--- product_id: 45901949 title: "Blur 21: The Box" price: "NT$1034" currency: TWD in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/45901949-blur-21-the-box store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Compact Design High-Quality Sound Long Battery Life Blur 21: The Box **Price:** NT$1034 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🎶 Elevate Your Audio Game with Blur 21! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Blur 21: The Box - **How much does it cost?** NT$1034 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/45901949-blur-21-the-box) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **All-Day Power:** Enjoy uninterrupted music with an impressive battery life. - • **Sleek & Portable:** Designed for the modern professional on the go. - • **Stylish Aesthetic:** Elevate your workspace with a chic, minimalist design. - • **Unleash Your Sound:** Experience immersive audio with cutting-edge technology. - • **Seamless Connectivity:** Connect effortlessly with multiple devices. ## Overview The Blur 21: The Box is a state-of-the-art portable speaker that combines sleek design with high-quality sound and long-lasting battery life, making it the perfect companion for professionals who value both style and performance. ## Description Blur’s first five studio albums have now been remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright (The Smiths, Arcade Fire, New Order, Joy Division), with the remastering overseen by legendary producer, Stephen Street. All seven original Blur albums have now been given the space of 2 LPs (expect for Leisure which remains a single LP), cut on heavyweight 180 gram, audiophile vinyl and housed in a replica of the original sleeve artwork. All seven vinyl formats of the Blur albums are collected together for Blur 21: The Vinyl Box and housed in a study hard case, presenting the definitive collection of Blur vinyl. Uncut – August 2012 – 9/10 “A Smart, stylish Audio-Visual Blowout” Mojo – August 2012 - ***** “Extraordinary... The King Tutankhamun’s tomb of everything Blur; and one whose vast treasures help us understand ever more clearly the precise nature of their musical triumphs and contradictions." Record Collector “...One of the most essential archival collections of any band.” Review: Blur: The CD Box review - I bought this set after only owning a couple of Blur albums. I have always been interested in Blur, but never got the chance to explore their whole discography (until now). Onto my review: The packaging is good (not great). The CDs are housed in very nice looking cube in which the front end of the top lifts open. The book, 7" single, and download card are in the very back of the box. The CDs slide into individual slots. At first this looks awesome, until you unwrap all of the CDs. Once you free the CDs from their very tight shrink-wrap, you can then take the discs out and open the gatefold. The CD cases are the digipak (no tray)/cardboard sleeve types, in which you have to slide the discs out. You could potentially scratch your discs this way, but if you are careful it shouldn't be a problem. The problem with the CD cases, however, are the gatefolds. They do not stay closed all of the way. If you lay them down on the table, one end will always be slightly open. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but since you have to slide them into these little slots, it does become an issue. To insert them into the slots, you have to hold the case together relatively tight (to prevent the gatefold from opening) so they will fit in all of the way. Not really a big deal, but whatever. Onto the content of the discs. All of Blur's studio albums are here in 2-disc special editions: Disc 1: Original album; Disc 2: B-sides/bonus tracks. It should be noted that only the first five albums have been remastered. I compared the original Parklife to the remastered one. The remaster is slightly louder (volume wise) and the low end is clearer. None of the remasters are victims of the loudness war. I don't think the remasters will trounce your original copies, so if you get this set, don't get it for the remasters. I am willing to say that these are the definitive editions of the studio albums. Now, the rarities discs. You get four rarities discs spanning their entire career. I wasn't really intrigued by discs one and two, but three and four were amusing, I guess. It was interesting to hear early versions and demos of some my favorite songs of theirs. The rarities discs were a nice addition to this set, but I wasn't blown away by any of them. I was very happy to see that Fool's Day and Under The Westway were included. The DVDs include two live shows and a video rarities disc. The live shows are nice to have. Showtime was only released on PAL on VHS, and the Wembley concert was previously unreleased. The quality isn't great, but it's great to have two more live Blur shows. The rarities disc is a bit different. It includes "13" live and other promo videos. This disc almost seems like a companion to the "Blur: The Best Of" DVD. If you own "Blur: The Best Of" DVD, you will now have all of their music videos