Released: July 29, 1991

Songwriter: Damon Albarn Graham Coxon Alex James Dave Rowntree

Producer: Blur

Uncle Love just got a message from God
That you are driving him crazy
Tomorrow he says the doctor comes
With a drink to make him lazy

Did you realise that Uncle Love's
Got a catapult in his hand
Everything sticks to you like glue
But it just makes you lazy

You should hear what they say
About you everyday
You should hear what they say
Uncle Love's going to get you

Uncle Love just got a message from God
That you are driving him crazy
Everything sticks to you like glue
But it just makes you lazy

Blur

British rock group Blur formed in 1988 and began life as a fairly unsuccessful shoegaze/madchester outfit, but the band quickly developed into becoming one of the leaders of the massive 1990s Britpop scene.

Their rivalry with contemporaries Oasis culminated in one of the most famous chart battles in British history – one which Blur won when “Country House” outsold Oasis’s “Roll With It” by 50,000 copies, giving Blur their first #1 single in the process.

Following this, the group embarked on a new musical direction, deliberately heading away from their trademark Britpop sound and instead taking influences from American alternative rock, a sound which earned them new fans in the US and gave them their second UK #1: “Beetlebum” in 1997.