So Blur was one of the few albums that I had never listened to all the way through, that actually got worse after each subsequent listen – which is rare for me… There was decent diversity in the music throughout the album, and most of the compositions were fairly well done – it’s just that not very much grabbed me… “Song 2” is obviously quite catchy, and probably the most well-known track from this album, but after a few listens, it pretty much loses it’s “muchness” as there just wasn’t a lot of substance there… Not a bad poppish tune at all, but it’s certainly pretty limited… The best track IMO was the last one – “Essex Dogs”, and “Death Of A Party” & “Just A Killer For Your Love” were somewhat interesting, but not nearly enough to make up for the pedestrian nature of the rest of the album… Also “Country sad Ballad Man” is just a truly awful song – not as bad as “30,000 Monkies” from Lightning Bolt (i.e. a band from the apparently the “Noise Rock” genre, that I had to listen to a few weeks back on the 1,001 – but I digress…), but still dreadful… Had some decent expectations for this one, so a bit disappointing to be honest… Nothing but a solid 2 for me…