Blur 21: The Box

Tracklist

• Vinyl 1: Leisure
• 1
  She’s So High
  4:46
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Bang
  3:37
  3.1 ★
• 3
  Slow Down
  3:11
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Repetition
  5:25
  3.3 ★
• 5
  Bad Day
  4:24
  3.4 ★
• 6
  Sing
  6:00
  3.4 ★
• 7
  There’s No Other Way
  3:24
  4.5 ★
• 8
  Fool
  3:14
  3.2 ★
• 9
  Come Together
  3:52
  3.4 ★
• 10
  High Cool
  3:37
  3.2 ★
• 11
  Birthday
  3:49
  3.4 ★
• 12
  Wear Me Down
  4:51
  3.4 ★
• Vinyl 2: Modern Life Is Rubbish (disc1)
• 1
  For Tomorrow
  4:21
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Advert
  3:45
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Colin Zeal
  3:16
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Pressure on Julian
  3:31
  3.1 ★
• 5
  Star Shaped
  3:26
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Blue Jeans
  3:54
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Chemical World / Intermission
  6:33
  3.8 ★
• Vinyl 3: Modern Life is Rubbish (disc2)
• 1
  Sunday Sunday
  2:38
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Oily Water
  5:01
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Miss America
  5:35
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Villa Rosie
  3:54
  3.1 ★
• 5
  Coping
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Turn It Up
  3:22
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Resigned / Commercial Break
  6:12
  4.0 ★
• Vinyl 4: Parklife (disc 1)
• 1
  Girls & Boys
  4:51
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Tracy Jacks
  4:19
  3.6 ★
• 3
  End of a Century
  2:45
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Parklife

  Blur starring Phil Daniels
  3:05
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Bank Holiday
  1:42
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Badhead
  3:25
  3.4 ★
• 7
  The Debt Collector
  2:10
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Far Out
  1:37
  2.5 ★
• Vinyl 5: Parklife (disc 2)
• 1
  To the End
  4:04
  4.0 ★
• 2
  London Loves
  4:15
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Trouble in the Message Centre
  4:09
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Clover Over Dover
  3:22
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Magic America
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Jubilee
  2:47
  3.5 ★
• 7
  This Is a Low
  5:16
• 8
  Lot 105
  1:19
  3.0 ★
• Vinyl 6: The Great Escape (disc 1)
• 1
  Stereotypes
  3:11
  3.4 ★
• 2
  Country House
  3:56
  3.8 ★
• 3
  Best Days
  4:49
  2.8 ★
• 4
  Charmless Man
  3:33
  3.3 ★
• 5
  Fade Away
  4:18
  3.1 ★
• 6
  Top Man
  4:00
  2.6 ★
• 7
  The Universal
  3:58
  3.4 ★
• Vinyl 7: The Great Escape (disc 2)
• 1
  Mr Robinson’s Quango
  4:00
  3.4 ★
• 2
  He Thought of Cars
  4:16
  2.6 ★
• 3
  It Could Be You
  3:12
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Ernold Same
  2:06
  2.6 ★
• 5
  Globe Alone
  2:23
  3.4 ★
• 6
  Dan Abnormal
  3:23
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Entertain Me
  4:19
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Yuko and Hiro
  5:24
  2.8 ★
• Vinyl 8: Blur (disc 1)
• 1
  Beetlebum
  5:05
  3.8 ★
• 2
  Song 2
  2:01
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Country Sad Ballad Man
  4:50
  3.5 ★
• 4
  M.O.R.
  3:27
  3.5 ★
• 5
  On Your Own
  4:26
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Theme From Retro
  3:36
  3.5 ★
• 7
  You’re So Great
  3:35
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Death of a Party
  4:33
  3.2 ★
• Vinyl 9: Blur (disc 2)
• 1
  Chinese Bombs
  1:24
  3.1 ★
• 2
  I’m Just a Killer for Your Love
  4:11
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Look Inside America
  3:50
  3.3 ★
• 4
  Strange News From Another Star
  4:03
  3.1 ★
• 5
  Movin’ On
  3:42
  3.8 ★
• 6
  Essex Dogs
  8:10
  2.8 ★
• Vinyl 10: 13 (disc 1)
• 1
  Tender
  7:40
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Bugman
  4:47
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Coffee & TV
  5:58
  3.9 ★
• 4
  Swamp Song
  4:36
  2.9 ★
• 5
  1992
  5:29
  2.6 ★
• 6
  B.L.U.R.E.M.I.
  2:52
  2.6 ★
• Vinyl 11: 13 (disc 2)
• 1
  Battle
  7:43
  3.2 ★
• 2
  Mellow Song
  3:56
  2.4 ★
• 3
  Trailerpark
  4:26
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Caramel
  7:38
  2.6 ★
• 5
  Trimm Trabb
  5:37
  3.0 ★
• 6
  No Distance Left to Run
  3:27
  3.1 ★
• 7
  Optigan 1
  2:34
  1.9 ★
• Vinyl 12: Think Tank (disc 1)
• 1
  Ambulance
  5:09
  4.6 ★
• 2
  Out of Time
  3:51
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Crazy Beat
  3:14
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Good Song
  3:08
  2.8 ★
• 5
  On the Way to the Club
  3:47
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Brothers and Sisters
  3:47
  3.5 ★
• Vinyl 13: Think Tank (disc 2)
• 1
  Caravan
  4:35
  3.8 ★
• 2
  We’ve Got a File on You
  1:02
  2.4 ★
• 3
  Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club
  3:02
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Sweet Song
  4:00
  2.4 ★
• 5
  Jets
  6:25
  3.4 ★
• 6
  Gene by Gene
  3:48
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Battery in Your Leg
  11:34

