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The Best of Blur

by Blur

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Overall Rating: 2.8916 The Best of Blur is ranked overall as 2.8916 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.3511 The Best of Blur has an avg. critic score of 3.3511 out of 4 stars

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Pitchfork

The Best of Blur serves as a document for an astonishingly consistent career full of hits over in Britain.... As with any retrospective, the track listing isn't going to please anyone.... Still, it's hard to argue with the material that made it to this ...more

Wall of Sound

Musically, the group goes way beyond Britpop, a movement largely of its own invention, to survey Burt Bacharach-style suavity on "The Universal" and "To the End," hedonistic dance pop on "Girls and Boys," and Lennon-esque soul-baring on ...more

Billboard

The only disappointment is the one new song, "Music Is My Radar," a rather pallid foray into disco. ...more

Q Magazine

Blur have had many more than 18 hits; certainly there are sufficient omissions to form the bulk of a second disc. ...more

Sonicnet

The only complaints involve omissions. Four of five singles between '92 and '94 (among them the minor American hit, "Bang") aren't here, which bypasses the band's crucial early development and leaves only one song from Modern Life, the punchy "For ...more

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Mojo

It's all pretty essential stuff. ...more

All Music Guide

And "dazzling" isn't really hyperbole -- based on these 18 songs, Blur isn't just the best pop band of the '90s, with greater range and depth than their peers, they rank among the best pop bands of all time. The Best of Blur illustrates that, even as it ...more

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