Blur’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As they return with their first new music since 2015, we fee the most effective of a band who ponder heartache, London, fame and extra – and used Britpop to contemplate Britishness

The problem with Blur’s fourth album The Nice Escape could be that it captured the coke-y environment of mid-90s London a bit too properly: its songs typically sounded as horrible because the characters they satirised. But sometimes a unique album peeks out: darker, sadder – epitomised by Greatest Days’ careworn magnificence.