The Best Of Blur

The band has quietly crafted some of the best singles of the '90s...

The band has quietly crafted some of the best singles of the '90s...

The Best of Blur serves as a document for an astonishingly consistent career full of hits over in Britain.... As with any retrospective, the track listing isn't going to please anyone.... Still, it's hard to argue with the material that made it to this record. The disc, though not sequenced in chronological order, covers all facets of Blur's career.

The Best of Blur serves as a document for an astonishingly consistent career full of hits over in Britain.... As with any retrospective, the track listing isn't going to please anyone.... Still, it's hard to argue with the material that made it to this record. The disc, though not sequenced in chronological order, covers all facets of Blur's career.

It's all pretty essential stuff.

The only disappointment is the one new song, "Music Is My Radar," a rather pallid foray into disco.

The only disappointment is the one new song, "Music Is My Radar," a rather pallid foray into disco.