Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)

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Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

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1. "For Tomorrow"   4:21

2. "Advert"   3:45

3. "Colin Zeal"   3:16

4. "Pressure on Julian"   3:31

5. "Star Shaped"   3:26

6. "Blue Jeans"   3:54

7. "Chemical World" (includes hidden track "Intermission")   6:33

8. "Sunday Sunday"   2:38

9. "Oily Water"   5:01

10. "Miss America"   5:35

11. "Villa Rosie"   3:54

12. "Coping"   3:24

13. "Turn It Up"   3:22

14. "Resigned" (includes hidden track "Commercial Break")   6:12

Total length:   58:52

Blur Band Members / Musicians

Damon Albarn – vocals, piano, keyboards, sleigh bells (on "Chemical World")

Graham Coxon – guitar, backing vocals, percussion (on "Turn It Up" and "Miss America")

Alex James – bass guitar

Dave Rowntree – drums

Stephen Street – producer (except "Sunday Sunday" and "Villa Rosie"), drumbox and handclaps (on "Advert"), S1000 (on "Colin Zeal"), typewriter bell

Steve Lovell – producer ("Sunday Sunday" and "Villa Rosie")

Simon Weinstock – mixer ("Sunday Sunday" and "Villa Rosie")

John Smith – engineer; co-producer ("Intermission", "Commercial Break", "Miss America", "Resigned")

Blur – producer ("Oily Water"), co-producer ("Intermission", "Commercial Break", "Miss America", "Resigned")

Kick Horns – brass ("Sunday Sunday")

Kate St John – oboe, cor anglais, saxophone ("Star Shaped")

The Duke String Quartet - strings ("For Tomorrow")

Modern Life Is Rubbish is the 2nd studio album by the English alternative rock band Blur, released in May 1993. Although their debut album Leisure (1991) had been commercially successful, Blur faced a severe media backlash soon after its release, and fell out of public favour. After the group returned from an unsuccessful tour of the United States, poorly received live performances and the rising popularity of rival band Suede further diminished Blur's status in the UK.

Under threat of being dropped by Food Records, for their next album Blur underwent an image makeover championed by frontman Damon Albarn. The band incorporated influences from traditional British guitar-pop groups such as the Kinks and the Small Faces, and the resulting sound was melodic and lushly produced, featuring brass, woodwind and backing vocalists. Albarn's lyrics on Modern Life Is Rubbish use "poignant humour and Ray Davies characterisation to investigate the dreams, traditions and prejudices of suburban England", according to writer David Cavanagh.

Modern Life Is Rubbish was a moderate chart success in the UK; the album peaked at number 15, while the singles taken from the album charted in the Top 30. Applauded by the music press, the album's Anglocentric rhetoric rejuvenated the group's fortunes after their post-Leisure slump. Modern Life Is Rubbish is regarded as one of the defining releases of the Britpop scene, and its chart-topping follow-ups—Parklife and The Great Escape—saw Blur emerge as one of Britain's leading pop acts.