10 Incredible Blur Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard
5. Hope You Find Your Suburb
In 1995 the great and the good of Britpop(plus legendary Pauls Mcartney and Weller), came together to produce The Help Album in support of the Warchild charity.
Blur’s contribution was Eine Kleine Lift Musik, a near instrumental with a Mozart spoofing title and some gentle doo wop backing vocals. Despite a gorgeous melody it didn’t draw much attention, perhaps overshadowed by Noel Gallagher playing supergroups with a former Beatle.
However, a rough demo exists under the title Hope You Find Your Suburb that proves Eine Kleine Lift Musik is the great lost Blur ballad. It deserves to stand alongside tracks like Badhead or The Universal.
On the demo Damon has attached vocals to the dreamy tune. While the words aren’t properly worked out for the verses the chorus points to the themes of suburban alienation and prurient, curtain twitching subversion that would dominate the band’s next album, The Great Escape. It even includes the line “Wife swapping is your future,” which would turn up again on the single Stereotypes.