10 Incredible Blur Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard
8. Seven Days
Although they have worked with the likes of Norman Cook and William Orbit, the vast majority of Blur’s music has been made with Stephen Street on production duties.
He helped steer them through Britpop and their turn towards scratchy, Pavement inspired rock and returned for their comeback album The Magic Whip.
Things were nearly very different. For their second album Modern Life Is Rubbish Blur attempted to record with XTC’s mastermind Andy Partridge.
Ultimately they changed their minds and welcomed Street back into the fold but the three Andy Partridge tracks that have seen the light of day offer a tantalising glimpse of an alternate album. Coping and Sunday Sleep give us unfamiliar versions of familiar tracks with Blur sounding, well, more like XTC to be honest.
Even more intriguing is Seven Days. Built on a striking rubbery bass line and a riff played on what sounds like recorders, the song also features from typically inventive guitar from Graham Coxon and a ridiculously catchy pop chorus.
It’s amazing they never re-recorded and released this one. If they had they probably would have dropped the cheesysynthy outer-space noises from the middle eight.