Blur: The Best Of

Blur: The Best of
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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
Professional reviews
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

CD1 / 12" / cassette / MiniDisc

  1. "Beetlebum" - 5:05
  2. "Song 2" - 2:02
  3. "There's No Other Way" - 3:14
  4. "The Universal" - 4:00
  5. "Coffee And TV" - 5:18
  6. "Parklife" - 3:07
  7. "End Of A Century" - 2:47
  8. "No Distance Left To Run" - 3:26
  9. "Tender" - 7:41
  10. "Girls And Boys" - 4:18
  11. "Charmless Man" - 3:33
  12. "She's So High" - 3:49
  13. "Country House" - 3:57
  14. "On Your Own" - 4:27
  15. "To The End" - 3:51
  16. "This Is A Low" - 5:02
  17. "For Tomorrow" - 6:02
  18. "Music Is My Radar" - 5:29

CD2

Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 11 December 1999

  1. "She's So High" - 5:24
  2. "Girls And Boys" - 4:21
  3. "To The End" - 4:08
  4. "End Of A Century" - 3:00
  5. "Stereotypes" - 3:27
  6. "Charmless Man" - 3:31
  7. "Beetlebum" - 6:09
  8. "M.O.R." - 3:09
  9. "Tender" - 6:20
  10. "No Distance Left To Run" - 4:09

VHS/DVD

  1. "She's So High"
  2. "There's No Other Way"
  3. "Bang"
  4. "Popscene"
  5. "For Tomorrow"
  6. "Chemical World"
  7. "Sunday Sunday"
  8. "Girls & Boys"
  9. "Parklife"
  10. "End of a Century"
  11. "To the End"
  12. "Country House"
  13. "The Universal"
  14. "Stereotypes"
  15. "Charmless Man"
  16. "Song 2"
  17. "On Your Own"
  18. "M.O.R."
  19. "Beetlebum"
  20. "Tender"
  21. "Coffee & TV"
  22. "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

See also: Blur: The Best Of, 11 December, 13 (album), 1990, 1999, 2000, 2000 in music, 2003