Blur, boxed

Blur have gone and put this together.

For any sane fan, it's a wet dream of Blur goodness. OK, so we're re-buying 14 discs of material we already have to get three discs of new stuff plus a few DVDs we'll watch once, possibly rip the audio from and then shelve, but still. This turned out better than we had dared hope for...however, would it *really* have killed them to give us the complete Singles night? We get it, you hate "Bang", get over it.

(What, no tuning forks? What a rip off!)

bears hugs are my radar

This:



is essentially this:



That's OK, though, because it's still pretty fantastic and a good time. I'm curious to hear more.

mpfree - Blur's "Fool's Day"

In a wise and very welcome move, Blur have made their new single "Fool's Day" available for download from their website for the cost of an e-mail address.

Whew.

Truth be told, the song is more memorable for being the first new Blur material in seven years than for being a great Blur song, but it's nice to have a high quality version available - though who uses wav format anymore?

Now, if the Pet Shop Boys would take note and do something similar for their Record Store Day single, we'd be all set.

thought for the day

Blur's "Country House", with time as distance, is both much better and twice as obnoxious as you remember.

Happy December.