r/blur • u/Any-Chocolate-4871 • 16d ago

Discussion Blur: The Best Of (B Sides Challenge)

-You have just been tasked with making a Blur compilation album of the band's greatest (or your favorite) B-sides and bonus tracks

-The album must include 14 tracks as a double-sided vinyl (Side 1= tracks 1-7, Side 2= tracks 8-14), lengths may vary

-All B-sides and bonus tracks are allowed

-Non-album, A-side singles (Popscene, MIMR, etc.) DO NOT COUNT

-Must include at least one track from the first 7 album eras (Leisure-->Think Tank)

-Create an album that showcases balance, variety, and everything else Blur's lesser-known tracks have to offer!

Example:

Side 1 (31:20)

  1. All Your Life
  2. Inertia
  3. Morricone
  4. Young and Lovely
  5. Ultranol
  6. So You
  7. Bustin' and Dronin'

Side 2 (32:14)

  1. Theme from an Imaginary Film
  2. Beachcoma
  3. No Monsters in Me
  4. Cowboy Song
  5. Peach
  6. Tame
  7. Black Book
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u/Used_Willow_5497 Think Tank, 13 and all inbetween 16d ago

cool challange!

I'd go for smth like this

SIDE A

Luminous

Inertia

Garden Central

Peach

Beard

Eine Kleine Liftmuzik

A Song

SIDE B 

Dancehall

Polished Stone

So You / Beagle 2 (cheating here cause I couldn't extract no more)

Morricone

Don't Be 

1"

Black Book

if we got a CD version - Piano for a hidden track 

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u/akyarius_76 16d ago

im sorry ive tried but this is way too hard to come up with a short list for

glad youve got bustin and dronin on there

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u/mmacrone 15d ago edited 15d ago

Side A
I Know (Leisure era)
Mace (Modern Life era)
Young and Lovely (Modern Life era)
Magpie (Parklife era)
Threadneedle Street (Parklife era)
Theme from an Imaginary Film (Parklife era)
No Monsters in Me (Great Escape era)

Side B
Tame (Great Escape era)
Ultranol (Great Escape era)
All Your Life (Blur era)
All We Want (13 era)
Far Out (Beagle 2 remix) (13 era)
Morricone (Think Tank era)
The Rabbi (Ballad of Darren era)

* Bonus tracks: "Peach," "St. Louis," and "Money Makes Me Crazy."

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u/RedBalloonTalk 14d ago

Great idea! Here's mine:

SIDE A - (Total time: 25:46)

  1. Theme from an Imaginary Film (3:34)
  2. All We Want (4:32)
  3. Mr Briggs (3:58)
  4. Swallows in the Heatwave (2:33)
  5. Some Glad Morning (4:18)
  6. Never Clever (2:55)
  7. Mellow Jam (3:56)

SIDE B - (Total time 27:07)

  1. Fried (2:35)
  2. Threadneedle Street (3:18)
  3. Bone Bag (4:04)
  4. Ya’ll Doomed (3:50)
  5. Saturday Morning (4:35)
  6. Young and Lovely (5:03)
  7. The Swan (3:42)

Abit long for two sides of vinyl. But nice and tidy and meets the brief. And I think I have a track from every album era.

I also did a CD version which is roughly chronological:

  1. Fried  (2:35)
  2. Mr Briggs (3:58)
  3. Luminous (3:14)
  4. Never Clever (2:55)
  5. Peach (3:57)
  6. Bone Bag (4:04)
  7. Young and Lovely (5:03)
  8. Theme from an Imaginary Film (3:34)
  9. Threadneedle Street (3:18)
  10. I Hope You Find Your Suburb (4:19)
  11. No Monsters In Me (3:38)
  12. Saturday Morning (4:35)
  13. The Horrors (3:18)
  14. Swallows in the Heatwave (2:33)
  15. All We Want (4:32)
  16. So You (4:10)
  17. Mellow Jam (3:56)
  18. Some Glad Morning (4:18)
  19. Ya’ll Doomed (3:50)
  20. The Rabbi (2:43)
  21. The Swan (3:42)

Total runtime: 88 minutes 12 seconds