Legacy
The song is included on two compilations albums: Blur: The Best of and Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur.
Pet Shop Boys, who provided a remix of the track for the single release, later covered the song during their Discovery tour in 1994.
In 2003, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke confessed on BBC Radio 1 that he wished he had written the song, jokingly calling Blur "bastards" for writing it first.
In 2007, electronic band Blaqk Audio released a cover of the song as a Hot Topic exclusive bonus track for their debut album CexCells. The song was covered by the French singer Mélanie Pain in her 2009 album My Name. It was also Featured In The Wii Game Just Dance and on the Xbox 360 Kinect title Dance Central as a downloadable song off Xbox Live.
In 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 26 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.
A UK #6 hit in 1996, "Blurred" by Pianoman, features the chorus (sampled from the Pet Shop Boys 12" remix) as its key lyric.
Dave Rowntree once said it was his favourite song on Blur: The Best of because he "isn't really in it. It's cool not being in your own song."
Read more about this topic: Girls & Boys (Blur Song)
Famous quotes containing the word legacy:
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)