Blur – Britpop's great survivors

Goldsmiths College, LondonA few weeks back, a triple CD called Common People: The Story Of Britpop came out. Blur don't feature on it, but you got the feeling it had been released to capitalise on the nostalgia unleashed by their reformation. Certainly, it cast the band's reappearance into sharp relief. As evidenced by its contents, time hasn't been kind to the era when football was held to be coming home. The music sounds either tinny or hoary and it's packed with utterly forgotten names - who ...

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