History YMMV / Blur

* GameBreaker: There's a playlist in multiplayer for novices at level 10 or lower. However, if you never leave this playlist, then you can't get kicked out, so there are level 50 players beating up on level 1 novices as a result.

* LineOfSightName: In the Parklife era, Damon was partial to this for his lyrics. For example, "This Is A Low" borrows phrases from the shipping forecast, "Trouble in the Message Centre" takes several phrases from a phone and box of matches that were in his hotel room, and "Threadneedle Street" takes phrases from the Financial Times.
* MisaimedFandom: No surprise, since the band was {{irony}} at its fullest, but some people have problems noticing that.
* MoodWhiplash: 13 alternates between mellow and heavy for its first 6 tracks. The second half of the album is generally ambient, with the exception of Trimm Trabb, which is more of an indie song.

* EightPointEight: IGN. Oh, IGN. The reviewer gave it a 7 because he couldn't win online matches of ten to twenty players, and assumed it was the game and not himself. Later, IGN UK gives the game a much higher score, making the American review look even more unprofessional.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI-6-n-4Xok "The Universal" live at Hyde Park.]] Thousand of people singing "it really, really, really could happen" at the climax of the first show the band had done in years- it's utterly uplifting and incredible. Especially at the very climax of the song, where Albarn stops singing entirely and the audience just keeps going, taking the place of the choir in the original recording.

* AmericansHateTingle: Along with Britpop in general, why their pre-''Blur'' (the 5th album) material wasn't well recognized or accepted in the States by anyone who wasn't a music critic. "Song 2" to this day remains their one and only impression on American pop culture.

* HarsherInHindsight: In the 1999 video for "Coffee & TV" - perhaps the band's [[MusicVideoOvershadowing most famous video]] - The man missing on the back of Milky the Milk Carton is played by the band's guitarist Graham Coxon. By the time of the 2003 release of their next album, ''Think Tank'', he ''was'' missing from Blur, having quit the band a few years earlier in acrimony.

* LineOfSightName: In the Parklife era, Damon was partial to this for his lyrics. For example, "This Is A Low" borrows phrases from the shipping forecast, "Trouble In The Message Centre" takes several phrases from a phone and box of matches that were in his hotel room, and "Threadneedle Street" takes phrases from the Financial Times.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''Leisure'', while containing a handful of great songs, is generally seen as an attempt to cash in on the popularity of baggy, which was prominent due to the popularity of bands like Music/TheStoneRoses and Music/HappyMondays. For ''Modern Life is Rubbish'', they instead took inspiration from bands like Music/TheKinks, Music/TheSmallFaces, and Music/{{XTC}}. While the album wasn't as successful commercially as its predecessor, it received much stronger reviews from critics and marked the beginning of the band's Britpop era.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Done deliberately with "Song 2", which the band made as a parody of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
** Both "When The Cows Come Home" and "One Born Every Minute" were written on the same day, and both have a similar oom-pah feel to them that suggests they could have been the same song at one point. The former came out as a b-side to "For Tomorrow" and the latter was recorded in the Parklife sessions but wouldn't see release till the "Country House" single the next year.

* FriendlyFandoms: Many fans of Blur are also fans of Damon Albarn's other popular music project Gorillaz.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the 1999 video for "Coffee & TV" - perhaps the band's [[MusicVideoOvershadowing most famous video]] - The man missing on the back of Milky the Milk Carton is played by the band's guitarist Graham Coxon. By the time of the 2003 release of their next album, ''Think Tank'', he ''was'' missing from Blur, having quit the band a few years earlier in acrimony.

* ValuesDissonance: "Colin Zeal" from ''Modern Life is Rubbish'' refers to the titular individual as "the modern retard". Take into consideration that in 1994, the word "retard" was not usually seen as a very pejorative and prejudicial one.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''Leisure'', while containing a handful of great songs, is generally seen as an attempt to cash in on the popularity of baggy, which was prominent due to the popularity of bands like Music/TheStoneRoses and Music/HappyMondays''. For ''Modern Life is Rubbish'', they instead took inspiration from bands like Music/TheKinks, Music/TheSmallFaces, and Music/{{XTC}}. While the album wasn't as successful commercially as its predecessor, it received much stronger reviews from critics and marked the beginning of the band's Britpop era.

