Complete List Of Blur Songs From A to Z

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Blur’s catalog stretches from the bright guitar pop of Leisure through the defining Britpop records Parklife and The Great Escape, the experimental turns of Blur and 13, and the reflective reunion album The Ballad of Darren. This complete A-to-Z guide brings together the band’s nine studio albums, B-sides, fan-club releases, soundtrack recordings, hidden tracks, demos, rarities, and deluxe-edition songs.

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Blur, an English rock band formed in London in 1988, consists of Damon Albarn on vocals, Graham Coxon on guitar, Alex James on bass, and Dave Rowntree on drums. Rising to prominence during the early 1990s, they became one of the defining bands of the Britpop movement. Their high-profile chart rivalry with Oasis helped drive mainstream interest in British alternative rock, but Blur’s catalog quickly demonstrated a musical range that extended far beyond that moment.

The band’s nine studio albums are Leisure (1991), Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994), The Great Escape (1995), Blur (1997), 13 (1999), Think Tank (2003), The Magic Whip (2015), and The Ballad of Darren (2023). Across those releases, Blur moved from Madchester-influenced alternative rock to sharp observations of British life, lo-fi American indie influences, electronic experimentation, African rhythms, and mature reflections on memory and loss.

The band’s most commercially successful period included Parklife, which won Best British Album at the 1995 Brit Awards, and “Country House,” Blur’s first UK number-one single. “Beetlebum” later became their second British chart-topper, while “Song 2” developed into their most recognizable international recording. Blur received the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the 2012 Brit Awards.

After an eight-year gap between studio albums, Blur returned with The Ballad of Darren in 2023. The album became their seventh UK number-one record and included “The Narcissist,” “St. Charles Square,” “Barbaric,” “The Ballad,” “Russian Strings,” and “The Heights.” Deluxe editions added “The Swan,” “The Rabbi,” and “Sticks and Stones,” the latter featuring Graham Coxon on lead vocals.

Blur’s 2023 reunion also included two landmark performances at Wembley Stadium. Recordings from those concerts were released as Live at Wembley Stadium in 2024, accompanied by the documentary To the End and the concert film Blur: Live at Wembley Stadium.

Blur remains one of Britain’s most influential modern rock bands. Their best-known singles only reveal part of a catalog filled with instrumentals, hidden tracks, alternate versions, fan-club recordings, B-sides, soundtrack appearances, and experiments that repeatedly pushed the group beyond the boundaries of Britpop.

Complete List Of Blur Songs From A to Z

#–E

“1” – Blur 21 (2012)
“3” – Blur 21 (2012)
“7 Days” – Music Is My Radar (2000)
“1992” – 13 (1999)
“Advert” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Alex’s Song” – End of a Century (1994)
“All We Want” – Tender (1999)
“All Your Life” – Beetlebum (1997)
“Always” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Ambulance” – Think Tank (2003)
“Anniversary Waltz” – Girls & Boys (1994)
“Avalon” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Avoid the Traffic” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Bad Day” – Leisure (1991)
“Badgeman Brown” – Popscene (1992)
“Badhead” – Parklife (1994)
“The Ballad” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Bang” – Leisure (1991)
“Bank Holiday” – Parklife (1994)
“Barbaric” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Battery in Your Leg” – Think Tank (2003)
“Battle” – 13 (1999)
“Beachcoma” – For Tomorrow (1993)
“Beached Whale” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Beagle 2” – No Distance Left to Run (1999)
“Beard” – Parklife (1994)
“Beetlebum” – Blur (1997)
“Berserk” – Bang (1991)
“Best Days” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Birthday” – Leisure (1991)
“Black Book” – Music Is My Radar (2000)
“Blue Jeans” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“B.L.U.R.E.M.I.” – 13 (1999)
“Blurred” – Blurred (1996)
“Bone Bag” – For Tomorrow (1993)
“Bored Housewives” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Brothers and Sisters” – Think Tank (2003)
“Bugman” – 13 (1999)
“Bustin’ + Dronin'” – Song 2 (1997)
“Caramel” – 13 (1999)
“Caravan” – Think Tank (2003)
“Charmless Man” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Chemical World” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Chinese Bombs” – Blur (1997)
“Close” – Close (Fan club single) (1998)
“Clover Over Dover” – Parklife (1994)
“Coffee & TV” – 13 (1999)
“Colin Zeal” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Colours” – Colours (Fan club single) (2003)
“Come Together” – Leisure (1991)
“Commercial Break” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (hidden track) (1993)
“Coping” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Country House” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Country Sad Ballad Man” – Blur (1997)
“Cowboy Song” – Dead Man on Campus soundtrack (1999)
“Coyote” – Coffee & TV (1999)
“Crazy Beat” – Think Tank (2003)
“Cross Channel Love” – Blur 21 (recorded 1994 or 1995) (2012)
“Dan Abnormal” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Dancehall” – Beetlebum (1997)
“Day Upon Day” – There’s No Other Way (1991)
“Death Metal” – Unreleased (1999)
“Death of a Party” – Blur (1997)
“The Debt Collector” – Parklife (1994)
“Dizzy” – Sunday Sunday (1993)
“Don’t Be” – Crazy Beat (2003)
“Don’t Bomb When You Are the Bomb” – Don’t Bomb When You Are the Bomb (2002)
“Down” – She’s So High (1990)
“Eine Kleine Lift Musik” – The Help Album (1995)
“End of a Century” – Parklife (1994)
“Entertain Me” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Ernold Same” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Es Schmect” – Chemical World (1993)
“Essex Dogs” – Blur (1997)
“The Everglades (For Leonard)” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Explain” – Bang (1991)

