Beetlebum opens Blur's fifth album with a heavy, steady pace: muffled drums, Coxon's bent guitar lines, Albarn's vocal low and flat. Released as the lead single on 20 January 1997, it went to number one.
Badhead sits sixth on Parklife, the April 1994 Food Records album that settled Blur in the centre of Britpop. Stephen Street produced; John Smith engineered. Sessions ran at Maison Rouge in London from November 1993.
Barbaric is the third track on Blur’s ninth studio album, The Ballad of Darren, released 21 July 2023 on Parlophone. James Ford produced the record at Studio 13 in London and Devon, the same rooms that shaped the.
The Narcissist announced The Ballad of Darren on 18 May 2023. Eight years after The Magic Whip, Blur put out a straight alternative rock single produced by James Ford, recorded at Studio 13 in London and Devon between.