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Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish Audio CD

A fair review of the Blur "Modern Life Is Rubbish" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Blur reviews here, or go back to the Blur tabs.

Blur Band: Blur
Title: Modern Life Is Rubbish
Rating:
Release Date: 1993-11-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: For Tomorrow 2: Advert 3: Colin Zeal 4: Pressure on Julian 5: Star Shaped 6: Blue Jeans 7: Chemical World 8: Intermission 9: Sunday Sunday 10: Oily Water 11: Miss America 12: Villa Rosie 13: Coping 14: Turn It Up 15: Pop Scene 16: Resigned 17: Commercial Break 18: When The Cows Come Home (Bonus Track) 19: Peach (Bonus Track)

possibly Blur's best
I think it's my favorite of the three, with Parklife being second. I bought this album along with "The Great Escape" and "Parklife".
There are a lot of great singles on here, and a few nice songs I hadn't heard before, including "Sunday Sunday" and "Miss America". I also noticed that there are a few songs that stand out because they sound totally different, but are still great in their own way, like
"Peach" and "Pressure on Julian". This album makes you want to sing along, great for driving tunes.


Buy the original British version
However, this version has various extra tracks on and so isn't the album it was originally intended to be. A simply fantastic album, one of the best albums of the 90s for me. Most controversially, it includes 'Popscene', much to Damon Albarn's great annoyance. A great track, no doubt, but I don't think it fits with the album as it was recorded. Please go with the British version of the album. You won't regret it; it's a more cohesive release.


Modern Life Is Rubbish
Songs that standout on this release are "For Tommorow", "Chemical World" and "Sunday, Sunday". Modern Life Is Rubbish being blur's 1993 release and their 2nd studio album was well received by the critics and had moderate success in the UK peaking at #15 in the UK album charts. The booklet has a nice painting of a train and inside we get a similair painting of the band and yet another painting of a train. We do not only get a list of whom plays what, but the lyrics with the guitar chords included. 4/5.


Modern Life Is Rubbish
" Blur were not a band anyone was keeping a particularly close eye on in 1992, when they released a stand alone single titled "Popscene. Leisure, the debut album, was nothing special, save for the astonishing "Sing. " It bombed, despite massive amounts of critical praise, but it trumpeted a new creative wave within both the band and within all of England. "Popscene," included on the U. S. release of Modern Life is Rubbish as "Pop Scene," is the single responsible for all of Britpop.

When Modern Life is Rubbish came out, Blur showcased everything that was great about "Popscene" over the course of 16 (17 in the U. S. ) mostly-stellar tracks. They had a new lyrical acuity. Damon Albarn, the lead singer and the songwriter, had started writing about the world around him, instead of writing trite throwaway lyrics which were merely made to sell records. The results were a guitar album which wasn't quite like anything before, and has managed to remain quite unlike anything sense. Parklife, the subsequent release, would be a better album, with an overall stronger set of songs and more varied styles, but it doesn't come close to matching the urgency and energy behind this last-ditch effort by Blur to save their careers. It could have been suicide. It ended up being a master stroke.


something valuable from the past
One of those "old" things is Modern Life Is Rubbish, one of the best albums ever made. Most of the people try to get everything new and fresh, ignoring things that are old now. Because it wasn't really around in US in 1993, it didn't gain enough popularity and is not well-known here today. It's bad. Bad, because it is so good. The album is not recycling the classic british groups' music-it builds on it, gives many new musical ideas, styles, and the result is what will be in your head if you will put Garage Rock, Britpop, Psychodelic Rock and the "essense of wittiness" in a mixer, make a cocktail out of them and drink it. It is not "just britpop", it is alternative, progressive, very british rock-what's not to like? And, by the way, Modern Life Is Rubbish is a name so good, it must be on your shelf.
All you people looking for things all-new, stop right now and look in the past. There will you find good-old Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish album. Get over yourself and pick it up-you won't be dissapointed.
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