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Format: CD
Nov 1993
Record Label: SBK Records
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 077778944225 |
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Track Listing
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)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Kate St. John | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Following LEISURE, a debut featuring many exquisite moments of melody, Blur began their chameleonic artistic journey with MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH, a record that eschewed massive sonic edifices and swirling harmonies for more basic guitar rock. However, there was little simple about the foursome's creations, as singer/chief-songwriter Damon Albarn fulfilled the promise he hinted at on the prior album: a Beatle-esque ability to pour an incredible amount of drama and adornment into small spaces and emerge with delectable pop.
Leadoff track "For Tomorrow," with its jangly guitar and "la la la la la" chorus sets the tone of the album as well as an opening song can. Its lyrics dance with a subtle complexity, examining optimism while mired in the repetition of modern life (and its rubbish) as renegade strings pop in at just the right points. It's the surprising little touches that really define the band and make Blur's concoctions soar above the rabble. MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH is one of those records that improves with each listen, with the quiet brilliance of story-songs like "Colin Zeal," "Chemical World," and "Pop Scene" (a smart addition to the US release). MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH is a testament to Albarn's maturing songwriting gift and a tightly wrapped pop record simultaneously behind and ahead of its time.
Industry Reviews
Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - ...tears into a rough-and-tumble Kinksian landscape with gusto...a watertight package....
Q Magazine (01/01/1994)
Ranked #7 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993'
New Musical Express (12/25/1993)
(7) - Very Good - ...[MODERN LIFE] looks great...it's a London odyssey crammed full of strange commuters, Peeping Thomases and lost dreams...you can put those idiot Suede comparisons away now...
New Musical Express (05/08/1993)
...[MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH] is pleasant, non-threatening, and an awful lot of fun...
Alternative Press (11/01/1993)
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