Summary from 47 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Blur’s catalog across 16 albums from 47 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Blur album is Parklife (1994) with a 8.1/10 average from 6 ratings, followed by Think Tank and Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1993 to 2024. Girls and Boys ranks as the highest-rated Blur song on Rate.fm with a 9.0/10 average.
Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
“A new comp from a band whose stature has only grown in its absence finds Blur reshaping their identity and favoring the artier end of their catalog.”
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“Six albums into their envious career, Blur have finally found a sound to match their name. I'm sure the name initially came from the donut- stuffed mouth of Virgin A&R; reps who feared selling a band called "Seymour" to the Teens UK. "Blur" fits the mold of the monosyllabic, schwa- voweled noun system of Brit-rock nomenclature-- Pulp, Bush, Lush, Suede. Now, after nearly a decade, Blur have grown ”
Think Tank
“Thirty five years ago, while Mick and Keef injected the final doses of Jack and junk into *Beggars Banquet* out in Los Angeles, Brian Jones sucked a deep hit of kif and hopped a cab down the coast from Tangier to Larache with engineer George Chkiantz and girlfriend Suki in tow. From Larache the group hiked halfway up a mountain to the village of Jajouka, where for ages masses of drummers pounded u”