6. Out of Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3moCIBOijo By 2003, we'd heard our fair share of break-up songs: Justine, leaving London, forgetting Britpop. It had all been done. But what was probably the most emotional for Blur fans was hearing Damon write about life without Graham. Songs like 'Sweet Song' really put the lyrical focus on what Blur had lost, but 'Out of Time' tells that same story musically. Alex is elevated with a more prominent bass role. A Moroccan orchestra drift in midway through. Albarn gets a solo too, as he watches time unfold from his window, wondering when Blur themselves will slowly fade away. The song's enchantment is as much a tribute to Albarn's songwriting as it is to the fantastic move of hiring the Moroccan musicians. It's a direction that sounds perfectly natural and logical for the band to head in, and it's great that the band have incorporated Coxon into its recent performances. Because let's face it, there's no song that he wouldn't sound great on.