* AcclaimedFlop: Received decent ratings, in the eight-to-nine range, but despite this failed to sell, to the point that the developers, after their next game, ''VideoGame/BloodStone'', were shut down by the parent company Activision.

** Funnily enough, a lot of people have expressed that they have more interest in the ShallowParody of ''Mario Kart'' compared to Blur.

* ShallowParody: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08dbXQFyOLI commercial]] did one of these directed at the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series.
** Funnily enough, a lot of people have expressed that they have more interest in the ShallowParody of ''Mario Kart'' compared to Blur.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the 1999 video for "Coffee & TV" - perhaps the band's [[MusicVideoOvershadowing most famous video]] - The man missing on the back of the milk carton is played by the band's guitarist Graham Coxon. By the time of the 2003 release of their next album, ''Think Tank'', he ''was'' missing from Blur, having quit the band a few years earlier in acrimony.

** The carton of milk from "Coffee and TV", but it can also count as an IronWoobie; despite seeing things that are absolutely terrifying to a walking milk carton, he [[{{Determinator}} keeps on truckin' until he finds Graham]]. [[spoiler: Who then unknowingly kills him. But he dies [[GoOutWithASmile smiling]] because Graham's back home. He [[EarnYourHappyEnding goes to Heaven]] [[TogetherInDeath with the girl milk cartoon he liked that was once ran over by a car]].]]

* {{Applicability}}: "Girls and Boys" is really about nightclubs and the...[[UnusualEuphenism things that happen there]]. Many people, specifically bisexual and pansexual people, choose to see it as a bi/pan anthem instead.

* FriendlyFandoms: Many fans of Blur are also fans of Damon Albarn's other popular music project Music/Gorillaz.

* BreakupBreakout: Damon's other project Gorillaz shot to huge popularity with their second album "Demon Days", which was also the first released after Blur went on hiatus. They acquired such success in America that a lot of people there only became aware of Blur retroactively.

* StylisticSuck: Whilst their first two albums had produced a wealth of good b-sides (largely because most of them were in contention for the album at some point), the Parklife era singles were composed either of joke songs, or songs with uninspired lyrics. These include "Supa Shoppa" (a parody of bossa nova), "Beard" (a parody of jazz), "Theme From An Imaginary Film" (a song Damon wrote for a film soundtrack that the producer thought was terrible), "Anniversary Waltz" and "Got Yer!" (both hammond organ waltzes, the latter with Damon impersonating Michael Caine) "Threadneedle Street" (A song where the lyrics come directly from the Financial Times), "Magpie" (a song where the lyrics are taken directly from the William Blake poem "The Poison Tree"), "People In Europe" (A song where Damon speaks several languages badly), "Peter Panic" (a blatant Syd Barrett copy), "Rednecks" (a Graham-sung track that is a parody of Johnny Cash), and to top it all, "Alex's Song" (where a folk song by Alex was put through a pitchshifter to make him sound like a chipmunk). The band's timing for these b-sides couldn't have been worse, as Oasis's b-sides at the time were often considered better than album tracks (and thus, the comparison fueled the rivalry).

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''VideoGame/ModNationRacers'' and ''VideoGame/SplitSecond'' due to having similar premises and being released at the same month.

* FriendlyFandoms: With VideoGame/ModNationRacers and VideoGame/SplitSecond due to having similar premises and were released at the same month.

* FriendlyFandoms: With VideoGame/ModNationRacers and VideoGame/SplitSecond due to sharing similar premises and were released at the same window.

* FriendlyFandoms: With VideoGame/ModNationRacer and VideoGame/SplitSecond due to sharing similar premises and were released at the same window.

* TheArtifact: "Turn It Up" on Modern Life Is Rubbish, which is the last 'baggy' style song the band wrote before they changed direction, and would've fit better on Leisure (indeed, it recycles the chords from "Fool"). It was initially planned as a single then scrapped in favour of "Popscene". It probably wouldn't have been included on MLIR if it wasn't for record exec Dave Balfe feeling it had potential as a hit in America (where it wasn't released as a single after all).
** Similarly, "Close" which was belatedly released as a fan club single, was recorded in the same session as the first demo of "Turn It Up", and although technically part of the MLIR era was written and being played live a couple of years earlier whilst they were still named Seymour.

* WastedSong: Several B-Sides are felt to be better than album tracks by both fans and band, with particular mention to "Inertia", "Luminous" and "Young And Lovely", all of which the band pulled out live on occasion.