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What's your favourite Blur song?

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RuffleCrow · 03/05/2019 19:29

As Parklife turns 25 [old duffer emoticon] this year!

Mine are:

Out of Time
On Your Own
All Your Life
Chemical World
For Tomorrow
To The End
Coffee and TV

Probably loads more I can't think of right now

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Laodamia · 03/05/2019 21:41

I know they first formed in the late 70s (which I remember being agog about as a teenager) but Pulp's heyday was in the 90s. They were touching Britpop without being it I suppose. Similar to Suede.

Mythreefavouritethings · 03/05/2019 21:42

Tender (especially the live version with everyone singing along near the end and the gospel choir), This Is A Low, and weirdly Caravan from the Think Tank album for when it’s a rainy day and I’m nicely melancholy.

Mythreefavouritethings · 03/05/2019 21:44

Scrub that, I’ll say You’re So Great. Perfect love song! I’ll bugger off now.

windysowindy · 03/05/2019 21:45

The Universal ❤️

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RuffleCrow · 03/05/2019 21:51

Digsy's Dinner is my favourite Oasis song - and I sing it to my kids literally every time I make Lasagne Grin

Also love Whatever for the sheer don't-give-a-fuck attitude. And Wonderwall because I can remember the exact moment i heard it for the first time in my teenage bedroom and had to crank my little cd/radio up to 11. Ah, those were the days Wink

I was also there singing at the top of my lungs at Blur's Hyde Park 2012, feeling like a right ole duffer (I was only 31 what was I thinking?!!)

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hugoagogo · 03/05/2019 21:53

As for Oasis- Cigarettes and Alcohol whacked up full blast til you feel it in yer water.

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RuffleCrow · 03/05/2019 21:53

I used to love You're So Great but it's the song my ex and I had our first kiss to (in 1997!) So i've had to scrub it from my mental playlist Sad

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hazeyjane · 03/05/2019 21:55

Love Blur.
I will say Out of Time at the moment, as it is playing, as I cuddle ds to sleep. It is a song that always makes me feel a swell of sadness.

Laodamia · 03/05/2019 21:56

Cigarettes and Alcohol does have a good swaggery intro.

Minttea2 · 03/05/2019 21:59

I love Blue, my all time favourite band and have influenced my music taste since I was a child. My all time favourite Blur song is Best Days. Sad but beautiful

Minttea2 · 03/05/2019 22:00

Aaargh Blur, not Blue!!

Mythreefavouritethings · 03/05/2019 22:00

Oh no, you need to clear those memories. Bad enough breaking up, without them buggering up the best songs as well 🤦‍♀️

Laodamia · 03/05/2019 22:01

Blue! Grin Grin

If your heart belongs to Lee Ryan, your heart belongs to Lee Ryan.

Littlepond · 03/05/2019 22:02

Sunday Sunday here again in tidy attire
You read the colour supplement the TV guide

SingingSands · 03/05/2019 22:06

To the End.

Used to stuff my Walkman in my coat pocket and take the poor dog on long, angsty teenage walks listening to that.

Poor dog was very understanding. Snort.

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RuffleCrow · 03/05/2019 22:07

Grin at blue - that Duncan bloke was very Brad Pitt-ish. I don't blame you

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Sharpcattlegridheavyhat · 03/05/2019 22:09

God it makes me feel so nostalgic. I HATE HOW TIME HAS PASSED! I find it hard listening to some of these songs but love them all.

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RuffleCrow · 03/05/2019 22:10

Oh my goodness Minttea you're my Blur soulmate! Best Days!!! How could i forget that one?! Wine

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MatchsticksForMyEyesReturns · 03/05/2019 22:12

Miss America. There's No Other Way, She's So High (taught DS the chorus aged 3), For Tomorrow.

ErrmWTAF · 03/05/2019 22:15

To the End
The Universal

I love them all, but those two are the most gorgeous.

Sharpcattlegridheavyhat · 03/05/2019 22:15

Blue Jeans is the song I always go back to the most.

JustAnotherMNUserPassing · 03/05/2019 22:16

Country House- number 1 the day I was born!
Parklife - I too get rudely awakened by the dustmen on Wednesdays

NigellasGuest · 03/05/2019 22:18

Oh yes, She's So High
How could I forget that

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RuffleCrow · 03/05/2019 22:23

Yy to Blue Jeans and Miss America - so dreamy and languid but both paint a vivid picture. Glitterball

I'm with you sharpcattlegrid. Time has to be a lie, right? These songs seem to exist in a sort of eternal 'now' that we can all tap into. Or maybe an eternal 'then'?

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radiantlemur · 03/05/2019 22:23

Long time listener first time caller.

  1. Girls and boys
  2. For tomorrow
  3. No distance left to run
  4. This is a Low
  5. Sing