Blur’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

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

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