s also songs like this where you see that Blur definitely had a finite lifespan, and why they are having so much trouble putting a comeback album together.
Young and Lovely.
Death Of A Party, crazy haunted beautiful song.
Girls & Boys was my first favorite of theirs, so why not.
Tender
End of the Century.
Beetlebum.
The chorus of Young and Lovely is pretty darn nifty too.
gimme gimme gimme
To The End.
this is a low
Beetlebum
This Is a Low
Beetlebum. ‘Nuff said.
blue jeans
This is a Low
End of a Century.
End of a Century
Sing
Battery in Your Leg
I’m Just a Killer for Your Love
The Universal
Beetlebum
No Distance Left To Run. that shit kills me
To The End. Or anything else from Parklife, really.
Song 2
I feel bad picking just one, but I think it’s going to have to be ‘This Is A Low’
Tracy Jacks
The Universal
Mellow Song
Look Inside America
Essex Dogs.
The Universal – just gorgeous, gorgeous
You’re So Great