Bicycle Tragedy
Banned
BLUR
B-SIDES AND UNHEARD SONGS
They were one of the best bands of the 90's. The antithesis to grunge. Artful but sweaty, clean but laddish...beer swilling but gentlemanly. And they wrote some <i>fantatsic</i> songs. I don't know what happened to them after The Great Escape...they got Britpopped out, I suppose...having said that, the self-titled Beck-wank album is actually pretty good if you've had a couple of beers, and follow-up 13 is, as well, if you've had a couple more. Then Graham left and Think tank came out, which I still can't bring myself to listen to. And now Damon is doing that dreadful Gorillaz thing...my my. It's so sad.
Anyway.
Here are 20 of what I consider to be the cream of the crop of Blur's b-sides, sessions, etc. I could probably -no, I could <i>definitely</i>- scrape together another twenty or so good, solid tracks like these from the archives (Blur has an ungodly amount of non-LP songs and alternate versions) but this stuff is the really essential unheard Blur. In my book. And I think I'm qualified.... I spent 78 percent of 1994 in my bedroom, listening to them.
About the songs...
Everything is chronological. Sing is from 1989, pre-leisure, when they were still called Seymour. It is a different version than the one recorded a year later during the Leisure sessions, which later appeared on the Trainspotting soundtrack. Uncle Love and Mr. Briggs are Leisure outtakes. Into Another, Young and Lovely, Long Legged ,and Let's all Go Down The Strand are from the Modern Life sessions, as is Chemical World, presented here in a different mix (possibly a different recording, but I don't think so.)
Park Life is from an acoustic BBC session, and the three tracks that follow it were outtakes from the Park Life album sessions, later issued as B-Sides. (That's Graham as cowboy on rednecks, I believe.) No Monsters In Me through Ultranol are all excellent tunes that escaped The Great Escape. All Your Life and Death Of A Party are circa 1997 (the self-titled project) and All We Want is a B-side from , I believe, No Distance Left To Run.
Closing number Far Out is a 13-era remake of the Park Life song. It is fantastic...if you listen to nothing else in here, listen to this song.
SING
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/01%20Sing%20%28To%20Me%29.mp3
UNCLE LOVE
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/02%20Uncle%20Love.mp3
MR. BRIGGS
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/03%20Mr%20Briggs.mp3
INTO ANOTHER
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/04%20Into%20Another.mp3
YOUNG AND LOVELY
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/05%20Young%20and%20Lovely.mp3
CHEMICAL WORLD (alternate mix)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/06%20Chemical%20World%20%28alternate%20mix%29.mp3
LONG LEGGED
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/07%20Long%20Legged.mp3
LET'S ALL GO DOWN THE STRAND
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/08%20Lets%20All%20Go%20Down%20The%20Strand.mp3
PARK LIFE (acoustic session)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/09%20Park%20Life%20%28acoustic%29.mp3
THEME FROM AN IMAGINARY FILM
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/10%20Theme%20From%20An%20Imaginary%20Film.mp3
PETER PANIC
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/11%20Peter%20Panic.mp3
REDNECKS
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/12%20Rednecks.mp3
NO MONSTERS IN ME
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/13%20No%20Monsters%20In%20Me.mp3
ST. LOUIS
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/14%20St.%20Louis.mp3
ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/15%20One%20Born%20Every%20Minute.mp3
ULTRANOL
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/16%20Ultranol.mp3
ALL YOUR LIFE
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/17%20All%20Your%20Life.mp3
DEATH OF A PARTY (demo)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/18%20Death%20Of%20A%20Party%20%28demo%29.mp3
ALL WE WANT
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/19%20All%20We%20Want.mp3
FAR OUT (second version)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/20%20Far%20Out%20%28second%20version%29.mp3
UPDATE: Zip file w/ two extra songs
http://www.sendspace.com/file/f0up4h
B-SIDES AND UNHEARD SONGS
They were one of the best bands of the 90's. The antithesis to grunge. Artful but sweaty, clean but laddish...beer swilling but gentlemanly. And they wrote some <i>fantatsic</i> songs. I don't know what happened to them after The Great Escape...they got Britpopped out, I suppose...having said that, the self-titled Beck-wank album is actually pretty good if you've had a couple of beers, and follow-up 13 is, as well, if you've had a couple more. Then Graham left and Think tank came out, which I still can't bring myself to listen to. And now Damon is doing that dreadful Gorillaz thing...my my. It's so sad.
Anyway.
Here are 20 of what I consider to be the cream of the crop of Blur's b-sides, sessions, etc. I could probably -no, I could <i>definitely</i>- scrape together another twenty or so good, solid tracks like these from the archives (Blur has an ungodly amount of non-LP songs and alternate versions) but this stuff is the really essential unheard Blur. In my book. And I think I'm qualified.... I spent 78 percent of 1994 in my bedroom, listening to them.
About the songs...
Everything is chronological. Sing is from 1989, pre-leisure, when they were still called Seymour. It is a different version than the one recorded a year later during the Leisure sessions, which later appeared on the Trainspotting soundtrack. Uncle Love and Mr. Briggs are Leisure outtakes. Into Another, Young and Lovely, Long Legged ,and Let's all Go Down The Strand are from the Modern Life sessions, as is Chemical World, presented here in a different mix (possibly a different recording, but I don't think so.)
Park Life is from an acoustic BBC session, and the three tracks that follow it were outtakes from the Park Life album sessions, later issued as B-Sides. (That's Graham as cowboy on rednecks, I believe.) No Monsters In Me through Ultranol are all excellent tunes that escaped The Great Escape. All Your Life and Death Of A Party are circa 1997 (the self-titled project) and All We Want is a B-side from , I believe, No Distance Left To Run.
Closing number Far Out is a 13-era remake of the Park Life song. It is fantastic...if you listen to nothing else in here, listen to this song.
SING
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/01%20Sing%20%28To%20Me%29.mp3
UNCLE LOVE
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/02%20Uncle%20Love.mp3
MR. BRIGGS
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/03%20Mr%20Briggs.mp3
INTO ANOTHER
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/04%20Into%20Another.mp3
YOUNG AND LOVELY
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/05%20Young%20and%20Lovely.mp3
CHEMICAL WORLD (alternate mix)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/06%20Chemical%20World%20%28alternate%20mix%29.mp3
LONG LEGGED
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/07%20Long%20Legged.mp3
LET'S ALL GO DOWN THE STRAND
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/08%20Lets%20All%20Go%20Down%20The%20Strand.mp3
PARK LIFE (acoustic session)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/09%20Park%20Life%20%28acoustic%29.mp3
THEME FROM AN IMAGINARY FILM
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/10%20Theme%20From%20An%20Imaginary%20Film.mp3
PETER PANIC
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/11%20Peter%20Panic.mp3
REDNECKS
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/12%20Rednecks.mp3
NO MONSTERS IN ME
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/13%20No%20Monsters%20In%20Me.mp3
ST. LOUIS
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/14%20St.%20Louis.mp3
ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/15%20One%20Born%20Every%20Minute.mp3
ULTRANOL
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/16%20Ultranol.mp3
ALL YOUR LIFE
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/17%20All%20Your%20Life.mp3
DEATH OF A PARTY (demo)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/18%20Death%20Of%20A%20Party%20%28demo%29.mp3
ALL WE WANT
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/19%20All%20We%20Want.mp3
FAR OUT (second version)
http://www.filefreak.com/pfiles/76513/20%20Far%20Out%20%28second%20version%29.mp3
UPDATE: Zip file w/ two extra songs
http://www.sendspace.com/file/f0up4h
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