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Release credits

• Addi 800
  assistant [10.1-6, 11.1-2, 11.4-7]
• Alex James
  background vocals [12.1-6, 11.1-7, 13.1-6, 10.1-6], bass guitar [3.1-7, 10.1-6, 9.1-6, 2.1-7, 11.1-7, 8.1-8, 12.1-6, 13.1-6, 1.1-12], double bass [1], handclaps [3], producer [1, 11], vocal [8]
• Angela Murrell
  additional [7], background vocals [7], guest [7]
• Audrey Riley
  guest [1], strings [1]
• Ben Hillier
  additional [5], engineer [13.1-7, 12.1-6], mix [12.1-6, 13.1-7], other instruments [1], percussion [5], producer [13.1-7, 12.1-6]
• Blur
  producer [3.2-3, 3.7, 12.1-6, 11.3, 9.2, 2.7, 1.6, 13.1-7, 5.1]
• Cathy Gillat
  additional [8], guest [8]
• Chris Pitsillides
  guest [1], strings [1]
• Chris Tombling
  guest [1], strings [1]
• Dalal
  goblet drum [2]
• Damian LeGassick
  programming [11.5, 10.1]
• Damon Albarn
  Hammond organ [8.1-8, 9.1-6], Moog [5], acoustic guitar [9.1-6, 11.1-7, 8.1-8, 10.1-6], bell [1], electronic organ [1], guitar [13.1-6, 1.1, 1.6, 12.1-6], keyboard [10.1-6, 11.1-7, 13.1-6, 3.4, 2.2, 1.1-2, 1.5-7, 1.9-12, 8.1-8, 12.1-6, 9.1-6], lead vocals [13.1-6, 9.1-6, 11.1-7, 1.1-12, 8.1-8, 2.2-3, 12.1-6, 10.1-6], melodica [3.7, 11.1-7, 2.6, 10.1-6], organ [1], piano [9.1-6, 2.6-7, 8.1-8, 3.7], producer [1, 11], spoken vocals [2.2-3, 3.2], synthesizer [3.5, 10.1-6, 11.1-7], vocal [3.1, 3.3-7, 2.1, 2.4-7]
• Dave Rowntree
  background vocals [12.1-6, 13.1-6], drum machine [2.6, 3.5], drums (drum set) [12.1-6, 3.1-4, 3.6-7, 8.1-5, 8.5-8, 9.1-6, 13.1-6, 10.1-6, 11.1-7, 1.1-12, 2.1-5, 2.7], guitar [5], handclaps [3], percussion [9.1-6, 11.1-7, 10.1-6, 8.1-8], producer [11], timpani [1]
• Desyud Mustafa
  orchestrator [2]
• Gerard Navarro
  assistant [11.1-2, 11.4-7, 10.1-6]
• Graham Coxon
  Moog [5], acoustic guitar [8.1-8, 9.1-6, 3.1, 3.3-6, 2.1-3, 2.5-7], background vocals [1.1-12, 8.1-6, 8.8, 3.1-6, 9.1-6, 2.1-7], banjo [10.1-6, 11.1-7], drums (drum set) [8.2, 9.4], electric guitar [10.1-6, 8.1-8, 2.1-7, 3.1-7, 9.1-6, 11.1-7], guitar [1.1-12, 2.6], lead vocals [10.1, 10.3, 8.7], other instruments [2.4, 3.3], percussion [3], producer [11], saxophone [10.1-6, 11.1-7], slide guitar [1, 7], tambourine [2.2-3, 3.5-6], theremin [8.2, 9.4], triangle [6]
• Groupe regional du Marrakech
  performing orchestra [2]
• Iain Roberton
  assistant [10.1-6, 11.1-2, 11.4-7]
• Ivan McCready
  cello [2], guest [2]
• Jamal Gueddam
  cello [2]
• James Dring
  additional [12.1, 12.1-2, 12.2-3, 12.3-4, 12.4-5, 12.5-6, 12.6, 13.1, 13.1-2, 13.2-3, 13.3-4, 13.4-5, 13.5-6, 13.6-7, 13.7]
