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Encyclopedia > Tender (song)
"Tender"
Single by Blur
From the album 13
Single Released 22 February 1999
Single Format vinyl record (blue 7"), Cassette tape and 2 CDs
Recorded ???
Genre Indie rock
Song Length 7:40
Record label Food / EMI
Writers Blur
Producer William Orbit
Chart positions 2 (UK)
3 (Italy)
Blur single chronology
"M.O.R."
1997
"Tender"
1999
"Coffee & TV"
1999

"Tender" is a song by the band Blur. It is the first track on their sixth album 13 and was also released as a single. The single reached #2 in the UK singles chart - kept off #1 by Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time". Download high resolution version (814x708, 39 KB) This image is the cover of an album or single. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... 13 is the sixth album by Blur. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 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. ... 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... For the meaning of cassette in genetics, see cassette (genetics). ... CD may stand for: compact disc Canadian Forces Decoration cash dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) certificate of deposit České dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s Panhard race... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... 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. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith, London, in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ... A songwriter is someone who writes either the lyrics or the music for songs. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... 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. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... This article is about the song by Blur. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... Coffee & TV is a song by Blur. ... 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. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... 13 is the sixth album by Blur. ... In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-sides, often accompanied by several B-sides—usually remixes or other songs. ... The UK Singles Chart is compiled by the Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the music industry. ... Britney Spears Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop music singer. ... ...Baby One More Time is the debut single from pop music singer Britney Spears, released from her debut album . ...


The song was written by both Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon and the vocals are shared on the track. Despite Coxon's departure from the group, Blur still perform this song live with Albarn asking the audience to sing Coxon's lines; "Oh my baby/Oh my baby/Oh why?/Oh my". At Blur's headline appearance at Reading Festival in 2003 he introduced the song by saying "I don't want, for one moment, to be a sentimental but... Graham wrote this song as well... you know the bits he sings and I want you to sing them as loudly as you possibly can. Everyone needs to sing this song." Albarn singing in the video for Beetlebum Damon Albarn (born March 23, 1968), (Leytonstone, London) is a British vocalist who is most famous as the lead singer of the rock band Blur. ... Graham Coxon singing in the video to Blurs Tender Graham Coxon (born Graham Leslie Coxon on 12 March 1969, in Rinteln, West Germany) is best known as the former guitarist in the British band Blur. ... The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The video for the song is a live studio performance with the band and a group of backing singers. A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ...

Contents

Single track listing

7" / Cassette

  1. "Tender"
  2. "All We Want"

CD1

  1. "Tender"
  2. "All We Want"
  3. "Mellow Jam"

CD2

Enhanced CD

  1. "Tender"
  2. "French Song"
  3. "Song 2"
  4. "Song 2" (video)
Band members: Damon Albarn | (Graham Coxon) | Alex James | Dave Rowntree

Albums: Leisure | Modern Life Is Rubbish | Parklife | The Great Escape | Blur | 13 | Think Tank Song 2 is a song and single by Blur. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... Albarn singing in the video for Beetlebum Damon Albarn (born March 23, 1968), (Leytonstone, London) is a British vocalist who is most famous as the lead singer of the rock band Blur. ... Graham Coxon singing in the video to Blurs Tender Graham Coxon (born Graham Leslie Coxon on 12 March 1969, in Rinteln, West Germany) is best known as the former guitarist in the British band Blur. ... Steven Alexander James (born on 21 November 1968 in Bournemouth, England), popularly known as Alex James, is the bass player in the band Blur and is one of the members of Fat Les. ... Dave Rowntree (born on 8 May 1964) is the drummer in the band Blur. ... Leisure was the first album by Blur, released in August 1991 and making # 7 in the UK. The US version of the album had some differences. ... Modern Life Is Rubbish is the second album by the British rock band Blur, released on May 10 1993. ... Parklife is a Britpop album by the band Blur, released on April 25, 1994 (see 1994 in music). ... The Great Escape is the fourth album by Blur. ... Blur is the fifth album by Blur, first release in 1997. ... 13 is the sixth album by Blur. ... Think Tank is an album by the British rock band Blur, released in 2003. ...


Compilations:The Special Collectors Edition | Bustin' + Dronin' | Blur: The Best Of Bustin + Dronin is a remix compilation/live album by the band Blur. ... Blur: The Best of is a greatest hits compilation by Blur released on CD, cassette tape, MiniDisc, double 12 vinyl record, DVD and VHS. The CD album includes 18 of Blurs 23 singles from 1990 to 2000. ...


See also: Britpop | Gorillaz | Fat Les | Stephen Street Britpop is a British alternative rock movement from the mid 90s, characterised with the appearance of bands who borrowed many influences from 60s and 70s 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... Gorillaz: Russel, Noodle, 2D and Murdoc Gorillaz is an animated hip-hop/pop collective or supergroup, comprised of four animated band members: 2D (vocals, keyboards), Murdoc Niccals (bass), Noodle (guitars) and Russel Hobbs (drums, percussion). ... Fat Les was a British band consisting of Alex James, the bassist from Blur; actor Keith Allen; and artist Damien Hirst. ... Stephen Street is a music producer best known for his work with The Smiths in the 1980s and Blur in the 1990s. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Tender (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (235 words)
"Tender" is a song by the band Blur.
The song was written by both Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon and the vocals are shared on the track.
The video for the song is a live studio performance with the band and a group of backing singers.
Matinée Catalog - matinée 058 (4146 words)
The song is a refreshing pop hit, full of chunky guitars, mellifluous vocals, smart drumming (courtesy of Claudia Gonson of The Magnetic Fields), ba-ba-ba’s and shimmering enthusiasm as it builds to its highly harmonious conclusion.
Tender Trap's debut album was released on K back in 2002, and now their latest EP Language Lessons is out on Matinée.
The song is slower-paced compared to the other three songs but it has a very fitting drum beat and backing vocals as well as clean, plucky guitar that compliments the lounge feel of the song.
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