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WolfAtTheDoor · 03-17-2009, 12:06 PM

Blur - To The End

I bought the Blur Greatest Hits compilation when I was about 14 from Sainsburys for a fiver, after hearing so much about their impact on the music tastes of my generation, and British culture in general. Obviously, after putting the album in my stereo, I instantly recognised songs like Song 2 and Country House from their seemingly neverending radio airplay, and quickly decided that I loved the band quite a bit (being 14, I could get away with liking shameless pop hits).

I remember always skipping past the likes of 'To The End' and 'No Distance Left To Run', purely because they didn't seem fun and had nothing to say to me at that particular time in my life. I just wanted the funny mockney man to say WooHoo.

But, as I grew up, I invested in what many claim are Blur's two finest albums - Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife. I was going through a period of time where I was just spending all of my money on nothing else but CDs, but then not really listening to them and just leaving them on the floor in my room, so both of the CDs just lay around gathering dust.

Then I went on a typical British family holiday for a couple of weeks, stole my Nan's portable stereo from her and just played my CD's on repeat in the caravan. I popped Parklife in and skipped past the songs I had now become bored of, until fate lead me to 'To The End'.

It is, without a doubt in my mind, the best thing Blur have ever created. Nothing spoke to my coming-of-age like the words 'all those dirty words, they make us look so dumb'. It was just like yeah, I understand this now, I get this. It's amazing how one song can show you how much you've changed as a person. This sort of the thing is the reason why music inspires so much within our world. Because it can make the cogs work in a 16 year old lads head better than any ****ty holiday to Weymouth ever could.

Y'know that one song that seems to follow you through everything? This is mine. It got me through those stressful angsty teenager breakups, then became the perfect soundtrack to drunken teenage sexploits. And now, it just goes hand in hand with my feelings for my current girlfriend.

If I ever get big and rich and famous off the back of music, then I'm going to dedicate at 10% of it to this song. And considering it's only one song, that's a pretty grand statement.

03-17-2009, 12:06 PM	#9 (permalink)
WolfAtTheDoor ironing your socks Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: I'm in a rocknroll band. huh. Posts: 396	Blur - To The End I bought the Blur Greatest Hits compilation when I was about 14 from Sainsburys for a fiver, after hearing so much about their impact on the music tastes of my generation, and British culture in general. Obviously, after putting the album in my stereo, I instantly recognised songs like Song 2 and Country House from their seemingly neverending radio airplay, and quickly decided that I loved the band quite a bit (being 14, I could get away with liking shameless pop hits). I remember always skipping past the likes of 'To The End' and 'No Distance Left To Run', purely because they didn't seem fun and had nothing to say to me at that particular time in my life. I just wanted the funny mockney man to say WooHoo. But, as I grew up, I invested in what many claim are Blur's two finest albums - Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife. I was going through a period of time where I was just spending all of my money on nothing else but CDs, but then not really listening to them and just leaving them on the floor in my room, so both of the CDs just lay around gathering dust. Then I went on a typical British family holiday for a couple of weeks, stole my Nan's portable stereo from her and just played my CD's on repeat in the caravan. I popped Parklife in and skipped past the songs I had now become bored of, until fate lead me to 'To The End'. It is, without a doubt in my mind, the best thing Blur have ever created. Nothing spoke to my coming-of-age like the words 'all those dirty words, they make us look so dumb'. It was just like yeah, I understand this now, I get this. It's amazing how one song can show you how much you've changed as a person. This sort of the thing is the reason why music inspires so much within our world. Because it can make the cogs work in a 16 year old lads head better than any ****ty holiday to Weymouth ever could. Y'know that one song that seems to follow you through everything? This is mine. It got me through those stressful angsty teenager breakups, then became the perfect soundtrack to drunken teenage sexploits. And now, it just goes hand in hand with my feelings for my current girlfriend. If I ever get big and rich and famous off the back of music, then I'm going to dedicate at 10% of it to this song. And considering it's only one song, that's a pretty grand statement.