2. For Tomorrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcDfUSsAHDs 'For Tomorrow' was written on Christmas Day 1992. The Albarns woke up to hear their son clanging on the downstairs piano. It was the unlikely birth of a movement. Because 'For Tomorrow' is what started everything for Britpop. It was an anthem for London, inspired by the Kinks, and shifting key like it was jumping down the last few steps of a grand staircase. It was young, exciting and full of verve, just like Blur themselves. It was a song that celebrated the neglected, joined us together with its la-la-lala-las, and fully deserved its elongation into a six-minute parade of a song. Up until recently, the words "And the view's so nice" were sprawled on the path a-top Primrose Hill, a spot referenced in the song. It's a viewpoint for anyone to look over London, just as Damon did all those years ago. Britpop would grow from the commotion that this song would cause, and London, would be rightfully his.