Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16583 in Music
• Released on: 1993-06-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Blur's second album saw them finding their feet just before they suddenly went supernova. In songs like "Chemical World", they started developing the themes of everyday British life that would follow them to their Parklife era. "Sunday Sunday" provided its own blueprint for the Britpop scene, showing the traditional Sunday dinner with the family for what it really is ("You gather the family round the table and eat enough to sleep"), while "Advert" follows in the spirit of Blur's musical ancestors (art school punks and mods). "Blue Jeans", meanwhile, demonstrates that Damon Albarn has always had a talent for writing delicate, sad ballads. Modern Life Is Rubbish deserves to be heard, not only to show how much Blur changed over the years, but because it still stands up and holds its own against anything they came up with later in their career. --Emma Johnston

Amazon.com essential recording
Until this album, Blur was just another English dance-pop band recycling '60s guitar licks and that tired Manchester beat (dugga-dugga-cha, dugga-dugga- dugga-cha). But Modern Life is Rubbish turned out to be the weirdest and most endearing head-rock album since the Flaming Lips' Transmissions from the Satellite Heart. The 17 songs revel in strange chord changes, bizarre sound effects, off-kilter beats, gonzo lyrics, and English eccentricity, bringing to mind Ray Davies, Syd Barrett, and Julian Cope jamming together under the influence of what Blur calls the "Chemical World." Songs like "Colin Zeal," "Pressure on Julian," and "Sunday Sunday" boast killer hooks amid the chaos, making Modern Life Is Rubbish valuable trash indeed. --Jim DeRogatis

Chronique amazon.fr
Issu d'une tradition tourmentée, celle qui donna la scène de Manchester au début des années 80, Blur parvint cependant à faire sa place sur la scène pop britannique. Mené par un Damon Albarn omniprésent, le quatuor londonien affiche dès ce second album une belle assurance. Tant dans le soin apporté aux compositions - une veine mélodique évidente - qu'à celui de leur exécution. Le groupe compte des musiciens tous au service du collectif, ce qui donne des chansons compactes et soigneusement ficelées. Le disque est ambitieux ("Miss America"), et ses textes révèlent une personnalité d'auteur sensible, et une écriture musicale qui aime les risques. C'est sans doute pour que l'auditeur puisse en suivre plus facilement les sinuosités que figurent dans le livret les noms des accords, en même temps que les textes. Ces héritiers des Who et des Kinks livrent là un album d'une qualité digne de ses inspirateurs. --José Ruiz