if you buy this set. Also included is a book. This very nice hardcover book contains an interview and many high quality pictures. It was nice to read the interviews that corresponded with each album. The 7" single is worthless, sadly. I didn't feel like busting out my record player just to listen to this, but I listened to it online, and it isn't very good. It is terrible quality. Two things baffle me about this: One, why would they put a vinyl single in the CD box, but not in the vinyl box? Two, why isn't this track (Superman) on the rarities disc? You also get a download card to download all of the CD (not DVD) content onto your computer with some bonuses such as archive footage and every issue of Blurb magazine. As other reviews have stated, this is set is missing some previously released content. I'm not going to go into detail, like other reviews have, but I will say I was slightly disappointed when I realized "Colours" wasn't on this set. In conclusion, I really enjoy this set. It is excellent to have all of Blur's albums in one place along with some worthwhile extras. The price may seem big, but come on, you get 21 one discs, 6 which include previously unreleased content. As I stated earlier, if you buy this set, don't buy it for the remastered albums if you own the originals. It is up to you to decide if you want to buy the whole set for the rarities discs, DVDs, and the book. Review: I'm a Blur Obsessive... and That's OK... - "THIS IS THE NEXT CENTURY...." Whenever a box set comes out, I approach it with caution. Let's face it, these things can be costly. However, let's really think about what you're getting here. Over the past three to five years, we've seen box sets around this price that are commemorating JUST ONE SINGLE ALBUM! Pearl Jam "Ten", The Who's Quadrophenia, etc. However, here you have 97% of their output... in beautifully designed packages, and the sound is spectacular. So, in this review, I'll discuss the content, and try to silence the skeptics. First, I've read a lot of "But I already have all this stuff. Why would you need it?" A - Standards, first of all. If you are a casual fan and don't care about the bonus material, this isn't targeted at you anyway. Second, if you primarily listen to music on the free earbuds that come with your iPhone, well, you may not care about remastering. HOWEVER, for those of you that love music and love Blur and have standards, the remastering came out spectacularly! Frank Arkwright is AGAINST the Loudness Wars and he does NOT "Just make things louder". He sonically improves things. He did a fantastic job with The Smiths' catalogue, and has done it again with this one! It's not just louder. PLEASE LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT REMASTERING IS: They take the original MASTER tapes, and use MODERN 2012 technology to create a new master. That's what happens when you do it properly. Frank Arkwright is an engineer who does original masters too. He knows this stuff. When the artist or producer isn't involved, and when they hire some unqualified record company schlub to remaster, you may get them simply running a CD mix through an equalizer and pumping up the volume. This isn't the case here. They remastered the songs from the original master tapes. The albums say they're remastered - the demos and bonuses don't specify it. However, most of the bonus material is being mastered for the first time, rght? Make sense? Well, last thing, remastering is NOT remixing! They're not remixing anything! I don't know why people don't get this. This isn't a remix. The sonic improvement is great! You get all of the albums in their original UK release form. This means, the UK version of "LEISURE" had the track "Sing", so it's included here on the album, but did not contain "I Know", so it isn't included on CD 1. Instead, it's included on the bonus CD. Same goes for "Modern Life Is Rubbish". In the U.S., ours had bonus tracks like the Single-only release "POPSCENE". Like "I Know", "Popscene" is now on the Bonus disc. Also important to point out is the fact that the version of "Chemical World" we had in the U.S. was never the original UK version. It was a re-recording for the U.S. I actually preferred this re-recorded version, and the vocal is completely different. But it isn't included here. You get the original U.K. album version and the UK single "Re-worked version". Apart from these details, it all sounds wonderful. Songs like "Fade Away", "Best Days" and "Yuko and Hiro", all from THE GREAT ESCAPE, have all been given new life. The breaking bottles that open the track "Parklife" appear as though they're breaking around your feet. Does it sound like that on your 1" HP Computer speakers? How could it? Your crappy free iPhone earbuds? No. On GOOD speakers? It's fantastic! You don't get EVERYTHING, like The Who cover "Substitute", but... you get all you'd ever want as even the most diehard fan. Some more specifics about the box: The box is a fabric-covered, sturdy box that perfectly fits all of the albums and bonus discs. Each album is presented in a Mini-LP Digipak CD with Disc one in one end, and Disc two (Bonuses) in the other side. These are beautiful. You get two bonus 2-CD albums of Rarities from each Era. Example, CD 1: Seymour and Leisure Rarities, CD 2, Modern Life Is Rubbish Rarities - and so forth. The final bonus Rarities CD includes "Fool's Day" and "Under The Westway". You get 3 DVDs that cover 3 live shows from different eras of the band. These are great to have and are not available individually. These DVDs are all REGION 0, NTSC. Let me be clear: there is just one edition of this box. It's on FOOD/Parlophone Records (EMI). There isn't a risk of the DVDs not playing in your country. The DVD isn't formatted with a region restriction. They work on ANY Player, whether cheap or expensive, on your PS3 too, wherever you may be in the world. They look and sound great and they do NOT have a UK version in PAL, and a U.S. version in NTSC. NTSC works in the UK and everywhere else. You're not limited to watching DVDs on your computer. You get the Seymour 7" single "Superman" inserted nearly in the box alongside a sturdy, full-color 7" x 7" hardback book. You also get a download code to download all of these songs (except "Superman" curiously) in 320kbps MP3 form, and you can download bonus songs and PDFs and even get a 10% off discount code from the Blur shop so you can buy that expensive yet cool throwback t-shirt you once impressed the girls with in the 90's. They have new shirts and stuff, too. This set is essential for any Blur fan. You already have this stuff? Upgrade! The sound and bonuses are well worth it. Trade those old crappy versions of the CDs you have into your local record shop and apply it to your favorite Blur Vinyl Re-issue. Those, too, are gorgeous. The NEW CDs in this box look identical to the original issues, with the Food/Parlophone logo on each. The CD covers too have those logos (It's NOT on Virgin. My box says Virgin nowhere on it.) If you truly are a Blur fan, this is well worth the dough! They were uniquely British and that served me well in the 90s when everyone was trying so hard to sound grunge/American. I'm proud to be American, but give me some originality! Were they the best British Band? It's tough to put them above early Suede or 90s PULP, but they're incredibly inventive and amongst the best ever - and if you feel this way about Graham and Damon and the boys, you will LOVE this set. A side note: the individual CD Re-issues come in a bonus lift-off box and postcards that have each single's artwork. This box, in order to fit everything, does NOT include that bonus box or postcards. However, I don't miss it and would rather have the DVDs and Rarities discs that aren't available separately! FINALLY, on a very limited basis, there's an Incredible FREE, yes FREE, BLUR app for the iPad and iPhone. Grab it while you can! It has interviews for all of the albums and eras. The videos show them in 1992, and throughout the years, discussing each album, and interviews from NOW too. It also includes EVERY Blur music video! All for FREE! It's a great time to be a Blur fan... ## Images ![Blur 21: The Box - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716IyHwV7TL.jpg) ![Blur 21: The Box - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81vFPjuR+OL.jpg) ![Blur 21: The Box - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91HLhRTVM8L.jpg) ![Blur 21: The Box - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91eylnJinTL.jpg) ![Blur 21: The Box - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81sAcXS34jL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blur: The CD Box review *by T***1 on August 9, 2012* I bought this set after only owning a couple of Blur albums. I have always been interested in Blur, but never got the chance to explore their whole discography (until now). Onto my review: The packaging is good (not great). The CDs are housed in very nice looking cube in which the front end of the top lifts open. The book, 7" single, and download card are in the very back of the box. The CDs slide into individual slots. At first this looks awesome, until you unwrap all of the CDs. Once you free the CDs from their very tight shrink-wrap, you can then take the discs out and open the gatefold. The CD cases are the digipak (no tray)/cardboard sleeve types, in which you have to slide the discs out. You could potentially scratch your discs this way, but if you are careful it shouldn't be a problem. The problem with the CD cases, however, are the gatefolds. They do not stay closed all of the way. If you lay them down on the table, one end will always be slightly open. