13
Album by Blur
Released	March 15, 1999
Recorded	Summer-Autumn 1998
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	64 min 9 s
Label	Food, Parlophone
Producer	William Orbit
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone 04/01/99
Blur Chronology
Bustin' + Dronin' (1998)	13 (1999)	10 Year Anniversary Box Set (1999)

13 is the sixth album by British rock band Blur, first released in 1999. It reached #1 in the UK album chart, while making #80 in the US. The album is named after the band's recording studio but there are also 13 tracks on the album. This album sees the band moving further away from their Britpop past into more cerebral and denser musical territory. "Tender", "Coffee & TV" and "No Distance Left To Run" were all single successes from "13". This work is copyrighted. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1573. ... Autumn colours at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music1 were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... William Orbit 1999 William Orbit (born 1956 as William Wainwright) is a British musician and record producer, best known to the public for producing Madonnas album Ray of Light. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a globally comprehensive metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: 4 out of 5 star. ... Rolling Stone is a music and music industry magazine. ... Image File history File links Description: 3. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... Bustin + Dronin is a remix compilation/live album by the band Blur. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 10 Year Anniversary Box Set is a box set by the band Blur released in limited qualities on August 17, 1999. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Rock band (or rock group) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... See also: 1998 in music, other events of 1999, 2000 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 7 After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation. ... Britpop is a British alternative rock movement from the mid 1990s, characterised with the appearance of bands who borrowed many influences from 1960s and 1970s while creating big and catchy hooks, as well as the glamour of earlier pop stardom and the sense that they were creating the soundtrack to...

The album is inspired by Albarn's severing with Elastica singer Justine Frischmann as well as the former's battle with drug and alcoholic addictions, provoked by this. Two of the singles - "Tender" and "No Distance Left to Run" show Albarn's suffering from this as well as his love for Frischmann. Elastica, Circa 1996 Elastica were a Britpop band who were popular in the 1990s, formed by Justine Frischmann after leaving Suede in 1991. ... Justine Frischmann (born 16th September 1969) is a British singer and guitarist best known as the lead singer of Britpop band Elastica. ...

Track Listing

• All tracks written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree.

1. "Tender" - 7:40
2. "Bugman" - 4:47
3. "Coffee & TV" - 5:58
4. "Swamp Song" - 4:36
5. "1992" - 5:29
6. "B.L.U.R.E.M.I." - 2:52
7. "Battle" - 7:43
8. "Mellow Song" - 3:56
9. "Trailer Park" - 4:26
10. "Caramel" - 7:38
11. "Trimm Trabb" - 5:37
12. "No Distance Left to Run" - 3:27
13. "Optigan 1" - 2:34