(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: Blur
Album Title: Blur
Year released: 1997
Year reissued: 2012
Details: 5 of 7 in Blur 21, anniversary box set, black vinyl, 180 gram, 2 x LP, Gatefold sleeve
The skinny: After the ridiculous Britpop excesses of “The great escape”, Damon, Graham, Alex, and Dave changed things up completely, looking across the ocean at lo-fi alternative bands like Pavement. Their obvious courting of America paid off with their biggest hit ever in the US – the ubiquitous “Song 2” (or as many know it, ‘The woo hoo song’) – but it’s not even close to the best song on the album.
Standout track: “On your own”
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6 replies on “Vinyl love: Blur “Blur””
On any given day, it might be my favourite blur (and unsurprisingly, I adore pavement!) – on your own is a good one, I might have to go with look inside america
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Also a nice track. So many to choose from though.
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My second favourite Blur album. Was this the first time that many North Americans heard the band? I’ve often wondered
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I’d say yes. Not in my own case, of course, I was a fan since ‘Leisure’ but Blur definitely hit the mainstream in the US with ‘Song 2’.
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I thought so
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I think this is my favourite Blur album. There are a few tunes on there that I like an awfy lot (Song 2, On Your Own, Death Of A Party, I’m Just A Killer…, Look Inside America) and it was probably the album where I started paying a bit more attention to them.
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