F–L

“Fade Away” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Far Away Island” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Far Out” – Parklife (1994)
“Fed Up” – Unreleased (1989)
“Fool” – Leisure (1991)
“Fool’s Day” – Fool’s Day (2010)
“For Old Time’s Sake” – Unreleased (intended for the “Sunday Sunday” single) (1993)
“For Tomorrow” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“French Song” – Tender (1999)
“Fried” – Sunday Sunday (1993)
“Garden Central” – Popscene (1992)
“Gene by Gene” – Think Tank (2003)
“Get Out of Cities” – Song 2 (1997)
“Ghost Ship” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“Girls & Boys” – Parklife (1994)
“Globe Alone” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Goodbye Albert” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Good Song” – Think Tank (2003)
“Go Out” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“Got Yer!” – To the End (1994)
“Hanging Over” – For Tomorrow (1993)
“Headist/Into Another” – Music Is My Radar (2000)
“The Heights” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Here I Am” – Unreleased (1989)
“He Thought of Cars” – The Great Escape (1995)
“High Cool” – Leisure (1991)
“Hope You Find Your Suburb” – Blur 21 (2012)
“The Horrors” – Charmless Man (1996)
“I Broadcast” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“Ice Cream Man” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“I Got Law” – 13 (Japan bonus track) (1999)
“I Know” – She’s So High (1990)
“I Love Her” – I Love Her (Fan club single) (1997)
“I’m All Over” – There’s No Other Way (1991)
“I’m Fine” – Popscene (1992)
“I’m Just a Killer for Your Love” – Blur (1997)
“Inertia” – There’s No Other Way (1991)
“Interlude” – Blur (hidden track) (1997)
“Intermission” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (hidden track) (1993)
“Into Another” – For Tomorrow (1993)
“Intro” – No Distance Left to Run (film) (2010)
“It Could Be You” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Jawbone” – Blur 21 (recorded 2000) (2012)
“Jets” – Think Tank (2003)
“Jubilee” – Parklife (1994)
“Kazoo” – Blur 21 (demo from 1992) (2012)
“Kissin Time” – Kissin Time (Marianne Faithfull album) (2002)
“London Loves” – Parklife (1994)
“Lonesome Street” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“Long Legged” – Sunday Sunday (1993)
“Look Inside America” – Blur (1997)
“Lot 105” – Parklife (1994)
“Ludwig” – Stereotypes (1996)
“Luminous” – Bang (1991)

