Blur (band)/YMMV

• Americans Hate Tingle: Along with Britpop in general, anything before their fifth album, Blur, wasn't well recognized or accepted in the States by anyone who wasn't a music critic.
• Awesome Music:
  • "The Universal" live at the Hyde Park. It's just thousands of people singing "It really, really, really could happen" in the first show the band has done in years. At the very climax of the song, Albarn stops singing, but the crowd goes on, taking over the role of the choir at the end of the original recording.
  • 13 as a whole is unique. "Battle" and "Coffee and TV" are prime examples.
  • "On Your Own" manages to be a rock epic with little effort. On the same album, you might also appreciate "M.O.R.", with all of the energy it brings.
• Ear Worm: WOO-HOO.
  • Being a pop group, they have a lot of these; "Girls and Boys" is the most catchy after the aforementioned "Song 2".
  • "M.O.R.", "Parklife", "Coffee and TV", "There's No Other Way" are some of the most catchy songs the band has, among others.
  • "Jets" from Think Tank is quite the unique track and will immediately catch your attention.
  • "Ong Ong" from The Magic Whip. Incredibly catchy, incredibly epic.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: While not having the same critical or commercial success as Parklife or Blur, 13 is generally put among the best albums the band has done.
• Face of the Band: Damon Albarn, and for those more familiarized with the band, Graham Coxon.
• Fandom Rivalry: With Oasis. The band itself also had an enormous rivalry with the Gallaghers, which sparked what is now known as "The Battle of Britpop", a chart war so fierce that the two bands even dared release their albums on the same day just to see who would top the other. This quelled down a lot once Oasis broke up and Blur ended up coming back.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: In the 1999 video for "Coffee & TV" - perhaps the band's most famous video - The man missing on the back of the milk carton is played by the band's guitarist Graham Coxon. By the time of the 2003 release of their next album, Think Tank, he was missing from Blur, having quit the band a few years earlier in acrimony.
• Funny Moments: Much of "Mr. Robinson's Quango" is this, but...

He ran into the toilets in the town hall
He got his biro out and wrote on the wall
"I'm wearing black French knickers under my suit
I've got stocking and suspenders on
I'm feeling rather loose"
Ooh, I'm a naughty boy
Ooh, I'm a naughty, naughty boy

• Growing the Beard: Modern Life Is Rubbish is considered the point where the band found their identity.
• Ho Yay: The band members had instances of kissing on stage. The girls obviously got crazy when this happened.
• Misaimed Fandom: No surprise, since band was irony at its fullest, but some people have problems noticing that.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: "Optigan 1", which closes 13.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "This Is A Low" may be a simple song, but listening to it while driving alone on an English road? Deep.
  • Once you get to know the lyrics of "The Universal", you'll understand the majestic song Albarn made out of his pessimistic view of society.
  • "No Distance Left to Run" is the Tear Jerker. A song made to close ends on an relationship does that.
  • "Pyongyang" is an incredibly sad song, no matter how you look at it.
  • On music video terms, the end of "Coffee and TV", as described below, is heartwrenching.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Notably averted; their Genre Shifts were mostly well-received.
• Vindicated by History: Especially in America, their critical stature increased as years went by. By the end of the 90's, Many of the same American publications who negatively reviewed their earlier work were now putting records like Modern Life is Rubbish and Parklife into their Best Albums of the Decade lists.
• The Woobie: The carton of milk from "Coffee and TV". Well, an Iron Woobie, that is; despite seeing things that would make him just turn back and go home, he keeps pressing on until he finds Graham. Who then kills him by drinking his milk and discarding him. He dies smiling at least, as Graham goes back to reunite with his family, and the carton goes to Heaven where he meets the girl milk carton that was killed when she got ran over by a car.