Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Virgin Records Us
• VHS Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000051VRP
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,284 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an instructional video. "How to make a Blur fan.", February 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Blur - The Best of Blur (Music Videos 1990-2000) (DVD)

Putting aside that the music is fantastic, as you would expect from Blur, the videos are very interesting both individually and collecitvely. It is enthralling to watch this band develop and mature over the 7-year time period encapsulated in this DVD. The confidence displayed in The Universal and To The End is rare and makes one lament even more the current state of American music. I don't think Matchbox 20 has the gumption to emulate Kubrick.

Coffee and TV may be the best video ever made and the videos for For Tomorrow, Bang and A Chemical World succeed despite their relative simplicity because the songs are that good. That is why this DVD succeeds. Even when the videos are subpar (compared to others on the disc), the songs are more than enough to carry them and watching Damon Albarn grow into his role as front man for a world class band is one of the more interesting things for a fan to see.

This is a fantastic collection of songs and videos from one of the best bands the world produced in the 90's. If you like Blur, you must own it. If you don't like Blur (yet) you must own it, because you will will like Blur. And you should.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Historical Document For Blur Fans, January 28, 2001

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"sonicsuburbanite" (Chattanooga TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Blur [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For years, Blur fans in the US have had to get Blur videos by taping them from scarce MTV appearances or by trading tapes. Now we can finally have all 22 promo videos in chronological order, free from static and annoying station IDs. There's ten years of great English pop music here - you can watch the band go through all their phases in less than two hours, and very entertaining it is too. The videos themselves range wildly in quality ("she's so high" and "girls & boys" being low points) but there's some great stuff here, from the frenetic "popscene"- the obvious predecessor of the more well-known bouncing-off-the-walls "song 2" video, the charming black-and-white view of london in "for tomorrow",the bleak futurism of "the universal" and the strangely heartwarming (not to mention hilarious) "coffee & TV." Classic.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, complete retrospective well packaged..., April 24, 2001

By A Customer

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This review is from: Blur - The Best of Blur (Music Videos 1990-2000) (DVD)

Perhaps the best enjoyment of this complete video compilation is the 90's britpop nostalgia. These are some of the freshest, catchy tunes from the past decade put over film of variable quality. The bigger gems, 'Parklife', 'The Universal', 'Charmless Man', 'Song 2', 'M.O.R.' and 'Coffee & TV' make this a must have DVD for any Blur fan. The remaining videos are fairly lower peg, but are still great because they allow the viewer to see Blur progress and age as a band. Sure, some reviewers have slagged videos like 'Boys & Girls', but it brings back memories; I can remember what was going on in my life by the Blur videos in rotation at that time.

The DVD is excellently packaged with an incredible menu allowing you to get pertinent information about the singles and videos, a video picker disguised as advertisements on brick walls, and the cover of each single prominently displayed before the video. Over all, very inventive and thorogh. If you like Blur this DVD is a must buy.