Blur Music Cd

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Blur      Artist : Blur      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $8.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1997-03-11      Studio : Virgin Records Us      Label : Virgin Records Us      Avg. Customer Rating : (119 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Blur      Dont judge an album via it's singles.      Rating:      OK I'll admit I bought thier best of album for two reasons, Song 2 and the clever artwork and after a few listens I loved it. What I loved in particular was the songs off that album which were taken off the album "Blur", Song 2 is a given but also the amazing calm and catchiness of Beetlebum and the electronicly driven On Your Own. So on the back of those songs, I assumed this was Blur's best album and bought it. I had high hopes on first listen and I was conflicted. How could an album with some such amazing songs be so... bad? The first few songs are great but once part 2 of the album kicks in you end up fastforwarding through all the songs until you reach the end. I've only listened to the whole album twice and couldn't again, and unfortunately the "white noise" path would be the one they followed in future years.     Customer Reviews for Blur Cd      Movin' On...      Rating:      After the Brit Pop movement got exhausted, bands began to break off and move into very different directions. After the Great Escape, Blur treaded into really fuzzed-out and tripped out territory. A place where the White Sripes would eventually come from. And the results are mind-blowing. Where the weird sound effects gurgling on prior albums was subtle and hinted at, on this album it they hit you like a brick. For those of you who heard Song 2 and thought this album would be a non-stop indie rock force-to-be-reckoned-with, I don't know what to tell you, if anything, Song 2 is just a small part in this mind-trip experience. So be warned. The cd starts out on radio-friendly terms with the Beatlesque Beetlebum, and it serves as the perfect intro to where Blur are at on this cd. The verses are pure minimalist indie-rock style, and they break into a soothing radio-friendly chorus, and the outro builds up into a torrent of buzzing and blurry sound-effects that eventually eclipse the song they're grounded in. It encapsulates what's about to come over the next hour. Song 2 is the indie-rock extreme of the album rocking like a beast. And then you head into Country Sad Ballad Man which is the polar opposite, a psychedelic slow-burner with uncountable layers of acoustic, and electric guitars, bass, drums, and indefinable bubbling noises. Like White Blood Cells by the White Stripes, this cd has no flow to it at all, and on listening to this the first time around, you have no idea what the hell is going to happen next. In the indie/psychedelic texture of this disc, Blur explore pop music, rock, ballads, pure psychedelia, and the unknown (Essex Dogs). It is one hell of a listen that will leave you mystified and coming back for more. If you're looking for rock music at it's simultaneously most mystifying and haunting, this is a must.