Song · Blur
“Music Is My Radar” by Blur
Released 2000
“Music Is My Radar” by Blur appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2007 and 2010. It was first released in 2000. Its best result is #1960 on the CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,274 alternative song of all time.
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Blur put out "Music Is My Radar" in 2000 to sell Blur: The Best Of, their greatest-hits set, where it was the only track that hadn't already turned up on an album. Ben Hillier produced it, and as a single it climbed to number 10 in the UK.
The lyric keeps circling back to Tony Allen, the Nigerian musician, and the name-check turned out to be a promise: Allen later drummed with Damon Albarn in The Good, the Bad & the Queen and Rocket Juice & the Moon, and appears alongside him, posthumously, on the 2020 Gorillaz song "How Far?". An alternative version, "Squeezebox", surfaced in 2012 on one of the rarities discs in the Blur 21 box, the set that marked 21 years since their debut, Leisure.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1960 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1965 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1986 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1984 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
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