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but since you have to slide them into these little slots, it does become an issue. To insert them into the slots, you have to hold the case together relatively tight (to prevent the gatefold from opening) so they will fit in all of the way. Not really a big deal, but whatever. Onto the content of the discs. All of Blur's studio albums are here in 2-disc special editions: Disc 1: Original album; Disc 2: B-sides/bonus tracks. It should be noted that only the first five albums have been remastered. I compared the original Parklife to the remastered one. The remaster is slightly louder (volume wise) and the low end is clearer. None of the remasters are victims of the loudness war. I don't think the remasters will trounce your original copies, so if you get this set, don't get it for the remasters. I am willing to say that these are the definitive editions of the studio albums. Now, the rarities discs. You get four rarities discs spanning their entire career. I wasn't really intrigued by discs one and two, but three and four were amusing, I guess. It was interesting to hear early versions and demos of some my favorite songs of theirs. The rarities discs were a nice addition to this set, but I wasn't blown away by any of them. I was very happy to see that Fool's Day and Under The Westway were included. The DVDs include two live shows and a video rarities disc. The live shows are nice to have. Showtime was only released on PAL on VHS, and the Wembley concert was previously unreleased. The quality isn't great, but it's great to have two more live Blur shows. The rarities disc is a bit different. It includes "13" live and other promo videos. This disc almost seems like a companion to the "Blur: The Best Of" DVD. If you own "Blur: The Best Of" DVD, you will now have all of their music videos if you buy this set. Also included is a book. This very nice hardcover book contains an interview and many high quality pictures. It was nice to read the interviews that corresponded with each album. The 7" single is worthless, sadly. I didn't feel like busting out my record player just to listen to this, but I listened to it online, and it isn't very good. It is terrible quality. Two things baffle me about this: One, why would they put a vinyl single in the CD box, but not in the vinyl box? Two, why isn't this track (Superman) on the rarities disc? You also get a download card to download all of the CD (not DVD) content onto your computer with some bonuses such as archive footage and every issue of Blurb magazine. As other reviews have stated, this is set is missing some previously released content. I'm not going to go into detail, like other reviews have, but I will say I was slightly disappointed when I realized "Colours" wasn't on this set. In conclusion, I really enjoy this set. It is excellent to have all of Blur's albums in one place along with some worthwhile extras. The price may seem big, but come on, you get 21 one discs, 6 which include previously unreleased content. As I stated earlier, if you buy this set, don't buy it for the remastered albums if you own the originals. It is up to you to decide if you want to buy the whole set for the rarities discs, DVDs, and the book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'm a Blur Obsessive... and That's OK... *by S***. on August 9, 2012* "THIS IS THE NEXT CENTURY...." Whenever a box set comes out, I approach it with caution. Let's face it, these things can be costly. However, let's really think about what you're getting here. Over the past three to five years, we've seen box sets around this price that are commemorating JUST ONE SINGLE ALBUM! Pearl Jam "Ten", The Who's Quadrophenia, etc. However, here you have 97% of their output... in beautifully designed packages, and the sound is spectacular. So, in this review, I'll discuss the content, and try to silence the skeptics. First, I've read a lot of "But I already have all this stuff. Why would you need it?" A - Standards, first of all. If you are a casual fan and don't care about the bonus material, this isn't targeted at you anyway. Second, if you primarily listen to music on the free earbuds that come with your iPhone, well, you may not care about remastering. HOWEVER, for those of you that love music and love Blur and have standards, the remastering came out spectacularly! Frank Arkwright is AGAINST the Loudness Wars and he does NOT "Just make things louder". He sonically improves things. He did a fantastic job with The Smiths' catalogue, and has done it again with this one! It's not just louder. PLEASE LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT REMASTERING IS: They take the original MASTER tapes, and use MODERN 2012 technology to create a new master. That's what happens when you do it properly. Frank Arkwright is an engineer who does original masters too. He knows this stuff. When the artist or producer isn't involved, and when they hire some unqualified record company schlub to remaster, you may get them simply running a CD mix through an equalizer and pumping up the volume. This isn't the case here. They remastered the songs from the original master tapes. The albums say they're remastered - the demos and bonuses don't specify it. However, most of the bonus material is being mastered for the first time, rght? Make sense? Well, last thing, remastering is NOT remixing! They're not remixing anything! I don't know why people don't get this. This isn't a remix. The sonic improvement is great! You get all of the albums in their original UK release form. This means, the UK version of "LEISURE" had the track "Sing", so it's included here on the album, but did not contain "I Know", so