genuinely great blur rarities/b sides/ etc

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the new album has me in a bit of a blur revival mood.
when they're good they really are great.
have heard murmurs of a demo version of 'country house' out there
that's totally at odds with the single,
and hilarious live versions of
daisy bell, etc.

i don't think that in 2 years of P2P/mp3s and such that i've
pressed 'blur' into a search once prior to 'think tank'.
who has ?
and what did yers find ?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh GOD, don't get me started. Blur B-sides are invariably better than the A-sides cause that's where they had free reign and weren't trying so hard to be Important. My singles boxset is at home, which has every B-side they've ever made. You want the Modern Life era B-sides, those are incredible and wonderful and ... erm. I will post more when I'm home and looking at titles. I like the sort of Fried, Tame, Young & Lovely, Shimmer, Mace sort of sub-Cope stuff. Yum.

― kate, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"Peach" is unspeakably fantastic. And in its own strange Albarn-tinged way, "When The Cows Come Home" is dead cute and poignant aswell IMHO.

― DaveyC, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

yes! Peach! Or is it Beachcoma that I'm thinking... argh. Wish I had the titles here.

― kate, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to collect all the Blur cd-singles (those irritating two-parter things....whose idea was that? Bastards!) and have since parted company with many of'em. That said, faves remain:

- Live version of "Popscene" as found on the Blur-ti-Go yank promo disc.
- "Daisy Bell" from the Sunday Sunday Popular Community Song CD
- "Mace" from the "Popscene" CD-single (the A-side is great as well).
- "I'm All Over" from the "Ther's No Other Way" CD-single.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Beachcoma" is great. (B-side of "for tomorrow, which I also like a lot) It sounds dead syd barrett-y. One if the boys & girls b's was really good as well IIRC.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I always liked:

Polished Stone
St Louis
A Song
One Born Every Minute
Ludwig

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the sort of Fried, Tame, Young & Lovely, Shimmer, Mace sort of sub-Cope stuff. Yum.

Kate is otm. I still think Young & Lovely is probably the best thing they've ever done.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, this is bugging me. I've got an mp3 set of all the Blur B's up through the Great Escape days and I can't remember "Young and Lovely" at all! Remind me how it goes?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

(Ascending melody) You can get what you want... so young and lovely aaah-aaah-ahhh, la la laaah...

But then it gets mixed up with the song that goes "I've got time to build you up so tall, you won't fall down on me" ::great Graham riff:: but I'm not sure if that's the same song.

― kate, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

No, that's different, but I like that one a lot as well. I can't for the life of me remember the name of it though.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

blur. what a band though eh? especially in the 'Sugary Tea' era.

ahhh blur i loved you so.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

OH! How you doin..? La la di da. Doo doo dah....

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

"All Your Life", "Get Out of Cities", "Dizzy" = also good bee-sides

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

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