Win the Blur 21 Box Set

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blur's debut album Leisure, the Blur 21 box set collects all of the band's albums, rarities, live footage and more. One lucky RollingStone.com reader will win it.

The set includes:

• All seven, newly expanded two-disc studio albums
• Four discs of rarities, exclusive to this set. Includes three and one-half hours of previously unreleased material
• Three DVDs including over two hours of previously unreleased footage. Includes two pivotal live shows and an exclusive disc of video rarities
• Collectable seven-inch single of the rare and previously unreleased live recording of the Seymour-era track "Superman"
• Deluxe hard-bound book telling the story of Blur's 21-year career with extensive liner notes based on a brand new interviews with the band, illustrated with imagery of the era, including some previously unseen photos.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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