If the last week is anything to go by, Blur have come back with a bit of class.

Remember? Months ago? When the original band announced they'd be reuniting for the first time in over a decade, and putting on a summer show in London's Hyde Park?

Tip! Iceberg!

Nothing's more foul than a reunion, but all the band's moves since then have been smart and refreshingly personal. In the last few days, Blur did a show on a microscopic stage at the East Anglian Railway Museum, the spot where Blur first played, twenty years ago, for a birthday. Then, a couple of nights later, they showed up for a surprise gig at the legendary Rough Trade Records, setting in motion a whole planned series of sold-out shows that include a Glastonbury headline, a dwarfish student-union date where members of the band first met, and their now double-day-sized Hyde Park celebration.

And the songs! While singles like 1992's "Popscene," 1997's "Beetlebum," and 1994's "Girls & Boys" have been in the sets — and should be there, fucking classics — so are relatively obscure and hardly fan-favored ones like "Colin Zeal," "Trimm Trabb," "Essex Dogs," and the timeless (and wonderful!) "Badhead".

Oh, yeah. The new best-of? Crazy pants.

Unlike the one in 2000, Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur — a nice self-dig and a reference to their biggest album — is all over the place. "Bugman"? Into "He Thought Of Cars"? "Blue Jeans"? Into "Song 2"? And "Death Of A Party"? Into "The Universal"? Madness. The whole thing's an odd confetti splash of big and small songs, a mass-market brew of hits and what-has-to-be personal favorites.

Boom! Sold.

Blur have also started some web-widget thing. Inside, they've been adding live and rehearsal footage here and there, which is nice.

See if it works.

We like the use of The Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" before "Bank Holiday." We like hearing the criminally undervalued "Out Of Time" unspool itself into the waters again. We really like the skronked out new touches to the head-on blitzkrieg-sunshine bit of "Sunday Sunday".

About the comeback gig, bassist Alex James wrote, "The sound of music I never thought I'd hear again."

And, "Not a dry eye in the house."

Maybe they do know what they're doing.