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"Country House" received a great deal of media attention when Blur's label Food Records moved the original release date to the same day as Oasis's "Roll with It".The British media had already reported an intense rivalry between the two bands and this clash of releases was seen as a battle for the number one spot, dubbed the "Battle of Britpop".
Screenshot of "Bang" video. The video, directed by Willy Smax, features the band in west London at night. Time-lapse photography of night-time traffic was used, creating streaks of light from cars' headlights. Black-and-white performance shots were also included. In later years Dave Rowntree expressed his love of the video, stating it as his ...
On Starshaped, "Commercial Break" is given a new name, "Outro". Also on Starshaped are some songs only on that release. "Explain" is one of these, given a different name ("Can't Explain"), and "When Will We Be Married" is another). No Distance Left to Run features "Intro", the track that opens the Hyde Park concert featured on the second DVD.
List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Title Year Peak chart positions Album UK [85] BEL Tip [58] "Girls & Boys" (live) 2009 191 — All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park 02 July 2009 "Ghost Ship" 2015 — 68 The Magic Whip "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that ...
The video shows Blur on a 1960s/1970s-inspired "Variety Hour" talk show where they sit on a couch (embedded into the red floor) while a group of dancers in black (male) and white (female) MOD-esque outfits perform a dance routine to accompany the song during an interval break.
"The Universal" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur and is featured on their fourth studio album, The Great Escape (1995). It was released on 13 November 1995 by Food and Parlophone as the second single from that album, charting at number five on the UK Singles Chart and number 12 in both Iceland and Ireland.
The accompanying music video for "Girls & Boys" was directed by English singer, songwriter, musician and music video director Kevin Godley. It features Blur performing the song against a bluescreen backdrop of documentary footage of people on Club 18-30 package holidays. Godley branded the video as "Page 3 rubbish", while Blur found it "perfect".
Blur is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 10 February 1997 by Food Records. Blur had previously been broadly critical of American popular culture and their previous albums had become associated with the Britpop movement, particularly Parklife , which had helped them become one of Britain's leading pop acts.