Is The Great Escape the worst Blur album?

[dougharrison]

Not for me.


Think Tank for me is their worst album. I find it almost unlistenable apart from Out of Time.

It's got bits I love - On the Way to the Club, Me White Noise, OOT, Good Song, Battery in Your Leg (i love Gene by Gene too but thats a small minority).

Plenty I'll skip too, Morroccan..., Brothers and Sisters, Crazy Beat etc.

Think It's about 70% favourable to my ears though, which leaves it a way down the Blur album list, but from most other bands would be a damn good record

[Rubi]

When you read people calling 13 and Think Tank the worst Blur albums.

[TripleJay97]

When you read people calling 13 and Think Tank the worst Blur albums.

preach!

[Mallard No. 22]

Re: Leisure - if you came to Blur retrospectively, you would probably be less keen on 'Leisure'. If you were there at the time, you might view it differently.

It was the album that first brought Blur to attention, and gained its initial fans at a time when indie wasn't accepted into the mainstream.

Several of the songs took you somewhere (e.g. Bang!, Repetition, Bad Day, Sing, There's No Other Way, Birthday) - they were right for the time, when the shoegaze sound was normal.

From this low-key start, it was fascinating to see what the wider Blur-family became.

[Rubi]

I think Bang is the most underrated Blur song ever. That, or Music Is My Radar.

[dougharrison]

I think Bang is the most underrated Blur song ever. That, or Music Is My Radar.

Fools Day for my money, an understated classic that's largely forgotten

[stephen]

I think Bang is the most underrated Blur song ever. That, or Music Is My Radar.

Fools Day for my money, an understated classic that's largely forgotten

I really like Fools Day, no idea why it's not on spotify.

[dougharrison]

I really like Fools Day, no idea why it's not on spotify.

Guessing originally because it was for RSD, then largely forgotten about afterwards by the public in general

[stephen]

I really like Fools Day, no idea why it's not on spotify.

Guessing originally because it was for RSD, then largely forgotten about afterwards by the public in general

It's a shame, would definitely get more attention it was more widely available

[aldamasta]

I think Bang is the most underrated Blur song ever. That, or Music Is My Radar.

Agreed completely! Love Bang. Perhaps my favorite song on Leisure.

[Mark87uk]

Love MIMR, never understood how black book was considered as the single for the best of release

[Pavlich]

Fool's Day and Westway are the two best songs since Coxon originally left (Out of Time might push em, Ambulance, Ghost Ship maybe too) and the perfect template for an album that would've been much more perfect than The Magic Whip.

[stephen]

Love MIMR, never understood how black book was considered as the single for the best of release

i may miss the point here massively but it has a kind of tender version 2 feel to it, maybe that's what they thought they were going for

[Mark87uk]

I hate to open myself up to a massive backlash, but im not keen on tender either, good for a singalong, but never a lead single and very un 'blur' god im probably very wrong, and its not shit but it doesnt sit right on 13 in my opinion

[bushmonkey]

I never understood Tender properly until I witnessed this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8_8tsmg2Y

The most magical moment of any performance I've witnessed. Still brings me goosebumps just thinking about it!

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