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Genres: Rock

Released: 05/10/1993

℗ Digital Remaster 2012 The copyright in this compilation is owned by EMI Records Ltd

This album is Mastered for iTunes. Such was the deep reserve of talent within the Blur ranks that the quartet could shift styles without missing a beat. After the trippy Madchester-inspired minimalism of their debut album, 1991's Leisure, the group showed the world they could write very good conventional pop songs with 1993's Modern Life Is Rubbish. Likened to Ray Davies' work (or the Jam's Paul Weller, for that matter) due to Damon Albarn's focus on British society, the songs sprint to life, with a playfulness that much 1990s rock and pop bypassed. "For Tomorrow" kicks things off with a tattling vocal from Albarn, while "Advert" spotlights Graham Coxon's slashing punk guitars, lending an Undertones feel to the tune's...

Track List

1-01. For Tomorrow

1-02. Advert

1-03. Colin Zeal

1-04. Pressure On Julian

1-05. Star Shaped

1-06. Blue Jeans

1-07. Chemical World (Including "Intermission")

1-08. Sunday Sunday

1-09. Oily Water

1-10. Miss America

1-11. Villa Rosie

1-12. Coping

1-13. Turn It Up

1-14. Resigned (Includes 'Commercial Break')

2-01. Popscene

2-02. Mace

2-03. Badgeman Brown

2-04. I'm Fine

2-05. Garden Central

2-06. For Tomorrow (Visit to Primrose Hill Extended)

2-07. Into Another

2-08. Peach

2-09. Bone Bag

2-10. Hanging Over

2-11. When the Cows Come Home

2-12. Beachcoma

2-13. Chemical World (Reworked)

2-14. Es Schmecht

2-15. Young and Lovely

2-16. Maggie May

2-17. My Ark

2-18. Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Made for Two)

2-19. Let's All Go Down the Strand