• Jason Cox
  additional [1], assistant [12.1-6, 13.1-7], drums (drum set) [1], engineer [11.1-7, 9.2, 12.1-6, 13.1-7, 10.1-6], membranophone [1]
• John Metcalfe
  guest [2], strings [2], viola [2]
• John Smith
  engineer [7.1-8, 8.1-8, 2.1-7, 11.1-2, 11.4-7, 6.1-7, 10.1-6, 5.1-8, 3.1-7, 4.1-8, 9.1, 9.3-6], producer [5.1, 2.7, 3.2-3, 3.7]
• Julia Gardner
  additional [2], assistant [6.1-7, 7.1-8]
• Kate St John
  cor anglais [5], oboe [5], soprano saxophone [5]
• Ken Livingstone
  guest [4], spoken vocals [4]
• Kick Horns
  alto saxophone [1], baritone saxophone [1], cornet [1], guest [3.1, 4.3, 4.6-7], performer [1], tenor saxophone [1], trombone [1], trumpet [1]
• Leo Grant
  engineer [6], mix [6]
• Leo Payne
  guest [1], strings [1]
• London Community Gospel Choir
  choir vocals [1], guest [1], vocal [1]
• Louisa Fuller
  guest [2], violin [2]
• Lætitia Sadier
  background vocals [1], guest [1]
• Mae McKenna
  background vocals [1]
• Mark Pharoah
  guest [2], violin [2]
• Mike Smith
  additional [1], other instruments [1], saxophone [12.1, 13.1, 13.5]
• Mike Thorne
  producer [8, 11-12]
• Miriam Stockley
  background vocals [1]
• Neil Sidwell
  guest [7], trombone [7]
• Norman Cook
  producer [12.3, 13.6]
• Phil Daniels
  guest [4], spoken vocals [4]
• Richard Edwards
  guest [3], trombone [3]
• Rick Koster
  guest [2], violin [2]
• Roddy Lorimer
  flugelhorn [3], guest [3, 6], trombone [6]
• Sean Spuehler
  programming [1]
• Simon Clarke
  alto saxophone [7], baritone saxophone [6-7], flute [7], guest [6-7]
• Stephen Hague
  accordion [1], additional [1], guest [1], producer [1]
• Stephen Street
  bell [5], cajón [2], handclaps [2.2, 3.6], mix [2], other instruments [3], producer [7.1-8, 3.5-6, 6.1-7, 9.1, 9.3-6, 1.2-5, 1.7, 1.9-10, 8.1-8, 2.1-7, 4.1-8, 5.2-8]
• Steve Lovell
  producer [3.1, 3.4, 1.1]
• Steve Power
  producer [1]
• TJ Davis
  additional [7], background vocals [7], guest [7]
• The Duke Quartet
  cello [1], guest [2], viola [1], violin [1]
• Tim Sanders
  guest [6-7], soprano saxophone [7], tenor saxophone [6-7]
• Tom Girling
  additional [2], assistant [6.1-7, 7.1-8]
• William Orbit
  engineer [11.1-2, 11.4-7, 10.1-6], producer [13.4, 11.1-2, 11.4-7, 10.1-6]
• סיימון ויינשטוק
  mix [1, 4]
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Issues

• B
  (Combined release view)
• 

  B
  Blur 21: The Box

  7" Vinyl, 18x CD, 3x DVD-Video
  27 July 2012
• B
  Blur 21: The Box

  13x Vinyl (vinyl edition)
  27 July 2012
• b
  blur 21 box

  7" Vinyl, 18x CD, 3x DVD-Video (Japanese edition)
  1 August 2012