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Jane's Golden Oldies Web Harvest * MP3: full albums      click text link below      click player start button for MP3 (non stop) Blur | years active: 1988-present (hiatuses: 2004-2008, 2016-2022)           genres: britpop, indie rock, alternative rock, art pop, art rock, pop rock

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biography:

The extravagant rock band Blur was formed in London in 1988 by vocalist Damon Albarn, bassist Alex James, guitarist Graham Coxon and drummer Dave Rowntree
Initially called Seymour, this formation used to play where they could, as often as not in front of virtually empty halls
A year after the formation, the group signed a contract Food Records, provided that they change their name
In the end, Seymour became Blur
The young men were very confident in the stage despite all their inexperience and this made them quickly new favorites of the local audience
The best evidence of that was the success of the band’s debut single She’s So High hitting the British Top 50
The follow-up single by Blur performed nicely in the charts until the music they played ran out of fashion
Blur stuck to pop music with barely noticeable guitars, which one day lost its fascination
Their first albums Leisure (1991) and Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) sold poorly while the solid concert activity saved the day

When the promotional tour for the 1993 release came to an end, the Blur members knew they had to try something new
In a year, they presented their new long player, Parklife, a cornerstone in the group’s career
Basically, this studio work became one of the first notable and influential records in the history of Britpop
Blur decided to make guitars the core of their music and play with focus on the art of established British groups, particularly Madness, and The Beatles
Press once again paid close attention to the beginning band as even more people came to see what they were on the stage
Equally good at playing live and working hard in the studio, Blur issued their subsequent album as soon as in 1995
That was The Great Escape, a record to borrow the best features of Parklife, yet to offer a more mature and eclectic material
The follow-up album was named Blur and prepared in Iceland
It was much heavier and more energetic than its predecessors
One could easily recognize a strong influence of the American alternative stage, which granted the new product a warm welcome on the other cost of the
Atlantic Ocean
The USA public was especially happy with the smashing radio-hit Song 2
In 1998, Coxon founded his own label and released a solo album

In a year, Blur prepared another full-length record, 13
This album marked an inevitable breakup with Britpop
The musician made it clear that they wanted to play something different
As if finishing one more chapter in their biography, they released a collection of their most notable songs from that period, Blur: The Best Of (2000)
In the meantime, Coxon was getting more and more focused on his own project paying less attention to Blur
The mass media spread massive speculations about the upcoming collapse of the whole group
Blur’s next album, entitled Think Tank, was executed without Coxon
Guitar parts were remarkably simplified, which was compensated with the application of other instruments
Critics praised this work and named it one of the year’s best efforts
After that, Blur delivered news rarely and were musically inactive
The participants of the bands stated often that Coxon was about to return and that the musicians were thinking over the making of the new album
Meanwhile, Coxon continued recording his own stuff and did not seem willing to come back to Blur
In December 2008, Albarn and Coxon said publicly that they had eliminated all the differences that they had had before and that Blur were going to give
a couple of concerts in July 2009 in their original lineup

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