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- Summary: This 18-track compilation contains most of the UK band's biggest hits, as well as one new track ("Music Is My Radar"). The only noticeable omissions seem to be "Popscene," "Chemical World," and "Sunday Sunday."
- Record Label: Virgin
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Greatest Hits
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Top Track
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Wooooo hoooo! Wooooo hoooo! Wooooo hoooo! Wooooo hoooo! I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasn't easy but nothing i-is No Wooooo... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 9 out of 9
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Reduced to a tuneful 18-song essence that watches too much television, their mildness seems diverting and their Englishness definitive.
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The band has quietly crafted some of the best singles of the '90s...
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Musically, the group goes way beyond Britpop, a movement largely of its own invention, to survey Burt Bacharach-style suavity on "The Universal" and "To the End," hedonistic dance pop on "Girls and Boys," and Lennon-esque soul-baring on "Tender."
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Blur have had many more than 18 hits; certainly there are sufficient omissions to form the bulk of a second disc.
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It's all pretty essential stuff.
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The only complaints involve omissions. Four of five singles between '92 and '94 (among them the minor American hit, "Bang") aren't here, which bypasses the band's crucial early development and leaves only one song from Modern Life, the punchy "For Tomorrow." On the other hand, the disc could easily have shed at least one of its five offerings from Parklife -- most noticeably the title track.
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And "dazzling" isn't really hyperbole -- based on these 18 songs, Blur isn't just the best pop band of the '90s, with greater range and depth than their peers, they rank among the best pop bands of all time. The Best of Blur illustrates that, even as it misses some of their best moments -- omissions that prevent it from being the flat-out classic it should be. Even so, it's pretty damn terrific, particularly for the unconverted.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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Sep 5, 2014
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CrystaldivaV.VNov 14, 2005Amazing album... from a really uniqute band.. very creative.. and Damon's voice is just so great!!..
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WarrenC.Nov 19, 2001Blur is the most diverse and brilliant band of the Britpop era and beyond. Pop is the domain of beautiful intellectuals.
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Oct 19, 2011Blur are my favourite band and their greatest hits is brilliant, they may have left out a couple of songs but I don't care, this album is excellent!!!
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Sep 9, 2011
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Feb 19, 2019A great collection of singles. It really shows how well the band covers the musical spectrum in terms of creativity.
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DavidG.May 22, 2001A good CD of a group known but too few people.
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