The back half of Blur's 13 is pretty much the finest string of songs ever produced by the band, and the apex of the side comes on tracks 10 and 11, "Caramel" and "Trimm Trabb," respectively, which are ...

Crafting 13 (named, simply, after the studio Blur recorded in) was a challenge made even harder by the now-tempestuous relations within the group. At this point, it was becoming obvious that Blur’s ...

I never should have signed up for this. Volunteered, even. It doesn't matter what criteria you apply or artificial boundaries you create to make the task easier, there's no way to pick 10 songs from ...