M–R

“Mace” – Popscene (1992)
“Magic America” – Parklife (1994)
“Magpie” – Girls & Boys (1994)
“The Man Who Left Himself” – Stereotypes (1996)
“Mellow Jam” – Tender (1999)
“Mellow Song” – 13 (1999)
“Metal Hip Slop” – Coffee & TV (1999)
“Me, White Noise” – Think Tank (hidden track) (2003)
“Me, White Noise (Alternate Version)” – Good Song (2003)
“Mirrorball” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“Miss America” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Mixed Up” – Sunday Sunday (1993)
“Money Makes Me Crazy” – Out of Time (2003)
“M.O.R.” – Blur (1997)
“Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club” – Think Tank (2003)
“Morricone” – Good Song (2003)
“Movin’ On” – Blur (1997)
“Mr. Briggs” – There’s No Other Way (1991)
“Mr. Robinson’s Quango” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Music Is My Radar” – Music Is My Radar (2000)
“My Ark” – Chemical World (1993)
“My Terracotta Heart” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“The Narcissist” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Never Clever” – Chemical World/Food 100 (1993)
“New World Towers” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“No Distance Left to Run” – 13 (1999)
“No Monsters in Me” – The Universal (1995)
“Nutter” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Oily Water” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“One Born Every Minute” – Country House (1995)
“Ong Ong” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“On the Way to the Club” – Think Tank (2003)
“On Your Own” – Blur (1997)
“Optigan 1” – 13 (1999)
“Out of Time” – Think Tank (2003)
“The Outsider” – Crazy Beat (2003)
“Pap Pop” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Parklife” – Parklife (1994)
“Peach” – For Tomorrow (1993)
“People in Europe” – Girls & Boys (1994)
“Peter Panic” – Girls & Boys (1994)
“Piano” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Pleasant Education” – Unreleased (1992)
“Polished Stone” – Song 2 (1997)
“Popscene” – Popscene (1992)
“Pressure on Julian” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“The Puritan” – Under the Westway (2012)
“Pyongyang” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“The Rabbi” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Red Necks” – End of a Century (1994)
“Repetition” – Leisure (1991)
“Resigned” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Rico” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Russian Strings” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)

S–Z

“Saturday” – Unreleased (2002)
“Saturday Morning” – Blur 21 (2012)
“She Don’t Mind” – Blur 21 (2012)
“She’s So High” – Leisure (1991)
“Shimmer” – Sunday Sunday (1993)
“Sing” – Leisure (1991)
“Sing (to Me)” – Sing (to Me) (1998)
“Singular Charm” – Unreleased (1992)
“Sir Elton John’s Cock” – Blur 21 (recorded 2002) (2012)
“Slow Down” – Leisure (1991)
“Some Glad Morning” – Some Glad Morning (2005)
“A Song” – Charmless Man (1996)
“Song 2” – Blur (1997)
“So You” – No Distance Left to Run (1999)
“A Spell (For Money)” – Beetlebum (1997)
“Squeezebox” – Blur 21 (2012)
“Starshaped” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“St. Charles Square” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Stereotypes” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Sticks and Stones” – The Ballad of Darren (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
“St. Louis” – Charmless Man (1996)
“Strange News from Another Star” – Blur (1997)
“Sub Species of an American Day” – Unreleased (2005)
“Sunday Sunday” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Sunnyside Farm” – Sunnyside Farm (TV Series Theme) (1997)
“Supa Shoppa” – Parklife (1994)
“Swallows in the Heatwave” – M.O.R. (1997)
“Swamp Song” – 13 (1999)
“The Swan” – The Ballad of Darren (2023)
“Sweet Song” – Think Tank (2003)
“Tame” – Stereotypes (1996)
“Tell Me, Tell Me” – Sunday Sunday (1993)
“Tender” – 13 (1999)
“Theme from an Imaginary Film” – Parklife (1994)
“Theme from Retro” – Blur (1997)
“There Are Too Many of Us” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“There’s No Other Way” – Leisure (1991)
“This Is a Low” – Parklife (1994)
“Thought I Was a Spaceman” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“Threadneedle Street” – To the End (1994)
“Top Man” – The Great Escape (1995)
“To the End” – Parklife (1994)
“To the End (French Version)” – Parklife (1994)
“To the End (La Comédie)” – Country House (1995)
“Tracy Jacks” – Parklife (1994)
“Trade Stylee” – Coffee & TV (1999)
“Trailerpark” – 13 (1999)
“Trimm Trabb” – 13 (1999)
“Trouble in the Message Centre” – Parklife (1994)
“Tune 2” – Out of Time (2003)
“Turn It Up” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“Ultranol” – The Universal (1995)
“Uncle Love” – Bang (1991)
“Under the Westway” – Under the Westway (2012)
“The Universal” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Untitled (also known as “Ernold Same (Reprise)”)” – The Great Escape (1995)
“Us” – Blur (2011)
“Villa Rosie” – Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
“The Wassailing Song” – The Wassailing Song (1992)
“Wear Me Down” – Leisure (1991)
“We’ve Got a File on You” – Think Tank (2003)
“When the Cows Come Home” – For Tomorrow (1993)
“Won’t Do It” – There’s No Other Way (1991)
“Woodpigeon Song” – Beetlebum (1997)
“X-Offender” – Coffee & TV (1999)
“Y’all Doomed” – The Magic Whip (2015)
“Young and Lovely” – Chemical World (1993)
“You’re So Great” – Blur (1997)
“Yuko and Hiro” – The Great Escape (1995)