it isn't included on CD 1. Instead, it's included on the bonus CD. Same goes for "Modern Life Is Rubbish". In the U.S., ours had bonus tracks like the Single-only release "POPSCENE". Like "I Know", "Popscene" is now on the Bonus disc. Also important to point out is the fact that the version of "Chemical World" we had in the U.S. was never the original UK version. It was a re-recording for the U.S. I actually preferred this re-recorded version, and the vocal is completely different. But it isn't included here. You get the original U.K. album version and the UK single "Re-worked version". Apart from these details, it all sounds wonderful. Songs like "Fade Away", "Best Days" and "Yuko and Hiro", all from THE GREAT ESCAPE, have all been given new life. The breaking bottles that open the track "Parklife" appear as though they're breaking around your feet. Does it sound like that on your 1" HP Computer speakers? How could it? Your crappy free iPhone earbuds? No. On GOOD speakers? It's fantastic! You don't get EVERYTHING, like The Who cover "Substitute", but... you get all you'd ever want as even the most diehard fan. Some more specifics about the box: The box is a fabric-covered, sturdy box that perfectly fits all of the albums and bonus discs. Each album is presented in a Mini-LP Digipak CD with Disc one in one end, and Disc two (Bonuses) in the other side. These are beautiful. You get two bonus 2-CD albums of Rarities from each Era. Example, CD 1: Seymour and Leisure Rarities, CD 2, Modern Life Is Rubbish Rarities - and so forth. The final bonus Rarities CD includes "Fool's Day" and "Under The Westway". You get 3 DVDs that cover 3 live shows from different eras of the band. These are great to have and are not available individually. These DVDs are all REGION 0, NTSC. Let me be clear: there is just one edition of this box. It's on FOOD/Parlophone Records (EMI). There isn't a risk of the DVDs not playing in your country. The DVD isn't formatted with a region restriction. They work on ANY Player, whether cheap or expensive, on your PS3 too, wherever you may be in the world. They look and sound great and they do NOT have a UK version in PAL, and a U.S. version in NTSC. NTSC works in the UK and everywhere else. You're not limited to watching DVDs on your computer. You get the Seymour 7" single "Superman" inserted nearly in the box alongside a sturdy, full-color 7" x 7" hardback book. You also get a download code to download all of these songs (except "Superman" curiously) in 320kbps MP3 form, and you can download bonus songs and PDFs and even get a 10% off discount code from the Blur shop so you can buy that expensive yet cool throwback t-shirt you once impressed the girls with in the 90's. They have new shirts and stuff, too. This set is essential for any Blur fan. You already have this stuff? Upgrade! The sound and bonuses are well worth it. Trade those old crappy versions of the CDs you have into your local record shop and apply it to your favorite Blur Vinyl Re-issue. Those, too, are gorgeous. The NEW CDs in this box look identical to the original issues, with the Food/Parlophone logo on each. The CD covers too have those logos (It's NOT on Virgin. My box says Virgin nowhere on it.) If you truly are a Blur fan, this is well worth the dough! They were uniquely British and that served me well in the 90s when everyone was trying so hard to sound grunge/American. I'm proud to be American, but give me some originality! Were they the best British Band? It's tough to put them above early Suede or 90s PULP, but they're incredibly inventive and amongst the best ever - and if you feel this way about Graham and Damon and the boys, you will LOVE this set. A side note: the individual CD Re-issues come in a bonus lift-off box and postcards that have each single's artwork. This box, in order to fit everything, does NOT include that bonus box or postcards. However, I don't miss it and would rather have the DVDs and Rarities discs that aren't available separately! FINALLY, on a very limited basis, there's an Incredible FREE, yes FREE, BLUR app for the iPad and iPhone. Grab it while you can! It has interviews for all of the albums and eras. The videos show them in 1992, and throughout the years, discussing each album, and interviews from NOW too. It also includes EVERY Blur music video! All for FREE! It's a great time to be a Blur fan... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So far, this is the best set of music I have invested in *by J***. on December 15, 2021* Seriously, this was worth every dime (and hourly wage). Having Blur’s whole discography is such a breath a fresh air from the main stream doo doo. Not only do you get the standard studio album, you get b-sides and demos of fantastic tracks. The rarities are not all amazing but there is dozens of gems. (Mainly disc 4). I have yet to check out the live performances presented on cds. But I know this box set will last the rest of my life and I’m very satisfied with what it offers. Also the book included in the set is definitely the highlight. I’m not going to spoil it. 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