I was the perfect age to get caught up in the massive media circus surrounding the Oasis and Blur rivalry when I was younger. I remember for some strange reason you HAD to pick a corner in school, you HAD to like one more than the other and be on one side of the fence. It seems stupid now but whatever. I was always firmly on the Oasis side of the fence. I preferred the music they were putting out back then and I preffered the very working class, rock and roll anthems of Definitely Maybe to the colourful, middle class, often tongue in cheek pop songs Blur were crafting but I enjoyed both bands a lot. As soon as I grew up just a little I started to resent the media coverage both bands were getting as they continued to take shots on one another and the fact that Blur and Oasis became Britpop and pretty much every other British guitar driven band at the time was treated as second rate and their existance and involvement in the movement was either undermined or completely ignored.
I had Parklife on cassette which I still have, I just have it on CD now too and I liked The Great Escape at the time too. Yes, I know, before anyone says anything.
Definite yes for me. Blur were a big deal for me when I was a kid and played a big part in me even getting into any music at all. As I grew wiser I realised the quality of the likes of Modern Life Is Rubbish and 13 and realised Blur were about much more than the infectious pop music I had enjoyed in the mid-nineties and it is that diversity between records that probably held my interest to the present day.
EDIT: It would appear that I have used my 1000th post to vote for Blur
