Blur (band)/YMMV

The Band

 * Americans Hate Tingle: Along with Britpop in general, why their pre-Blur (the 4th album) material wasn't well recognized or accepted in the States by anyone who wasn't a music critic.
 * Awesome Music: "The Universal."
 * Ear Worm: WOO-HOO.
 * Being a pop group, they have a lot of these.
 * "Girls and Boys" is the most catchy after the aforementioned "Song 2".
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: In the 1999 video for "Coffee & TV" - perhaps the band's most famous video - The man missing on the back of the milk carton is played by the band's guitarist Graham Coxon. By the time of the 2003 release of their next album, Think Tank, he was missing from Blur, having quit the band a few years earlier in acrimony.
 * Ho Yay: The boys kissed on stage. Yaoi fangirls? You may now rejoice.
 * Misaimed Fandom: No surprise, since band was irony at its fullest, but some people have problems noticing that.
 * Tear Jerker: "This Is A Low," "The Universal."
 * They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Notably averted; their Genre Shifts were mostly well-received.
 * Vindicated By History: Especially in America, their critical stature increased as years went by. By the end of the 90's, Many of the same American publications who negatively reviewed their earlier work were now putting records like Modern Life is Rubbish and Parklife into their Best Albums of the Decade lists.
 * The Woobie: The carton of milk from Coffee and TV.

The Game

 * Awesome Music: Thanks, Ninja Tune Records!
 * Character Tiers
 * 8.8: IGN. Oh, IGN. The reviewer gave it a 7 because he couldn't win online matches of ten to twenty players, and assumed it was the game and not himself. Later, IGN UK gives the game a much higher score, making the American review look even more unprofessional.
 * Game Breaker: There's a playlist in multiplayer for novices at level 10 or lower. However, if you never leave this playlist, then you can't get kicked out, so there are level 50 players beating up on level 1 novices as a result. No word yet on a patch to fix this.
 * Most Annoying Sound: The high-pitched squeal when a Shunt is coming your way. You better have a Barge or Shield handy, or a Shunt to fire backwards...
 * Shallow Parody