Blur: The Best Of
| Blur: The Best of | ||
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| Missing image Blur_thebestof.png Album cover | ||
| Compilation album by Blur | ||
| Released | October 30 2000 (UK) November 21 2000 (US) | |
| Recorded | 1990 - 2000 | |
| Genre | Britpop | |
| Length | CD1: 77 min 8 s CD2: 43 min 38 s | |
| Label | Food, Parlophone (UK) Virgin (US) 7243 8 50457 2 1 | |
| Producer | Stephen Street, William Orbit, Steve Lovell, Steeve Power, Stephen Hague, John Smith, Blur | |
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| Blur Chronology | ||
| 6th 13 (1999) | Blur: The Best of (2000) | 7th Think Tank (2003) |
Blur: The Best of is a greatest hits compilation album by British rock band Blur, first released in late 2000. It was released on CD, cassette tape, MiniDisc, double 12" vinyl record, DVD and VHS. The CD album includes 18 of Blur's 23 singles from 1990 to 2000. A special edition of the CD version included a live CD. The DVD/VHS version contains the videos of Blur's first 22 singles. The album, which has had enduring sales and is one of the most satisfying best-of collections in recent memory, hit # 3 in the band's native UK in the fall of 2000, while denting the US charts at # 186.
| Contents |
Track listing
- All tracks written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree.
- Artwork by artist Julian Opie. The painting of this Blur album can be found at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.
CD1 / 12" / cassette / MiniDisc
- "Beetlebum" - 5:05
- "Song 2" - 2:02
- "There's No Other Way" - 3:14
- "The Universal" - 4:00
- "Coffee And TV" - 5:18
- "Parklife" - 3:07
- "End Of A Century" - 2:47
- "No Distance Left To Run" - 3:26
- "Tender" - 7:41
- "Girls And Boys" - 4:18
- "Charmless Man" - 3:33
- "She's So High" - 3:49
- "Country House" - 3:57
- "On Your Own" - 4:27
- "To The End" - 3:51
- "This Is A Low" - 5:02
- "For Tomorrow" - 6:02
- "Music Is My Radar" - 5:29
CD2
Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 11 December 1999
- "She's So High" - 5:24
- "Girls And Boys" - 4:21
- "To The End" - 4:08
- "End Of A Century" - 3:00
- "Stereotypes" - 3:27
- "Charmless Man" - 3:31
- "Beetlebum" - 6:09
- "M.O.R." - 3:09
- "Tender" - 6:20
- "No Distance Left To Run" - 4:09
VHS/DVD
- "She's So High"
- "There's No Other Way"
- "Bang"
- "Popscene"
- "For Tomorrow"
- "Chemical World"
- "Sunday Sunday"
- "Girls & Boys"
- "Parklife"
- "End of a Century"
- "To the End"
- "Country House"
- "The Universal"
- "Stereotypes"
- "Charmless Man"
- "Song 2"
- "On Your Own"
- "M.O.R."
- "Beetlebum"
- "Tender"
- "Coffee & TV"
- "No Distance Left to Run"
| Band members: Damon Albarn | (Graham Coxon) | Alex James | Dave Rowntree
Albums: Leisure | Modern Life Is Rubbish | Parklife | The Great Escape | Blur | 13 | Think Tank Compilations:The Special Collectors Edition | Bustin' + Dronin' | Blur: The Best Of See also: Britpop | Gorillaz | Fat Les | Stephen Street |
