Horn Sections Make Rock Better: The Universal

Blur perhaps isn’t for everybody. And a Clockwork Orange-referencing video isn’t for everybody either. (It’s a song from a band that proclaimed “Modern Life Is Rubbish,” then made an album discussing “The Great Escape.” The escape described in this song sounds like more modern rubbish. More of that postmodern cry for authenticity.)

Regardless, there’s a really nice version of the song from the closing of the 2012 Olympic Games. (I wish there was video of the band playing this at the Budokan in the ’90s. I have the import double album, and it sounds absolutely epic.)

Blur: “The Universal” (live at Hyde Park, 2012)