| Blur |  | Artist: Blur
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 12.99
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Seller: marvelio-ca
Sales Rank: 20,865
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 2
UPC: 724384287627
EAN: 0724384287627
ASIN: B000000WDA
Release Date: February 18, 1997
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | BEETLEBUM | | • | SONG 2 | | • | COUNTRY SAD BALLAD MAN | | • | M.O.R. | | • | ON YOUR OWN | | • | THEME FROM RETRO | | • | YOU'RE SO GREAT | | • | DEATH OF A PARTY | | • | CHINESE BOMBS | | • | I'M JUST A KILLER FOR YOUR LOVE | | • | LOOK INSIDE AMERICA | | • | STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR | | • | MOVIN' ON | | • | ESSEX DOGS |
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From Amazon.co.uk
Having found himself at a creative cul-de-sac with 1995's The Great Escape, Damon Albarn bought a flat in Iceland and set about re-evaluating his role in Blur. What emerged was a more soulful, democratised sound. Gone were the Kinks-influenced vignettes about life in suburban England, to be replaced by a more cathartic approach. Grunge influences, for so long off-limits, were now detectable in the loose, angularity of tracks like "Country Sad Ballad Man" and "Song 2". Sensing that this might just be his moment, Blur's resident hard-core fan Graham Coxon is the driving momentum behind much of the band's fifth album. And yet, accidentally or not, some sense of Englishness lingers--be it the Specials' "Ghost Town" on "Theme From Retro" early David Bowie on the desolate "Strange News From Another Star" or the Beatles on "Beetlebum". Ambitious it might have been, but the sheer quality of these songs made Blur their biggest seller to date. This truly was the great escape. --Peter Paphides
Amazon.com essential recording
By early 1997, British pop had become less a scene than a competition, so with this album, Blur's frontman Damon Albarn basically announced that he was withdrawing from the race, in favor of exploring other kinds of rock he'd been getting into. Most of Blur finds the band discovering the clipped structures and oblique words of American indie rock (the best hook on the album goes "woo-hoo!"), and that's a liberating strategy. Without having to exemplify England's Dreaming, Albarn can be tuneful and playful, and even when he cribs directly from his favorite records ("M.O.R." is pure Bowie, and "You're So Great" tries for Guided by Voices-style non-production), his gift for texture puts his stamp on these songs. --Douglas Wolk
Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Blur est un disque courageux. Celui d'un groupe au sommet de son succès qui ose prendre quelques distances avec la britpop dont il fut un des fleurons, quitte à se prendre une gamelle commerciale. Flashback : à l'origine, Blur, emmené par son leader Damon Albarn, est plutôt un groupe versé dans la pop typiquement british des Kinks, de XTC ou du Bowie de Ziggy Stardust comme en témoignent Modern Life Is Rubbish ou Parklife. On est alors au milieu des années 90. En dehors du tubesque "Beetlebum", le virage à 360° pris par le groupe à la fin des 90's avec Blur en déroute plus d'un. Plutôt que de rivaliser avec Oasis, Albarn et les siens proposent des chansons ouvertes aux dissonances du rock arty et du post rock. À tel point qu'un de leurs titres sera remixé par Thurston Moore de Sonic Youth ! Gonflé, Blur est un pari risqué sur le long terme : un disque qui assurément restera comme une des pierres de touche du groupe. --Philippe Robert
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