THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET

To commemorate Blur's recent passing of a decade in existance, the '10th Anniversary Box Set' was released in September of 1999. With only 7000 in existence, the set contains every A and B side in the bands back catalogue, (some NDLTR b-sides were left and of course, anything released after - inc. Music Is My Radar).
The set also contains a 24 page booklet which details the tracklisting of each CD single, the proposed cover art for every single that never made it onto the original CD, and also some miscallaneous artwork that wasn't specific to any release. The box set is sure to become a highly desireable collectors item amongst the Blur faithful. Shortly proir to it's release the band played the now infamous 'B-sides gig' at the 'Camden Electric Ballroom' in London.

A - SIDES ACCORDING TO GRAHAM COXON

This review was written by Graham himlself, when the 10th Anniversary Box Set was released. It was meant to be included in the booklet, but for some reason or another, it didn't happen. The following text is taken from the 'Blurb' fan club magazine and is Graham's original review published by Blurb with his permission.

"Not one of these singles has escaped some kind of senseless bettering or musical change since its recording.
This list of A-sides resembles a list of war casualities held up precariously by their b-side crutches. This is the fate of singles. They unwittingly draw the short straw and march off like little soldiers to fight in Chartland.
They all come back changed and the way I see them changes.

I've found myself abusing them when playing them when playing live, punishing them by foisting my moods and some other musical preoccupation upon them like a mean step dad, forcing innocent young round pegs into star-shaped holes with an axe.

"Country House" ended its life being so fast (started so it could be finished) that I felt it was being brutally murdered.

"Bang" was never a very able chart warrior and I think we felt so sorry for it that it was left to tremble in its straight jacket in the corner quite early on. The single recording of "M.O.R." was our Private Pike. It was never really the war type and amid many remixes and live trashings lost its identity and its mind.

Singles are easy targets for everyone, especially the band that plays them, the band in this case wrote the best war tune since 1812 and if you want proof you can ask the U.S.F.. Weird.

The process of releasing singles as some kind of advertising tool for an album, although there appears to be no other way, seems to me old fashioned and flawed somehow. All the frustrations Blur have had being misunderstood, misinterpreted and then misjudged stems from this defunct method of selling records.

I often go mentally through the albums choosing a path of singles and imagining if things could have been different. I would lie all our singles a bit more in this order really but, on the other hand, I am not sure that there would have been so many of them.

Perhaps they now deserve a little T. L. C."

Graham Coxon 1999

TRACKLISTING
Food/EMI Records (BLURBOX10)

CD 1 She's So High/I Know/Down/Sing/I Know (Extended)
CD 2 There's No Other Way/Inertia/Mr Briggs/I'm All Over/There's No Other Way (The Blur Remix)/Won't Do It/Day Upon Day (Live)/There's No Other Way (Extended Version)
CD 3 Bang/Explain/Luminous/Berserk/Bang (Extended)/Uncle Love
CD 4 Popscene/Mace/Badgeman Brown/I'm Fine/Garden Central
CD 5 For Tomorrow/Into Another/Hanging Over/Peach/Bone Bag/When The Cows Come Home/Beachcoma/For Tomorrow (Acoustic Version)/For Tomorrow (Visit To Primrose Hill Extended)
CD 6 Chemical World/Young & Lovely/Es Schmecht/My Ark/Maggie May/Chemical World (Reworked)/Never Clever (Live)/Pressure On Julian (Live)/Come Together (Live)
CD 7 Sunday Sunday/Dizzy/Fried/Shimmer/Long Legged/Mixed Up/Tell Me Tell Me/Daisy Bell/Let's All Go Down The Strand
CD 8 Girls & Boys/Magpie/Anniversary Waltz/People In Europe/Peter Panic
CD 9 To The End/Girls & Boys (Pet Shop Boys 7" Mix)/Girls & Boys (Pet Shop Boys 12" Mix)/Threadneedle Street/Got Yer!
CD 10 Parklife/Beard/To The End (French Version)/Supa Shoppa/Theme From An Imaginary Film
CD 11 End Of A Century/Rednecks/Alex's Song
CD 12 Country House/One Born Every Minute/To The End (La Comedie)/Country House (Live)/Girls & Boys (Live)/Parklife (Live)/For Tomorrow (Live)
CD 13 The Universal/Ultranol/No Monsters In Me/Entertain Me (Live It! Remix)/The Universal (Live)/Mr. Robinson's Quango (Live)/It Could Be You (Live)/Stereotypes (Live)
CD 14 Stereotypes/The Man Who Left Himself/Tame/Ludwig
CD 15 Charmless Man/The Horrors/A Song/St. Louis
CD 16 Beetlebum/All Your Life/A Spell (For Money)/Beetlebum (Mario Caldato Jnr. Mix)/Woodpigeon Song/Dancehall
CD 17 Song 2/Bustin' & Dronin'/Country Sad Ballad Man (Live Acoustic)/Get Out Of Cities/Polished Stone
CD 18 On Your Own/Chinese Bombs (Live At Peel Acres)/Movin' On (Live At Peel Acres)/M.O.R. (Live At Peel Acres)/Popscene (Live At Peel Acres)/Song 2 (Live At Peel Acres)/On Your Own (Live At Peel Acres)
CD 19 M.O.R. (Road Version)/Swallows In The Heatwave/Movin' On (William Orbit Remix)/Beetlebum (Moby's Minimal House Mix)
CD 20 Tender/All We Want/Mellow Jam/French Song/Song 2
CD 21 Coffee & TV/Trade Stylee (Alex's Bugman Remix)/Metal Hip Slop (Graham's Bugman Remix)/X- Offender (Damon / Control Freaks Remix)/Coyote (Dave's Bugman Remix)
CD 22 No Distance Left To Run/Tender (Cornelius Remix)